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WPHL Action News At Ten On PHL17 October 31, 2014

Hangar at the birch wood resort airport in tanersville, 40 miles south of where he is accused of ambushing two state troopers at the blooming groop Grove State Police barracks. Action news Sharee Williams has a look at exactly what happened leading up to this moment in the search for frein. Well begin tonight with Annie Mccormick with breaking developments in Blooming Grove tonight. An yes, i you have the latest. And, brian, that right, eric frein is alive and is in custody and will face charges including murder according to pike County District attorney. That arraignment has not happened at this time yet. State place and the community are glad and breathing a sigh of relief they finally can feel safe again. Surrounded by state troopers eric frein arrived to bloomingGrove State Police barracks wearing handcuffs of brian dixon. These are pictures of the fugitive taken shortly after his arrest today. Sources say u. S. Marshals discovered the 31yearold if he former birchwood resorts airport and spotted him near abandoned hangar. He was armed and sure ownederd without incident. He is charged with opening fire outside the barracks on september 12 killing Corporal Brian Dixon and wounding alex douglass. Pennsylvania state Police Describe the killing and assault as ambush. Frein became one of fbis most wanted and gripped the community in fear. Tonight, residents finally are breathing a sigh of relief. Back to normal. No more phone calls from the school that theyre in lockdown and concerned protecting our children. Im grateful for it. Its nerve wraking. Im glad they got them. Definitely. Absolutely. And no other officers hurt in the interim. Thats right, life can get back to normal. That includes halloween festivities tomorrow originally cancelled were told a number of them are back on. Were still waiting to hear from state police. They are holding a press conference 11 00 tonight with governor corbett. Waiting to hear their reaction to this. Again the community can finally feel safe again. For now live in bloominggrove, pennsylvania, Annie Mccormick for action news at 10 on phl17. Any, thank you. It has been a very long 49 days for everyone serving for eric frein. And for everyone living in the region around the search area has authorities trying to find this murder suspect. Action News Reporter Sharee Williams breaks down how he got to this point that violent night, september 129 the night the troopers were shot. Thats what we will pick it up. Friday, september 12, someone opened fire out the bloominggrove barracks killing Brian Dickson and seen yes, sirly injuring alex douglass. There was a man walking his dog. Well get to him in a moment and spotted his vehicle submerged in a swamp. When that happened, that was the big break that police needed. Because inside that suv they found freins drivers license and evidence tying him to the ambush including shell casings. Now with his name and address of possible shooter then the search expanded going to canadensis south ever the shooting where he grew up to his parents homech the search sent the surrounding community on edge and Pocono Mountain School district decided to cancel school. Frein reportedly used his cellphone to contact his paerps. Also assuring police he was nearby. September 24 a camp site seen in the woods with soiled diapers and cigarettes came up and another camp site found october 3 with a backpack and Food Supplies found. Bit end of september the amount of officers involved in the search had risen to 1,000. On october 17 a woman reported a sighting of frein south of original area of price in barrett stwp and this is video from october 28 when another sighting happened this time it was around route 390 and today october 30 eric matthew frein is captured alive in an unused hangar at the birchwood pocono air park in and near tantanville. It ramped up the serve and it was reportedly costing more than 1 million a week. Sharee, thank you. We can believe that. Action news mornings will continue coverage of eric freins capture when you wake one live reports beginning at 4 30 only on 6abc. And you always get updates on the 6abc news app. All right. Turning tonight for the accuweather forecast and word your Little Princesses and super heros will need an extra layer under those Halloween Costumes tonight. Meteorologist adam joseph is tracking numbers for us tonight, hi, adam. That is true, brian, you want them underneath to not cover up the costumes and temperatures going back to normal this time of year. Two days ago, 76 for a high in philadelphia, 70 yesterday. Today, 60. And the normal is right around 62. Numbers are falling though. Especially in suburbs. Theres a chill in the air. 42 allentown and 45 trenton and 4 millville and 36 in the poconos and little warmer right along the shore between 50 on Long Beach Island to the tip of okay may county coming in at 52. Future tracker temperatures early tomorrow morning, 37 allentown and 38 reading and 39 in millville. So, really chilly tomorrow morning and it may sound or feel chilly but this is pretty average for this time of year. At the Freezing Point in the poconos and as we get to the afternoon tomorrow around 4 00, 54 allentown and 57 thats it in philadelphia and 56 millville. So a little below normal tomorrow for High Temperatures. As we go into that trick or treat forecast at 5 00, temperature will be generally around 56. Cooler in many suburbs under mostly cloudy skies by 9 00, temperatures dipping to upper 40s in suburbs and 50 city and could be drizzle trying to develop only at the shore communities while the rest of us are dry. We have big changes which include very strong wind over the weekend alicia and rain and timing on those in the 7day. Adam, state senator convicted of corruption will not send a day in jail for crimes. Liana washington will serve five years of probation and three months of house arrest during that time. Part of a plea deal that requires her to pay 200,000 in restitution. Prosecutors accused her after using her tax funded staff to work on fundraising. This plea deal allows washington to keep her pension pension in exchange for information on other investigations. She will resign her office tomorrow. Transit union boss willie brown has given septa until end of day tomorrow to produce a contract he likes. If it doesnt, he says he will consider calling a strike which will bring buses, trolleys and subway trains to a screeching halt. Two sides went back to the bargaining table today and still have not reached a dealch the union has agreed to give the public 4 hours notice before its 4700 workers walk off the job. The fight against the Ebola Outbreak in west africa is making progress in some areas tonight. World Health Organization says rate of infection is slowing by as much as 25 week to week in liberia. Still the threat there is very big one. And Officials Say without more International Assistance that crisis will only get worse. Nearly 5,000 people have died so far in west africa. Well that number would undoubtedly be higher were it not for one dr. In nigeria that single handedly stopped the virus from spreading in that countrych the late doctor is a hero in west africa but as action News Reporter dann cuellar tells us she has ties at home. Meet dr. Ameo adevedo and paid with her life. She was very courageous and unfortunately paid the ultimate sacrifice with her life when she pass away from the disease. It was back in july that liberian diplomat Patrick Sawyer entererd country and arrived at hospital after falling ill. Junior doctor miss diagnosed him as having malaria and she suspected ebola. He denied having any contact with anybody who had ebola and wanted to be discharged because had came to nigeria to attend the conference. He failed to say he was with his sister before he died from ebola and does he manneded to be released. The patient and liberian government put my sister under tremendous pressure to discharge him and they said they would sue her because she was violating his human sgliingts she refused isolating patient and protect are her and save as best they could. Two days later blood tests confirmed he had ebola and by the end of the week he was dead. Less than a month later dr. Dr. Adevedo and eight others died from the dreaded disease. Im upset that you know unfortunately the country was not ready for this outbreak. She paid the price. Today her staff is credited for keeping nigeria ebola free. Shes seen by many there was a National Hero and nonprofit trust fund is established in her name to support health care anywhere her area. She hopes this will inspire doctors to fight the disease in west africa to keep it from spread around the world. It comforts me a little bit there is a lot of pain my loss is deep and life will never be the same without my sister and the fact shes recognized as a hero gives me comfort. Dann cuellar, action news at 10 on phl17. Nurse casey hickcox is ready for a show down for hickcox treated ebola patient in sierra leone and is opposed to isolated. Her lawyers rejektd scale down quarantine which would allow her to go for walks and bike rides and staying away from public places. She went biking with her boyfriend today. So far she has no symptoms and tested negative for the virus. Her 21 day quarantine is scheduled to end november 10. The husband of a delaware state senator turned himself into police today to face theft charges. Dana long surrendered to authorities this morning. All this stems from this video that clearly shows long married to incumbent senator, hes out on bail tonight. Senator said she was unaware of his actions. Survivors of Domestic Violence had a celebration thrown in their honor tonight. Lutheran settlement house posted the event in hunting park. Dozens of brave women who over came the situation was part of organization bilingual Domestic Violence program. So were the family and friends. And still ahead on this full hour of action news tonight a terminally ill woman that publicly planned her own death. Now says she had a change of heart. Also a local Police Department is taking risk out of buying and selling on craigslist. Check out its face zone next. And turns out the did who operated this rocket blew it up on purpose. Operated this rocket blew it up on purpose. Their reason four people were killed and some injured after a plane crashed in wichita, cap can. Three of the dead were inside the building and a fourth found on the roof is preassumed to be the pilot. The Company Behind wednesdays doomed space flight says it intentionally blue up the rocket so as to avoid an even greater disaster. Orbital science is the contractor that activated the rocket and it activatedself sgrukt sigh consequence that it became evident it would not make it to orbit to deep from flyinging over populated areas. It destride two tons of supplies doupd for International Space station. This time tomorrow night kids across the delaware and lehigh valleys will be counting their candy. Recovering from stomach ache after even too much of. It the worj should cooperate for fun filled halloween night. Stomach ache and a all a nice night. More of a trick that treat for tomorrow. Theres eye shot from nancy the face back page newtown Tyler State Park beautiful shot there against the calm lake and brilliant colors peaking presently. But unfortunately a lot of those leaves are going to be ripped off of the trees come saturday and especially on sunday. 60 the High Temperature today. Little closer to the normal of 62. Low 45 pretty arm with normal low being 44 in your records and 27 and 81 degrees. As we look at the numbers around the region. 342 allentown and 4 reading 46 wilmington and 46 millville and theres a chill in the air with philadelphia trying to match shore temperatures only around r50 to 51. As we look at satellite and radar you notice clouds to the north and west break ago part at the present time as were kind of losing what was some instability in the atmosphere today. So as we look at future tracker generally its clear as we start your friday the end of the work and school week at 00 in the morning and then into the afternoon. Winds wrap in off the water and off the at plantic low pressure develops east and it throws clouds our way i95 to south and east and there could be even a few showers or dizle that starts to develop sometime in the evening or overnight hours in the shore moving inland. As we look at the morning rush. No pump in the road here nothing scary to start halloween. Temperatures 41. 6 00, 44 at 8 with that chilly start and across the region in the afternoon its below average. 56 allentown and 5 trenton and 57 dover we start with sun and clouds start to build from the east to the west with that fall chill in the air. When i come back with the 7day forecast, brian, well talk about temperatures falling even further over the weekend as those winds whip up and the rain pushes in. All right, adam, see you soon. Thank you. Coatsville Area High School class made an unconventional choice for homecoming king. You know what they could not be more proud of it. Kyle shaveky has avm. Despite going up against wellknown athletes his classmates elected kyle adds ting king. Kyle was overwhelmed by the support of all his schoolmates and says he hopes it shows people with disabilities have few limitations. I guess i kind of sowed myself and others that you can do whatever you want to when you if you can do it. And you should try it. No surprise to us after talking to kyle but his teachers say he is humble young man that will no doubt go very far in life. Our congratulations to king kyle tonight. I love that smile. Absolutely. Time for first look at sports tonight. Scev jeff is in for ducis rogers in the action news Sports Center hey, jeff. Hey, guys, running back for Eagles Darren sproles will he return this week and nate allen can he play . Center jason tell circumstance of course, important details for sundays game in houston although head coach chip kelly claims newspaper of that is important to him. Jamie apody has more. This time its thrown out to the far side of the bubble sglooen with innovative offense and unique approach to training chip kelly is hot topic in the nfl. On the field poker faced and on podium fast talking and quick whitted intention alley or not. Take todays press conference the irony they have 7 former texasian as on their roster. And jeff maehl that played for both. Hes a daily double. Jeopardy for you. The answer hell play safety sunday if nate allens hamstring is not healed enough. Question, who is earl wolff. Kelly was asked today if wolff met expectations he had for him in the second season. For him to start every game, 27,000 picks and super bowl. He has not exceeded that right now. Kelly is a word smith he is no medical profession at. Probed by the fact hi as a handoff approach with players injuries he offered up this gem. For a guy that tore muscles i cant put my hands together rub them together and make it better. Tell me who can play and whoa cant play. Well, wax on, wax off, and wax poetic coach kelly and mr. Mr. Miagi would be happy to know eagles are as healthy as theyve been all year. Jamie apody for phl17. If youre not watching karate kid tonight, flyers in tampa looking for fourth straight win. A terminally ill woman that was going to take her life has postponed her death. She still enjoys quality time for family and friends but shes becoming more sick with each passing week. Cop assumeer alert tonight the federal trade Commission Says gesher is making false claims about the good start, gentle form laxity gesher claimed it could prevent or reduce allergys in children particularly those that lead to eczema. They petitioned fda to reduce protiens auto for that skin condition. Gesher ated there was little sign tisk evident to advertisements and labels. The company did not do that and the ftc is suing. It looked like a scene from walking dead tonight on the streets of northern liberties. Dozens of zombies took part in pub crawl through the neighborhood the night started off at the north pole where zombies had drinks and took off at the north pole where zombies had drinks and took selfies what else would they newspapers speak out. Tom corbett has been something of a disaster. Tom corbett cut spending on education by a billion dollars. Its time for a change. Elect tom wolf, and youll get the type of governor we havent seen for a while. One who looks out for average, hardworking pennsylvanians. Its wolf who has solid ideas for bringing in new business and for boosting the economy. Tom wolf for governor, a fresh start for pennsylvania. Thank you cable. For the slower internet upload speeds. For making me wait longer to share my photo albums. Thank you, cable because if we never had you. We wouldnt know the incredible difference verizon fios makes. The numbers dont lie. In Customer Satisfaction studies, fios is rated 1 in Internet Speed and reliability, and hd picture quality. So join the millions who enjoy the difference fios makes and get a fios triple play online at an amazing price guaranteed for two years. Sign up now and get 300 back with a twoyear agreement. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v km more coming up at 10 30 including parking app causing a lot in philadelphia. And one Police Departments plan top make buying and selling a whole lot safer that is coming up 10 45. Following breaking news out of the poconos suspected copkiller eric frein w

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