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WPVI Action News At 4PM October 10, 2016

Illegal immigration and not waste his time on fighting republican nominee. Political watchers say for now it appears trump did enough with his debate performance to stop the gop exodus. Trump invited bill clintons accusers to the debate. Bill clinton was abbussey to women. Hillary clinton attacked those same women. I am reminded of what my friend Michelle Obama advised us all. When they go low, you go high. Reporter clinton and trump also sparred over taxes healthcare and clintons emails. If i win i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. Its just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. Because youd be in jail. Reporter now, speaker ryans endorsement of trump stands. A spokesperson says hes not conceding the race to clinton. Ryan is just focused on keeping the majority in the house and senate. Sharrie. Reporting live in washington, Kenneth Moton channel6 action news. Kenneth big developments. Dont forget the deadline to register to vote in pennsylvania is tomorrow october 11th. In delaware its october 15th and in new jersey you have until october 18th to register. Nearly 3,000 Atlantic City workers lost their jobs this morning when trump taj mahal casino closed its doors for g the move comes amid a months long strike over health and pension benefits action News Reporter john rawlins live with a look at where this still struggling city goes from here, john. Reporter brian, certainly todays closing is a grim event no doubt about it but people who follow this sort of thing will tell you that Atlantic City has a history of reinventing itself and that it is in the process of doing that again. Reporter the taj mahal shuttered as of 6 00 a. M. , 3,000 people including these strikers out of a job. For ac the latest hit to its economy. Once a mecca for gamblers the town is struggling but those who Pay Attention to it for a living say dont count it out. Theres been three or four times when Atlantic City was left for dead. Reporter philly hurley now host of a radio talk show, yes, he says gambling revenues are only half what they once were but. When you look at a Gaming Market that was once 5. 3 billion and now its about half of that thats still the Third Largest gaming district in the world. Reporter on top of that he says the city he is diversifying its economy and has more hotel rooms than center city philadelphia. They are selling more conventions than in the history of Atlantic City. In the midst of all this doom and gloom. Reporter which brings us to Elizabeth Tierney who heads he the citys planning and development. Some changes afoot here. Stockton university is building a campus with a 500 student dorm. The giant revel complex rebranded 10 due to reopen next year. Acs beach concerts part of a new emphasis on tourism. Outdoor recreation, water based recreation, that the city hasnt capitalized over the years because of gaming. We really didnt need to do anything else. Reporter the ultimate goal to get those tourists to think about buying a second home. The deals are incredible. You can buy a Single Family home just a half block from the inlet for 58,000. 01 sold recently a block from the beach. Reporter youre looking at a massive construction project here to rebuild the boardwalk around the inlet here. It is quite a project thats going on. There is one important wild card in all this optimism though says harry hurley that is the November Ballot question. If new jersey voters vote and pass it, it would allow casinos to be built in north jersey. He says if that should occur, and it seems unlikely at this point but if that should occur all bets could be off concerning Atlantic Citys optimistic future at this point in time. They would have go back to the drawing boards because it would be a significant hit because they would likely lose at least one, two, maybe three more casinos. Thats a big if at this point in advertisement live in Atlantic City, john rawlins channel6 action news. Sharp re. Well see how that plays out on the ballot. John thank you. A Chester County road is back opened this afternoon following a serious crash. Two vehicles crashed on route 41 near Friendship Church road in cochranville. You can see one of the cars suffered extensive damage in the crash. It happened around 11 30. Were still working to get more details about the injuries but again, after several hours of being closed, that roadway is now back opened. A woman hit by a car in evesham township Burlington County has passed away. Police say she was getting off a transit bus when she was struck around 6 30 this morning. It happened in the westbound lanes of route 70 between route 73 and cropwell road. The driver of the car that hit her did stay on the scene and is cooperating with investigators. Rescue efforts are under way in North Carolina where an estimated 1500 people are stranded by flooding from the remnants of hurricane matthew. Boats and helicopters have been deployed to lumberton about 7 miles inthroned save people from homes that are now surrounded by water. Officials believe a levy breached because of the heavy rains and they fear the danger could linger for days. The greatest threat at this point in time remains inland flooding that will continue throughout this week in both central and eastern North Carolina. People who live near rivers, streams and heavy levies need to be extremely careful. People remain missing and 21 deaths are blamed on matthew. According to estimates the storm caused between four and 6 billion worth of damage from the carolinas to florida. Meanwhile the United Nations is making an emergency appeal for nearly 120 million in aid for haiti. Were upwards where upwards of 500 people were killed when the storm made landfall there last week. Brian and sharrie. Alicia thank you. While the worst of matthew stayed far from here the system did send rain our way this weekend. Today the good news. The sunshine is back. Meteorologist cecily tynan in for adam joseph its a bit brisk out there today. It is. Had to find a fall jacket for the first time this season. There is a chill in the air especially in the shade. Right now philadelphia the temperature is 65 degrees, normal high for this time of the year is 69. Washington, d. C. 66. Binghamton 51. You can see those stream lines the little arrows showing the wind out of the northwest. Its quite breezy out here and satellite6 along with action radar showing High Pressure to our north and west. What that will be doing is settling over us through the overnight hours. So, that means skies remain clear. The winds will diminish and temperatures will tumble very quickly. Philadelphia forecasting a he low of 43 degrees. Normal low is 50. Boardwalk in Atlantic City 48. But allentown down to 33. Reading 35. Millville 37 and with temperatures in the 30s and with that light wind there is a possibility of the first frost of the season. So a frost advisory has been posted for the northwest suburbs northern Chester Montgomery bucks county all areas north and west including the poconos and the Lehigh Valley from 2 oclock to 9 oclock tomorrow morning. Also a frost advisory in effect in interior south jersey. It does not include right along the coast. Pine barrens youre in it so a good idea to bring in those potted plants or protect any of your fall plants outside. Ill have he details on a warmup though on the way coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Sharp re. All right, cecily, thank you. Commuter trains are once again going to and from Hoboken Terminal less than two weeks after that deadly new Jersey Transit crash. Eight of the 17 tracks reopened this morning just in time for the morning rush. Crews are still working though on extensive repairs to the rest of that area. One person died and more than 100 were hurt when a train smashed into the terminal bringing down part of the roof. Ntsb investigators say the train was going 20 miles an hour which is twice the speed limit just before impact. It was the eagles first loss of the season and the first of quarterback Carson Wentzs professional career. The birds as you know foal detroit yesterday but fans arent doing much complaining. Sports director Ducis Rodgers live in the action news sports sports center. Brian we knew they wouldnt go 16 and o yesterday was a game they should have won, could have won. The defense put carson wentz and the offense in a hole. Eagles trailed by 11 points at the a wentz brought them back. This 1 yard touchdown pass to josh hough gave the eagles a twopoint lead. They then coughed it up. Ryan mathews fumbled the ball late in the fourth quarter. Detroit turned that into a field goal. Wentz lost tossed his first career nfl interception. That fueled a 2423 defeat. This afternoon head coach Doug Pederson says his players know they let this one slip away. I saw how ticked off this team was at the end of this Football Game despite everything that went on in this game. Negative, positive the whole thing. This this is different Football Team than a year ago. This is a resilient Football Team. Yeah, as bad as it hurts at the same time they understand that, hey, we let one slide. Its just one of those things. Were three and one. Its a long season. Association its one of those things. You cant be too hard on yourself. You got to critique the tape hard challenge yourself to get better but at the same time its a long season. We got long way to go. The eagles hit a touch stretch in the schedule. Three divisional game on the road beginning sunday at washington. Brian and sharrie back to you. Ducis a tough stretch ahead could be a challenge. All right. Time to talk about the action news traffic report. Lets do it. Matt pelman standing by in the action News Traffic Center to get things started on a monday. Yeah, a holiday monday. Theoretically it should be easy. Shade underneath broad street. Right there is an accident that just got pushed off to the side in the eastbound lanes. Was blocking the left lane for a little while. Like most afternoons the vine eastbound is stacked coming away from the schuylkill expressway. Solebury township over the weekend on saturday they reopened route 32 river road which had been closed for quite awhile so thats back in business. Go ahead and use it this afternoon. Over in marlton getting reports of some debris along route 73 as you travel between 70 and main street just 13 Miles Per Hour there. People are slowing down because of the debris in the roadway. And little bit of slowing at times on 295, 55 Miles Per Hour isnt too bad but these are the northbound lanes sluggish coming north of the 42 freeway. Up to this point near the black horse pike. New traffic pattern in effect here today in the northbound lanes coming away from 42 so people are getting used to that slowing down a little bit as a result. Lets grab the ipad do the commuter report on this columbus day holiday minor crash causing slower in dell he company 95 southbound near upland so traveling near the Commodore Barry bridge watch out for that. Well check it again brian and sharrie coming up in the next half hour. Matt thank you. Still ahead on action news a fire has left a dozen people looking for a new place to live. Witnesses describe the terrifying ordeal in south jersey. Coming up at 4 30. But first today weve got an important recall about a popular brand of ice cream made right here in pennsylvania. Plus, on this columbus day Philadelphia Community leaders are trying to bring the first ever Italian Museum right here to philadelphia. A look at the brand new plan next. The Schuylkill River trail will eventually stretch even farther thanks to new state funding. The 3 million will help redevelopment two and a quarter miles of space along the river. It will connect the trail from south of bartrams garden to 61st near passyunk. Anthony williams thanked Governor Tom Wolf for approving that project. Now to a consumer alert. A popular brand of ice cream that could be in your freezer is under recall. Turkey hill says some of its 48ounce containers of dutch clock late premium ice cream may contain rocky road ice cream instead. The rocky road ice cream contains both almond and egg ingredients that the dutch Chocolate Ice Cream does not and this is why its posing a threat to people with allergies. All affected packages were bought after september 8th and have a sell by date of may 23rd, 2017. In the late 1700s the first italian immigrants started arriving by the boat loads not just to new york city but right here on the delaware in philadelphia. The culture here as you know remains so strong that you might find it hard to believe theres no museum to honor that history. But that is about to change. The first italian that lived here lived only a block away on sixth and Katherine Joe marb. Llo here in 1798 when this was fields and wilderness. When i met up with the president of the national Italian Museum of america we were a few blocks weigh from larbellos home. Heres what the corner looked like in 1906. You might call de pilla the keeper of Italian American history. We had people landing on Delaware Avenue and never left. The only reminder that of immigration station this marker from the city but the impact of those immigrants can still be felt on every corner in south philadelphia because theyre still here. The only problem. We really have nothing to celebrate our culture here in the city. De pilla is the author of south south philadelphiard little italy and the bran child lined our citys first Italian Museum. We imagine this to be like italy place. There will be art. Hard food live demonstrations opera singing painting da vinci reproductions and more, children learning to paint the mona lisa in chalk. Right now the museum has two potential homes pier nine on Christopher Columbus boulevard. Right at the foot of the ben franklin bridge. And this site a little farther down, a quarantine station used in the 1800s under the Jefferson Administration for all immigrants coming into philadelphia. Its a really interesting historic location because it was the ellis island of the United States before there was an ellis island. Not a lot of people know that. This museum a way to celebrate the millions of immigrants who came straight to philadelphia and made a home here and still have a home here. Now right now there are tons of artifacts like these sculptures right here sitting in a warehouse in the smithsonian in washington, d. C. So de pilla is working to get them here and have a permanent home. This museum should be opened in the next few years. Wow what a fascinating story. Yeah. Italy place. Yeah, i like the live demonstrations, the opera music. Going to be great and thank you alicia. It is time for another check of the accuweather forecast. Lets check back in with cecily who is keeping an eye on the forecast. What a beautiful picture behind you. It is. Skies cannot get more blue than this. We are live, sky6 taking a look over the Commodore Barry bridge. We dont have a cloud in the sky. Very low humidity with winds out of the northwest so thats kind of squeezing out all the moisture in the atmosphere but theres definitely a chill in the air. I was standing outside in the shade and i was cool even with the jacket. 66 in philadelphia right now, allentown 62, wilmington 65, cape may 61, trenton 64 degrees and it feels cooler thanks to the winds. Winds out of the northwest sustained 15 miles an hour in philadelphia, 12 in allentown, 12 or 17 in allentown and 12 in wilmington. Satellite6 along with action radar is showing theres High Pressure to our north and west and this is whats really squeezing all of the moisture out of the atmosphere bringing us the crystal blue skies but this will also bring us a very chilly night. Future tracker showing tomorrow morning step outside, some of the northwest suburbs temperatures will be in the 30s. 37 degrees in allentown reading 35, kids going to the bus stop may want a winter jacket tomorrow morning. Philadelphia 43. Interior south jersey temperatures in the 40s and upper 30s. As we head into the afternoon again, it will be a bit on the cool side, temperatures generally in the mid 60s. 69 degrees is the normal high for this time of the year. Taking a look at the tropics matthew is history. Matthew had a lot of surprises under his belt and hes not doing that loop back down to the bahamas and florida so thats good news. The bad news is theres still nicole. Nicole is about 450 miles south of bermuda. Its a Tropical Storm maximum sustained winds 60 Miles Per Hour but nicole likely will become a category one hurricane as it heads towards bermuda and it looks like it could be hitting bermuda thursday morning with 90 miles an hour winds and then really heading out to sea so nicole no threat to us

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