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Transcripts For WPVI Action News 6PM 20150330

Were private photos shared. And they literally trade them like pokemon cards. I was sent the ling and i opened it and then i straight up just deleted it off my phone because thats a possibility that im going get in trouble. Reporter School Administrators declined request for an on camera interview but a spokesperson says they learned of the photos only last week and contacted authorities immediately. Principal burt hynes release add video statement on the districts web site pleading for patience as the investigation moves forward. I continue to urge anyone with knowledge that would contribute to the investigation of such activity to directly contact his or her local police department. Reporter and a Montgomery County District Attorney tells me that these are serious crimes and anyone involved could face felony charges. Im live in towamencin, chad pradelli, channel6 action news. Rick. All right, chad, thank you. A philadelphia jury today awarded more than 38 million to the families of two women killed by a coworker at the old kraft food plant in northeast philadelphia. Happened in september of 2010 when Yvonne Hiller carried a. 357 magnum into the factory and shot two women. Hiller had been arguing with. The lawsuit targeted u. S. Securities the firm that provided guards for the plant. Testimony showed the unarmed security guards failed to warn employees that hiller had a gun. Shes now serving life in prison without parole. 11 people now face felony charges for what investigators call an elaborate Auto Insurance fraud scheme. Delaware county d. A. Jack whelan says darby borough ought though shop owner frank wilson has been under investigation for years. He says wilson enhanced damage to vehicles and profitd from inflated claims. Wilson and 10 alleged coconspirators defrauded insurance companies. Two victims killed in a plane crash in Chester County still have not been identified. The plane went down shortly after takeoff from the brandywine airport. Thats where action News Reporter john rawlins joins us live with the latest on the investigation. John. Reporter hi, rick. We learn that investigators are concerned about witness reports of a sputtering engine at takeoff. Were also learning why the flight took place. It was a flight evaluation or a check ride. Every two years a u. S. Pilot is supposed to undergo a check ride with an faa designated flight instructor. That is what the case was yesterday. But it went terribly wrong. Investigators were at the crash site today not far from the end of the brandywine runway. The family of one of the pilots stopped and talked to the ntsb and took in the sight where the small plane slammed into the ground and burned yesterday. Doug stuart learned the fly here walking his dog yesterday near the runway he told us he watched the piper first stop a takeoff roll. He went about halfway down the runway and then aborted the takeoff. Reporter he stopped the takeoff. Yeah, he pulled off onto the taxi way. Reporter a short time later he says the plane rolled again, this time he heard a disturbing noise. What sounded like a car backfire and about four of them a very loud pop and then he actually left the ground and then i heard about eight more pops. Reporter stuart says the plane struggled, turned abruptly left and dropped. The ntsb says another witness reported hearing a sputtering engine. Followed by an engine that was engine power was restored by the witness account. The witness heard the sputtering again. Reporter the investigation will look at many things including engine records and fuel though the intense fire likely burned much of the fuel. Based on the accounts of a sputtering engine were going to check the fuel supply system. The tanks are consumed portions of them are consumed but we will check what we can. Reporter well, the process of accident evaluation here could take months, maybe as much as a year before there will be a final report though they hope to have a preliminary report out maybe in the next 10 days or so. They hoped to release the pilots names today but in talking to the coroner, it may be until wednesday they are waiting for dental records to make a positive i. D. Live in west goshen, john rawlins, channel6 action news. Rick. All right, john, thank you. Opening statements were heard today in the trial of six former philadelphia narcotics officers. The men are accused of stealing money drugs cash and other valuables from alleged drug dealers. Prosecutors claim the lucrative scheme ran from 2006 until 2012. Key testimony for the prosecution is expected from former Police Officer jeffrey walker. He pled guilty last year. Defense attorneys say he and the drug suspects also set to testify can cannot be trusted. Well, clouds early in the day have cleared giving way to some sunshine this afternoon. Were taking a live look from our new Temple University sky cam at the ben franklin bridge and it is a nice evening out there. Breaks of sunshine and it was a mild monday, although there are some changes in the accuweather forecast, both good and bad actually. Meteorologist cecily tynan has the latest from accuweather tonight. Hi, cecily. Hi, rickly we started off this day with lots of clouds and some rain and, yes even some snow showers. Storm tracker 6 live double scan along with satellite6 showing at 6 30 in the morning some of those snow showers working out of philadelphia into south jersey, some rain across parts of delaware moved out pretty quickly and now were seeing some breaks in the clouds but also a few sprinkles here or there but once the sun sets, the clouds will be breaking up tonight. However, dont get used to the quiet weather. Things will be changing tomorrow afternoon. Right now temperatures in the mid50s. 56 degrees. We hit 57 this afternoon in philadelphia. Thats just 1 degree shy of our average high for this time of the year. It felt pretty nice considering over the weekend temperatures were stuck in the 40s. Double scan live showing the next system low pressure thats moving into the great lakes and that has a ribbon of moisture with it that will be pressing into our region by midday and lasting into the evening tomorrow and it could even come with some wet snowflakes. Ill talk more about that a little bit later on. I want to end with positive note, though. If youre sick of the cool weather, future tracker showing thursday afternoon temperatures rising into the low 60s. By friday up into the upper 60s but then cooler weather for the weekend. Ill talk more about that coming up in the full accuweather 7day forecast, rick. All right cecily well see you again soon. Thank you. As you plan for holidays this weekend stick with 6abc. Com weather. You can always find live Storm Tracker Storm Tracker 6 radar and the sevenday forecast and get the very latest from our team of meteorologists. In other news, police have charged the girlfriend of the off duty baby police darby Police Officer killed in his home on saturday. The the woman is not charged with murder but shes facing serious charges tonight. Action News Reporter david henry has more. Reporter Darby Township Police Continue to build a possible murder case against officer hudsons girlfriend. Shes in jail now on lesser charges. Officer hudsons chief says it was a very stormy relationship. He was doing things to protect his job and protect himself and they were the right things. Reporter last august, officer mark hudson called police to his house after his girlfriend tyaina finch allegedly threatened him with a knife n january officer hudson got a protection from abuse order against finch. About a week ago sources say she managed to move back into hudsons home in glenolden. Hudsons colleagues say he had been trying to make a complete break with her fearing for his own safety. I believe absolutely he was afraid of this woman. Reporter saturday Afternoon Police say neighbors heard a loud argument coming from this rear bedroom window, then a gun shot. Police sources say it was not suicide. They say the shot from officer hudsons own Service Revolver was fired from about 4 feet away. Finch was the only other person there at the time. She was hospitalized over the weekend after suffering what sources describe as diabetic related seizures. Sources say finch was arrested and arraigned in her hospital bed this morning. She is charged with making terroristic threats possession of an instrument of crime and simple assault. Detectives were back at officer hudsons home today with relatives collecting more evidence and his uniform. He served as a Police Officer in darby and was a firefighter with the yeadon fire company. Officer hudsons funeral is set for this saturday. Tyaina finch is being held on 250,000 bail as Darby Township police here continue to work on a possible murder case. In sharon hill, david henry channel6 action news. And still to come on action news tonight city officials announce the date for the launch of philadelphias Bikeshare Program. Also the phillies look to the strength of their bullpen again this season. Ducis rodgers with that and much more ahead in sports. Meteorologist cecily tynan is back with that accuweather 7day forecast when action news at 6 00 continues in just a moment. Jim kenney. Son of a firefighter. First in his family to go to college. Hes been councilman atlarge, representing the whole city. A progressive voice wholl be a mayor for our neighborhoods. Bringing philadelphia together. Expanding prekindergarten improving our schools. And partnering with businesses, Community Colleges and universities to create jobs jim kenny, the block by block mayor we need to move philadelphia ahead. Police say a taxi driver was drunk when he drove the wrong way on columbus boulevard and crashed in south philadelphia. The incident started when an officer spotted the white town car stopped at delaware and race early this morning. The officer tapped on the window. When the driver did not respond, the officer broke the window fearing the driver had some type of medical issue. Well the driver woke up and started driving southbound in the northbound lanes. Police say he drove over the platt bridge and back again before finally crashing into a fence. Well, the driver was taken into custody on suspicion of dui. A south jersey man has been charged with murder in the death of his nine week old stepdaughter. Cumberland county prosecutors also charged 33yearold manuel mikes of millville with child endangerment. Mike center city being held on 1 million bail tonight. Responding emergency crews found the baby unresponsive at a millville home on friday. Authorities say the child died from blunt trauma to the back of her head. Food trucks took center stage today during a Philadelphia City council meeting. The committee on streets and services listened to testimony on a bill requiring inspections and other regulations regarding the vehicles fuel tanks. Council president Darrell Clarke proposed the measure last year after a mother and her daughter were killed when their food truck exploded in hunting park. He says safety must be the citys first priority. I think we should have a safe environment. When you look at areas like universities, Temple University, drexel university, penn, we literally have blocks and blocks of food trucks in close proximity to a significant number of pedestrians. Clark says he hopes to have the bill finalized by next month. Senator cory booker paid a visit to a Camden Charter school today. He personally spoke with individual students at katz delsea academy. Addressed the entire student body. Booker talked about the uniqueness of new jersey. Its official. Philadelphias Bikeshare Program will be up and rolling next month. The program will launch on april 23rd. It includes 600 bicycles and 70 docking stations. End go will operate 24 hours a day i may be a pizza maker but i know a few things about dessert. Like chocolate and more chocolate. Introducing our new Double Chocolate chip brownie. Its a rich and decadent brownie served warm, for only 6. Better ingredients. Better pizza. Papajohns. Com eagles may be adding another wideout. Ducis here with the details. Rick they certainly need to. No germ maclin on the roster. Miles austin will visit with the eagles. Source tells us hes due if tomorrow. Were also told no deal has been signed yet. Austin ended last season on injured reserve with a kidney injury. His best season came in 2009 when he caught 11 touchdowns. Eagles and demeco ryans agreed on a one Year Contract extension. The 30yearold linebacker signed through the 2016 season ryan center city coming off a torn achilles tendon which cost him the second half of last season. Well spare you the math problem. Flyers eliminated from playoff contention. Flyers did this to themselves. They played poorly down the stretch. They have two victories in the last 11 games. Jake voracek hasnt quit at least not in practice. Good check there. This season has been a disappointment. Its frustrating to be in this position we are right now. Were doing everything we can to to get better and just kind of learn from it. Play and coach to try to win and were out. We missed out so its not a good feeling. Stoic. Its the final week of spring training, the final week for the phils to work out the kinks before next mondays opener against boston. Phils and pirates zach evelyn pitches. Marte tags him phillies are rocked 18 to four. The phillies have many holes. The bullpen is not among them. That was a strengths last season but as Jeff Skversky tells us there might be a changing of the guard in the pen in 2015. Reporter phillies bullpen had the best era in baseball over the last to months of last season. Emergence of ken giles now makes Jonathan Papelbon even more expendable. Until the phillies close a deal for Jonathan Papelbon he will be the phillies closer. But when the time comes for him to throw his last pitch in philadelphia ken giles will take over. Hes the heir apparent in the back of the bullpen way fast ball in flies 100 miles per hour. I always wanted to be a closer but i mean i have to earn that job. Reporter giles is quickly showing hes ready. He had a 1. 18 era as a rookie last year with 64 strikeouts in less than 46 innings and at one of the 23 years old giles has a lot to learn. Papelbon has tin him and the other relievers under his wing. Sometimes you get a group of can kids that come along, you help them along and you Say Something and it sticks with them and they carry that and they get better and better. I still got things to learn. I still want to learn some things that he has in his brain of his cause i know hes been there before, hes been in the world series, hes won a world series. I want to try to get all the information i can out of him. Reporter phils are in no hurry to promote giles they want him to take his time learning from one of the best closers in the game. Jeff skversky channel6 action news. Finally tonight the nfls long arm of the law was busy touching people today. Browns gm ray farmer is former eagle suspended four games for sending Text Messages to the side line during games. Maybe the unlimited data plan is not a good thing. Atlanta falcons fined 350,000 and stripped avenue 2016 fifth round draft pick for pumping in fake crowd noise. Theyve been doing this the past two seasons. Might have been less costly to just let fans in for free. Why not. Thats sports. Thank you ducis. The pennsylvania ballet has announced its 20152016 season. This is the first season for artistic director angel carell la. He unveiled an ambitious. He says the cancers will be challenged out of their comfort zones. He adds audiences will be delighted with modern performances alongside classics like the beloved holiday tradition nut cracker hey, hows it going . Oh, jennifer and i had the most romantic vacation. Really . There were gunshots. Explosions. One night we decided to spice things up so we sent an innocent woman to prison for being a witch. You are guilty then we called it a night because we had an early tee time. With so much to do stay where the action is. Book one of our hotels at colonialwilliamsburg. Com. Cecily here now with a closer look at a very interesting forecast. It is warm but tomorrow cool and damp with some showers and maybe even a few wet snowflakes. In april. Here or there. Happy is here. No fooling by wednesday. Storm tracker 6 live double scan showing that we have mainly dry conditions. We have a couple sprinkles around, one near brigantine, another one berks county near manatawny but generally we are drying out after some showers this morning. Lets go live on sky 6. Taking a look at the view over the ben franklin bridge and clouds breaking for some sunshine today. Little bit of a battle going on between the clouds and the sun. The accuweather highlights show that, yes, we have turned warmer after the weekend. Temperatures stuck in the 40s this weekend. Saturday 41. The official high sunday 46, lots of sunshine yesterday today though we bumped it up to 57 degrees. Thats just 1 degree shy of the normal high for this time of the year so temperatures are trending warmer. Heading towards tuesday though, im tracking a fast moving system, a clipper that will be diving in and this will bring us some damp conditions. The rain between about noon and 8 oclock. Were looking at a light rain. Generally about a quarter to a a third of an inch. The far northwest suburbs wet snowflakes mixed in and its a system Strong Enough to pull town that cold air from higher in the atmosphere. Poconos could end up with 1 to 2 inches of slushy wet snow. Right now 56 degrees in philadelphia. Millville 57. I know i said the s word again, dont blame the messenger. Trenton 53, allentown 53, wilmington 57 and reading 54 degrees. Satellite6 along with action radar showing one system is moving out and clouds will begin to clear out once the sun sets but then theyll be thickening tomorrow morning as this clipper moves in but th

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