all >> wichita kansas is such an all >> wichita kansas is such an all american town that back in 1951 an all american comic strip was set here. dennis the menace. one part of wichita, broadway street, proves that even a family friendly city can have an under belly. >> there is all kinds of issues on broadway, and it's not just one part of broadway, it's the entire stretch of broadway through town. you can find at any given time, stolen cars, drugs, prostitution, human trafficking. just so much that goes on on broadway. >> just a half a mile from broadway's red light district is the cedric county jail. most of the 1,150 inmates here are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial in the resolution of their cases. vegas walker arrived fresh from broadway. >> i have been robbed before, i have been jumped on, maced, there is never a dull moment on broadway. >> somebody always getting stabbed, shooting and it might sound weird it's kind of like an adrenaline rush to me. >> walker says she has been a drug dealer on broadway for much of her young life and it was a confrontation with a ma

jeff worked for the wichita pd. four years later, kevin became a deputy with the sedgwick county sheriff's office. >> he was on the job for almost three years and had just gotten married. his life was really starting to take off. >> kevin easter was on patrol when he spotted a car that had been reported stolen. >> kevin chased the vehicle. the driver exited the vehicle, took off running from kevin. kevin chased him over a fence. was able to get him on the ground. they were pretty much face-to-face. kevin started to get his mace out. the individual had a gun in his pocket, took the gun out, shot him one time in the wrist area where he had the mace and then shot him at least two, if not three more times in the neck and upper chest area. couple real good friends of mine were first on scene from the police department. they started trying to find out where kevin was at because they couldn't raise him on the radio or anything. they located him back in a fenced-in area where there was a porch. kevin was talking to them abo

marshalls who arrested him in texas and returned him to wichita. dean received 20 years per theft, assaulting a police officer and seven counts of failing to register as a violent offender. >> i was just settling into prison, let me get my routine together, and start knocking out this time. i was sitting in my cell one day and they came to me with a detainer paper. >> dean was handed charges on a new case, a murder that occurred during the time he was on the run. he has pled not guilty. >> i couldn't believe it. i couldn't -- i could not believe it. i was like, whoa! >> according to authorities, a shooting erupted between rival gangs at a warehouse party. five people were shot. and one of them, 27-year-old james gary was killed. >> evidently they accusing me of shooting somebody. it ain't a lot that couldn't go on that my name wasn't brought up in. >> were you at the party? >> no, i don't want to -- no comment. i don't want to comment on that. >> do you know who killed james gary? >> no comment. >> if convicted, dean could receive a second prison s

jeff worked for the wichita pd. kevin became a deputy with the sedgwick county sheriff's office. >> he was on the job for almost three years and had just gotten married. his life was really starting to take off. >> kevin easter was on patrol when he spotted a car that had been reported stolen. >> kevin chased the vehicle. the driver exited the vehicle, took off running from kevin. kevin chased him over a fence. was able to get him on the ground. they were pretty much face-to-face. kevin started to get his mace out. the individual had a gun in his pocket, took the gun out, shot him one time in the wrist area where he had the mace and then shot him at least two, if not three more times in the neck and upper chest area. couple real good friends of mine were first on scene from the police department. they started trying to find out where kevin was at because they couldn't raise him on the radio or anything. they located him back in a fenced-in area where there was a porch. kevin was talking to them about how he was goin

. >> though it only has a population of 388,000, wichita is the largest city in kansas. it's the kind of place where everyone seems to know each other. but downtown inside the sedgwick county jail, that's not necessarily a good thing. >> welcome to sedgwick county. >> most of the 1150 inmates here are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial of the resolution ever their cases. samuel says he tries to fly under the radar, both in jail and on the outside. but all too often he pops up. >> i actually got caught doing something for myself. i went to a store called von mar, and i had a $200 pair of jeans and a $270 shirt and i was leaving with it. and the guy that worked there had actually been trying to find me for four years and never been able to catch me. but he saw me on camera and got me. he knew who i was by name. that's all i've ever been arrested for, just petty stuff, taking stuff from wal-mart or whatever. >> he has a long history of stealing and getting caught. he has nine prior theft convictions and recently pled guilty to felony theft and is now awaiting s

. >>> wichita, kansas was a major manufacturing center for airplanes during world war ii. and today, it's still known as the nation's air capital with dozens of companies dedicated to flight. many here are also dedicated to their faiths as the city has been ranked fourth in the nation for places of worship per capita. faith even has its place in a very different sort of facility located in downtown wichita. the sedgwick county jail. >> they're trying to make it hard on the career criminal in kansas. >> most of the 1150 inmates here are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. while they wait, they might get to know pastor tina. >> if you see god, god's going to give you a message that will give you the power to recover what you lost. amen? >> pastor tina has been preaching in the jail chapel for more than a decade. >> god never tells lies and he always fulfills his promises. that's why you got to get in his word and find out what is his promises to you. >> i have an assignment to lead these people out. i don't care what these people

. >>> inside wichita's sedgwick county jail, surveillance cameras caught antonio bell's brutal assault of antonio cooper. awaiting trial for second degree murder, bell threw cooper to the floor and continued beating him. cooper was transported to a local hospital. bell was treated in the jail's medical clinic for a minor wrist injury and placed in the segregation cell. >> i took him to the corner to talk to him and he spit on me. i kind of beat him up a little bit, kind of too bad. i wasn't meaning to, you know. i just kind of blacked out a little bit. it's all gas and no brakes, you know? i walked away once i seen the blood. i kind of snapped back. but like i said, i blacked out, you know. he wasn't my friend i would have continued to maul him, you know. you're going to be all right, you know. it's going to be a good lesson that he learns, you know. i didn't kill him. i could have but i didn't. >> last thing i remember is me being up in the air. emts and all kinds of doctors surrounding me. i just remember getting picked up on the gurney and getting brought out here. i was awake from

each night near the kansas river in wichita it's eloom nated by a dramatic ring of fire. but it's a very different sort of drama inside the nearby searchwick county jail. deputies rushed into admin segregation, back up to an inmate disturbance. the inmate is one they're all familiar with. adrian zonker. >> put your knees to your chest. i'm standing you up. jail surveillance footage captured the start of the incident as zonker is escorted by two deputies into a court hearing. he lunges for a styrofoam trey on a food cart before he was apprehended. >> we know he'll use it as a weapon. so they have to take that as a real threat anytime he's within reach of those treys. >> zonker is waited on charges of aggravated assault and battery is taken to the medical clinic to be checked for injuries, a standard procedure following any use of force. but zonker has a different concern. >> your ribs hurt? >> this is stupid. i just want to [ bleep ] man. [ bleep ]. i'm hungry. >> all right, you're good. >> he's hungry. and that's his biggest thing. he doesn't see anything but the food. wh

. >>> wichita is the largest city in kansas, but many who live here see it not as a metropolitan center, but as a river town. and on the banks of the arkansas river is the city's best-known landmark. the 44-foot tall keeper of the plains was created by a native american artist to honor the spirit of his people. but when there's trouble on the plains, it often gets sorted out downtown at the sedgwick county jail. most of the 1150 men and women incarcerated here are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. while the inmate population is usually near or at capacity, the same cannot be said for the staff. >> we have a staff shortage here that we haven't seen before, and now everybody's having to work a ton of overtime. we're really trying to figure out how to combat that problem right now. it's not a glamorous job. lot of folks have no idea what you do in here and the only time they do know something has occurred is because somebody got in trouble. they never know the good stuff that you do every day. >> sheriff jeff easter has dozens of job openings

and we both traveled to wichita from time to time.nd i want you to know, susan, i don't know if they are here, but much of my family from wichita is here today. they all love you. let's shout out for wichita, kansas. come on, come on. and ralph -- rick ungar, i will admit, he is a little bit more left wing than i am. we know the cpac audience will be polite even with a guy that is a little off on some issues from time to time, because i think it could liven up the conversation. i want to know what the heck is going on with the democrats. rick, somewhat i get to talk to several times a week. come one, come on. and by rick and i have a special relationship because we go to the same hairstylist. byron has this -- make mine the like that too. byron york: great job with that white color. matt schlapp: i am really enjoying looking like mike pence. this is a question about realignment, and there is a lot of realignment going on in politics. as a matter of fact if you like , politics, 2016 would have been the year you chose to be covering pol

we both travel to wichita from time to time. much of my family is here today. let's shout out for wichita kansas. he is a little bit more left wing than i am. even with a guy that is a little off. i kind of want to know what is going on. to severalet to talk times a week. byron and i have a special relationship because we go to the same hairstylist. >> it's really cool to be confused with mike pence. this is a question of realignment in politics. politics, 2016 would have been the year you chose to cover politics because there is so much change on the right and the left. i want to start with ralph who has been covering politics for a long time. have you ever seen a year like in 2016? have never seen a year like this. i ever predicted the outcome of presidential elections. this one was unbelievable. i thought he was a joke, he couldn't be serious. when he started to run i didn't think he could win anything. i realized everything i had learned over 50 years in journalism out the window, i didn't understand what was going on but it was fun. trump said a lot of the

louis and wichita, there is colder air lurking in the northern plains, today's high of 72 we'll do better by it by 3 degrees and tomorrow 2 degrees warmer than today. there you see that huge drop the second half of the weekend. falling 26 degrees from today's high, we'll chat about the big change over the weekend and the thunderstorms coming along with it if the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you. of course stormtracker 6 live double scan radar continues to track everything happening outside of your door from rain to sunshine. and the one of many resources available to you 24 hours a day 7 days a week at 6abc.com/weather and we invite you to take advantage of updates by our team of meteorologist on facebook and twitter. >>> two men were shot when gun fire erupted at west oak lane. the action was on scene when the police responded to the 2700 block of 77th avenue, they found the victims a 25-year-old and 20-year-old inside of a home on the block, each shot in the leg ain third victim was found a block away with an injury to his arm. police believe he may have cut his arm on a shattere

wichita, kansas i'm proud to represent wichita. >> i'm excited more than you even know.ver been to a super bowl. and i want to go and experience it. it. >> golden can of bud light is changing the life of lisle randa. he won a nationwide beer contest and there receive a pair of super bowl tickets for the rest of his life. >> that is awesome. >> the golden can. he has never been to the big game before but he is a local celebrity now in kansas. his phone has been blowing up there friends asking what to do with the other ticket. >> if he was my friend, i would call him. >> the rest of his life. >> yeah. >> let's start this again. >> let's do it again. cue it up. >> where would the big game be without a party. >> if you're looking for healthy options, we have ideas for you. let's send it over to gasia. >> i'm here with darby jackson health coach. i know i'm skeptical. now that i'm standing here, it smells incredible. i'm seeing a lot of familiar favorites. you're not going to hand me a celery stick. >> no. with a nice dip on it. >> nachos everybody loves nachos. i asked you w

wichita, 70 degrees. 70 plenty of warm air for that high pressure to tap and start sending in our direction. so for tonight, get ready for coal one. breezes go way down. we drop to 29 degrees in the city. low 20's in the suburbs. and again tomorrow, about 42 degrees. so your fox5 accuweather sevencc dayuw forecast, actually, tomorrow should be closer to 51 degrees, so we will update that. here it is on the seven day forecast, there is the warm weekend we just showed you,, looks like tuesday might dip down just a little bit at 58 degrees. but otherwise, still right back into the low and mid 60s, wednesday, and thursday. and that is your seven day forecast, but don't go anywhere. we will be right back with more news. >> see became pilot for a day,am in golde borough, north carolina, team of fighter pilots join on the special visit, and nicknamed lexi crusher. because she crushed her chemo treatment. >> oh, well done. >> great milestone. >> thank you guys so much for>>g joining us tonightuys at 6:00. >> we invite to you stay tuned for 5@6:30. that's coming up.p. >> fox is on the phone. ♪♪ new

is he 52-year-old lyle randa from wichita, kansas. >> we mean with a little bud light.yle is the winner of anheuser-bus anheuser-busch's bud light super bowl tickets for life. >> wow. we got a gold can. >> here we go again. so lyle then won the grand prize from among all the other goad can entries. he and his wife traveled to houston yesterday. lyle says he cheers for chiefs and vikings but on sunday, he's rooting for the patriots. >> this has got to be very expensive to go to the super bowl year in and year out. to play for plane ticks and hotel and car rental and all of that. i wonder if he can sell the ticks? >> i wonder if he would, but the other thing is, based on how much he was downing that beer, think it's probably more expensive his beer habit opposed to the super bowl trip. so it's a deal overall. >> you may be right. you may be right. >> ah, the smell of marijuana next. yeah, that stuff only lasts a few hours. or, take mucinex. one pill fights congestion for 12 hours. no thank you very much, she's gonna stick with the short-term stuff. 12 hours? guess i won't

teacher in wichita kansas can do a hundred believe it or not. one for each of her students.t all started when she asked students to give her a high five at the end of the class. and that led to each student having their own hand shake which became a tradition. she says it's not that hard to remember which student likes which hand shake because she says she just looks at their face and she just knows. >>> and take a look here free fall leads to free show at drake concert in london travis scott fell off stage and into a giant hole where a prop was concealed. it happened as the rapper ran on stage to perform goose bumps. drake helped scott from the hole and did he not appear to be hurt. now when scott fell into that hole he damaged a massive globe that is supposed to rise during the concert. so as a result drake offered fans a free show. nice gesture. >>> new england patriots and atlanta falcons on the eve of what could ultimately be the biggest game in history for both of these franchises. as dawn champion reports now from houston, texas, both teams hope to make mark in super

you want to talk about warmth, look what's going on in the middle of the country. 70 today in wichita 72 in denver. 43 in minneapolis. another set of celebrity twins on the way. this time for george and amal clooney. the osca winner and his attorney wife are expecting two little bundles of joy later this year. the twins seem to be trending in 2017. just yesterday, madonna announced she adopted twin girls. and beyonce all but broke the internet last week when she announced she's also pregnant with twins. >> got to love it. >> the end of an era for bachelors with george clooney off the market and now a daddy. >> there you go. >>> still ahead, another country is proposing to build a wall. this one is surrounded by the world's m after a devastating high-wire accident. ♪ at air wick we know the power of that first whiff of your favorite scent. ♪ air wick freshmatic releases timed bursts of the fragrances you love. so that first whiff feeling never fades. air wick freshmatic. ♪ more "doing chores for dad" per roll bounty is more

fromth traveled to wichita time to time and i want you do know, susan, i do not know if they are her but my family loves you and are happy that you are here. let's clap for her. come on, come on. [applause] >> and rick is more left wing than i am but he knows the plight will be -- the audience will be polite and respectful. this will help liven up the conversation because i kind of want to know what the heck the democrats will do. byron, you are someone i have talked to several times. come on, come on. [applause] have a very i special relationship because we go to the same stylist. he has beautiful hair and i want mine to be like that, too. be withally cool to mike pence. i am injuring not. withring the question realignment. there is a lot of realignment going on right now. if you like politics, 2016 would have been the year you chose to cover politics because there is so much change on the right and the left. i want to start with ralph who has been covering politics for a long time. have you ever seen a year like in 2016? >> i have never seen a year like this. i don't think i ever p

and a wider view showing that there is a powerful storm system this low near wichita, will lift up to the great lakes and as it does, areas in the cold sector of the storm are going to get a lot of snow. actually some blizzard warnings expected and a pretty substantial swath of snow, several inches north of omaha and green bay. and temperatures in the 70s. for two more days. and overnight lows not even our formal high for this time of year. only 56 in philadelphia and 52 degrees in wilmington and trenton. and patchy shower possible northwest of philadelphia but the main problem tonight will be the potential for some dense fog developing again. future tracker 6 showing 11:00 tonight again some showers are possible. mainly across northern lehigh valley and the poconos and it clouds up with low clouds and fog for the morning commute and just like today. by the afternoon the clouds give way to sunshine and temperatures back up to near record warmth, philadelphia i think we have a good shot of a record high of 75 degrees, the old record 74 set back in 1985, elsewhere the records are higher

by amanda of wichita kansas ran out to buy some bud lite during a family party.s he was cancer the pack in the fridge, he noticed one was gold, meaning he is eligible for bud lite super bowl tickets for light sweet takes. as luck would have it, rhonda was later chosen from dirty 7000 possible entries to win the grand prize. super bowl tickets for the rest of his entire life. he is now on its way to houston for us for this sunday's big game. lauren: also attending was george h.w. bush, the 41st president. and as soon as the honorary coin flipper from the pregame ceremony. houston is bush's hometown announced that the game is rated on fox. he was just released on monday after being treated for pneumonia. apparently doing well and excited. nicole: a look at the latest in the night action. another receptor is going to. the 40 footer and style no less than the jacket. stephan said. onto the rail game, like father like son. curry drained 53, were aricept 20. drain from way downtown. he's not dead yet. still in the second comic can you have one from here? really, check

remains there, it's quiet across the country and the warmth is spreading from chicago to omaha and wichita folks east of the rockies seeing 60s and 70s today and that continues into thursday and friday. back at home very unseasonably warm and patchy fog developing late and 41 in the suburbs and 48 in center city as we look at the numbers tomorrow, a little bit of fog and clouds in the morning and brighter afternoon much like today. 68 and warmer in allentown and 69 in trenton and 70 in millville and 71 in wilmington and 72 in dover, it sounds warm but we will again come shy of the records for tomorrow. tomorrow's record was set in 1874 close to when records started in philadelphia. it was 75 degrees tomorrow and won't reach that. wilmington has a good shot of it. around 72 maybe trying to tie back in 1985 and trenton the old record in 1874 of 74 degrees. 20 to 30 degrees above average on friday as a warm front lifts to the north and all of this heat so to speak, still building in the tennessee and ohio valley, we should break that by a degree and another warm day on saturday, awaiting a co

you can see there's this arching clear area that's over us, almost like a little bridge from wichitao philly. something we like to call high pressure building in. it's like a bubble. a bubble that doesn't let rain or stormy activity in. that's what we see today and tomorrow. your hour by hour forecast, through your morning and afternoon and evening, 6:00 not a change on the board for your saturday. some clouds overnight. but as we go into the rest of your sunday afternoon those thin out and mostly sunny again on your sunday. here are the forecast high temperatures. we'll make it low to mid-60s philly. 65 in center city. lansdale 61. same for westchester through the suburbs closer to 60. upper 50s to 60 degrees even in the lehigh valley and the berks county area. 61 the forecast for trenton. voluntary he's 63. ocean city, 55. a little cooler. cooler ocean water. mid-50s through the shore. and mid-60s across delaware for forecast highs. one thing to note the winds will pick up a tad. five to 15 miles per hour. nothing strong. gusts up to 25. enough that it will be a little breezy out t

if you are located across this region, perhaps dallas to the wichita falls region, tornado, large hail. very active weather pattern across the united states to say the least. it looks like it is winding down in southern california, northern parts of the state and into texas. that's the big part. >> when you think back, a couple years back, the situation there so different. >> it was dire. a little bit too much too quick. >> still ahead, nba all-star weekend. >> why the big loser will be the city that once had the game in its grasp. stay with us. at if you could tun ings around? what if you could love your numbers? discover once-daily invokana®. it's the #1 prescribed sglt2 inhibitor that works to lower a1c. a pill taken just once in the morning, invokana® is used along with diet and exercise to significantly lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. in fact, it's been proven to be more effective at lowering a1c than januvia. invokana® works around the clock by reducing the amount of sugar allowed back into the body, and sending some sugar out through the process of urination. a

wichita falls. 94. these are all records or tied for records, including dallas, 88 degrees there.t record-breaking heat is sliding off to the southeast. 10 to 20, 25 degrees above average today. enjoy this while it lasts. the next couple of weeks, the trend looks to be above average. >> this weather report is brought to you by silk. get out and have a great sunday, everybody. >> you know what paula and i do during your forecast? we eat bacon. >> doesn't surprise me. >> you want a piece? should we share? >> give it to ron. >> okay, take one down and pass it around. >> still love you. still love all of you. >>> coming up here on "gma," the biggest night in music. jesse palmer is out in los angeles with a preview of the awards. the preparties. the rivalries. the leading contenders. the artists that your culturally illiterate anchors have never heard of. and the gift baskets handed out to the stars. >>> counting down to valentine's day, how to make it the sweetest day of the year ahead in "pop news." we can get back to eating bacon now. give me the plate, please. thdisney resort hotel

wichita, kansas sitting at 72, saint lewes, and little rock, 64, so this warmth, that you see here, is. starts to move in tomorrow. low 50's,o mo theven by the time get to saturday, sunday, and a even into presidents day obviously monday talking about 60s here for us, because the jet stream is just going to continue to move to the north, and as it does it, will allowllw all of the warm temperatures tem to common in. in. so here's what we're thinking. saturday, six a, we will have h some sunshine to start, mostly cloudy in the afternoon. sunday, we carry the clouds with us, sunday morning. m and then by the time we get to sunday afternoon it looks like we will be fairly sunny, temperatures both days for the weekends, 65 degrees.degr some of you may get just little bit warmer than that. very nice on president's day, d lots of sunshine, little there, upper 50's, to low six 60s. okay, this evening, here's h what we're thinking, clearinging skies, breezy at 7:00. by 9:00 and 10:00 basicallyally talking about winds, maybeaybe 10 miles per hour or so. temperatures will drop down into theures

that heat across much of the eastern part of the country. 60's and 70's building from chicago to wichitaelphia, we are back to 63 for your wednesday. in fact as we take a look at that four day at 4:00 forecast, tomorrow is the coolish day with a lot of high clouds 51 degrees. then on wednesday, clouds some sunshine around maybe a quick shower early in the day at 63. we are back to the 70's on thursday 73 degrees. that wouldn't be a record. the record is 75 back in the 1800s for thursday but record warmth more than likely friday, 75 with sun and clouds so that is far better than what we just went through over the weekend if you can believe that. we'll have the seven day to look at the next weekend coming up in the next half hour. >> i don't know if you heard it but you just got a full on ovation. >> i heard a little clap over here. you have to work though. >> i know but i still like looking at that. i love it. >> thanks adam. >> stick with 6abc.com/weather as outer loop winter warmup continues. you'll find constantly updated details on any expected changes and we invite you to rely on our