"action news" reporter wendy saltzman is live at police headquarters tonight. wendy, what have you learned about this? >> reporter: jim, the victims ranged in age from 24 to in their 40's and police are saying this is one of the deadliest nights on kensington streets. on a single weekend nine people dead here in the kensington section of philadelphia. >> i call it dope city. they've been known for dope city since i was a kid. >> reporter: the streets lined with needles and drug addicts. >> this is the worst place in the world for anybody to live in. this is the walking dead. you see people, they're all zombied out. >> reporter: on sunday night alone there were six deaths all within blocks of each other. >> and we have these type of incidents like this we will have enforcement by narcotics unit try and see if we can perhaps put a finger on what is leading to these incidents. >> reporter: police have cents bags of evidence left at the scene to the lab to see if the fatalities are connected. >> see whether or not there's something that is laced or if it's something

live at police headquarters, i'm wendy saltzman channel6 "action news." brian. >> all right, wendy.e'll continue to follow that story. thank you so much. >>> we have got some breaking news this afternoon surrounding the upcoming trial of comedian bill cosby. a judge has just ruled that many damaging testimony that cosby gave in an accuser's lawsuit can be used at his criminal sex assault trial. the defense insisted cosby only testified after being promised woe not be charged criminally in the andrea constand case. the 79-year-old acknowledged in the 2006 deposition that he had given young women drugs or alcohol before sexual encounters. a judge must still decide if prosecutors can call 13 other accusers. >> philadelphia police are looking for two men who threw powder and a liquid on a septa bus driver. this happened this morning as the driver pulled up to a stop on rising sun and adams avenues in somerdale. police say the men boarded the route k bus, threw the powder and liquid and then ran off. both substances were tested and were found not to be hazardous. the driver was not injur

wendy saltzman channel6 "action news." >> all right.urning to health check tonight the holidays are not just a hectic time at home. it's also a busy time in the er. we look forward to those get togethers with friends family and coworkers but experts say it is very easy to get distracted and that's when accidents can happen. >> you may not be paying attention as much when you're going cut food. you may accidentally cut yourself. when you reach for something you may not go over that can department the kids are running around and you have an eye on them and a and eye on the stove. really try remain focus. >> kitchen fires from food left on the stove or in the oven too long seem to rise at this time of year. >>> watch out 4 o'clocking hazards among all the gifts not just the toys. anything with a button battery remote controls and some of those new electronics need to be up and out of reach. infants and toddlers can swallow the batteries before anyone knows it. >> ♪ >> peco is lighting up the holidays this season and "action news" is bringi