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WPVI Action News 5PM November 30, 2015

Folks who frequent this normally quiet safe section of south philadelphia in broad daylight are shocked to hear about the crime spree. That is very scary. I mean, you cant trust the police, you know, you would have thought you were in good hands and then the guy holds you up . Reporter he robbed him of 14 out of his wallet. And then ran . Reporter impersonated a Police Officer, yes. Right. Well, i think thats very scary. Reporter police say there are standard ways to verify and ensure that it is a real Police Officer stopping you. You can clearly ask them for their identification card and see that thats issued from the Philadelphia Police department. Thats one. Second is they can request to have a marked unit. Reporter sharrie, the hunt for the bandits continues tonight. Its very intense because police dont want this kind of situation to get out of hand or happen again. Police could use some help from the public to find the suspects. Live in south philadelphia, im vernon odom, channel6 action news. Vern thank you. And this just into action news at this hour. A teenager is at a philadelphia hospital being treated for gun shot wounds to his feet. The shooting happened just before 4 00 this afternoon in the 1300 block of north 11th street in north philadelphia. Police say the victim was shot one time in each foot. Hes at Hahnemann Hospital in stable condition. No arrests have been made and of course well keep you posted on any updates to the story. Jury selection began today for one of the baltimore Police Officers charged in the death of freddie gray. Gray died back in april after he suffered a severe spinal injury while in police custody. William porter is one of six officers facing charges in connection with grays death. Dozens of jurors were interviewed in court today for porters trial. The presiding jump questioned him in open court but said he also planned to interview prospective jurors in a private conference room. The judge said porters trial is expected to wrap up in less than three weeks. His verdict is expected to set the tone for the trials of the other five officers who are also facing charges. The man suspected of killing three people including a Police Officer at a planned parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs had his First Court Appearance today and while investigators are still searching for a clear motive for the attack we are learning more about the victims. Abc News Reporter brandi hitt is live in los angeles tonight. Reporter several of the victims family members were in court. This was a quick 10 minute hearing and dear did not say much while wearing a Suicide Prevention suit. No questions. Okay. Reporter shackled and staring straight into the camera planned parent hood shooting suspect robert dear appeared before a colorado judge for the first time through video conference. The initial charge is murder in the first degree. Reporter the 57yearold is accused of unleashing five hours of terror friday. Were getting active gunfire. Reporter leaving nine wounded and three dead including Jennifer Markosky a mother of two seen here on facebook. 29yearold kiara stuart was an iraq war veteran. He levers behind two girls. Tried to get back inside and warn the others, you know, take cover, military instinct, you know. Reporter what does that tell you about him. Thats the big brother i know. Reporter then theres beloved officer garrett swayze. The 44yearold father of two was once a champion junior ice skater who trained with u. S. Olympian nancy kerrigan. Ithe was always putting someone else first. Reporter as family and friends gather to remember the victims and vigils and Church Services detectives continue searching for answers an apparent loner dear lived in this shack before recently moving to this colorado mobile home. Some of the victims. Families say theyve already given robert dear. They just want to know why he allegedly did it. Officer swayzes funeral will be held friday. Reporting live in Los Angeles Brandi hitt channel6 action news. Sharrie. Thank you. Meantime a 21yearold is facing federal charges in connection to an online threat made against the university of chicago. Officials say the threat was motivated by last years deadly shooting of 17yearold laquan mcdonald. Well, this weekends post threatened the execution of 16 white male students or staff at the university of chicago. The same number of times mcdonald was shot. The university canceled todays classes and activities. The suspect is believed to be a student at a nearby university. Turning now to the forecast rain is falling on parts of our region tonight and its only the beginning. Get ready for two days of it actually. Meteorologist cecily tynan is at the action news big board with the latest from accuweather. Hello december, cecily. Hi, rick, thats right and usually you think about cold air and snow in december but im tracking some rain and actually some warm air on the way. Double scan live showing that we have a few scattered light showers breaking out over our region. You can see steadier rainier washington, d. C. As we zoom out the rain thats pushing up to the north is associated with a warm front but the warm front is down here and its moving very slowly. So, this warm front will continue to push up to the north as we head through tonight and today and what that will bring and tomorrow i should say. What that will bring is periods of generally light rain. For the first day. It will also bring up some warm air. Currently philadelphia, its 46 degrees. Thats 4 degrees below normal. If you look south of this front, though temps are in the 70s. We will not get that warm but well be in the 50s tomorrow and then well be in the 60s on wednesday and wednesday is when we get the heaviest rain. So, the next two days are going to be wet and the next 24 hours the rain will be on the light side. That rain arriving from the south to the north as we head through the evening hours. As far as philadelphia, a few sprinkles around right now but the steady rain arriving in the city between nine and 10 oclock tonight. Tomorrow morning for your commute, allow some extra advertisement it will be wet time. It will be wet with light rain. Much warmer tomorrow with temps in the upper 50s. It gets even warmer but it gets wet on wednesday ill talk more about that and also let you know what to connect lined this system in the full accuweather forecast. Do you know where your umbrella is, rick . Its in your closet. No, thats mine. No, its mine. All right thank you cecily. As the rain moves in tonight check back at 6abc. Com weather for updates and use the social media lynx to follow our entire team of meteorologists on facebook and twitter. Well, surely youve heard today is cyber monday one of the biggest shopping days of the year and amazon is hoping todays sales will shatter records. The companys Fulfillment Center in robbinsville Mercer County is running on all cylinders processing todays influx of orders. Its relying on 4,000 employees and 14 miles of conveyor belts to get products out the door as fast as possible. By the time you click purchase to the time its out the door our facility can get that out the door before you can sing the 12 days of christmas. Hm. Sing that rick . Of course i can. Amazon has a High Standard to meet. Last year on cyber monday, the company sold a record 43 million items in just one day. Well, the number of crashes in our area over the thanksgiving Holiday Weekend went up 30 percent from last year. Officials with the Pennsylvania State police troop k investigated 148 crashes from last wednesday through last night. 28 people were hurt in the accidents, three people were killed. As for citations there were more than 1400 issued. Thats an increase of 27 percent from 2014. Troop k covers by the way delaware montgomery and philadelphia counties. Lets hope things are running more smoothly today. Time for the action news traffic report. Lot of folks back to work back to school. Matt pelman how are we looking on the commute home tonight. Luckily we dont have a ton of crashes this afternoon as we finish out november but you know were going to have a few rick and sharrie. As we look live in olde city this is the ramp from Market Street to the southbound side of 95. It was blocked earlier this afternoon because of a truck that got stuck. They managed to unstick it and get it pushed off to the side so traffic is now get buying again on the ramp from Market Street to the southbound side of 95. Headed north on 95 just 14 Miles Per Hour typical slowing there by the betsy ross bridge. They match. 14 as well over on the schuylkill westbound by belmont just normal afternoon delays in those spots. Still watching a crash in upper darby along state road at wild dell road and one in whitpain township along 202 dekalb pike near jolly road where it crosses over the northeast extension. Headed into new jersey off the walt whitman bridge there was a crash on 42 southbound at 295. Its pushed off to the side now but still plenty slow as you come off the when it man bridge into the garden state. And in old mans township salem county dont forget 130 is closed as of right before the thanksgiving holiday shut down in both directions south of Center Square road. It will stay blocked through early march so get used to this one. 295 a decent alternate and this afternoon speeds there are in the mid 60s. Well check it again rick and sharrie, coming up in the next half hour. Thank you matt. Much more still to come on action news tonight at 5 00. Shopping until you drop can be both good and bad for your health. Coming up in health check ali gorman tells us what the experts say about how looking for a bargain can actually affect your brain. And working for facebook just got even better. Find out the latest benefit that caters to parents who work for the social media giant. Well have those stories and much more and sealings will be back with the full forecast. We have days antidepressant had of rain. Shes got th days ahead of rain. Shes got the details next. This is black friday. Oh my god. Does anybody want to be part of this . Nooooo. Well, chevy has a better way, with black friday deals all month long. Thats a great idea. What if you could get up to twenty percent cash back when you bought it . Bam. Twenty percent back . Thats awesome. Its black friday. Find your tag and get cash back for 20 of the msrp on select 2015 vehicles in stock. Or, get zero percent financing for seventytwo months on 2015 silverado light duty models. Cool time to go shopping. Grover cleveland here. Yes, the dashing fellow on the thousanddollar bill. With cash4life, the great game from the pennsylvania lottery, you could win a thousand dollars a day for life you could buy a new house or maybe even treat yourself to a trip to the islands. And with drawings every monday and thursday, that means 2 chances to win every week. Cash4life from the pennsylvania lottery. You could win a thousand dollars a day for life. Pope francis is back in rome tonight after a five day trip to africa. The pontiff greeted crowds at a sports stadium and led a final mass before his motorcade headed to the airport. Despite security concerns raised about the pontiffs visit to the highly volatile country, francis was able to make all his planned stops without incident. The pope also visited kenya and uganda as part of the africa journey. Turning to health check now, starting tomorrow, some restaurants in new york city will have to change their menus and use the special symbol to mark foods that are high in sodium. Health reporter and registered nurse ali gorman at the big board with the details. Hi, ali. This is an effort to give consumers more information. Chain restaurants in new york city need to display this symbol this salt shaker emblem on foods that have more than the recommended amount of salt per day. Now that recommended limit is 2300 milligrams. But the average american eats about 3,400,000,000 yams of sodium per day. Most of it comes from store bought or restaurant foods such as bred pizza and processed meats and soups, eating too much salt has been linked to high Blood Pressure and heart problems. Health officials are also working on new National Sodium guidelines. Also today, your brain on shopping. If you have been scouring the internet today looking for cyber monday deals, theres a psychological reason. Theres also healthy shopping versus unhealthy shopping. Bargain hunterring can be like panning for gold. Psychologist scott bay says when you find it alarms go off in the reward center of the brain and that delightful brain chemistry makes you more likely to repeat the behavior. Many people enjoy shopping and do it in ways that are healthy. Its not spilling over theres nothing wrong with delighting that part of your brain. Reporter but some people can can develop a slight addiction to bargain hunting and in some cases it can lead to a more serious problem such as hoarding. Ive run into plenty people who have stacks and stacks of new stuff they bought because it was a bargain but theyve never opened it they never really had a real use for it. So make sure if youre shopping for a bargain there its something that youre really going to use. Reporter good advice and if it is a gift try to make sure its something that the recipient would also use or want. I dont know about you guys but i did some healthy shopping over the weekend. Really. And a guilty amount is that was mean by healthy. It was healthy. I got some good bargains, got that shoppers high but all in check. I have yet to is experience that shoppers high but when the credit card comes in thats the sad part. I havent seen that yet. Thanks ali. Quick break. Much more news when we come back. Stay with us. Amazon has released a video of its latest drone prototype. 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Officials and politicians gathered in new castle at the historic penn farm to announce the changes. The water will be cleaner safer and morell liable for residents all thanks to the Emergency Community water assistance grant. This is only the second time in delaware that this program has been utilized. One Gloucester County community is getting ready for an invasion of snow men. The borough of clayton is once again sponsoring its snow man contest. Today was the official kickoff on delsea drive. The mayor and other town officials were on hand encouraging folks to register for the contest. Between now and january 14 participants can bring in a variety of creative festive looking snow men to be put on display and judged by the community. And right now, youll get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for your first year. And with a 2 year agreement, well give you all the premium movie channels for a year. Plus, 400 dollars back. So go online or call now. 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Stop taking jardiance and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of an allergic reaction. Symptoms may include rash, swelling, and difficulty breathing or swallowing. Taking jardiance with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you have any medical conditions. So talk to your doctor, and for details, visit jardiance. Com. Time now for another check of the accuweather forecast. Meteorologist cecily tynan at the big board and again get ready for some precip starting tonight. Thats right. First the light rain and then the heavier rain by wednesday. Clouds are in place, though. We are live on sky6 taking a look at the center city skyline and we had a few peeks of sunshine earlier today but then the clouds rolled in and double scan live picking up a few light showers, a few sprinkles. The highest concentration in this line that stretches right over i78 from kutztown towards allentown, crossing 222. Not a lot of rain. The heaviest rain will be moving in on wednesday and we will see some steady rain in the overnight hours as well. But today the high 46 degrees. Thats 4 degrees below normal so one of the rare cool days this november. If you look at this map, the days in blue are the days when our afternoon high was below normal. Only five days. We had two days of seasonal temperatures but look at all these days in orange. Those are days temperatures above normal so the month temperatures five and a half degrees above normal. So, this ranks as the second

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