live outside of the convention center tonight, is "action news" reporter, eva pilgram. >> reporter: jim, the unemployment line is not where these workers ever thought they would find themselves today. a resource center opened up at the atlantic city convention center to help them navigate the process. >> hundreds poured in. >> i am trying to digest this and see if it's real. >> maria hernandez is one of the newly unemployed casino workers. she worked at the showboat for 19 years. >> this is the first time, i worked all my life, i don't know what unemployment is, i have to ask questions. >> today the resource center at the atlantic city convention center is here to help the former workers from the newly closed showboat and revel casinos, people in neon shirts helped people file for unemployment and get health care and helped them pay their bills. >> it's easier than me being on the phone. >> it offers these workers the dignity that they deserve. none of them want to be unemployed. >> the state of new jersey offering grants for training to a new career. >> attend the trainings and we have

eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you eva. >>> our coverage of this attack continues on 6abc.com, you can see the surveillance video released by police and individual pictures of the suspects, can you find ways to contact philadelphia police if you have any information. >> a massive fire caused quite a stir this morning outside of philadelphia international airport. chopper 6 hd was overhead as huge flames scorched a struck and then started to spread. a spokesperson says this was a u.s. airways pickup and it went up in flames near the maintenance facility. at one time there was a fuel truck next to the fire. still no word yet on how this fire started. >>> an absolutely beautiful day out there. as we get a first check of the accuweather forecast, meteorologist, adam joseph is live outside where it's as good as it gets. >> we have a string of nice days and the luck continues through the upcoming weekend with changes in the temperature depending on the day, in the mid-atlantic, temperatures in philadelphia in the 70s, 74 degrees, 77 in washington, and 72 in new york city. b

eva pilgram went inside today's job fair in atlantic city. hi there eva. >> reporter: hundreds of former casino workers showed up here to the atlantic city casino center hoping to find their next job. >> i'm here to find a job. >> there is a lot of people here. >> the line to get in today's job fair wrapped around the fourth floor of the convention center, most of the job seekers are out of work casino workers. >> it's a tough situation and decades in the making and unfortunately it all hit the fan at the same time with three or four casinos. >> they are working on replacing the lost jobs and businesses and with getting people into existing opportunities. >> i am trying to find new businesses and hotels to find them back working again but in the short time we have to be concerned about everyone, all of our families and residents that lost their jobs. >> today's is the largest one so far. 60 employers and more than 1500 potential job openings. some here in a.c. and some further away. >> i talked to some future employers and some schools, i am h

"action news" reporter, eva pilgram joins us now live, she is checking it all out. >> reporter: sara there is some hope for those out of work casino workers, about 60 businesses are here at the atlantic city convention center with more than 1,000 jobs available. the new jersey department of labor organized the resource center here and this job fair today. the line to get in is a little long now but they don't mind, the opportunities are making them more optimistic about the future. >> i talked to some employers and some schools, i feel more positive. >> my baby is motivating me, that is why i'm here hopefully i come out good. >> if you aren't able to come here today. head to the department of labor's website and look for jobs there. there is a specific tab for atlantic city, it allows to you look for jobs in a 50 mile radius. eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> the defense rested its case in the trial of kidnapping suspect, christina regusters. she did not take the stand in her own defense, the 21-year-old is charged with taking a child from bryant elementary scho

we are live in spring garden, eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> our coverage of the attack continues on 6abc.com. there you can see the surveillance video released by police along with individual pictures of those being sought, you can also find ways to can't philadelphia police if you have any information. >>> this was the scene of a tragic accident this morning at 42nd and locust in west philadelphia. an 8-year-old girl fell out of a ninth floor window and doctors at childrens hospital declared her dead on arrival. "action news" reporter was live at the scene of the girl's fall, sara how did it happen? >> they investigated today and determined it was a tragic accident. the 8-year-old girl opened the screen of the bedroom window in the ninth floor apartment she shared with her 11-year-old sister and father. she was looking out the window and fell to her death. >> investigators spent the morning investigating the window where an 8-year-old girl fell from the window. the screams of her 11-year-old sister could be heard throughout the apartment building. >> she ran

coming up at 6:00 eva pilgram will have more about the hate crime laws in pennsylvania. reporting live here kenneth moton. >> thank you. the coverage of this attack continues at 6abc.com, you can see the surveillance video released by police including the pictures being sought and you can find ways to contact police if you have any information. there are new photos tonight of the man suspected of shooting two troopers killing one of them. it shows eric frein in his survivor -- he is accused of shooting two troopers at the blooming grove barracks, douglas remains in critical condition and a memorial for dickson will be held tonight and he will be laid to rest tomorrow. >>> police say that jeremiah jackson beat, strangled and stuffed the victim in a duffle bag. >>> at the big board on this wednesday, another twist to the drama in the nfl. after one day, of some public scrutiny and fans and responsers, the minnesota vikings reversing course. >> after being charged with hitting his child with a tree branch, the move to put peterson on the nfl's exempt list, this comes one da

eva pilgram, channel 6 "action new new news". >>> turning now to the forecast and the humidity. letted s look live -- a system is on the way that will bring big changes. cecily tynan is at the "action news" big board with the latest. >> hi rick, the clouds that were lingering most of the day are really saving us, when have you a cold front approaching this time of year, the clouds help to stabilize the atmosphere, the cold front is just to our west and notice the thunderstorm activity is well down to the south down along the carolinas and virginias, for the most part this front is moving through dry and there is one little sprinkle right now in chester county, satellite 6 along with action radar shows a sprinkle there and clearing along the coast in parts of delaware but with the cloud cover this is helping us with soccer practices this afternoon you should be safe from the storms. temperature-wise, it's warm and humid, washington, d.c., that saw the sunshine, it's currently 90 degrees, you factor into the humidity, it feels like 86 degrees in philadelphia and 95 in washington,

eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >>> police in newcastle county, delaware use distraction to burglarize two homes and the victims were between 74 and 92 years old. live now is "action news" reporter, walter perez. >> reporter: jim, in both cases one man tells the senior citizens that he is trimming trees near their property so they take them to the backyard to show them the property lines and the other man enters the house and takes as much jewelry and cash as they can find. in this case over $100,000 worth of merchandise and cash. >> barbara had no reason to believe the person presenting himself in the neighborhood as a landscaper was up to no good. she was trying to keep her husband thomas in the backyard asking about the property lines, her suspicions were confirmed when the man left, and she went back inside. >> when we went back inside we realized we had been taken, the rug was out of place and the chair cushion was moved. >> tens of thousands of dollars worth of cash and jewelry was gone. >> we had $75, $100 in quarters, they didn't take, they wanted the jewelry and cash. >> autho

eva pilgram has more, a girl on the team on inger grove high. >> samantha stock has a great golf swing, one of the best golfers on the boy's team. but yesterday she did something that the boys had never done. >> it hit the pole and spun and rolled three feet into the hole. >> she got her first hole in one in a match against avon grove high school. she got two. and she didn't see it. >> the guy from the other team, he looked in the hole and puts his arms up, and said how am i suppose to compete with this. >> i have been around golf a long time, every once in a while you see someone in a golf magazine that had two holes in one, but it's very, very rare. >> she turned in this score card and her coach had to check his math. i looked at her sitting on the hill and she was smiling. >> sam started playing golf during an after school program in elementary school. >> her hand went up when we asked who wants to play golf. i couldn't believe what i saw. >> sam should be an inspiration to all of them that it can be done, you just have to work hard. >> she won the state's junior title and playing w

eva pilgram is live now with the full story. >> reporter: jim, as we wait here at central detectives for people to come, many are calling this a hate crime, this could not be prosecuted as such in pennsylvania because the state law does not cover sexual orientation. when this story went out social media exploded, after the gay couple was attacked at chancellor. >> one to two suspects quickly were identified. just based on looking at them from their facebook profile to their age on the surveillance camera. >> the video was tweeted and it was taken minutes before the men were jumped at 10:45, this group of 15 people came on on the two money, ages 27 and 28 and investigators said that homophobic comments were made before the two were violently beaten and someone took a cell phone and wallet. then this picture surfaces. >> there was a tweet with a picture of the whole party, the people from the video and friends. >> quickly the restaurant was identified and a facebook search of who

eva pilgram is live at the scene with the story. >> reporter: it was pitch black out side at 3:30 thisng within a car didn't follow this curve back here and went through these two yards before slicing into this home and landing in a fourth yard. miraculously nobody was hurt. >> we heard a loud bang and there is oil all over. >> i looked in and there was a girl in the bottom of the car and i said oh my god and i reached in and another guy got there and we pulled her to the curb. >> when she hit the front steps to the house, it flipped the vehicle and caused it to slice into the house and bedroom. >> it was like a bomb went off. >> the car flew at me and the dog, there was dust and everything all over us. >> the bed was up against this wall. >> and the bed moved back about 2 feet. >> the house was ripped open and you could see her bed and everything. >> the car landed in another neighbor's yard. >> everybody says i'm lucky to just get stitches and my dog, we could have been killed. >> the driver is at

eva pilgram is live now in spring garden with the latest. >> reporter: the phones are ringing and tipscoming in after a gay couple was brutally attacked in center city, "action news" learned that attorneys for the group are talking to central detectives making arrangements to bring their clients in for questioning. they believe they can identify the suspected attackers and have them in custody soon and they say that social media played a big role in doing that. >> in america you get to be who you are, you don't get to be jumped for being who you are. >> a long time friend of the victim says that one had to have his jaw wired shut and got stitches in his face. around 10:45 that night, this group of 15 people encountered two gay men, ables 27 and 28, on chancellor street and walnut. they asked if they were boyfriends, homophobic slurs were thrown and they were robbed of a cell phone and wallet. and now social media sleuthing by twitter users for helping to push this investigation forward. >> have you people in twitter who recognized something was wrong and disgusting and did something ab

eva pilgram is live on the scene. >> reporter: yes we talked to the homeowners this morning.want to show you the house, see the beams? they are holding the house up, the entire side of the house there is gone and you can see straight into the house after a minivan came crashing through it at night. the driver, 30-year-old jason rain was under the influence when he lost control of the 2006 kia, minivan and crashed at darby road at 12:00 p.m. he was arrested a short time after, now this was the reaction of the home's owner, here rashi rashida mcintosh, the minivan crashed right into her children's room. mcintosh is a middle school teacher and she and her kids would normally have been home but they weren't because she had training at school. >> this is a wake-up call for him to get healing or something within his life so something like this doesn't happen begun, he could have taken out lives, his children and my children. it could have been way more devastating than this. >> back out here live, you can see the workers now trying to make it at least safe so the house won't contin