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WPVI Action News 5PM October 23, 2015

Why there was no Police Security in this school at all when my grandson was threatened yesterday with a gun. Reporter the School District says the police were unaware that the principal told parents they would see extra protection this morning. An officer was stationed here at dismissal time. School principal david laver had no comments. Parents say gun or no gun the kids need more police protection. There arent Police Officers. They say theres no funding for public school. As a parent we do need security. Reporter parents what about the more police but they also say theres never been any trouble at this school. Philadelphia police have not filed any charges in this case but they say they are still investigating. Live in north philadelphia, david henry, channel6 action news. Rick. All right, david, thank you. Students turned out by the hundreds at Villanova University to protest the schools decision to add armed officers to the Campus Security force. Villanovas new plan calls for nearly a third of the universitys Public Safety department to enroll in a Police Academy and then carry a gun. But students say the move is a bad fit for their school and they say theyre concerned about how the decision was made. Action News Reporter john rawlins was on campus today and hell have much more from villanova coming up tonight at 6 00. Police in bensalem are looking for the man who robbed a gnc store at gun point. This is a surveillance picture of the suspect coming up right there. Police say he walked into the store on street road last night just before 9 30. He pulled a gun and demand the cash from the register, then he grabbed it and ran off. Police are asking anyone who recognizes him to call them immediatelily. Right now Hurricane Patricia is barreling towards mexicos South Western Pacific coast as a very dangerous category five. Now, this is a satellite image of the huge storm. Its packing extremely high winds and is said to pose a triple threat when it comes to shore in mexico. Lets go over to meteorologist cecily tynan at the action news big board with the latest on pat trish shaft cecily. Monica, part of the problem with this storm system very little lead time. I talked about this storm last night at 11 00. Yesterday morning it was just a tropical storm. By 11 oclock last night it was a category five hurricane and earlier today maximum sustained winds hit 200 Miles Per Hour. Thats the strongest ever recorded on the planet with any tropical system, stronger than katrina, stronger than camille, stronger than andrew. Now, as we zoom in the maximum sustained winds have decreased to 190 Miles Per Hour. The reason why, this is really beginning to interact with land and you can see how the eye wall is beginning to collapse a little bit as it is encountering the friction but it is coming ashore as a category five hurricane with winds almost equivalent to an e philadelphia. Four tornado. It will b ef4 tornade coit wt ripped apart by the mountains of mexico as it moves inland. The problem, though, right along the coast, its moving inland very close to manzanillo and Puerta Vallarta, big resort towns. Were looking at wave heights 30 to 40 feet, the storm surge up to 20 feet. Thats like a tsunami coming ashore. Thats going to cause lots of problems along the coast as it continues to move inland although the mountains will rip app parter the winds, the moisture will actually intensify. Looking at about 5inches along the coast but this storm system likely will kind of reenergize as it gets closer to texas and were looking at Corpus Christi to houston more than 7inches of rain through sunday. That will likely cause a lot of flash flooding and we actually could get some of rain later on next week. Ill talk more about that coming up in the full accuweather 7day forecast. Monica. Thank you cecily. As more seasonable weather returns this weekend you could stay with 6abc. Com weather and use the social link to follow the Action News Weather Team on facebook and twitter. Well, it continues to be an incredible football season for the Temple University owls so far. Make that the undefeated Temple University owls. After last nights big win against Eastern Carolina temple is now seven and oh for the First Time Ever. Its the first time in nearly four decades theyve been ranked in the top 25. Action News Reporter eva pilgrim a live at Temple University tonight where the entire campus is caught up in a football frenzy. Hi, eva. Reporter hey, rick, yeah the streak continues. The temple owls are still undefeat and this campus is already looking ahead to next week when the fighting irish come to town. The campus is abuzz with excitement. The Temple Football Team is seven and oh for the First Time Ever in the schools history. Theyre red hot just like the cherry red of Temple University, t for temple u. Theyre proving theirself a very good Football Team. Last year we were good but we werent this good. Its like we became unstoppable. Reporter last night in North Carolina temple came back with two touchdowns in the Fourth Quarter to beat east carolina. Fans say they appreciate these wins even more because they remember watching the Team Struggle not that long ago. My freshman year it was wonderful two and 10, awesome. I was in the marching band, too. I had to sit through all those home games. Reporter the fighting irish of notre dame at the linc in prime time. Coach rhule says they are sticking to the same game plan for this game as all the others. Enjoy it, take a minute let it sink in and then focus on the only thing you can control which is playing well and weve done it so i feel like well be able to do it next week. Reporter the students are enjoying clearing on their team and thinking optimistically. Notre dame is cool. I think its about time for them to lose to temple. Its putting everyone in good spirits. I feel like a lot of people on campus are more interested in football than they would be before, like watching it, going to the games, a lot more people going to the games now which is awesome cause were finally like filling the linc. Reporter temple gets time to rest up before they have to fill up the linc. Temple takes on notre dame next saturday at the linc at 8 00 p. M. In north philadelphia, eva pilgrim channel6 action news. Thank you eva. One place to see the templenotre dame matchup next saturday. Tune into 6abc 8 oclock halloween night for the prime time matchup once again between the owls and irish. Going to be cool. Coming up right now our check of the traffic story on a friday night. Matt pelman in the action News Traffic Center weekend almost upon us but we got to get home first. We do like friday nights, right . I think so. I need the reminder. Okay, if you say so. It has not been a fun ride home so far, thats for sure, rick and monica. Looking live at 95 very busy traffic in both directions here by allegheny avenue. Northbound go the taillights towards the betsy ross bridge, just a long slow crawl coming out of the city. And thats the case so many friday nights, definitely the case on this friday night. On the schuylkill expressway westbound its been extra heavy as you come out of south philadelphia, speeds like 15 Miles Per Hour because of an earlier accident underneath 30th street station. That crash is now gone so both lanes opened headed toward the vine but your speeds are still in the teens. On the big picture we had earlier accidents in West Philadelphia at 46th and lancaster and kingsessing 4,544th and chester. Those crashes are gone so the trolleys luckily are back to normal. And one of our two crashes on the pennsylvania turnpike is gone, one still there but moved to the shoulder. So youre looking at speeds in the 20s basically between valley forge and norristown. A wreck in whitpain along stenton avenue. An overturned vehicle crash along monroe boulevard at madison avenue just around the corner in West Norriton trooper road northbound has a crash ativan buren avenue. Trains are on time this afternoon but dont forget if you ride septas media elwyn line or norristown and i youll be on the buses instead of those trains all weekend long. Well check it again, rick and monica, coming up in the next half hour. All right, will do. Thank you matt. Much more still to come on action news at 5 00 tonight. A truck and a bus carrying retirees 17 school unles buildings in connecticut were locked down because of a series of phone threats. Those stories and more and cecily is back with a complete accuweather forecast. There she is right there. Told you. For life. husband hon its Grover Cleveland female announcer . When you play the new cash4life, from the pennsylvania lottery. grover nice husband 3 club seats. 50 yard line. female announcer that means you too could experience the joy of winning. Every day, for the rest of your life. grover new wheels. Nice. See you tomorrow female announcer cash4life from the pennsylvania lottery. Play for fun. Cash for life. French Officials Say its too early to tell what caused a deadly crash between a truck an bus full of tourists. The fiery crash happened this morning in frances wine region about 350 miles southwest of paris. 43 people were killed including the truck driver and his little threeyearold son. Four others were badly injured. Eight people escaped from the crash. French officials said it is the countrys deadliest Road Accident in more than 30 years. Public schools in one connecticut town were dismissed early today after a series of phoned in threats. Police said those threats were called into three separate schools. One threat referred to a man with a gun. Other two referred to bombs planted in school buildings. The threats prompted a lockdown of all 17 buildings in the School District. Officials said inspections turned up no credible evidence of a threat. But classes were canceled just as a precaution. New poll numbers show for the first time in three months donald trump is not on top in iowa. And theres another clinton casualty in the democratic field tonight. Earlier today Lincoln Chafee dropped out of the race. Abc News Reporter Kenneth Moton has the latest from washington. Reporter what a week for hillary clinton. Im not running for president obamas third term, im not running for bill clintons third term, im running for my first term. Reporter back on the campaign trail in virginia after her marathon day testifying on capitol hill about the benghazi attacks. Vice President Joe Biden announced he wont jump into the president ial race and two democratic rivals jim webb and Lincoln Chafee also dropped out. After much thought ive decided to end my campaign for the president day. Three major Democratic Candidates left but still a large gop field where new polls show for the first time in three months, the donald has finally been trumped by one of his republican rivals. A bloomberg dmr poll has ben carson leading trump in iowa by nine points. Its eightpoint in a recent quinnipiac poll. Carson off the trail but on a book signing tour making more headlines for his Health Savings plan. A possible replacement for medicaid. I didnt say i was going to volunteer. I said it probably wont be necessary with the system i have made. Reporter meanwhile john kasich is making enemies. In the nba. Kasich ran into the philadelphia 76ers in his hotel. The reason why some of them make a lot of money is cause they have skills. Not too many sixers have had that many skills lately but they do. Reporter knocking kasichs low poll numbers, the 76ers tweeted, at least we win more than 2 percent of the time. The sixers decided to stay out of politics and quickly deleted that tweet. The democratic candidate will be in iowa this weekend for the Jefferson Jackson dinner. The republicans will hit several of the early primary states. Kenneth moton abc news, washington. In health check, halloween is about a week away and while its fun for most children it can be a scary time if your child has food allergies. Some of the most common food allergens are considered or inside of these products including peanuts eggs and milk products in candy. Parents you should talk to your child about not trading candy and of course they must always ask about eating any treats. Experts suggest possibly planting some allergy safe treats along the trickortreat route. You can actually bring some treats he, maybe kind of prime the pump. Give the people something to give your children. Keep your eyes peeled for the teal colored pumpkins on some porches. Its a universal sim block they have food allergy safe treats. A school in connecticut won a brand new playground made entirely out of recycled dental products. They won by getting as many votes as they could in an online contest and topping a competition in recycling old toothpaste tubes, tooth brushes and boxes of floss. Shop rite and colgate sponsored it. The playground was created by terracyle. Flanders elementary beat out schools across the country. Gnc is facing a major lleyton night. The state of oregon is accusing the company of using illegal ingredients. Its focused on two ingredients that are not approved by the fda. The lawsuit claims gnc has been using them in dietary and nutritional supplements. One of them is an a. M. Feet mean banned as a performance enhancer for athletes. Gnc said it stopped selling the products. Facebook getting a lot of likes on wall street. The associate giant was trading at 102 a share this morning and it mark the first time the company crossed the 100 mark. Facebook is among several Technology Stocks making waves today. Google and amazon also traded at record levels while microsoft reached a 15 year high. There is a beautiful new mural thanks to the handiwork of some patients at the Childrens Hospital of philadelphia tonight. 30 patients helped with this two year project creating a mural in the gastrointestinal unit. Art therapists and david gwynn gave them reporters. The project beautifies the building and also helps patients reduce stress levels and cope with being in a hospital. One baby panda is wowing animal lovers in chicago tonight. The new twin baby red pandas are two months old. They made their public debut yesterday at th at the lincoln k zoo. They have been living behind the scenes quietly with their mom but because theyre growing so nicely officials are letting them go public. Time for accuweather at the action news big board meteorologist cecily tynan. Going to be warm or cool for the weekend. Going to be cool. Back to you rick and monica. Well be right back. I have a few more details, though. It is cool today but its also sunny. Weve got blue bird skies and alice posted this gorgeous photo from the meadow of Longwood Gardens on my facebook page. You can see the fall foliage is really out. You can see also not a cloud in the sky. High pressure in control of our weather. That High Pressure, though, is pulling down winds from canada and that means its more than 10 degrees colder than yesterday. Yesterday we made it up to 77 degrees. Currently philadelphia only 64. Allentown trenton and reading 60. Wilmington 63. Millville 64 and dover 63 degrees. So, starting to feel like fall again especially when you consider the winds with these winds out of the north, bit of a chill winds generally about seven to 12 Miles Per Hour. The winds will diminish tonight once the sun sets but it is going to be a chilly night. Now satellite6 along with action radar showing weve got that High Pressure right over us. What im tracking for the weekend is this cold front thats slicing through the nations midsection, not a lot of moisture to deal with but this will be moving through saturday night into early sunday morning and that will bring us more clouds and a few showers early on sunday morning. Tonight though for High School Football friday night football clear skies, it will be chilly so definitely bundle up. The west deptford eagles versus the collingswood panthers tonight at the High School Huddle game of the week. The temperature at kickoff 54 degrees. By 10 oclock, down to 49 degrees. So you definitely do want to bundle up and dress for winter if youre heading to a football game. Its going to get quite cold. So for tonight overnight low 42 degrees in philadelphia, allentown 33, millville 36, trenton 38, wilmington 39 and cape may 46 degrees so a chilly start to your saturday. We will see some sunshine early in the day though. Future tracker showing at 10 oclock mostly to partly sunny skies but as that front gets closer the clouds will really thicken late in the afternoon. By 5 oclock and then we will have some moisture diving through. Generally very early sunday morning. Future tracker showing by 7 oclock, some scattered showers working across our region. They move out pretty quickly and by the afternoon on sunday, well likely even see some sunshine emerging and temperatures a little bit warmer on sunday than saturday and then w

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