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WPVI Action News At 4pm April 16, 2015

It left behind pieces of headlight and probably has front end damage. The driver has taken a precious young life. Beautiful. Beautiful. Cant say much, always a happy baby. They cant believe someone would be socallous to run not even stopping to check on the mother and baby lying in the street. Shame on you for just going right by here and hitting two innocent lives and taking one and you are out there like nothing, how dare you. Josephines family is hoping she can come home before the day aover and for her sake they hope that anyone that knows anything about the car involved to give the police a call and you could collect 20,000 in reward money live in West Kensington david henry, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Police are still waiting to talk directly to a woman accused of causing another deadly hit and run. Little 4yearold abdul wilson was killed on monday after he darted in traffic at 17th and litchfield. According to police the alleged driver has contacted the police through her attorney. They have recovered the car involved a rental car. A man with a tacked on side of a packed 7eleven and every jab and punch was caught on surveillance camera inside of the store. Police need your help tracking the suspect down, for more on this we turn to action News Reporter sara bloomquist live in spring garden. Brian Philadelphia Police want the suspect in this aggravated assault come in for questioning, this happened late last month a temple student was inside of 7eleven just off campus and placing an order the suspect walked in and started brutally beating him. You can see the suspect in the gray sweatshirt enter the 7eleven filled with customers at cecil b. Moore off temple campus at 6 25 a. M. The man went up to the victim a 19yearold temple student who was placing an order and started to throw bunches one after the other and tried to protect his face. He was in the store minding his own business and the offend runs in and strikes him several times. The suspect followed him to the front of store and other patrons got out of the way near the cashier the man went after the student again shouting in his face until the victim walked away. He had extensive injuries to his face. He is described as being in his early 20s wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Wed like to bring in the offender and get the whole story of what happened. There is no reason for an attack like that. And police are trying to get a better idea as to whether or not something happened before that brutal attack regardless, it could not have warranted such a brutal assault. Im sara bloomquist channel 6 action news. Thank you sara. Raids by u. S. Marshals took thousands of violent offenders off the streets across the country including new jersey. This is video youll only see on action news of raids being carried out in camden today. According to investigators they caught an escaped prisoner and a sex offender. U. S. Marshals conducted the raids and well have more coming up at 5 00. Time for a first check of the accuweather forecast. A beautiful sunny afternoon. And warm. Meteorologist, cecily tynan is outside enjoying this afternoon. Outside is the place to be today. I dont think i want to go inside because it is just gorgeous second day in a row we hit 70 in philadelphia the third time this week, while its 70 in philadelphia, 70 in reading and 67 in allentown and trenton. Notice along the shore just like yesterday, with winds off the ocean, the ocean temperature is chilly only 49 degrees, that has a big impact on temperatures and temperatures on the beaches only in the low 50s. We still have a few more hours to enjoy this day so the playground forecast showing a mixture of sun and high thin clouds and mild at 5 00, 68 degrees, by 7 00, 68 degrees. Get out and join the weather this evening because things change tomorrow and even overnight tonight, satellite 6 along with action radar showing this protective dome of High Pressure that is what is keeping the clouds and showers over western pennsylvania at bay but that High Pressure is working to the east tonight, and im tracking a round of showers tomorrow and the good news is the weekend will be spectacular and a soaking rain moves in early next week, ill have all the details on that when i come inside for the accuweather forecast. We hate to make you do it cecily. Hey it gorgeous spring weather can change in an instant stay updated with 6abc. Com weather youll find live stormtracker 6 live double scan and keep an eye on the sky with our sky 6 cameras. A Florida Coastal worker appeared in court today after he literally flied under the radar and landed his gyro copter on the capitol lawn. He flew right through washingtons nofly zone without being detected. He planned the flight for more than a year all for demanding changes in Campaign Finance laws, he gave the heads up to a reporter in florida. It sounds like a bunch of craziness but i thought i would Pay Attention to this guy, if he has the wherewithal to try to pull this off it could be an interesting story. So it was, hughes is charged with operating an unregistered aircraft and is under house arrest in florida and faces four years in prison plus fines officials are still unclear how he managed to fly into d. C. Unde undetected undetected. 73yearold bernard revis waived his preliminary hearing today in blue bell, Authorities Say he inappropriately touched a 14yearold girl in his office. He advertised himself forens in crisis. According to a new quinnipiac poll, 52 of voters want menendez to step down. Menendez menendezs Approval Rating has slipped. It was 48 and now its 35 . Philadelphias fishtown section is getting a little louder but they dont seem to mind, they are turning the former ajax company into a 30 million venue it will have a concert hall, and a foundry club that features live music in addition to bars and restaurants. With the construction season just getting started, pennsylvania turnpike officials are teaming up with state police trying to keep road crews safer, its called operation orange squeeze, workers will be in orange and police will have speed guns to find speeding drivers. All right time now for the action news traffic report today. Lets go live to matt pellman in the traffic center. We are feeling the squeesz in a couple of spots some crowded conditions in a few areas some here at the tacony palmyra bridge. Traffic is moving again and things are crowded at 95, both directions at allegheny avenue and an issue at cotman and northbound is heavier than normal. 34 minutes from the vine up to woodhaven it will take you a while to get home this afternoon. Watching a crash on the pennsylvania turnpike eastbound side approaching the Fort Washington interchange from 409, speeds in the 20s from Plymouth Meeting and mid county and a wreck in limerick along ridge pike at township line road another day and another brush fire this time at rocksville, near lawn avenue. And a bad crash in wilmington blocking centerville road near faulkland road and elsewhere, boxwood road eastbound just reopened and that just happened the last couple of days and the westbound side is closed through memorial day and lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report on this thursday almost friday a member using the waze app talking about another pothole this one in mt. Airy and walnut lane. Slowly attacking the potholes out there. One by one. There is still more to come including an action news exclufsive, only our vernon odom spoke to a man that fell on the tracks at a septa subway station. Hillary clinton is planning round two of her Campaign Stops the key states she is headed to next week. Emale announcer . When you play the new cash4life, from the pennsylvania lottery. husband let me get this. female announcer that means you too could experience the joy of winning. wife look who went shopping female announcer every day. grover your chariot awaits announcer . For the rest of your life. wife jump on grover nothing like a new mower. wife what . grover see you tomorrow female announcer cash4life from the pennsylvania lottery. Play for fun. Cash for life. Hillary clinton is now taking her president ial campaign to New Hampshire clinton will travel to that key voting state next monday and tuesday, her conversations will be focused on the economy and every day morns will make ends meet. They will ask for Community Leaders support and republican candidate marco rubio got off to a strong start in his newly started campaign he raised 1. 2 million on his first day. That is as much as that first term senator hoped to earn online during the plos of april may and june. And slightly more than rand paul and cruz made on their first days. And now the path is clear for peterson to return to the nfl he was sidelined after being accused of beating his little son and now the star is signed to the minnesota vikings, his agent says he wants to play somewhere else but his team has no plans to trade him. Officials in asia say that the search area for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane will be doubled if not found by next month. It covers 100,000 square miles and 61 of that has been searched and they will add 23,000 square miles to the zone if it doesnt turn up by may. The plane disappeared last march. European Officials Say they will resume talks with iran in hopes of wreaking a deal with the program. Officials meet in austria next wednesday and plan to cut back on the Nuclear Program and has no applications in return economic sakss will be lifted. A Montgomery County electrician has now died after he was injured in an expansion project at the king of prussia mall 36yearold joseph at paoli hospital yesterday he was shocked after cutting cables under the existing section of the mall monday and his death is ruled accidental. A group of middle schoolers had a lesson about sexting and Cyber Bullying today. Seth williams spoke to them at the school in West Philadelphia as part of his antibullying initiative. He brought his message to 20 city schools since january of last year. To business on this thursday afternoon, beautiful outside and not so much on wall street. The dow down 7 points and the nasdaq off just 3 points and the s p off marginally at 2 points. Meanwhile, the number of americans looking for Unemployment Benefits rose for the second straight week, according to the Labor Department 249,000 americans submitted claims last week up 12,000 from the week before but experts say numbers are consistent with the strengthening labor market and the fewer amount of morns are collecting unemployment since september of 2000. Target agreed to pay up big time for the losses from the massive data breach the 19 million settlement covered bank costs, and last month target agreed to a 10 million settlement with individual card holders, all of this on top of the companys e pensions wracked up after the breach totals a quarter billion dollars. You may see more overhead space on flights, oh bing unveiled new bins in germany this week they can fit six roll away bags. That means your seat will shrink even more. Well see. The Delaware River Port Authority is considering a loan to keep the battleship new jersey open to tourist. Officials say they will now help the Home Port Alliance get a better refinancing deal and the loan must be paid off in the next ten years. Its time for the accuweather forecast. This is what we think of when we think of spring, absolutely perfect. Another Beautiful Day i finally came inside to talk about the weather, you want to be outside on a day like today. We are live at our Temple University sky 6 hd camera, seeing a lot of filtered sunshine and we have high, thin clouds and we hit 70 in philadelphia, and april so far has been warm and dry a nice change from the winter temperatures averaging so far more than 1. 5 degrees above normal and april typically is a wet month rainfall 1. 38 inches below normal and more than a month since we received more than an inch of rain in one storm. That could change on monday monday could be a soaker soaking up the sunshine 70 in philadelphia and 70 in reading and allentown 67 and millville 69, and with the winds of the ocean the beaches low to mid50s. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing its beautiful here, the showers are not too far to our west. You can see the line of showers working through central pennsylvania right now they are held off by High Pressure and that High Pressure is drifting to the east overnight and that allows our sky conditions to change, so tonight the evening should be fine, and late tonight the clouds roll in and showers develop by dawn across most of our viewing area, 54 in philadelphia, millville 50 and allentown 50 and trenton 52 degrees, future tracker showing 7 00 tomorrow morning well have showers around especially north of philadelphia and as we head through the day not an all day rain but plenty of clouds and spotty showers at lunch time and again a few more perhaps by 6 00 tomorrow evening, that system rolls out tomorrow night and the weekend is looking very nice. This is what to expect tomorrow not all day heavy rain but scattered showers and the steadiest is in the morning, generally a. 10 to. 33 inch. So the four day at 4 00, mostly cloudy and occasional showers still a mild day, the high of 70 look at this on saturday. Warmest day so far this year. 78 degrees mostly sunny and a cold front moves through on saturday night and it comes through dry with some clouds and then the wind shifts out of the northwest and sunday is still a nice day but quite a bit cooler and 64 degrees, late in the day on sunday and late sunday night into monday we are talking about a soaking rain could get an inch to two inches of rain, but will the rain come into sunday. Well talk about that in the accuweather forecast. Will help install energy at local homes and businesses, owners can cut their costs up to 20 governor jack markell was there for the event and this is the second fas its the first opened last year. People in search of a job have a new resource in center city philadelphia. Mayor nutter was on hand as they cut the ribbon on the Career Link Center its the first of four such centers open in philadelphia this year, its all part of career lengths new door approach. It allows the service to all the centers whether they go in or go online. Still ahead on action news at 4 00, a Police Officer in florida lends a helping hand to a homeless man with unsuspecting results. This led to him being set up for life. First an open letter from a south american journalist sparked a call from oversea, the person on the other line had to call twice. Former super model canaly irl will be for the Academy Dinner in honor of womens achievements, she is honored for ending Human Trafficking across the world as well as promoting faith based education she spoke to students here and will get her award later tonight. A south american journalist penned a letter to pope francis criticizing the head of arrangestein a, he picked up the phone and called that journalist, the reporter says the pope had to call to times because the first time he got voice mail. According to the journalist, they had a deep conversation where the pope praised him for his moral integrity. The vatican did not confirm or deny that conversation. How about that, the pope is calling. Still do come a story youll only see on action news. A Good Samaritan told us what compelled him to put his life in danger after seeing a man stumble across the Railroad Tracks last month. And im nydia han the price of medication can differ widely, from 9 to 199 for the same drug. Find out where to get the best price. Hello again 4 30 and action news continues with a question, what do tattoo parlors and nail salons have in common . And modern family star Sophia Vergara former fiance is taking her to court for two frozen embryos. And the governor of new jersey ended up focusing on the birds instead. What Chris Christie did to appease eagles fans that wanted to we mind him he is not in dallas anymore. A person stumbled on to the subway tracks last night. Seconds later a Good Samaritan comes up and springs into action and risks his life to save the stranger. He caught up with the hero and he has a story youll only see on action news. Reporter it could have been a major tragedy here at 15th and market last night but there were no trains bearing down at the key moment. Even though septa says there could have been a less risky way to do it. The man in the eagles jacket is Charles Collins of south philadelphia watch the older man Walter Mcnamee walking near the yellow line he takes a mistake and stumbled on to the track but collins jumps on to the track and jumps down and others try to lift them to safety. Did you look to see if trains were coming . No. Disregarded your own safety. Yes. What went through your mind. Just instincts. Mcnamees injuries are severe, he suffered a broken back and shatters knee and broken knee and severe injury to his spleen that may require surgery. Collins went to check on mcnamee refusing to call himself a hero. Im not he would do the same thing. Septa says his actions were noble and courageous. There are procedures in place he could alert the cashier and Police Officer, and that would stop trains from coming in. Tonight Good Samaritan collins still looking for fulltime employment. Vernon odom channel 6 action news. I suspect he may find that pretty soon. We are learning more about

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