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WPVI Action News At 4PM June 14, 2016

And recalling each and every detail of that night. A night that started with a dream adventure with girlfriends and ended incomplete horror worse than any nightmare imaginable. It was beautiful. A bonding experience like any girl could have. Her first night in orlando and first time in florida. With her two friends at pulse nightclub. We were having the time of our lives. Akira was the life of the party. Akira would not make it out alive. They ran back in for their friends. I said we have to go get tiara. So we went inside. We got trapped in there. That is the most raw source of her survivors guilt. Bringing akira back inside. She didnt make it, and me and tiara feel guilty about that. And her mom told me not to feel guilty. The gunman entered the bathroom and was shooting his machine gun so we are all scrambling around in the bathroom screaming at the top of our lungs and they were all piled in the stall and witnessed everything from the moment he made his 911 call to the moment he reloaded his weapon. He said, hey you to someone on the floor inside of the bathroom and shot them and then shot another person and then shot another person who happened to be directly behind me who i am told through the eyes of tiara shields me with their own body so i wasnt hurt. The pipes started to burst and the bathroom started to flood. The water started to rise, i thought i may drown sitting in the pile of bloody water. They are in recovery and in shock that she ever lived to tell this story. Im still here. She sure s at 5 00 coming up on action news ali gorman more on the amazing medical response, the doctors and medical staff coming together as dozens of victims like patience flooded their emergency room. One doctor said it looked like a war scene. Amazing to hear from a girl from philadelphia. We are glad she is still here. Thank you. We continue with action news reporter, chad pradelli, live in orlando. You are with the family of akira who was with patience carter. The parents of patience carter got joy when they learned their daughter was alive and the parents of akira did not get that satisfaction, they waited 36 hours to hear she passed. I am filled with emptiness. Knowing my daughter is not coming home with us. It was suppose to be a celebration of life for the murray family. A celebration of kira murphy graduating and her full basketball college. I keep seeing her face. Akira and her cousin tiara parker and friend patience carter, begged the murrays to go to the pulse nightclub. It was a place that 18yearolds could attend. I didnt really want her to go. Dad take me. Dad i said to myself she is on vacation. The murrays dropped her off and then at 2 00 a. M. They got the text messages. Come get us now please they shooting. They jumped in the car and frank particularly drove to pulse. I receive aid phone call from daughter, saying mom i have been shot in the arm help me please im scared. Im bleeding so bad please help me call the cops and at this point she was in the bathroom and i guess the assailant guy was there with them. It was chaos and those with akira say she stayed on the phone with police and directing them to where they were held as hostages in the stall by mateen. They were should close but so far and did not learn of akirs death for 36 hours. They still dont know how she died an autopsy is pending. The loss is unbelievable. I have to know that she died for a good cause, saving her cousins and friends and was happy until the day she stopped breathing. Reporter coming up at 6 00 i sit down with tiara parker, she was with patience and akira in the nightclub in the bathroom stall. Well hear her story she was released from the hospital yesterday. Well have more on the horrifying details inside of the pulse nightclub. So much of it heart breaking. Thank you. Meantime the fbi is investigating reports that gunman omar mateen was a regular at the gay nightclub that he attacked. And the wife of omar mateen is being considered for possible criminal charges this after a Law Enforcement officials says she may have known something about the incident in advance but claimed he tried to talk him out of the assault. In the meantime, six of the more than 50 wounds in the nightclub remain in Critical Condition. So many communes across the region are pausing to mourn those that did not make it out of the nightclub alive. It continued today at st. Joes university. During a mass on campus, students and faculty took a moment to stand and pray for love and peace and stand in solidarity. The coverage of the orlando massacre continues at 6abc. Com. They are sharing the stories of those lost and the survivors including the young woman from our area who shared the gripping account of her ordeal. And of course well alert you to new developments about the ongoing story. Philadelphia police are trying to track down the vehicle and the driver involved in a deadly hit and run. The crash happened at 11 30 last night. It happened in the somer dale section of the city, investigates say a minivan went through a red light and hit a woman on adams avenue. The woman was walking through a crosswalk and was pronounced dead on the scene. Sara bloomquist has a live report coming up at 5 00. We are learning new details about a woman found murdered in Fairmount Park. The victim was not only handcuffed and stabbed. She was also shot. Walter perez has the details. Reporter brian investigator dozen not believe the victim was killed in the location where she was found, they believe she was murdered somewhere else and dumped on the edge of a wooded area in Fairmount Park. It was 8 30 this morn when Police Received the call of a body in Fairmount Park near the mann center. Investigators arrived to find a woman handcuffs and stabbed repeatedly and shot one time in the back of the head. They do not know who the victim is, but she had three distinctive tattoos. She has loyal across her cash and ka sh an africanamerican woman 35 and thin and wearing a white skirt. All investigators could tell us was that it was clear she fought hard to defend herself. Believe she was in a fight for her life and unfortunately she lost. Reporter we should mention that no weapons were found at the scene there, anyone with information is asked to call the Philadelphia Police homicide unit. Reporting live walter perez, channel 6 action news. Thank you. It is time for a check of the accuweather forecast. And a reason to smile today. Lets go outside to cecily tynan in for adam joseph and another extraordinary day. Brian and sharrie its picture perfect. We have bright sunshine and blue skies and low humidity and comfortable temperatures it feels like spring. Right now philadelphia 77 degrees and allentown and trenton 78 and cape may 74 and reading currently 77. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing we did have quite a bit of high, thin clouds this morning. But you can see how they pushed off the coast and we have Clear Conditions right now and we will stay that way in the overnight hours. If you look at the next 12 hours we stay clear and comfortable with low dew points, 10 00, 71 degrees and Early Morning temperatures drop down into the 60s before they make a come back into the low 80s tomorrow. This is whats ahead. I am tracking showers late in the week but she should mosh out in time for a beautiful fathers day weekend and next week its getting down right hot and ill talk about that and timeout the showers in the accuweather forecast. Outside we are looking good though. Cecily thank you. Time now for the action news traffic report. She will be inside in a minute. Matt pellman is in the traffic center. Out here not looks as good. We are jamming on 95 in the northbound lanes, from penns landing to the vine street expressway on to girard and then on the breaks again to cotman avenue. You may notice the southbound travel time is slower on 95 because we have an earlier broken down truck southbound near the walt whitman bridge that is out of the way. But on the big picture, delays are forming on the schuylkill with speeds like 11 and 12 miles per hour. And a crash at the airport at bar tram and essex. And one at 66th avenue involving a bus and southbound on the boulevard watch for an accident blocking the lane and on the admiral wilson boulevard, coming out of cam pen eastbound side jammed solid because of the construction here and on 38 eastbound, two of the four lanes are blocked all week long. That is why you see the extra heavy delay on the admiral wilson boulevard. And debris on 295 northbound. Thank you, see you then. Still ahead on tuesday afternoon. President obama slams donald trump, accusing him and republicans of fostering resentment against muslims that could generate more attacks. To you, theyre more than just a pet. So protect them. With k9 advantix ii. It not only kills fleas, ticks and mosquitoes, it repels them, too. So do more to defend your four legged friend. With k9 advantix ii. For the love of dog. President obama delivered a blistering review of donald trump slamming the Presumptive Republican nominees rhetoric as dangerous and unamerican. The president focused on trumps proposed ban on muslim immigration. We ever abandon those values, we would not only make it easier to radicalize people here and around the world but we would have betrayed the very things we are trying to protect. The very things that make us great and make us exceptional and then the terrorists would have won. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton sharply criticized trump saying he offers little more than out right lies and bizarre rants. We dont need self congratulations, we need leadership. Trump did not response to either, but reiterated his call for a muslim ban on twitter. Mayor jim kenney announced that Patti Labelle and campbell and huff will take home the prize at a gala at the kimmel center. To business now. Cooking like Martha Stewart is about to get easier, the home goods mogul and cookbook author is getting into the fast growing meal kit business, subscribers get a box shipped to their door with the recipe and all the ingredients, the premeasured raw meat, vegetables and spices will be there for you. It goes up against blue apron and hello fresh. For the second day in a row all the arrows are pointing down the dow down 58 points and nasdaq nearly 5 and the s p down 3. 25 points. In south jersey a new bakery Production Facility is giving 70 people a new job. They cut the ribbon today on the 109,000 foot building in glassboro, this will maintain manufacturing and retail at their delsy drive location. And they have two other Retail Stores in washington township. A lot of food in there. Cooking like Martha Stewart that would be a total makeover for me. Both of us. Now a time for the accuweather forecast. Cecily tynan is standing by, not a cloud in the picture behind you. I came inside, i didnt want to, i wanted to stay out longer this, is what it looks like, i dare you to find a cloud. We are looking at the center city skyline, we have walltowall sunshine and bright blue skies and its a Beautiful Day and enjoy it. Now through july 10th, the sun is setting after 8 30 at night. If you are stuck at work all day long have you plenty of time to enjoy the evenings and it begins the summer solstice on monday at 6 34 in the evening. Now we are temperatures below normal. Normal high is 82 degrees and comfortable in philadelphia at 77 and millville and allentown 78 and Cape May Point 74 and wilmington 79 degrees, satellite 6 along with action radar showing we did wake up with some of those high, thin clouds that were over us last night. You can see how they pushed off the coast and High Pressure is exerting control and tomorrow is going to be the opposite. Tomorrow we start with the sun and the clouds roll in through the day. Tonight will be a beautiful night, a moonlit night. 73 illuminated. Wilmington 57 and cape may 61 degrees, with low humidity. That is key, why it feels so nice out there. Future tracker showing 8 00 tomorrow morning, you wake up and loads of sunshine however look what happens as we head through the day. The clouds are advancing through the south and west and mostly cloudy skies by 6 00 tomorrow evening and then thursday is when youll need the umbrellas, and i do want to stress we are not looking at widespread heavy rain all day, there will be occasional showers 7 00 in the morning and it looks to be a potentially wet morning commute and still a few spotty showers as we head into thursday afternoon. The four day at 4 00 showing we start the day with sunshine and increasing clouds with a high of 82 degrees, thursday its cooler with mostly cloudy skies and occasional showers and 72, friday a transition day and a lingering start to the day with showers, high of 79 degrees and heading into the weekend hi pressure is taking control of our weather, that means saturday it will be gorgeous, plenty of sunshine and 82 degrees and of course fathers day is sunday and ill have a very important forecast for all the dads out there. Brian and also talk about the heat next week in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. That is my gift to you. Thank you. So much more ahead on action news at 4 00 today. Caught on camera, stealing other peoples packages, see more of the theft at one philadelphia home. You scratch my back, ill scratch yours. You know what it means. So does pat toomey. Toomey got rich working on wall street. Then he got elected and kept working, for wall street. Voting to let banks continue their risky practices. And supporting huge tax breaks for millionaires, but higher taxes on working families. No wonder hes gotten millions from wall street. Pat toomey. Right for wall street. Wrong for pennsylvania. Senate majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. Farm, crate, and store. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. He was caught on surveillance camera, stealing a package from a front porch and philadelphia hope you can identify him. This happened on june 5th in rhawnhurst. This was the middle of the afternoon, you see the thief did not try to hide his face and police want to find the driver of the car the man used to get away. If you have information you are urged to contact police. Some new jersey people are fighting to survive the battlefield. Where George Washington led a victorious charge during the american revolution, members of the Princeton Society parked a backhoe on mercer road near the colonade to symbolize where its happening a mile away and says it will destroy irreplaceable land. The duke and duchess of cambridge sign aid book of condolences after meeting with u. S. Officials. William spoke to members of the Embassy Staff including people from the state departments own lgbt network. Closer to home students interested in pursuing a career for animals are getting a head start. This is the summer vets program, it allows students to explore science and shadow real life veterinarians, they take part in medical labs and pet physical exams and lectures, this is all hosted by pen vets animal hospital. The start of a construction project was reason to cheer. Officials broke ground on the Martin Luther king adult center on cecil b. Moore avenue. The building will feature a large dining room and billiards room and room for arts and fitness and computers. It has a 4. 3 million price tag. We have breaking news to get to you. Philadelphia police at this point are on the scene of a stabbing this is staking place in West Philadelphia. Chopper 6 hd is over the scene you can see the Police Activity that is happening on the 4900 block of walton street. The victim is possibly a teenager, possibly shot and wounded in the chest. At this point no more information on who stabbed this person. Or why. A stabbing in philadelphia is what this investigation is at this point. Well keep an eye on this, again a stabbing being investigated in West Philadelphia by Philadelphia Police. Along with diet and exercise, helps lower blood sugar. Januvia works when your blood sugar is high and works less when your blood sugar is low, because it works by enhancing your bodys own ability to lower blood sugar. 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Your doctor may do blood tests before and during treatment to check your kidneys. If you have kidney problems a lower dose may be prescribed. Side effects may include upper respiratory tract infection, stuffy or runny nose, sore throat, and headache. For help lowering your blood sugar talk to your doctor about januvia. Well explain the changes all parents need to be aware of coming up. Plus, a mayor take a stance against ads promoting unrealistic body images, details about his controversial move coming up in big talkers. First here at 4 30, a knowledge father accused of killing his young son is heading to trial. Brendon creato was found dead in october and now we hear from david creatos recorded statements from police. John rawlins live with what happened in todays court hearing. Reporter on the day the little boy was found dead. The father spoke with hours with detectives, talking about relationships and reading bedtime books with the boy. 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