effort are now underway to rename boardwalk hall in whalen's honor. >> in other news today, philadelphiaefighters are mourning the death of one of their own. lieutenant kenneth green, senior, died at einstein medical center. he had been transported to the hospital on september 3rd, while on duty athen gin 37 in chestnut hill. colleagues draped the firehouse there with black bunting, green was 23 year veteran of the philadelphia fire department. >>> well, president trump got first-hand look at the devestation hurricane irma left behind in florida. the president and first lady met with storm victims trying to put their lives back together in naples. they also handed out some food and water, trump's also thanked first responders, law enforcement and others, for their work in dealing with the storm and it aftermath. >> we are there for you 100%, i'll being back here numerous times, this is a state that i know very well as you understanded, and special, special people, and we love them. >> the president says he'll also travel to puerto rico and the us virgin islands in the coming days to meet

. >>> a public memorial will be held to remember former atlantic city mayor jim what i whalen. they will introduce a bill that will name boardwalk hall in his honor. whalen died last month after a heart attack. >>> happening today professional indoor lacrosse returns to the city of philadelphia. comcast announced the city will have a new national league team. the philadelphia wings as you remember had a a franchise for 28 seasons before relocating in 2014. i wonder what the team will be called. >> a lot of people big with kids love lacrosse. >> reporter: the area is dry, low-lying cloud cover and fog might put drizzle on your windshield. we have showers pushing into lancaster county and might push toward reading and areas close to the lehigh valley. you can see how they are shifting up to the north/northeast. cloud skies just about everywhere, including the commodore barry bridgement not that we couldn't get sunny breaks here and there, but for now we're starting out gray. 67 in wilmington, 69 in trenton. these are mild numbers aren't they, a lot better than where we were a few

where is miss whalen? that's a question so many students at wild lake high school are asking . we're just praying she comes back. she's a great teacher and all. i had her last year. hopefully she comes back and safe and sound. she's a great teacher. she's always there for her students. an amazing teacher actually. students tell us they haven't heard much from administrators at the school since it was first announced that whallen was missing. >> the first day they said there was a teacher missing, but not so much from them right now. yesterday a plea from whallen's family, including her boyfriend, the father of her unborn child. the family offering $25,000 for information leading to where she might be. it doesn't matter what's happened. it doesn't matter what type of trouble. nothing we can't fix police are keeping a lot of the he details about this investigation to themselves. there are a few things that we do know. we do know that her car was found at an apartment complex near the colombia mall. also we are told the last time that he she communicated with the family member was

. >> reporter: bill whalen is a fellow at stanford's institution. he is surprised facebook founder mark zuckerberg took the bait. zuckerberg posted his response on facebook that reads in part trump says facebook is against him. liberals say we helped trump. boh sides are upset about ideas and content they don't like. that's what running a platform fof all ideas looks like. whalen says facebook is no longer just a social network. >> the 2016 election it became a forum for politics. i think zuckerberg needs to explain how facebook fits into the scheme of things in 2017 and beyond. >> reporter: just last week mark zuckerberg announced he was turning over more than 3,000 political ads to congressional investigators after learning the ads were linked to russia. abc news has recovered some of those ads from a group called secured borders. the ads are pro trump and anti-illegal immigration. >>> we're tracking developing news out of the peninsula. police are increasing patrols around san mateo schools after reports of two attempted kidnappings. the latest o

westchester henderson fired up for this bishop shanahan night, conor whalen bounces through traffic and gets the six. shanahan rolls 42-7. chester visiting glenn mills, glenn mills rocking like grandma's favorite chair. you see fellas pumps up. and bay showing off his big arm number 1 on a dime down field to thomas. beautiful pitch and catch. gle glen mills shuts out chester. and mascot ready for a fight taking on academy park, but the grounded tech was the one throwing the punches. academy park wins 28-7. landsdale catholic and conwell getting it on, a good one. matt cassie starts the second quarter with a bang running wilder than a toddler with a sugar rush. landsdale catholic holds off eagan. a different view of the action, potsgrove hosting potstown, opening drive, where's harry potter in this one? maybe not. three carries for 61 yards and this touchdown pottsgrove stays unbeaten over pottstown. bring forward t.j. with a pitch to justin and gets a touch not before reaches the land of quick six. spring ford rolls 43-7. pen woods desmond johnson fires toward the end zone and finds ken

whalen did not show up to her first day of school at wild lake school on tuesday. police at this point haven't ruled anything out. the lack of contact, the no communication since monies completely out of f family and police concern. laura whallen's car is also missing. it is a black 2011 ford escape. it has the maryland tags 522473. >> today a judge in prince george's county ruled an accused murder is competent to stand trial. and tone onwilliams is accused of killing his six year old sister in a dire a whether it ers and his two young cousins in clit online court, mment he was supposed to be babysitting while his mother was at work. today a judge testified during a interviewed williams and found him to be exesm the judge agreed . the state's attorney angela as you brook has talked about how the case impacted her personal limit i will never forget the three little girls in this case and how it must affect their families. i can cannot imagine the father who was here today who has driven back and forth from new jersey. the mother of two young girls who expected them

where is miss whalen, that's a question so many students at wild lake high school is asking. >> we're just praying that she comes back. she's a great teacher. she's a great teacher. she's also there for her students. students tell us they haven't heard much from administrators at the school since it was first announced whallen was missing. the first day they just kind of said that there was a teacher missing, but not so much from them right now. meanwhile yesterday a plea from whallen's family, including her boyfriend, the father of her unborn child. the family offering $25,000 for information leading to where she might be. it doesn't matter what's happened. it doesn't matter -- it doesn't matter what type of trouble. there's nothing we can't fix together. and tonight authorities are still being tight lipped about details regarding this investigation. we know that there was a text message sent the day before she was supposed to go back to l school to a family member. we also know that her car was found at colombia mall. any other de tails about what might have been found in the house,

will consider a proposal to rename a street in honor of the late former mayor and state senator jim whalen they are expected to vote. e he died at the age of 68. >>> animals stranded by harvey are in our area and today they were up for adoption. the providence animal center rescued more than 30 cats and dogs. these animals have been through a lot. now they have been checked by a vet, they are ready for a forever home. there are even more harvey animals up for adoption in westchester. they took it 30 cats and dogs in louisiana. five of those dogs have already found new homes. tonight dozens of animals are from texas will arrive in westchester. >>> i'm john clark from csn. you have an exciting historic start. another top prospect makes the major debut. it's the e emotional tweet his sister sent out. she's really proud. that's next. >>> and i'm tracking storms, severe weather moving through the philadelphia area. allentown have seen it. we'll talk about the timing in your neighborhood, when i come back. >>> and coming up at 6:00, using your house to keep a better eye on crime. how police in o

tessier to be arraigned at some point today, picked up yesterday, arrested around 5:30 after laura whalen'sy was found buried in a shallow grave in damascus. she was a teacher at wilde lake high school. 31 years old. she was last seen from -- with her boyfriend september 2, captured by surveillance video in a grocery store parking lot. her car was discovered several days later on september 7. believe she was killed on september 3. wallen was four months pregnant. police saying last night the last text her family received indicated that tessier was not the baby's father. authorities now saying it was actually tessier who sent the text. he appeared earlier this week at a press conference held by montgomery county police. those a calculated move by the police department. they said with the cooperation of the victims parents, they allowed tessier to speak at the press conference. he was seen holding the victim's mother's hands during that event , saying also that all he wanted was his girlfriend's safe return. tessier will be arraigned here at some point this morning. reporting live in rockvill

whalen is from olney. they received a disturbing text from her last monday it as troubling. they have not heard from her sin. we are learning new details about the arrest of a woman accused of setting his pregnant girl girlfriend on fire. the attacked happened yesterday in capital lights. >>reporter: prince george's county police charged the man police say lit his pregnant girlfriend on fire. we're also learning more tonight about the condition of that mother and her newborn child. we saw her today . she looks much better today than yesterday and she'll probably look much better tomorrow than today. police say the father of her unborn child set her on fire. doctors delivered the baby seven weeks early as a result of the injuries. author says both his daughter and granddaughter are improving. and andrea saved her life as well as her own. prince george's county police credit the mom of now three for saving herself and possibly her boyfriend, 34 year old large audience quinn phillips from hurting anyone else while dealing with traumatic injuries and dry a told police phillips w

public memorial will be held today for former atlantic city mayor and late new jersey senator, jim whalen last month of a heart attack at the age of 68. elected officials, university leaders, friends, scheduled to speak, the memorial service will be held at 11:30 a.m. this morning at boardwalk hall. they're expecting a very big crowd, of course, that's on the board walk in atlantic city. >> 6:39. an autopsy reveals a 19 year old pennsylvania college student died of blunt force head trauma. authority found 19 year old mccrea williams unconscious, sunday, near dorm on the campus of lafayette college. he died monday at a hospital, williams was starting the school year as a freshman lacrosse recruit. >> wow. >> right now authorities are investigating what led to his death. >> well here we go. they did the survey again. they do all the time. us census bureau ranking cities, and philadelphia is america's poorest sit, poorest big city. according to the study, philly has the highest rate of people living at 50% of the poverty line or less. the data also shows the average philadelphia household in

chris whalen joins us. you. >> good morning. >> let's talk about what we can expect ahead of earnings season. we're a couple weeks away from it we had downgrades in terms of the trading and investment banking expectations albeit we knew comps would be tough coming into the quarter from a year ago. >> they were but you're starting to see the effect, the real effect medium term of the volcker rule and dodd-frank, which is the banks can't trade their own accounts anymore. so trading is now customer business and you saw it with goldman it was relatively weak on the commodity side and fixed income side surprising goldman made money trading their own account. they can't do that anymore the banks have had to find new way dshs >> they haven't been able do that for a while why has golden fallen so sharply behind its peer. trading has not been great any way. why is goldman behind its peers the last two, three quarters in a way it had not been since volcker came into play in 2010 >> it's a couple things. execution on

she lived with him at the time and jack whalen believes the initial motive was robbery and not murderd he was arrested for assault in 2014 and dna from that crime then linked him to jenkins murder. >>> and a construction worker was hurt in an accident on the job site collegeville, montgomery county. chopper 6 hd was over the scene on the 700 block of campus drive. that is where a beam f before n. the victim was rushed to the hospital and no information yesterday on the extent of the injuries or what caused that accident. >> the memory of a fallen delaware state trooper will live on through a scholarship in his name. corporal steven ballard was shot when investigating a suspicious vehicle outside a wawa in april and a couple has established a fund in his honor. the $100,000 gift is for students majoring in criminal justice. the same program that ballard graduated from in 2007. >> he would be so grateful he knew what it was like to go to school full-time and work in order to pay for his education and take care of himself. i just -- this is amazing. >> the ballard fund will provide an an

paid tribute to a leader who dedicated his life to public service and to the public memorial for jim whalen who died of a heart attack at 68. a number of governors and legislators spoke at boardwalk hall where he served three terms as the city's murder. >> talk about sand in the shoes, he loved the city. and he lived and breathed it. he was an extraordinary guy. >> a major loss not only in his sense of decency and kindness and goodness but his commitment to atlantic city and the jersey shore. >> his former colleagues are are introducing legislation to rename boardwalk hall in his honor. >>> time now for a check of the "action news" traffic report. matt pellman is live now. >> nice to have you back in the studio brian. we are checking 95 good to see a crash cleared it was out here in the work zone taking out the left lane. that kind of got us off to a bad start along 95 northbound. as we look at the speeds just about 5 miles per hour right now coming north of the walt whitman bridge on up to the work zone at girard avenue. all three lanes are reopen and accident gone and not a great start al

westchester henderson fired up for this bishop shanahan night, conor whalen bounces through traffic andhanahan rolls 42-7. chester visiting glenn mills, glen mills rocking like grandma's favorite chair. you see fellas pumps up. and bay showing off his big arm number 1 on a dime down field to thomas. beautiful pitch and catch. glen mills shuts out chester. and mascot ready for a fight taking on academy park, but the ground attack was the one throwing the punches. gibley picks up good yardage on this one. academy park wins 28-7. landsdale catholic and conwell getting it on, a good one. matt cassie starts the second quarter with a bang running wilder than a toddler with a sugar rush. landsdale catholic holds off eagan. a different view of the action, skylights for you. pottsgrove hosting pottstown, opening drive, where's harry potter in this one? maybe not. three carries for 61 yards and this touchdown pottsgrove stays unbeaten over pottstown. bring forward t.j. with a pitch to justin and gets a touch not before reaches the land of quick six. spring ford rolls 43-7. penn woods desmond john

public memorial will be held today for former atlantic city mayor and late new jersey senator jim whalen. he died last month after heart attack at the age of 68. elected officials, university leaders and friends, are scheduled to speak. the memorial service will be held at 11:30 a.m. this morning, boardwalk hall, atlantic sit. >> i 5:09 is the time. we have some fog out there. that's important for folks to know about as they step out the door today. >> let's get a check on that forecast, sue serio. good morning. >> yes, we do, eventually we will see some of the remnants of irma. we started when some showers yesterday. they were widely scattered throughout the day. today will probably be a similar event. yesterday was sort after spin-off of this system. but now we see the outer edges coming through washington, baltimore, and edging into lancaster county. so what about the rest of the day? it looks like widely scattered showers throughout the afternoon, mostly cloudy skies when it is not raining. there is showers middle of the night tonight around midnight. looks like we will have decent t

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venezuela so do the levels of hunger as of our survey by a top university found the average windows whalen has lost nine kilograms and the past year many families are now forced to scavenge for food what was once south america's richest country a lot america been reports on the capital caracas. there are rarely any leftovers after lunch is served at this soup kitchen run by the catholic church in us you know that i would. bring my children here to ensure that they get at least one good meal a day but the kitchen runs on donations only enough to serve one hundred children so every day giuditta out assia is forced to turn many people away. every day more children are crisis is such that as they say has been forgotten people would rather beg for a plate of food for their children than watch them go hungry she says many of the children were given a special formula to help them recover from severe malnutrition but the parents who are not entitled to a meal are not so lucky and. sometimes my wife and i do without food so at least the children commute twice a day. when israel is prolonged and acu

delaware county da john whalen made the announcement >> we're announcing a new weapon in the war againsttion special tool is charlie. >> reporter: he's a 2-year-old yellow labrador trained to sniff poconos mountains chemicals to electronics and she finds a flash bag in one of three blue bags, child predators use devices to hide illegal photos and videos, his handler says she can sniff out >> now you can't hide anything. when you're talking about a card that you can hide under the carpet or between the wall board and the floorboard. it's -- it's amazing. of what she's able to and it's going to have a huge impact >> the cost of charlie plus training about $12,000 combined covered by a homeland security grant, he's one of about a dozen dogs in the u.s. doing this kind of work and delaware county said she'll work with state and other county agencies on their investigation, her reward when she finds something, gets a ball. >> part of her training, i take her out and we throw tennis balls that have the odor on them and that's the reenforcement for her >> i came down to the dog park in drexel h

meredith lynn whalen eugene whelan adam s.ames white iii >> and my brother chris selling him. we love you and miss you always. keep sending me those pennies. i love you in heaven. >> event marino and my brother, kevin joseph sterling. we miss you and love you always. you were our angel. god bless you and god bless america. james patrick white john sylvester white kenneth wilburn white, jr. leonard anthony white madeleine white malissa y. white >> cassandra white wayne white leanne marie whiteside mark p. whitford michael t. wholey mary catherine wieman jeffrey david wiener wilham j. wik alison marie wildman glenn e. wilkenson john c. willett brian patrick williams crossley richard williams, jr. david j. williams deborah lynn williams kevin michael williams louie anthony williams louis calvin williams iii john p. williamson donna ann wilson william wilson david harold winton glenn j. winuk thomas francis wise alan l. wisniewski frank thomas wisniewski david wiswall sigrid wiswe michael wittenstein christopher w. wodenshek marti