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Search for Shane Montgomery. His family confirms a body discovered today in the Schuylkill River is that of the missing college student. Saturday night, im walter perez and the big story on action news is ending the Shane Montgomery family dreaded the mostch the missing College Students body was found by differs today less than a mile from where he was last scene. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormick has been gathering reaction to the tragic development. We begin with ken live at the scene, kenneth. Reporter walter, right now the body of Shane Montgomery is at the medical sent to determine the cause of death. We dont know the condition of his body but we know how he was found behind manayunk brewing company. On this stretch of the Schuylkill River in manayunk a discovery many in this community thought was inevitable and never wanted to see. Saturday drivers pull the body of missing 20yearold west chester senior Shane Montgomery from the waters. Thats why we do this. To find familys loved ones and bring them back. He was found garden state underwater Recovery Unit 11 30 a. M. Near main street and sheers lane. His family and their pastor watched from the business. Differs told us the young man was on the bottom of the river about ten feet from the shore. Where he was was about waist deep center of river theres holes 8 10 foot deep for the most part its 6, 7 foot. Its been nearly 0 days since shane disappeared wednesday morning after a night out with friends. He was last seep as kill dares pub. The search has been exhaustive and teams of differs in the waters for weeks and fbi working with Philadelphia Police. Breaks came when his keys were found before christmas in the water and days gr that investigators saw surveillance of him stumbling across this bridge towards the water at killdares. They felt invested in the search like so many. The base is set up on our deck. We became family with his family during the whole situation it broke us all down we were all out back when they brought him in. Shape has been found. Theres still major theres still major. Was he thrown in the water . Did he fall in . And that is all under investigation by Philadelphia Police tonight. The differs who found shanes keys were the same ones that discovered his body today in an area that was searched before. Again the me is trying to determine the cause of death. Walter. Reporting live in manayunk this evening, kenneth moton, channel 6 action news. All right. Kenneth. Thank you for the report. Our coverage continues with Annie Mccormick live we church with friends and support rerz keeping friends and family in their thoughts tonight. Any. Reporter and walter, during shanes disappearance the family gave up green ribbons which was his favorite color. This Christmas Tree is covered in the ribbons and green lights. Its one show of support from the church and also from the community who today says theyre heartbroken along with his family. Today we have done what we have promised we have found and brought shane home. Shane montgomerys parents fought tears to say thank you shortly after volunteer differs discovered their 21yearold son. We want to thank everyone for their support and prayers and love and ask they continue to pray for our family at this trying time. The people of manyunk and shanes native roxboro put flyers in shop windows and substituted annual Tree Lighting for candlelight vigil during the West Chester University students disappearances. A reward grew to more than 60,000 with the help of local businesses and his parish, st. John the baptist, became ground zero for volunteer search and rescue operations out of the basement. He is home with god. He is home with his family. Some parishioners entering saturday evening mass just learning the news. We thank god weve been praying every day they would find him for the parents. Shanes uncle at the river during todays discovery sharing mixed emotions following tonights mass. There was that moment you kind of hoped it was not shane. And that it was something else. And but at the same time, hes in gods hands and hell never feel pain and never feel rain and hell always be happy. And his mom today going on to thank a long list of people including Philadelphia Police spvkly marine unit northwest detectives and this volunteer search and rescue team. Now, at this point, were told no funeral arrangements have been made. For now, reporting live in manayunk, Annie Mccormick, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Our coverage continues on owe line at 6abc. Com. There you can find and read our timeline of the search and communitys effort to find shane and vigils in the days to come and his impending funeral. Turning now to the accuweather forecast its with a dreary day. Plenty of rain. Sleet as well. In center city if you were outside you didnt have an umbrella chances are you were having a bad day. Tomorrow a dramatic change is coming our way. Meteorologist Melissa Magee joins us at the big board with the first check of the ak raw uweather forecast. We were checking the moisture overhead. It started out with sleep. Even in philadelphia mixed precipitation north and west. As you can see on stormtracker 6 double scan radar the Winter Weather advisory in the northwest suburbs expired and all light in nature rain. You noticed 95 corridor trenton to philadelphia were picking up light moisture and areas norm and west of town, mall verp, doylestown and quaker up to will continue through the rest of the evening hours. Rainfall quarter inch for atlantic city, millville. 16 and poconos. 16 and reading and poconos. 16 and reading. Owe 9. And lots of low clouds and visibility. Were down to 1. 7 miles in philadelphia and half mile in poconos and down to miles in allentown. Give yourself extra fix you valve or are out and about this evening. Talking about what is ahead. Off and on rain showers follow fort rest of saturday. Still soggy come tomorrow. Each though we have moisture were tracking and it stays unsettled sunday temperatures rise. Record warmth sunday. We go through all of those numbers in the accuweather forecast. Thank you melissa. Stay on top of changing situation with 6abc. Com. Visit 6abc. Com weather both the hourly and 7day for cost and latest video from action news meteorologist and collection of weather related photos and videos. A man is dead and woman critically injured after a bizarre chain of events in Camden County that started as domestic incident 4 00 in pensauken where female victim was shot and her father rushed her to cooper hospital. Police stopped the suspected gunman after he ran a read light. He led police ton a chase to cooper hospital and committed suicide before police could make the arrest. A heavily armed man held police at bay 8 hours overnight in levittown. Last night a woman went to police to say her uncle lawrence ruse went to kill someone was the mother dies. Her uncle had dozens of guns, investigators went to the home and found roose in the home refusing to come outside. Swat teams took him into custody. His 90yearold mother inside the home was taken to a local hospitaling to checked out as a precaution. Police in philadelphia are investigating a murder on a playground in Strawberry Mansion late last night. It happened 11 30, 29 and chomers avenue a man was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head. No word on possible motive. Few hours later the action cam was on the scene of another shooting outside fishtown gold club on girard avenue. A fist fight ended in gunfire. Two men were taken to the hospital in stable condition. Three were injured and eight families left without a place to live after a fire in southwest philadelphia. Chopper6hd over the scene at 68 near woodland avenue 9 15 last knight. A 70yearold man and younger woman wore forced to jump to safety. Red cross is providing shelter food and clothing to 28 people that lives there. No word how it startd hundreds of local High School Students are plotting their path to college. They hosted philadelphia conference today. They have a chance to learn of the application process and better understand options for financial aid. More to come on action news a 7yearold girl escapes unharmed from a plane crash that took lives of four members of their family. Hear from a man whose home they walked to looking for help. En a shakeup in the Eagles Front Office ends with chip kelly wielding more power within the organization. Ducis rogers tells us what that means for the team when action news comes right back we thought our cable internet was fast. But, our uploads are half the speed of our downloads so our internet is really halffast. So halffast. 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They believe they will be able to recovery mains of many 162 passengers and crew on board and expect edly still inside the cabin. Only 30 bodies were recovered to far. A 7yearold girl is sole survivor of deadly plane crash in kentucky. The girls parents sister and cousin were all killed. She somehow made it out of the wreckage and walked a mile without shoes in near freezing temperatures to find help. She knocked open the first house she found and Larry Wilkins was stunned when he opened the door. There is a little girl 7 years old crying not mad lip quivering good bloody, bloody nose and arms and legs were scratched up real bad. And she told me that her mom and dad was dead. How about that. The girl was rushed to the hospital treated and released today federal vaeingttors were called in to examine the crash site. They reported engine trouble with air awe traffic control. Eagles head coach gets new power. 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This is not a one man operation it will take a team effort to develop best Football Players and put the best team on the field each week and take all of us working together. Eagles offensive coordinate nateer would like to get back into head coaching he interviewed with oakland raiders. Before birds two years ago he was head coach of cleveland browns. Nfl wildcard weekend is underway. 7 wins hosting the cardinals. Life is not fair. Cardinals starred third string art quarterback ryan lingly. Arizona has a 1 point lead. Were about to start the 3rd quarter. Cardinals have 65 total yards of offense thus far. Villanova has been on a roll. The 130 record matches best start in School History and cats ranked sixth in the nation that is what makes what happened today mind boggling on the road Seton Hall Jay Wright looking for a win and cats offer to a terrible start. Down 173 six minutes in. nova fights back second half. Darin hiliard fights back. 19 points 24 boards. Career high. nova up by three. Game tied a minute to play. Freshman carington puts seton hall up with a duce and nova no dice were going to over time. In ot, its carington again. How about this move. Spin cycle. 17 for him off the bench. nova is fun. 6661 in over time. Rge washington. 20 points in the second half they fall behind. Chris wolfson duties down to 3 with ten seconds to play. But the hawks are unable to get the ball back despite the scramble. Drexel hosting elon dragones shorted with just three players and Roman Catholic standout knocks down three. Elon wins. Thats six straight losses. To the ice, its almost over. Flyers monster road trip will wrap it up tonight in north jersey and the flyers are breathing a deep sigh of relief. Claude giroux is okay after suffering a nasty cut against klooip. He had to leave the game. The injury required stitches hes listed as probable for tonights contest. I got luck i got lucky and everybody kind of panicked and i didnt help the cause by panicking either. But. As for the game flyers lost to the hurricanes. Road trip basketball sixers in la to take on clippers this is end to season long road trip. Lost to the suns because they did not show up in the second half. Brett browns squad was out scored 18 points in the third. Sixers are now 427 open the season. That is the worst record in nba. 427 . 4 wins. I counted them today. Its not good. Thank you ducis. Up next on action news meteorologist Melissa Magee has the exclusive accuweather 7day forecast. Stick around. Papa sometimes, in football, you go for 2. Sometimes, in pizza, you get 2 without even trying. Get a large one topping pizza free when you purchase a large pizza. Order now at papajohns. Com. Papa better ingredients joe better pizza. Peyton better football papa papa johns. It was a dream day for brides to be. They have the opportunity to buy diaper wedding dresses at big discounts during brides against cancer events. The tour stopped today Clarion Hotel essington. This charity raised more than 1 Million Dollars for families supporting loved one with cancer. All right. Time for check of the accuweather cost today was horrible, just horrible. Could have been worse could have been snowing. Thats true. Im thankful it was not snowing. We had sleet and frozen precipitation all of is that the moving off to the north and east walter. Were leftover with rain showers throughout the evening. Stormtracker 6 shows you that we have light rain through philadelphia along the 95 corridor and areas south and east. We did have a Winter Weather advisory that expired at 6 00 for areas north and west of town. Were just looking at liquid precipitation as well there. Trenton philadelphia wilmington south and east south jersey from wrightstown, sea side heights surf city, mays landing we have showers continuing through the evening hours. Another batch of precipitation through sunday. We show you the picture outside. Action cam was outside earlier today looking up the ben franklin parkway to the Philadelphia Museum of art. You can see lots of clouds around and lots of fog to continue with as well and that drizzle staying with us as well. Make sure you have the wet weather gear this saturday. First weekend of 2015 off to a bit of foggy note. Its 38. High temperature today below average 41 is thank time of year and as you look at numbers. Upper 30s to 40s in wilmington and south and east for beach thich Sea Isle City to dover temperatures easily in the lower 40s. Temperatures are marginal across allentown and lancaster thats why we had sleet and frozen precipitation and as moisture lifts off to north with warm front lifting on offer north we have liquid precipitation northwest suburbs as well. Heres satellite 6 and action radar a warm front lifting off north and east and that triggers showers around early today and for the first start of the weekend. Off to the west theres an area of low pressure boardingering illinois and indian a the cold front moves ta through throughout the day on monday. Future tracker 6 has you covered saturday through the rest of the evening 9 30 tonight showers continue on and off and at midnight wet weather. A lull or break in activity as you wake up tomorrow morning. Midmorning 11 00 in the morning on sunday those showers return. Once the cold front moves through we have another line of rain. Were calling for an additional threequarters inch to inch and threequarters worth of precipitation. Moisture is moving on through. Heres the other story. Wet and warm. High temperature tomorrow in philadelphia 66. Record 68 setback in 1950. These numbers come crashing for start of the workweek. The accuweather forecast showing you mild tomorrow, up to 66. On and off rain monday, windy, colder, 39. Tuesday high of just 30 were tracking clipper system that will move on through. Afternoon snow showers are likely. Wednesday, below freezing, 31. Just a tweak on thursday, high of 23. Ep joy the mild tomorrow and get ready for the chill. Thank youle world news tonight is next on channel 6. For Melissa Magee, ducis rogers Jeff Skversky and the entire action news team. Im walter perez, well see you 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. Get a fios triple play online at an amazing price guaranteed for two whole years. Plus now get 400 bonus with a two year agreement. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v welcome to world news tonight. Sole survivor. The Small Plane Crash that killed an entire family except for one little girl. Her climb out of the wreckage and trek through the dark woods the man who answered her knock on the door. How did she make it out alive . Wicked weather. The arctic blast spreading across the country just as america travels home from the holidays. Icy roads, freezing rain and now tornadoes whipping up too. Breakthrough. The massive object spotted on the ocean floor. Tonight searchers on the hunt for the missing airasia jet say this is what theyve been looking for. Are they now close to finding the black boxes . And tipping off thieves, the danger of sharing too much online. Im kind of a social media nerd. Im also kind of a burglar