Horrible. Its not say. Now they say theyre fed up. Overnight just before 3 a. M. A 24yearold female resident was pulling into the parking garage. Detectives say at the entrance a suspect wearing a ski mask armed with a rifle tapped the drivers side window and yelled to give him her stuff. The young Woman Told Police she sped off to the third floor and parked but was followed into the building. She says the suspect smashed out her car window with a gun. Police say he hit the woman with the gun and yanked her out of the car. The victim reports the suspect and a female accomplice took her phone and drove away in a red getaway car. That sounds terrible. They need to invest in security here. Reporter one man we spoke with said he knew Something Like this was about to happen. I think this weekend there was an issue with the garage door. I dont think it was fully functional so i could see how someone could comeism after a few residents tipped us off we two found it extremely easy to get inside the building. At this side door that sign reads a marine club key fob must be used i clearly dont have one. Lets see what happens. You can get right in. I do it all the time. Reporter we went inside to the desk multiple times today to Ask Management about the security concerns but not bo comments. The Security Guard said they always have someone here but residents say thats definitely not the case. Is that guy always here . Thats completely new to me. Reporter now jim i want to show you here this is that side door we tried out around noon today. You can see at 6 oclock tonight it is still opened. You can still walk right in to this building. For now reporting live in south philadelphia, bob brooks channel6 action news. Jim. Thank you, bob. Authorities in florence township Burlington County are saying that one person was killed in a crash that destroyed a vehicle along i295 this morning. Chopper6 shows that the vehicle was ripped to pieces when it veered off the highway and crashed into the woods. It happened just before 9 00 this morning northbound. Investigators are trying to determine what caused the driver to lose control. They remembered the life of 14yearold grace packer this afternoon at a church in glenside montgomery county. They called it abington loves grace. She wamothers boyfriend. Action News Reporter chad pradelli is live in glenside tonight and chad, youve got the latest. Reporter yeah, jim, Deputy Police chief in abington told me this is the most horrific case of his entire Law Enforcement career. A lot of people failed grace packer during her life but today in her death a lot of strangers came together to put on a Memorial Service. Dozens of strangers filled the New Life Presbyterian Church this afternoon to say goodbye to grace packer. The 14yearold who Authorities Say was killed by her adoptive mother sara packer and her boyfriend, jacob sullivan. Packers biological mother was among those on hand. She was a lovable little girl and i only had three years with my daughter. Reporter the Memorial Service was the work of a handful of abington women who felt compelled after learning of the horrific death of grace. Prosecutors say sullivan beat and raped grace azar are a packer watched as part of some sort of rape fantasy. She was allegedly then poisoned and eventually strangled. It shows the communitys grief, support. Its very crowded. Its you know, theres a lot of sad faces. She matters to us. She matters to the community and its right to give her a dignified honorable sendoff. Reporter the state took packer from her biological parents when she was just three. Sara and david packer adopted her but david packer would later be charged with sexual abuse of children. Sources say grace was one of his victims. He served five years behind bars. Sadly, relatives who last saw grace when she was just three remember a happy little girl. The life she endured is agonizing. I dont see how anyone could hurt her. She was so cheerful. She lit up everybodys day. She was just a happy person to be around. Reporter and after the Memorial Service, there was a forum here at the v. F. W. Where professionals and advocates gathered to talk about child abuse and its warning signs. Live in glenside chad pradelli channel6 action news. Jim. Thank you, chad. Civil rights icon georgia congressman john lewis delivered a Martin Luther king day speech in miami today making his first public appearance since apparently infuriating president elect donald trump by saying he doesnt consider trump a legitimate president. Today lewis was talking about conviction. Never give up. Never give in. Stand up. Speak up. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something, to Say Something and not be quiet. Action News Reporter vernon odom is lie in Center City Philadelphia tonight. Vernon, reaction to this feud between lewis and trump punctuating this day when we remember Martin Luther king, jr. Reporter absolutely, jim. Good evening to you. With donald trump taking over the white house friday at noon, and the Martin Luther king, jr. Celebration going on taking off this week there was bound to be loads of verbal jousting. In wilmington today, a former Martin Luther king, jr. Adviser and speech writer took issue with lewis decision to not attend the inauguration and calling the Trump Presidency illegitimate. 86yearold Clarence Jones says he understands john lewis position but doesnt agree with his stand. Yes, i assume there is classified information to indicate that russia in some way interfered wanting to place its hand in favor of donald trump. But that does not make donald trump an illegitimate president. Reporter in philadelphia today an antitrump rally promising to fight back against many of the president elects stated policies and support for congressman lewis a civil rights legend. Also today, the president of philadelphias naacp hammered donald trump for his twitter remarks that john lewis is all talk and no action. John lewis of course is a man who deeply committed and dedicated to seeing real social change regardless to color or creed and i think its just unfortunate that this is the way donald trump is Getting Started off. Reporter over the weekend Donald Trumps camp was fiercely defending him against the lewis attack. I think its incredibly disappointing and i think its irresponsible for people like himself to question the legitimacy of the next United States president. Reporter jim, one National Commentator today said that he called this conflict between the two of them a game of political paintball. Im vernon odom channel6 action news in spring garden. Members of the Philadelphia Fire Department took part in the Martin Luther king day of Service Today by teaching residents at a Senior Center about fire safety. Action news was there as firemen stopped by guild house west in fairmount. They helped residents come up with a fire escape plan and passed out life saving information. In devon saint lukes Evangelical Church hosted its annual day of service. While one group made birthday cards for veterans and seniors another was packing nonperishables for the food pantry an third was sorting out donated clothes all part of the day of giving back to the Devon Community in honor of Martin Luther king. Coming up on action news tonight, crews in Delaware County rush to the scene of a gas main break this morning. Plus vandals target a philadelphia sanctuary for people of jewish faith over the weekend. Police say it is not the first time its happened. Cecily. Double scan live showing that we do have some light rain moving in with the potential for some icing in parts of our region im have details on what to expect in the accuweather 7day forecast. The phillies may be get something much needed outfield help. Ducis rodgers with that story. And just ended sixers game out in milwaukee. Well have highlights when action news continues in just a moment. Chopper6 was over a gas leak this morning in brookhaven Delaware County. Authorities say app contractor struck a pipe during construction on dutton mills road shortly before 9 oclock. A peco crew rushed to the scene to quickly repair the leak. Fortunately no homes had to be evacuated. Police are investigating vandalism and graffiti on the wall of a jewish religious building called a mikvah. The first incident that the building on the 11,000 block of renar street in somerton. Reporter there are many storefronts in this somerton strip mall but only one was targeted. I dont think it was random only because this was the only building that was chosen in the entire shopping center. Reporter rabbi solomon isaacson caulking about the defacing of this construction project that belongs to the nearby congregation beth solomon. Its special jerusalem stone we imported because of the sanctity of the place. Reporter called a mikvah, when completed it will contain special pools of water to be used in jewish purification right side. This is not the first problem here at the mikvah and the center. Bbs have been fired and entire light posts in the parking lot has been pulled down. Surveillance video shows individuals have collected here late into the night. Last month a masked person temporarily blinded cameras with a painter ball. The next night someone climbed the roof and cutter the camera feeds. Last summer someone stole a menorah from the congregations Main Building the menorah was found a few days later after this video was released. The painter markings from this weekend are unreadable. There have been no written threats directed to the congregation, no swastikas painted. Still the rabbi believes there is a message in the actions. Obviously this was done call it a hate crime, call it a antisemitism but obviously this building was picked on purpose. Reporter the graffiti already sometime after saturday night sunday morning. The builder does not want to damage the soft stone beneath it. The plan now to contact the citys antigraffiti network to get their advice. In Somerton John Rawlins channel6 action news. There was app special church Service Today in north philadelphia in memory of Martin Luther king, jr. Dozens gathered this morning at Zion Baptist Church on broad street. The prince hall masons partnered with other organizations for the service that featured prayer and reflection. These volunteers spent this day of service donating their time at a Burlington County church. They were hard at work this afternoon inside the tabernacle Baptist Church making blankets and cards for local children who are in the hospital. Theyre also assembling care packages for the homeless. Strummed guitar you cant experience the Canadian Rockies through a screen. You have to be here, with us. Theres only one way to travel through this natural wonder and get a glimpse of amazing. And thats with a glass of wine in one hand, and a camera in the other, aboard rocky mountaineer. Canadas Rocky Mountains await. Call your travel agent or rocky mountaineer for special offers now. Z254jz zi0z y254jy yi0y it was a day on not a day off at the Burlington County library. Volunteers collected donations, some for local food pantry others for the county animal shelter. Kids used their creativity to make personal get well cards for those in need. Sixers just finishing up in milwaukee. 10, 15 minutes ago. Joel embiid in the lineup today. Yeah, he does not disappointment he never disappoints. The guy is incredible. I dare you to find another double digit under. 500 team that is as exciting as this sixers team. They may not be a playoff team this year but they continue to improve. This afternoon they forced milwaukee to take notice. The sixers on the road. Theyll take time to honor dr. Martin luther king. Like the sixers the bucs feature a promising young player. Also known as the greek freak. Sixers down eight at the break. Nik stauskas with the block. Sixers run the other way. Joel embiid a little lien. Vote for him in the allstar game. Sixers up one after three more embiid in the fourth. 22 points 12 boards five blocks. The sixers win 113104. Thats six wins in the past eight games. You know im just trying to do my best. Im trying help my teammates and win games and we did that tonight and the we going to keep on going and trust the process. Hes awesome. The phillies need a lefthanded hitting outfielder. Phillies have reportedly landed one. Reports say they agreed to a deal with michael saunders. The 30 yield saunders spent the past two seasons with the toronto blue jays. Last year he had a career high 24 home runs. Sanders was also named to the American League allstar team. Sticking with the phillies its not all about baseball not for one of their young prospects. Jaime apody has this story from south philadelphia. Reporter dr. Martin luther king, jr. Once said lifes most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others . Today on mlks day of service phillies up and coming roman quinn was giving back. Tighten it up. Reporter the outfield prospect became the first nature leaguer to hold a baseball clinic for kids from the Phillies Urban Youth Academy at the ryan howard straining center in south philadelphia. Its the First Time Ever in my life that i did Something Like this on Martin Luther king day and its a special day for me. Reporter quinn has a dream of his own and thats to crack the phillies opening day roster. I heard a couple times from a couple of the coaches i will a pretty good chance of doing so. As long as i stay healthy and end up doing it and enjoy the game and just realize that its the same game. Reporter quinn has a legit shot to make the jump from aa to opening day. In 15 games got on base and showed off his signature speed. But for now hes working hard to help these youngsters make some jumps of their own. Just to have a dream ton follow it and do whatever you can to make it happen and work hard and work towards something whether its professionally, whether they want to be a doctor lawyer, whatever 3 they want to do just have something to work towards. Reporter in south philadelphia jaime apody. Villanova wildcats host seton hall. The cats are number one in the latest ap poll released today. Its a narrow vote. Second place kansas received more first place votes. Nova is 17one on the season. Looking good so far. Ducis. Cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast for the week ahead when we continue in just a moment. So would you do a Little Research and find out when is the last time we had two sunny days in a row . In a row. In a row. Its been awhile. But this week thursday should be really nice. Thats one. [laughter] overall pretty gloomy week. Storm tracker6 live double scan showing that right now most of the region is dry. We do have some mixed precipitation breaking out in the poconos. Some snow, some sleet, in freezing rain over mount pocono. This is the leading edge of unsettled weather overnight. Not a lot of rain but some waves of rain on the way. Temperaturewise though not that cold for this time of the year. Philadelphia currently 39 degrees. Our high today 42. 2 degrees above normal. Cape may 38. Trenton 39. Reading 37. Temperatures close to freezing up in the poconos. So, satellite6 along with action radar showing we did start the day with bright sunshine. The clouds rolling in and if you look out to the west you can see some showers moving in. Its not a lot of rain. The center of the storm way out across the midwest. You can see kind of that curl. That will be lifting up to our north and west so that puts us in the warm sector of the system. So that means not looking at snow, looking at rain. The problem, though, overnight berks county, lehigh valley, northampton county, the poconos temperatures will be dropping near freezing. So, freezing rain advisory has been posted from 1 oclock in the morning until 10 oclock. Not looking at a lot of icing but any light freezing rain on untreated surfaces could cause some icy spots. Future tracker showing 7 30 in the morning we will have some showers around philadelphia areas to the south. Again, some freezing rain across the lehigh valley. The poconos, berks county. Then as we head into about lunchtime most of the rain will be lifting up to the north and east. Temperatures about 40 degrees and then we have another wave of rain moving in for the evening commute. So, keep the umbrellas on hand lots of clouds with periods of rain and even some of these showers will linger into wednesday morning around 7 30 temperatures well above freezing even in the poconos. Starting off the day with some rain. Well probably city at leas seea few breaks of sunshine by the afternoon. This week overall lots of clouds. However its not going to be that cold. The january thaw continues. Jet stream well up to the north. The core of the warm air centered out to the west across the midwest. Thats where temperatures running 15 to 25 degrees above normal but here well be running about 10 degrees above normal much of the week. So if youre hoping for any snow definitely going have to wait on that. So, the exclusive accuweather 7day forecast tomorrow occasional rain. Again, not all day heavy rain but waves of rain i think most of it will be later in the day. The high 48 degrees despite all the clouds. Wednesday early drizzle. Then clouds. A few breaks of sunshine, 52 degrees. Thursday again should be the pick of the week. Partly sunny, very mild, temperatures running 14 degrees above normal. 54 degrees. Then things begin to go downhill later in the day on friday. We start with some peeks of sunshine, then the clouds roll in, some rain in the afternoon and evening hours, 51 degrees the high. Saturday should be a transition day. A little bit of rain possible early in the morning. Then clouds break for some sunshine with a high of 51 degrees. Sunday not bad, breaks of sunshine with some clouds, 49 degrees. And monday our next system on the way and again, this will be rain, not snow. Periods of rain with a high of 52 degrees. So, temperatures through the week above normal but, yes, not looking at two days of sunshine but thursday looking pretty nice. Ill have an update at 11 00. Abcs world news tonight with david muir next on channel6. Action news continues at 10 00 on phl17 with brian taff Sharrie Williams adam joseph joh and ducis rodgers. For the entire Action News Team im jim gardner. We hope youll join us for action news at 11 00. Tonight, the deadly ice storm. 16 states dangerous and deadly collisions on the highway. 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