And they know what goes on in that area and there are a lot of transgender individuals that actually frequent that area right there so yes, they did know. Reporter city hall director of lgbt affairs says state laws may not be charge enougnot be enoughto charge a h. Shes a person. What does it matter what her id card says. It doesnt matter. It does not make her lifeless. Reporter tonight Police Confirm redding what you arrested several years ago for an alleged robbery against another t. S. A. Gender individual but the charges were dropped when that victim failed to appear for court. Live live at Police Headquarters in center city, im vernon odom, channel6 action news. Thanks v weve got developing news out of Montgomery County this afternoon. Where officials are on the scene of a gas leak at Montgomery County community college. This is video just into our news room from chopper 6hd over the scene. Officials say workers struck an underground gas line just before 3 oclock today at a Construction Zone on campus. This is on the 300 block of dekalb pike in blue bell. The Fine Arts Center has been evacuated as a result. Students are being told to avoid this area and peco is en route to the scene right now. A Football Player at Albright College in reading is charged with attempted murder after police say he stabbed a teammate with a corkscrew. Police arrested marquise stuart yesterday after he allegedly stabbed the victim several times. They say the incident started with some sort of altercation across the street from campus. Stewart has been suspended from the team and the school. Action News Reporter walter perez will have much more on this story starting at 5 oclock. Black bunting hangs outside a Burlington County fire station after a former firefighter was killed in an accident involving a lawnmower. Police say 79yearold Roger Lippincott was riding his lawnmower when somehow it caught fire. It happened yesterday at his home on sailors pond road in springfield township. Officials say lippincott tried to put the fire out himself but then suffered some severe burns. He died at the scene. Lippincott was a retired springfield township firefighter and taught at Burlington Countys fire academy. Southwest Airlines Operations are running more smoothly today after a glitch that delayed hundreds of flights over the weekend. Long lines built up as the company used backup systems and handwritten boarding passes to check in passengers yesterday. Southwest blames a failed Software Application that affected the airlines web site, mobile app and computers. The problems was fixed by 6 00 this morning at Philadelphia International airport but the Airline Still warned people to arrive early and to print boarding passes at home to avoid any issues. I just heard we got to get here early because we might be really held up and i guess were early enough. I was expecting a lot worse than it is. Things seem to be moving along. I expected to be waiting in line out there. Southwest said about 800 of its 3600 flights were delayed at least 15 minutes yesterday. Once they got up there, they were flying friendly skies today because it is absolutely beautiful out. Gorgeous day. Lets head outside to meteorologist cecily tynan in for adam this afternoon. Hi, sharrie and brian. This is the place you want to be today. Outside. A lot of School Children are home from school, columbus day a lot of people have the day off so head outside enjoy it. Definitely on the warm side for this time of year. Philadelphia 76 degrees currently, 68 is the average high this time of year so temperatures well above average. Allentown also 76. Wilmington 73. Trenton 75. As you get closer to the ocean, the ocean temperature 65 degrees with those winds off the ocean. It is cooler on the beaches but still pretty nice. Sea isle city 77 and the Atlantic City airport 70. Satellite6 along with action radar showing if youre looking for clouds dont look up because we have High Pressure in control of our weather. Thats what bringing us the bright blue skies but if you look up on the upper left corner of your screen, you see some clouds moving in. Thats the cold front and the bottom right shows some off shore showers with a weak low thats also moving up toward us. Really to the northeast and this will bring us some big changes tomorrow. But this afternoon if youre taking the children to the playground enjoy it. Sunny skies and warm, short sleeves and shorts fine if youre in the sun, 75 degrees at 5 oclock. By 6 00, 74 degrees and the weather highlights will show you that we do have some changes away. Tomorrow will still be warm but with more clouds and a few showers and then im tracking a significant cooling trend as we head through the week. Actually tracking the coolest air of the season. Ill talk more about that coming up in in the full accuweather 7day forecast when i manage to drag myself inside. May take awhile. Take your time cecily. Thanks. As you plan the week ahead check in with 6abc. Com weather. Get expert insights from accuweather and stay on top of any threat of rain and chilly temperatures with storm tracker6 live radar. The flyers take to the ice tonight foreign their home opener and theyre hoping to avenge saturdays ugly loss to florida. The puck drops at 7 oclock tonight. Action news Sports Reporter jaime apody live at the Wells Fargo Center with a preview of this homeowner. Hi, jamie. Hey there, brian. Yeah, something is amiss with the flyers because steve mason is out of the lineup two days after the worst outing of his career. Now, this morning gm ron hakstol basically begged the media to respect masons privacy with what they are calling a personal family matter and so Michael Neuvirth will be in net for the flyers tonight. Lets take a look at the flyers skate this morning here at the Wells Fargo Center. Dave hakstol will make his debut in front of the home crowd tonight. Its not the way he wanted to start the season, two games, two losses. Slow starts, thats what keeps getting coaches fired around here. The flyers will get a shot at the panthers again tonight. Wayne simmonds says the philly fans will be just what the doctor ordered. Especially in a home opener you got come out fast. You know, we kind of we got ourselves in trouble florida night. Luckily we got them tonight at our homeowner. We just got to have a good start and continue from there and play good hockey. You know the fans will be flyered up coming up later in action news sports at 5 30 well talk a little bit more about the goalie switch in tonights game. Live at the Wells Fargo Center, jaime apody channel6 action news. Jamie thank you. Here at the big board now speaking of sports a week from today the eagles will take on the giants but right now one of new yorks players is fighting a much bigger battle off the field. Giants tight end daniel fels has a scary case of mrsa and hes fighting to keep his foot as he fights an infection that can be deadly. Nfl. Com says the 32yearold could potentially have his foot amputated and has been in intensive care since friday. Doctors say the dangerous staph bacteria which is resistant to most antibiotics set in after a toe and ankle injury. Fell has now reportedly had five surgeries and may need even more with doctors worrying that the mrsa will spread to his bones and possibly even his blood. The giants say theyre pulling for and supporting daniel. Dedicated the game to daniel fels and his family and thank god we were able to give him the gamely. Fels tells abc news grateful for the support ive received from Family Friends teammates coaches and fans. This will not defeat me. Great attitude. Mirrors mrsa can be spread where people share equipment so this morning the giants were scrubbing their facilities including their locker and training rooms and everyone of course pulling for fels and fighting for him to beat this, you guys. D hoping the best. Scary situation there. Alicia, thank you. Its time for the action news traffic report. Autumn marisa standing by live today in for matt pelman and autumn, what are we looking at here. Were looking at the platt bridge and if you were hoping for a nice afternoon, easy commute on columbus day no such luck. We had an accident on the eastbound lanes and you can see just really its standing still out there literally. The accident has been moved off the bridge but you can see just a slow go and couple that with the Sports Complex event tonight as well as rush hour and well show you what some of the delays look like. Here we are on 95. This is right around ridley park as you make your way northbound on 95. We dont usually see this type of delay but because of the accident on the platt bridge thats what were experiencing on the roads right now. Taking a look at the big picture, speeds across the region just starting to drop. Schuylkill expressway looking like the normal afternoon on a monday. You can see the westbound lanes at a crawl, about 40 minutes to go from the vine street expressway out to the blue route right now. The blue route again very slow in the northbound lanes as you make your way from 95 up through swarthmore. Its quite a crawl. Moving along and showing you the area bridges, looking very nice on the ben franklin bridge on this live shot. Both directions moving just fine even with the construction on the westbound lanes of the ben. Other area bridges looking nice and clear as well. Taking a look at mass transit, all services are on time right now with no reported delays and we do have that flyers game out there tonight so two express lanes will be leaving fern rock at 6 08 and 6 18 so definitely want to keep that in mind. We have one incident to tell you about. In elkton route 77 and winchester drive. Your alternate will be 281 or you can use barksdale road to get around that. Another delay we have on the schuylkill expressway rather, the vine street expressway coming off the schuylkill expressway in those eastbound lanes as you make your way up towards 95 nice sloane there. If youre heading towards the schuylkill right now youll tap the brakes, too, in those westbound lanes. Back to you brian and sharrie. All right. Busy out there. Thanks autumn. Much more to come here on action news at 4 00 on this monday afternoon. A princeton professor has been a pardoned the nobel prize. More on his mission and reaction. Plus californias new plan to fight wildfires involves the help of violent offenders and its not sitting well with some. We have those stories plus cecily is back with the full accuweather forecast next. I was about to head to thecheck. Bank, but out of nowhere it just started to rain. Like really rain. [clap of thunder] i did not want to go out. [clap of thunder] but then i was like duh, just use your phone. Mobiledeposittechnothingy to the rescue. Im rayna. And i bank human at td bank. Worry aboutt having to whats gonna hurt my teeth, if its gonna be too hot, or too cold, if its gonna have ice in it. Life without sensitivity is easier. Just use the toothpaste. Sensodyne works, its all you need. Done. A flight that left newark new jersey was forced to make an Emergency Landing in buffalo new york because of a fire on board. An airport spokesman said a credit card reader caught fire on that seattle bound Alaska Airlines flight. A crew member was able to extinguish it and none of the 189 people on board was injured. Still firefighters board they had plane as a precaution and passengers were temporarily taken off. A proposal to boost the battle against wildfires in california is sparking Public Safety concerns. The plan would allow Prison Inmates convicted of Violent Crimes to help fight the fires. California has already been using nonviolent offenders in that same capacity for years now but under the new proposal inmates who have a violent past would only qualify that theyve been rewarded for good behavior. Nine plan still needs final approval within the corrections department. A february trial date has been set for georgia man accused of leaving his son to die in a hot car last year. Justin harris said he forgot his oneyearold in the back of his suv but prosecutors allege he did it on purpose because he was unhappy in his marriage and wanted a child free life n court today, they read some of the sexually explicit messages harris exchanged with other women the day his son died including a conversation with an under aged girl for which he now faces additional charges. The defense argued the messages had nothing to do with the boys death but a judge denied a request to try the cases separately. It was trial a remarkable day at Princeton University with news that one of its professors won the nobel prize in economics. Angus deaton a professor of economics and International Affairs received the prize for his work on consumption poverty and welfare. He was born in scotland and holds both u. S. And british citizen ships. Deaton says he had to pinch himself at the news this morning and thanked princeton everything its done to support him and his vast body of work. Ive always thought that i was unlike to win this prize because ive never really had a field and that i work in a lot of different things. I thought they did an amazing job this morning and i [laughter] i sort of watched the video and i thought boy, so thats what ive been. [laughter] all these years. And a sense of humor too. Hes a princeton professor is the third princeton professor rather to win the nobel prize in economics in the last two decades. All three professors come from the schools Woodrow Wilson school of public and International Affairs. So, congrats to his big day there, sharrie. Hes brain knee and witty at the same time. Thanks. The first democratic president ial debate is one day away and many eyes are still on Vice President joe biden. At this point he does not plan to take part in tomorrow nights debate but speculation is still swirling about whether he will actually run. Action News Reporter john rawlins is working this story today. Hes live near the biden home in greenville, delaware, with more. Hi, john. Reporter hi, sharrie. Back in early august when the biden for president issue really started to pick up steam the thinking is he would have something to announce in september. Then it came and surely by last weekend because of tomorrow nights debate. Here we are still waiting and asking will he or wont he. This weekends news cameras shadowed the vp as he visited sporting events in wilmington where his grandchildren were participating. The thinking after meeting with family and advisers he would announce a decision did he not. Some from the National Press remained camped outside of bidens home. For months the vp has signaled that hes been grappling with the idea of a third run for the white house even though hes still grieving his son beau bidens death. The 72yearold is a beloved figure to many. I hope its not too much of a burden for him to run but i think our country needs joe biden right now. Reporter senator chris coons who was with biden last week conceded given primary filing deadlines a decision must come in weeks. Only he knows in his heart whether hes got the energy and the act, the full support of his family to take on what will be a grueling president ial couldnt. Reporter one time cnn reporter ralph biglieder who founded the university of delawares center for Political Communications thinks biden is crunching hard numbers. At the center Hillary Clintons strength and he says biden knows if he is to win he must raise big money, have a National Organization and register for early primaries. Hes done almost none of those things so far. Its possible it could be done, im not saying its impossible but its a really steep hill to climb at this point. Reporter well, biglighter says he thinks a decision is going to have to come in days and even then it is going to be as you heard an uphill climb because biden would have to put together a National Organization that could potentially win everything. Live in greenville, john rawlins channel6 action news. Thanks john. Well monitor every development on that. Thank you. There is more fallout today for volkswagen in the wake of its emissio emissions cg scandal. Singapore suspended the sales of all volkswagen diesel cars. That comes after the automaker announces it was recalling diesel cars. They arent all that popular in china though volkswagen one of the best selling brands in that country. Now to a bright spot. Or weather. Time to see whats happening in accuweather. Perfect start to the week. Where do we go from here. Cecily tynan standing by with details on what seems to be a cool down. Thats right. Temperatures will be stepping down as we head through the week. Today really the nicest day of the week, Perfect Timing with a lot of kids home from school on this columbus day and getting a lot of photos like this sent on my facebook page. This was taken by gary, chris sowers twin brother. You can see that sugar map pell. The orange there looking even better because its contrasted with the bright blue sky. Temperatures definitely on the warm side for this time of the year. Average high for philadelphia for this date is 68 degrees but were nearly 10 degrees warmer, 76 degrees currently in philadelphia, the same in allentown, trenton and reading 75, wilmington 73, millville 70 and with these winds generally out of the south, theyre