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WPVI Action News 5PM March 12, 2015

Police say the demonstration was winding down when the shots were fired. One officer shot through the shoulder and the other shot in the cheek the bullet still lodged behind his ear. We are lucky by gods grace we didnt lose two officers last night. Both are expected to recover while people wonder if this city will be able to do the same. This really disgusting and cowardly attack might have been intended to unravel any sense of progress that exists but i hope that that does not in fact happen. Starting this evening, Ferguson Police are no longer in charge of security that responsibility is now handed over to county and state officer s s s. Thank you there is motherre on the shooting of the Ferguson Police officers at 6 30 on world news with david muir off action news at 6 00. Firefighters are still on the scene of a Gentlemens Club on south delsy drive in vineland firefighters say there was thick smoke coming out of the business when they arrived. Officials at the Emergency Administration fema are reviewing sandy claims it could review more than 144,000 claims and this is how some Insurance Companies assessed the damage. Nora muchanic is live at ortely beach, ocean county one the shore towns hit the hardest by the storms. This is welcome news from thousands of sandy victims that feel like they got a raw deal from fema, now they get a Second Chance when their claims were not paid. I am cautiously optimistic. Doug is living out a rented home and battling with his insure company and fema, he was insured for a quarter Million Dollars he was paid roughly 92,000 not enough to pay his claim in silverton. The only way they reviewed claims was that people were being lied to. You cant make what we went through for the last two and a half years go away but we can see that before all is said and done, maybe well be made whole to a certain degree. The leader of a group called stop fema now is saying its hard to have faith in an agency that strung you along all along. We are looking to get paid in full in a timely period, we cant wait another two and a half years to sort this out lets get us paid and back in our homes now. Tom sheerer got his Flood Insurance money but is still fighting with his company. His building ineaside received 170,000 in damage and he has been paid roughly 27,000. Its like running through beirut, whenever we get close to a settlement they change defense attorneys. Robert mendez led the charge in getting fema to review the claims fema will develop a review process and will notify homeowners by mail that they can reopen their cases. Thank you nora. Students that were among those hurt today when a bus carrying a College Bowling team crashed in Southern Indiana and this is the scene on i65, Officials Say that 16 members of india techs bowling team was on board as well as coaches, its still not clear how many people were hurt or what could cause the crash. The Boston Marathon bombing trial turned its focus today on the days after the attacks. Among the witnesses the man that was allegedly carjacked by the terrorists. The witnesses testified they later picked up brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and they saw moments after the carjacking victim escaped. Prosecutors say that the video shows the brothers running back to the car and speeding off. We are learning more today about another embarrassment for the secret service after two senior agents were put on desk duty because of an alleged drunk driving incident. One is a member of president obamas personal detail. They were driving a vehicle last week after allegedly drinking at a party for another agent that was retiring. They allegedly drove the car through security tape that had been set up outside of the perimeter of the white house. The most important part is that you have two secret Service Agents probably armed in a government car and some state of inneeb region. Ebriation. Now eagles news, Demarco Murray arrived in town and there are reports that he verbally agreed to a multiyear contract. Jaime apody joins us outside of nova care complex with the latest. Reporter hey there rick, maury has reportedly agreed to a five year, 42 million deal with 21 million guaranteed. Nothing is official until he signs it the eagles will be adding last years leading rusher plus linebacker keiko alonso and save 5 million in exchange for lesean mccoy. This is murray arriving in philadelphia, at 3 00 p. M. This afternoon he made his way to the nova care complex and is meeting with chip kelly as we speak, kelly canceled a scheduled trip to watch mariota work out. He did express his interest in coming to philadelphia. Bradford has been calling and texting murray trying to recruit him as well. He rushed for over 1800 yards and 13 touch downs over 400 carries, one reason that the cowboys may not be willing to go as high and may be seen as an overasset. The following year only three of them were able to rush for 1,000 yards and their touch downs were down a combine 58 . Here is the thing the eagles made official moments ago the signing of running back Ryan Matthews to a three year deal, they landed the charger, if its matthew and murray that is a way to keep murray fresh. Live in south philadelphia channel 6 action news. Thank you jaime. Time for a check of the action news traffic report autumn marisa in the Traffic Center tonight with the low down on the slow down. Hi there its slow on the schuylkill expressway, the good news is a bigger delay a half hour ago, our delay from 50 minutes to 40 minutes right now people are trying to get home quickly to enjoy the sunshine, these are the eastbound lanes and westbound be careful of sun glare, we dont want to be complaining about that. Over at the big picture we see speeds in the 20s and teens lower on the blue route taking you about 25 minutes to go from the schuylkill expressway down to 95 right now in those southbound lanes of the blue route, moving along and showing you a few incidents this is vineland, new jersey, the fire at delsy drive this is 47 at walnut road, use orchard road to get around this. And we a downed traffic light in berlin new jersey. Thank you. Still ahead on action news at 5 00, a huge event in the world of professional soccer and its coming to philadelphia, we have the exciting details. Next. After a sunny and seasonable thursday we are tracking changes in time for the weekend. We are talking about a soaking rain in the accuweather forecast. And this reminder when you see breaking news or Severe Weather we want you to join the action, email your videos and photos to jointheaction 6abc. Com or use 6abcaction on social media, its how you can be part of our team here. A community in delaware is rolling out one of the most aggressive an eye heroin campaigns in the country, officials in newcastle unveiled a trap today, it shows interactive ads on their website herointrap. Com, families can find information on heroin arrests and places for help. And there is an Interactive Game that shows the dangers of heroin. And the king of prussia mall turned into a runway show for a good cause today. It was held at Neiman Marcus benefiting help us adopt. Org. It helps to pay expenses for loving families looking to adopt children. It raised 100,000 to help families with adoption. Very nice. A developing story an American Health care worker is being flown back to the u. S. To be treated for ebola. Ali gorman is here with more now. An American Health care worker who was volunteering in sierra leone tested positive for ebola and patient will be flown back to the United States and treated at the institutes of health we dont know many details about the worker, it will be the second patient treated at nih and they have a special unit for people with Infectious Diseases like ebola. And in other news today good news in the fight against cancer, the cdc says that two out of every three americans diagnosed with evasive cancer survived five years or longer, they looked at various cancer including prostate and breast and lung cancer there is still a lot of work to be done, but researchers believe that Early Detection and Better Research is helping people to survive. Promising news but more work to be done on the cancer front. There say major announcement and excitement today for local soccer fans. The 2016 concacaf gold cup will be held in philadelphia just another big event that puts our region in the spotlight. Soccer fans will be watching philadelphia for the gold cup. The final and the third and fourth place will be in philadelphia. This is just the latest major event to choose philadelphia as their host city, and the democrats just hosted philadelphia to host the democratic convention. Many people across the country and around the world are recognizing our abltd as a city to host large scale events and host them well. Getting the final weekend festivities the Third Fourth Place game will be at ppl park on july 25th and the final game at lincoln financial field on july 26th this is big for small businesses. Having Something Like this in the city means youll have more people obviously and it will be good for the soccer business as well as the smaller local businesses like fast food, bakery and other businesses that have gained national and international notoriety out there. The soccer game means money in the packet of many workers that depend on the stadium. This means parttime jobs and you know when the games come and we have a lot of people from the city come down here and are employed down there. Its great for the city an infusion, a boost there. The winner of the gold cup goes on to play in the fifa confederation cup. Others. Now, americans everywhere are discovering that. Spoon after spoon. Dish after dish. Time, after time, after time again. Deliciously creamy galbani ricotta inspires meals, and moments, that are simply better. Mmm, galbani sfx kiss . Italys favorite cheese brand. Now, americas number one ricotta. Facebook is dealing with a Class Action Lawsuit over Online Purchases made by kids, a District Court judge ruled this weeks that the lawsuit can go forward, it claims that facebook refuses to refund parents whose children use their credit card and debit card information to buy facebook currency. And the revenue was up for than expected the company is planning a billion dollar stock buy back, expected in the fourth quarter, Dollar General will open 700 knew stores this year. Some budding entrepreneurs got a boost in north philadelphia dozens of High School Students were on hand to hear from Jeff Brown Brown is the president and ceo of a company that operates 11 Shoprite Supermarkets around the city, he spoke to students about entrepreneurial thinking and they got a chance to talk to other Business Leader to discuss their goals and receive oneonone mentoring. Young actor students showed off their skills 17 monologs were expected for performance and they work with acting professionals for a month to prepare for this show. The festival unruns through march 41st. 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. In Customer Satisfaction studies, fios is rated 1 in Internet Speed and reliability 8 years running. Plus, fios has the fastest wifi available from any provider. Period. See the difference for yourself. Get a fios triple play online at an amazing price, guaranteed for two full years plus, get a 300 bonus with a twoyear agreement. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty V Adam Joseph is here with another lovely day. Temperatures dropped off yesterday but with the sunshine temperatures were average for this time of year. Today 51 degrees, so far in philadelphia 51 in millville and 54 in wildwood but to the north and west temperatures were stuck in the lower and middle 40s, even trenton right now coming in at 47 degrees, part of it is who has a bare ground and who has a snow covered ground. As we look at the snow depth in northern and southern new england, we see between 1 and 3 feet of snow on the ground and the poconos seeing a half foot to a foot of snow presently on the slopes at least natural snow and in the far northern western suburbs northeastern lancaster, the Lehigh Valley we are seeing 1 to 2 inches of snow pack and you can see it pretty much evaporate and melted here in the last week, a week ago we had the 8 plus inches of snow on the ground for many of us. As we look live at North Western Chester County this is honey brook, you can see the brown ground at this point and there are patches of snow here, if its protected from the sun you still have some of these areas with some snow on the ground and overall we have a good amount of melting going on in the last week and most of it is wiped away by the upcoming weekend, double scan live radar we have an area of moisture gathering down to the south and low pressure near the gulf coast states and low pressure near the great lakes and they come together to bring a soaking rain this weekend but tomorrow a lot of sun for the first half of the day its not until 11 00 11 30 tomorrow night we see our first rain drops and it quickly takes over and engulfs the whole region on saturday morning with rounds of heavy rain for the first part of your saturday. As we get into the afternoon, the steadiest rain moves out and we have on and off showers into saturday afternoon so its a really damp and dreary day. From start to finish for your weekend for tonight a lot of stars upstairs as we drop to below freezing and many areas are dropping into the middle 20s for lows and your fiveday at 5 00 forecast sun to clouds tomorrow and 52 and its a rainy but mild saturday in philadelphia, of 58 degrees, a half inch to inch of rain likely on saturday sunday there is improvement. There could be a few pops of sun and could be a few popup showers as the atmosphere is unsettled at 54 degrees, by monday we completely wipe away a chance of rain, and st. Patricks day a front comes through with a scattered shower and above normal at 54 degrees, next week temperatures take a bit of a dip and well show it to you in the next half hour. I like a dip. Much more ahead in the next half hour of action news at 5 00, the pro antiracial chances continues to grow tonight and two University Chapters are under scrutiny residents of one city can now be in the know, well explain how. People are using their talents to transform their neighborhoods. The world is filled with air. But for people with copd sometimes breathing air can be difficult. If you have copd, ask your doctor about oncedaily anoro ellipta. It helps people with copd breathe better for a full 24hours. Anoro ellipta is the first fdaapproved product containing two longacting bronchodilators in one inhaler. Anoro is not for asthma. Anoro contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. It is not known if this risk is increased in copd. Anoro wont replace rescue inhalers for sudden copd symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. Tell your doctor if you have a heart condition, or high blood pressure. 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This just steps from the white house, two agents are accused of driving a car into a security barrier after a night of drinking. Now they are both on desk duty. Reporter good afternoon one of the agents involved was a member of president obamas personal security detail. Another set back for an agency that was suppose to be shaping up after a series of embarrassing missteps this time two senior secret Service Agents are reassigned after drunk driving in a car and crashing into a security barrier. They alleged in a night of drinking at another members Retirement Party and then drove through before careen into the barricade. The secret service apparently looked the other way they were not given a sobriety test on orderers from a senior supervisor. And sent them home. Did someone drive them home, which i am hoping is the case, we just dont know that. This follows a series of failures, last fall a man with a knife jumped the fence and made it deep into the white house before being apprehended. I am disappointed as a citizen and ta

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