. >> this is a western union to my father joseph valley, dated december 20, 1941.avy department deeply regrets to in form you that your son is missing following action in the performance of his duty and in the was a of his country. >> bob valley said news of his brother's death was the worst pain of his life, but trying to bring the remains home prolonged that torture. >> the biggest frustration is the navy that fought us all the way and i'm going to say tell it like it is. >> to understand the nature of the fight it's important to understand how the sailors on the oklahoma died on december 7. >> the oklahoma sustained nine to 11 torpedo hits. she has literally had her guts slashed out of here and now is turning over and those crews are in their general quarters. >> many sailors would have been sleeping in. when the general quarters sounded, they would have raced to their battle stations to try to waterproof the interior of the ship. once the flooding began, they would have been taking reef final in a water tight compartment. this is the kind of place they were tra

. >>> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with adam josephlliams and monica malpass. >> here is what is happening on "action news" tuesday night. more bad news for several upper darby business owners whose livelihood is at risk because of yesterday's fire. and the crime spree that claimed the lives of three people and sharrie williams has the details. and quite a sight at the jersey shore a gauche goers reals in a shark with his bare hands and they continue to cause problems tonight. more than two dozen businesses are forced to stay closed as investigators try to determine what sparked the four alarm blaze. >> john rawlins live now with more for us. >> reporter: hi monica, 69th street remains closed at ludlow and there is one main issue the safe demolition of the fire site and they need to reopen the street so they can reopen the stores and three the cause of the fire. the collapse of this unstable wall at the rear of the pay less shoe store a demolition crew worked by hand and now the plan to demolish the front of the building. >> once they

he is at a valley of his career and looking for a substantial case. in walks joseph erickson. he agrees to defend him. largely because he wanted to keep the owners for making erickson a scapegoat. the remaining third of my book is the trial. the attempt by the federal authorities and federal prosecutors to try to get at these guys who did this terrible thing. these children, the ropes, the morgue, someone should be responsible, and they were there to press the case. it is winter of 1916. the captain will weep on the stand. the prosecutors and defense teams bring in competing way models and try to argue why it tipped over. darrow hires divers to saw off suspicious looking columns. the prosecutors argue over everything, including whether the chicago river, the huge river that goes through the city, technically even exists.

. >> for adam joseph cecily tynan, and the entire "action news" team, have a good night. "action news" is next. > >> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with ducis rogers meteorologist, cecily tynan, and jim gardner. >> tuesday night monsignor william lynn is transferred from a philadelphia jail to a state prison and an invasive bug turns up in pennsylvania but the big story is president obama in philadelphia tonight talking aboutish yous critically important to the minority commune obama rived at philadelphia international airport at 3:30 this afternoon obama growthed well wishers while preparing to talk about education and job training and the criminal justice system and race in a speech before the naacp convention at the pennsylvania convention center, live at the center is john rawlins. what is the reaction to the president's speech tonight? >> reporter: well, lets get to the message, it's known as mass incarceration, too many people in jail for the wrong reasons, to put it shortly, too many for long mandatory sentences for what he described as non-violent drug offenders. >> lets look at the statistics, the u

>> for rick williams and adam joseph, sharrie williams, brian taff, the entire "action news" team i'm monica malpass have a great night. >>> "action news" delaware valley'sding news program. with ducis rogers meteorologist, cecily tynan, and jim gardner. it is thursday night the big story on "action news" tonight is a gunman opening fire at two millitary facilities in chattanooga, tennessee killing to marines, they identified the gunman, and officials say he was born in kuwait but it's not clear if he was a citizen of this country. there were two shooting scenes first a military recruiting center 30 to 50 shots were fired here and nobody was killed at this location but shortly thereafter, several miles away shots rang out at a marine corps training center four marines were killed and the gunman was also killed and five people were injured including a police officer, president obama reacted in just the past half hour. >> it's a heart breaking circumstance for these individuals who served our country with great valor to be kill in this fashion. >> world news tonight with david muir will have more from chattanooga next here on channel 6. >>> here at home, p

joseph. we hope you join us tonight and every night for an hour of "action news" at sock. >>> "action news" delaware valley'sogram. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. >>> a tornado is responsible for the extonguive damage done by storms that hit chester county and roofs were ripped from homes and trees were toppled in the town of honey brook and the big story is the confirmation from the national weather service that a twister did in fact touch down yesterday. lets get to cecily tynan with more details on the tornado. >> monica and rick, this is the 29th tornado since the 1950s that touched down in irvine this is morgan town, shooting towards honey brook so from a safe distance because it was in fact a torn. the national weather determined it was an ef 1 tornado. the second lowest on the scale. it hit at 2:11, adam joseph was on the air with a warning, we had a 11 minute lead time thark is good with a tornado. maximum winds 90 miles per hour and the width was 90 yards long and that is the width of a football feel and stayed on the ground for 1.5 miles. and we had

joseph is here and it's a busy week but calm and nice. >> it's quiet across most of the delaware and lehigh valley, the shore choppy waters but overall ament from yesterday. looking at double scan live radar, we are not tracking any colors on the radar a clean radar sweep comes around and that is good news for anybody that parked themselves on the sand even a few folks here heading towards the beach bar, a few folks heading in with their gear. maybe take a stroll on the boardwalk or have an ice-cream cone temperatures at our location right now right around 80 degrees on average from surf city and long beach island going down to 84 in avalon and the numbers are flipping back and form from the upper 70s to mid-80s, the sea breeze tries to kick in and then the land breeze takes over and then back to the sea breeze inland all the winds are southwesterly and 86 in philadelphia and millville at 82 degrees, satellite and radar the storm center that brought again the violent weather yesterday and again at the wee hours of the morning, a lot of us jolted out of bed at 2:00, 3:00 this morning, and some of us out of nova scotia that pivots to the

action news" at 4:00, for eva pilgram and adam joseph i'm brian taff, join us for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00 on phl 17. >>> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. >>> we begin at 5:00 with a developing story out of tennessee where four u.s. marines are shot and killed. officials say a gunman when on a shooting rampage at two separate facilities in chattanooga the suspect was also killed and has not yet been identified. federal officials described it as an act of domestic terrorism. >> it's incomprehensible. to see what happened and the way that individuals who proudly served our country were treated. this is as i said a nightmare for the city of chattanooga. >> a police officer and some other individuals were also wounded in the gun fire today and the fbi is now in charge of that investigation. again four u.s. marines shot and killed by a gunman at two separate military facilities in chattanooga tennessee and the gunman is also dead now. well follow this on air and online as 6abc.com and a special world news with david muir will have prehenciv

o'hearn, alicia vitarelli cecily tynan and adam joseph we hope you'll join us for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00 on phl 17. >>> "action news" delaware valley'snews program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. >> a philadelphia police officer is out of the hospital after being shot at by a man that was wanted for murder. the gun fire was exchanged while the officer was trying to serve an arrest warrant, and the suspects died in a shootout. sharrie williams is joining us and the big story on "action news" is the latest on the shooting of the s.w.a.t. officer, we know the officer is a 17 year veteran of the force and the bulletproof vest he was wearing saved his life. david henry is live at the scene of the crime along riverside drive with the latest. >> reporter: yes the officer has now been shot twice in the line of duty and both times he was saved by that bulletproof vest. >> the officer does a pretty nasty bruise but is in stable condition. the shootout happened when he when to serve a warrant on a murder suspect. devon gashard was inside and police say he grabbed something and ran and then turne

for adam joseph cecily time jaime apody rick williams sharrie williams, i'm monica monica malpass. have a good night. >> good night. >> ♪♪ >> "action news." delaware valley'sdgers meteorologist cecily tynan and jim gardner. >> ♪♪ >> always wanted to be here and fight. you know i think that's kind of what, you know, the motto has always been is the fightan phils. >> but cole hamels has fought his last fight in a phillies uniform and today he said goodbye. he left citizens bank park with his two young boys to start a new chapter in his career in texas. it is friday night and the big story on "action news" tonight is the trade of cole hamels to the texas rangers. it finally became official today and it gave hamels a chance to say goodbye to his fans. sports director ducis rodgers is live at citizens bank park tonight. ducis, what was it like there today? >> kind of surreal, jim, to be honest with you. we knew this day would come eventually but nobody wanted it to actually happen. think about this. cole hamels was 18 when he was drafted by this team he made his major league debut at 22 so this team, this city is all he's known for his adult life. hamels and hi

vitarelli and adam joseph, i'm brian taff, i hope you'll join me tonight and every night for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00 on phl 17. "action news" is next. >>> "action news" delaware valley'sogram. with jaime apody, meteorologist cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. >> flooding it has been a big problem today in and around the jersey shore residents here in absecon had difficulty getting out of their homes and down the street and there are showers out there tonight. it was a similar scene in margate many drivers took the risk and drove down the streets, the kids got through the high water on their bikes. here is a live look at sky 6 hd here in cape may not a bad scene there now not a lot of folks on the beach but that could change for the weekend as the situation will hopefully improve as we go into the weekend, it's wednesday night and the big story is a day of street flooding after a stormy day in our region. lets getity latest from meteorologist, adam joseph you have the details. >> the worst of it is behind us now, we have no longer any flood warnings out there we have light showers from ocean city to long beach island and a couple of downpours in and around

adam joseph cecily tynan sharrie williams, rick williams the entire "action news" team i'm monica malpass. have a good day. happy holidays. >> happy holidays. >> ♪♪ >> "action news." delaware valley'sogram. with ducis rodgers meteorologist cecily tynan and jim gardner. >> ♪♪ >> friday night the big story on "action news" tonight is the start of the holiday weekend. we are celebrating the 239th birthday of these united states and many of you do so by claiming a section of beach like here in cape may where it's a chance to take part in all kinds of holiday activities like today's liberty block party on independence mall. it's all about family, food and fun. "action news" reporter john rawlins is at independence mall. trish hartman is in ocean city. first let's get the latest information from accuweather and cecily tynan. cecily. >> jim, certainly a very comfortable start to the holiday weekend. right now philadelphia 81 degrees down from a high of 83 which is 4 degrees below normal. allentown 79. wilmington 77. on the beaches temperatures pretty uniform around 74 degrees. and we did have early sunshine but the clouds are beginning to roll in and the clouds will continue to thicken th

adam joseph cecily tynan rick williams sharrie williams the entire "action news" team i'm monica malpass. join me for "action news" at 6:00. >> good night. >> ♪♪ >> "action news." delaware valley'sith ducis rodgers meteorologist cecily tynan and jim gardner. >> ♪♪ >> monday night jim is off i'm monica malpass. in the news dozens lose service after a water main break in south philadelphia and more venomous man of wars wash up along the new jersey and delaware coasts. >>> but the big story on "action news" tonight is the arrest and search for more suspects in connection with the murder of an 85-year-old woman in the east mount airy section of philadelphia. regina brunner holmes was discovered dead in her house on rumsford road week ago. now the victim's handy manley roy wilson is under arrest charged with that murder. "action news" reporter annie mccormick live in east mount airy. >> reporter: monica even though homicide detectives are confident wilson is their man they say there are still two people out there using the victim's credit did it cards. many are reporting they believe they were victims of robbery at the hands of the same man who killed their neighbor. saturday police

joseph cecily tynan jaime apody sharrie williams rick williams the entire "action news" team i'm monica malpass. have a good night. "action news" at 6:00 is next. >> ♪♪ >> "action news." delaware valley'sogram. with ducis rodgers meteorologist cecily tynan and jim gardner. >> ♪♪ >> monday night senator casey pushes for nutritious meals for children in need and black smoke coming from a manhole disrupts the morning commute. >>> but the big story on "action news" tonight is the search for a hit and run kill interphiladelphia. this was the scene last night near east luzerne and i streets in the juniata section of the city. the passenger in this car was killed. law men have recovered what they say is the suspects' car. they know who owns the vehicle. they are still trying to confirm who was driving the vehicle. live on east luzerne tonight is "action news" reporter jeff cherico. jeff, what's the latest here. >> reporter: jim, as you said police still searching for alberto van gets. 33 believe owns the carly they want to talk to him about who was driving the car. meanwhile the family grieving the loss of a man who was a beloved brother father and son. [speaking foreign language] >> reporter

joseph i'm alicia vitarelli. reminder to join us tonight and every night for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00 on phl17. >> "action news" at 5:00 is next. >> ♪♪ >> "action news." delaware valley'sogist cecily tynan rick williams and monica malpass. >> ♪♪ >> warm and oppressive, that's how you can describe the start of the work week. as we look live from sky6 hd a nice shot of the clouds and blue skies over the ben franklin bridge. not feeling as nice as it looks out there. >> storm tracker6 live double scan keeping an eye on it for us and the humidity is much higher than we have seen in recent days. that unsettled air could create thunderstorms tonight. monday night the big story is the uncomfortable weather conditions across much of the delaware and lehigh valleys right now. >> let's check in with meteorologist melissa magee to get the latest on the forecast. >> hi, rick, monica. we are tracking the scattering of showers and storms that are starting to pop up across the delaware and leafs because of that building warmth and humidity. storm tracker6 live double scan radar showing you activity across new castle and kent counties in delaware and also moisture moving north and wes