Have been a foot, 2 feet or Something Like that but he still had the gun in his hand he wouldnt drop it so as long as he had that gun in his hand i knew he was a threat. Reporter the wounded attempted robber fled. The reverend now with his wifes gun in tow pursued the suspect who eventually discarded his weapon. But the episode was still not over. He started telling people that i was the robber and that i shot him so people started coming out after me and i kept the gun on his fails the whole time in case, you know, he did something. Reporter rick, eventually police did arrest that suspect. Hes a 66yearold man. At this hour theyve still not released his name. Police have yet to release he they he expect that sometime tonight after hes formally arraigned. Live in northeast philadelphia im vernon odom channel6 action news. Vernon thank you. Camden county Police Arrested a woman in connection with the murder of an eightyearold girl. Gabrielle carter was caught in the crossfire and killed on a camden street last month after drug gangs opened fire on each other. The gunman still remains at large. But now Camden County police have charged shakia land with hunterring hindering an investigation. Were going get every person responsible. Not just those that pulled the trigger but every individual that is obstructing our investigation. There is a 76,000 reward for anyone with information that leads police to the killer. From our new jersey news room now officials in Atlantic City have identified two people found dead in ventnor this week as a result of what they say is a murdersuicide. On wednesday 60yearold Richard Allen and his wife 59yearold Marianne Wilson al let me were found shot to death. According to police allen shot his wife before turn and the gun on himself. Wills eye hospital is the oldest continually operating eye care facility in the country. But soon it could lose its hospital status because of a mandate from the feds. And now a u. S. Senator is stepping in to help. Health reporter and registered nurse ali gorman is at the big board to explain. Ali. Rick, essentially Wills Eye Hospital is stuck in between a federal ruling and a state law. Senator bob casey is now advocating for wills eye and trying to make sure families and patients dont get caught in the middle and lose out on vital medical care having some technical difficulties there. We will bring you that story coming up later in the newscast. We can tell you that the deadline for all of this to come to to have an effect it will be on november 1st. I did reach out to cms and have not received a response yet and we will bring you that story when we can. Rick and monica, back over to you. All right thank you ali. Turning to accuweather, Beautiful Day today. Around the Delaware Valley of course. And looking live at the ben franklin bridge you can see what we mean. Plow skies sun dominating. While the sun is expected to hang around all weekend the humidity will bump up again as well. Meteorologist cecily tynan live outside with that forecast. There was a little bit of a taste of fall this morning. My kids will to put on sweatshirts when they went to the bus stop. Overnight low dropping to 59 degrees in philadelphia, the coolest morning in three months. The poconos 39 degrees, allentown 47, trenton 52 and wilmington the morning low 56 degrees with a bright sunshine breezy conditions, temperatures rebounding pretty nicely, 78 degrees in philadelphia right now. Thats the normal high for this time of the year, the same in allentown, wilmington 75, millville 74. And cape may little bit cooler with that wind off the ocean currently 70 degrees. Satellite6 along with action radar showing loads of sunshine, just a few high thin cirrus clouds out to the west. So that means for your friday night its going to be gorgeous, very comfortable, the evening planner mostly clear. It will be on the cool side maybe a jacket or said, at 8 oclock 69, by 10 oclock 67 bikes 11 oclock, 66. It will be dry tonight. However, i am tracking some much needed rain arriving. Could put a bit of a damper on part of your weekend plansly ill talk about that and next week the chance of near record heat. Its all ahead in the accuweather forecast. Rick. All right cecily thank you. And speaking of the weather, well, this summers high heat could mean less pumpkins this fall. And now farmers are looking to other parts of the country he to make sure pumpkin patches are full for the season. Action News Reporter john rawlins is live tonight at linville la orchards in Delaware County with the story. John. Reporter hi rick. Well, with its farm market here and its big pumpkin land linville is something of an institution in this part of the world. Thats for sure. Its also a working farm. It has about 10 acres of pumpkins that its raising. It also buys from others this guys around me he are from lancaster county. Youre right the High Temperatures and the heat we had earlier this summer has taken its toll in the pumpkin patch. Oh, yeah you got to have the selection, got to let people know that we are the pumpkin placism normal schultz manages the 300 plus acre linville farm. The current dry conditions responsible for lighter less heavy pumpkins this year but the bigger issue, the very hot days of july. Ly schultz says july a critical time for pumpkins. Pumpkin flowers must be pollinated then in order to bear this familiar fruit in the fall. July is when they set and in july that there was that big spell where there was seven days with 102, 110 heat index and it just they did not set fruit then. Because of that this field is yielding about half the expected number of pumpkins. With its big Retail Operation linville buys from other farms but this years weather has hit other locations as well a two month drought in new england cut yields there by 70 percent while in see ford delaware a supplier had another problem. Too much rain and all his pumpkins have rotted. Hes not going to harvest anything off of 60 acres. Reporter fortunately for those who dream of jack o lanterns there are other places where Mother Nature has been kinder and gentler. We will have pumpkins here. I have sources throughout the entire United States. Weve got them as far as texas and the United States in the United States and we have a lot of farms we can buy from in canada. Reporter canadian pumpkins. Who knew. With the low yields and the transportation cost the whole sale cost of pumpkins have been bumping up. The hope is here theyll hold the line on retail costs. They will be selling a lot of pumpkins here in the first several weeks of october. They measure their sales here in terms of multiples of 100,000 pounds of pumpkins. Live in Delaware County, john rawlins channel6 action news. Back to you all. Thats a lot of pumpkin pie. Yes, it is. Thank you. Time for a check of there action news traffic report friday night. Matt pelman in the action traffic center. T. G. I. F. To you matt. Officially it is the last friday of the summer and looking a lot like all our other fridays in the summer really busy on the roads. This is its schuylkill expressway close to the roosevelt boulevard. Check out these travel times. Three times what they ideally should be. 46 minutes to get westbound out of town, thats because basically its a solid line of traffic the whole way from University Avenue on out toward conshohocken. You also have a long line of traffic on the westbound pennsylvania turnpike. Were not really used to this in the afternoons. This is a morning delay. Westbound from bensalem out to Fort Washington teens speeds in the teens and 20s due to two earlier accidents but those crashes have been gone now for a long time. In pottstown our crash that was blocking 100 northbound is gone but now theres one on 422 westbound past 724. That doesnt seem to be impeding us a whole lot and in chadds ford still have that crash that brought down the pole and wires and sparked a brush fire. Ring road remains closed. Heyburn road a possible alternate around that. Its a busy one. Well check it again rick and monica in the next half hour. All right. Well see you then. Thank you, matt. Much more still ahead including an admission from donald trump that has sparked plenty of controversy. President barack obama was born in the United States, period. Coming up at 5 30 the firestorm of criticism trump is now facing after todays 180 on president obamas citizenship. But first a special paint that septa is hoping will help clean up its stations around the Delaware Valley. Well tell you about it when action news returns. Pat toomey started his career as an investment banker. Then, a wall street wheelerdealer, overseeing stock trades in new york, london and tokyo. Next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. In the senate, its no surprise toomeys been siding with wall street. Voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. Pat toomey. Hes for wall street. Not Us Senate Majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Introducing longhorns Great American steak dinner for 12. 99. Perfectly seasoned sirloin with your choice of side. Plus an appetizer or a dessert. Only at longhorn steakhouse. You cant fake steak. Back to our health check story tonight. Philadelphias Wills Eye Hospital the oldest continuing operating eye care facility in the country he could soon lose hospital status because of a mandate from the feds. A u. S. Senator is stepping in to hopefully help. Lets go back to Health Reporter and registered nurse ali gorman at the big board to explain. Rick the hospital is stuck in between a federal ruling an state law so today senator bob casey visited the hospital and he is now advocating for wills eye. Once again we will try to correct that piece and bring it to you from health check. New at 5 00 tonight septa is hoping a new coat of paint will help combat smells and cleanliness problems in its facilities. Its called ultra ever dry. And the coating makes urine spray back on any offenders trying to use a wall or an elevator as a bathroom spot. The coating has been used in San Francisco and germany. Septa will run a trial of the project in the fall though they havent decided where yet. Hundreds of jobs could be coming to berks county over the next several years in part because of a grant. Today Governor Tom Wolf announced a new Industrial Park will be built adjacent to the reading Regional Airport in vern township. Berks park 183 will consist of seven buildings. Developers hope to attract small manufacturers there. This is five to 600 new permanent jobs that are going to be good jobs for people of pennsylvania. Its going to make a real difference. Pennsylvanias three development assist pans Capitol Program gave the project two and a half Million Dollars in grant money. Pennsylvanias Unemployment Rate has picked up for the fifth time in the last six months. It now is creating a gap with the National Numbers that hasnt been seen in more than 30 years. According to the state department of labor and industry, pennsylvanias jobless rate climbed to 5. 7 percent in august. Compare that to the National Jobless Rate of 4. 9 percent. And thats the widest gap between pennsylvanias numbers and the National Average since 1981. Wall street may have closed lower today but markets posted gains for the week. Now investors are looking ahead to next weeks meeting of the Federal Reserve of the. The dow closed down 88 points the nasdaq losing five, the s p 500 falling eight and change. Health check health and government officials gathered this morning at villanova to talk about the opioid epidemic. The department of corrections secretary and physician general Rachel Levine participated in the path discussion at villanovas charles wood school of law. They discussed the scope of the epidemic and how to try to respond to it through policy changes. It is one of the hottest games this year but now Research Shows there could be real dangers playing pokemon go. Researchers at San Diego State evident 98 a 10 day span there were more than a hundred thousand incidents caused by drivers and pedestrians distracted by the game. Researchers warn these accidents are a dangerous side effect to playing that game. And theres much more still ahead on action news at 5 00 tonight. The big moment today for some budding doctors. And a local woman who made a run for the Million Dollar prize on who wants to be a millionaire. Well tell you how it worked out. Those stories and more when action news comes right back. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Hes a racebaiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. Donald trump is a phony, a fraud. Hes not a serious adult. I cant vote for donald trump given the things that he said. Trump should not be supported. I believe hes disqualified himself to be president. I just cannot support donald trump. The philadelphia graduate has announced an official recall of the Samsung Galaxy note7 because of faulty batteries that have caused several times smartphones to catch fire. The u. S. Consumer Products Safety Commission says nearly a million of the phones were sold in the United States. It estimates 97 percent of those contained a defective battery. 26 people received burns and 55 pieces of property have been damaged. Officials are warning consumers to turn off their phones. Now it is the time to act. This recall provides two options. And thats important. First option, you can get a replacement phone. The second option, an equal option is you can get a refund. Samsung promises to have the new devices in stores by next wednesday. Along with replacements, bill credits are being offered as well. Today was the big day apple fans are waiting for, the iphone7 and iphone7 plus went on sale this morning. Three, two, one,. [cheers and applause] customers in Northern California got a special surprise too today. Apple ceo tim cook was there to welcome fans who waited outline. Fans waited outside apple Stores Around Country today. That included a center city store near 16th and walnut. The first person in line got in at 8 00 last night, a full 12 hours before the phones went on sale. It is one of the biggest moments in budding doctors career, 88 new medical students got their white coats today in camden. Theyre entering the Cooper Medical School of rowan university. Faculty mentors help put the coats on while family and friends proudly watched. Todays new class of future doctors bring the medical schools total enrollment to just over 300 students. Congratulations. A woman from Delaware County was a contestant on who wants to be a millionaire. She walked away with a nice h1n1 chunk of change. Thats right. You got it. 30,000. You watched susan taylor from essington try her skills today on the show right here on 6abc. Her loved ones gathered to watch the episode at marty mcgees in prospect park. They watched as susan did real well but then got stumped on a question about star wars and she decided to walk away with the 30,000 she earned. I am going to pay off debt and start my own business. Im going start roasting my own coffee so look out for my coffee brand. All right. Susan brought her best friend to the show to be her guest. Congratulations to her and all of heroinings and you can watch millionaire every weekday at 2 oclock right here on 6abc. Susans roasts. That will be nice. Still to come o. Thats your final answer. That would be my final answer. A check of that accuweather forecast. Looking live outside sky6 hd showing you the Atlantic City tonight. Pretty picture if the jersey shore s meteorologist cecily tynan has your weekend forecast on accuweather when we come right back. Dear fellow citizen, i know what its like to live a full life. But living for today doesnt mean forgetting about tomorrow. 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