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WPVI Action News At 4PM October 20, 2016

They will get well and go on again. Thankful that nobody got hurt. An amazing deal. Cant fathom this happening and here it is in your own backyard. The rented vintage plane was rented in medford and the faa is going over the wreckage to determine the cause of the crash. We spoke this afternoon with one of davids neighbors. I saw it on the news and didnt know who the people were. They are connected to your friends. Ill reach out to lorraine, his wife to see what she can tell us. Back live now are you looking at the fuselage, a part of wings and tail wrapped up and strap nood this flat bed struck. The pilot and passenger were injured but not lifethreatening injuries. The street along linden avenue and nearby is blocked off as they load the plane and get ready to cart it away from the scene. The passenger told police there was some type of mechanical failure we dont know what that was yet. Live in lindenwald, nora muchanic, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Exphiladelphia congressman chaka fattah was cleared on three of the charges he was convicted on. Including what they call the sham sale of his wifes porsche to cover up a bribe but the judge kept the most serious corruption counts and rejected arguments that he get a new trial. No date is set for his sentencing. New information is as a toddler fell to his death in winfield heighted. The parents were cleared of any wrongdoing. They say it was a tragic accident. The 4yearold toppled over balcony at the Imperial Towers thursday night. The family was in town for surgery so the boy who had autism could have brain cancer, they believe he pushed out a screen and climbed on to the railing and fell. They say his cancer affected his judgment. Officers set up a drone up in Tyler State Park to find a sign or clue connected to the disappearance of lindsay picone. They are looking for any information that leads to her location. Faculty and students at state universities are marching the picket line, the second day of their strike that started when contract talks broke down earlier this week. Vernon odom is live at Westchester University. Will any of the plans we impacted . Ill get to that in a second as you see mind me the tackty and students that are supporting them are in high spirits this thursday night. Westchester Administration Says that the homecoming festivities will go off as scheduled this weekend. Including the Football Game and the coaches are members of a none striking Bargaining Union but the director of the band is a faculty member and the band will not perform unless there is a settlement on saturday. Picket lines are on every corner at the westchester campus here on day two of the strike at all 14 state universities. We are looking for a good deal for the faculty and retirees and students. Negotiations are not going well. They want to degradate some of the benefits for the faculty. Faculty and students on the picket lines, even as contract talks between the members stalled. They wish it had not come to this. The system 105,000 students are affected by the action. Many are missing multiple classes because of the strike. I am here to support the teachers because it has been a short amount of time. All of my professors have done everything to support me and i am supporting them. How many classes are you missing . Right now i am missing all of my classes. I dont want my tuition to go up but make sure everyone has a fair salary and everyone get whats they deserve. Brian tonight state negotiators say they are offering the best deal that harrisburg can afford at this time. Live at the Westchester University campus, im vernon odom channel 6 action news. Thanks very much. The red cross is helping residents displaced by a fire at an apartment. The flames broke out in the citys bella vista section. Firefighters had a hard time getting to the location and called for backup. One man was taken to the hospital with smoke inhalation, no word on how this fire started. Another broke out before 3 00 a. M. In southwest philadelphia. This was inside of a row home at kingsessing avenue. Everybody escaped safely but four people are looking for a new place to stay. Time now for a check of the accuweather forecast. The 80s keep sticking around. A beautiful day. Adam joseph is joining us now. Reporter there are big changes on the way but we have one more day of warm weather, this could be a fiveday stretch in philadelphia of summer like weather. As we look at the high in philadelphia this afternoon. We hit 81 degrees so far today breaking the old record of 80 degrees set back in 1938 and at this point, the only city in our area that saw a record today. Its still really warm no matter where you live. 75 in millville. And 75 in Lehigh Valley and 12u7 in trenton and evening along the shore temperatures at that 70 degree mark. But again there are changes on the way in the form of a cold front the very slow moving. You see downpours in the ohio and Tennessee Valley working well to the north and west. We have one more day with the temperatures in the 80s and then the temperatures crash here on friday night and the winds really pick up and windchills push in for early saturday morning. Well talk about the big drop in temperature and how cool it will be as we enter the upcoming weekend. Thank you. There is rain in the forecast and 6abc. Com weather has you covered. Check Storm Tracker 6 live radar and use twitter and facebook to get regular updates from our meteorologists. To Politics Today donald trump was back on the campaign trail doubling down on his most controversial claim from the the debate. I will totally accept the results of this great and historic president ial election if i win. Mr. Trump is ramping up that the election is rigged against him. And refused to say he will accept the results. John mccain renounced his claims as dangerous and unamerican. Hillary clintons highest profile supporters are out today denouncing donald trump over the controversy. If you say that the democratic election is fixed, you are attacking the notion if we have a democratic system. President obama is in florida campaigning on Hillary Clintons behalf and mrs. Obama will campaign in arizona. And trump and clinton will be at the same event tonight. The alfred e. Dinner. Its like a roast. And jim gardner will host the live did he bait for the senate rate. Send us your questions for pat toomey and Katie Mcginty. Or an email to 6abc. Com. The debate is live from temple university. Monday night starting at 7 00 here on 6 abc. All right it is time now for a first check of the traffic report. Lets go to autumn marisa in the traffic center. Reporter hi alicia and brian. We are deal with a lot of volume on the roads, the schuylkill expressway pretty average, taking you 30 minutes from this point at the vine street expressway westbound out to the blue route. And same if you go from the blue route to the vine. Taking a look at the big picture, speeds are dropping down into the teens and single digited. The blue route 17 Miles Per Hour down towards broomall we have a disabled vehicle backed up to the schuylkill. We hope to see that move along. Another larger delay is northbound on the boulevard across the twin bridges here as you make your way towards broad street. Several incidents to tell you about. Let start in pennsylvania, academy avenue and south avenue an accident. And sten ton avenue and mermaid lane at Chestnut Hill and jumping down into delaware one in new jersey moore avenue at 322, well keep an eye on things and bring you an update in the next half hour. Still ahead philadelphia officially launches its prek program, find out how to get your child enrolled next. And High Schoolers spent this day learning about science in a famous kitchen. Well take you there. Plus reporter its the 50th season in flyers season, the home opener for the flyers its an emostal night as they pay tribute to owner, ed snider. Hockey is back in philadelphia starting tonight. The flyers are hosting their home opener against the Anaheim Ducks and this season marks the teams 50th an vert. Jeff skversky is live in philadelphia with the preview of this matchup. Big knife. Reporter can you feel the energy in the building . 50th season of flyers hockey, it is the home opener, look at the energy as they heft out the light show. Tonight will be emotional as the flyers pay tribute to late owner ed snider, they will have the Video Tribute they are practicing as we speak and hang a banner up in the rafters with ed sniders name on it. And dedicate the season to him like they did in their playoff run. Here the guys talking about how emotional it will be against the Anaheim Ducks. Its a lot of history in philly the last 50 years and there will be some emotions and a lots of explayers will be here. Its going to be a special night. Each and everyone of us in this locker room is proud to wear the flyers jersey. Its something special. Ed snider built this thing from the ground up and a tribute to him tonight too. A lot of atmosphere in the building and we have to use it the right way. Reporter flyers head coach in a team meeting addressing the team telling them keep the emotions in check and use them to your advantage especially in the first half. And the flyers telling all fans to be in your seats at 6 50 for the pregame ceremony. They are practicing tonight and it will be electric as they take on the ducks the first game at home. Jeff skversky, channel 6 action news. I like the rock music and rock show you got going on behind you. If you head to the game tonight you might want to grab dinner at shake shack, they just cut the arena on the newest concession stand. Wells fargo center is the first arena to add the restaurant to their food lineup. Phillies fans may get a kick out of the brotherly love crunch shake. And a first location in delaware and looking to make a lot of hires. Teds montana grill will be ready to serve guests on november 19th but needs to hire 75 employees first. They are taking applicants for all positions apply online or go to the hiring office across from the christiana mall. And numbers from wall street this thursday afternoon. The dow slipping 40 points and change. And the s p falling 3 points on the day. A group of 30 High School Students got to go on a unique trip outside of the classroom. The kids spent the day at the Campbell Soup headquarters, they worked on package design and talked about food science and talked about how to make the iconic chicken noodle soup. For philadelphia mayor, jim kenney making prek affordable for all city kids was a main component of his campaign. Today he rolled out the first phase of his locally funded prek initiative. Inside of the ymca on north broad street families learned how to apply for one of the 2,000 spots opening up in january. Dozens of local schools will be selected on need and awarded 8500 per student and to fund it through the controversial beverage tax but the mayor says there say backup plan. We are not going to sit around and wait. The kids cant wait any longer. There are contingent plans this is a priority for us these programs and we are moving forward. And the city announced a portal a resource for kids up to the age of 5, we post that link and the link to the school and the schools selected for the prek initiative. You can find it all on 6abc. Com. This was a day for cancer survivors and their families to join together for support and hope. In fact this event took place at the ridge land mansion is called the celebration of hope, professionals from all facets of care were there to present research for those battling the disease and adam joseph was the key note speaker to lend his stories to the gathering. Its time now for the accuweather forecast. Lets send it to adam joseph. A woman 46 years breast cant free, a nice afternoon for those folks and a lot of great care givers as well. And as we talk about the weather looking great here as well. Camelback you see color splashing there in the mountains to the north and that color beginning to peak in the northern areas. Fall foliage past peak in northern parts of new england and northern parts of pennsylvania down to the poconos hitting peak and moderate color popping philadelphia north and west of the Lehigh Valley. And low with the bright colors in most of new jersey as well as southern parts of tell wear. The upcoming weekend you have to head to the north especially to the Lehigh Valley and poconos and Lehigh George state park and belleville state park and Ricketts Glen state park also another good location to get some of the fall foliage pictures and then wait a week or so and it will be closer to home here. 79 in philadelphia and 79 in allentown and 75 in millville. And temperatures around 70 at the shore. Satellite and radar we kind of flirted with the sunshine and cloud cover all day long, more in the way of sun, full sun in southern parts of tell wear through much of the day and severe thunderstorm watch in western parts of pennsylvania and the rain will hold off through much of the day tomorrow. Mainly cloudy and mild 59 and lower 60s southern new jersey and delaware. Future tracker 6 going into tomorrow afternoon we are still wedged ahead of the front so another very warm, humid day with a mixture of sunshine and clouds, notice how bright the colors are with the cold front with the heavier rain, it basically falls apart and we get light showers by 11 00 or so tomorrow night. Notice the drop in temperature already into the 50s north and west and by the time saturday morning 9 00 a. M. Rolls around 40s to the north and west and lingering clouds and a couple of left over showers, at the same time the colder air comes in winds increase here saturday morning between 30 and 40 Miles Per Hour. As we wake up in the cold winds continue to funnel in out of the northwest through much of your saturday afternoon. As we look at the four day at 4 00, a mixture of sun and clouds tomorrow, another day in the city of philadelphia at 80 and 58 for a high here saturday morning. Windy and chilly and late breaks of sun, sunny and breezy here on sunday and back up to 64 and not bad on monday sunshine and a few clouds and your temperature at 62 degrees. Well have the rest of that sevenday forecast and let you know if fall or winter or summer wins next week. Coming up in the next half hour. You know our viewers rock and every time we ask you to pitch in you do. Its the last day to help Souderton High School teacher Richard Curtis to cohost with kelly ripa, he made it to the top two and part of todays challenge he had to read a tongue swifter and eat Peanut Butter and dodge confetti. Cast your vote at the 6 abc facebook page. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 100 meg internet. Which means in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20 oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 30 songs, and jan can upload 120 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. 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So when i see the hate that donald trump has brought to his campaign for president , it terrifies me. Id like to punch him in the face, ill tell ya. Ahh, i dont know what i said, uhh, i dont remember. Hes a mexican. I could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody, and i wouldnt. Words have an influence. Violence causes pain. Hate can rip us apart. I know what can happen as the result of hate, and donald trump should never be our president. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. A popular bakery in Newcastle County is taking legal action after a fire tore through that business on christmas eve. Owners of surp s bakery because of malfunction in or around the oven. Surpys wants more than 100,000 in damages. The bakery is getting ready to reopen late they are month. The firefighters were hard at work but not respond to an emergency, teams dressed in full gear tackled an Obstacle Course in sharon hill. After climbing stairs and going over a wall, they had to use their strength to push is the s. W. A. T. Vehicle. Wow good job. Philadelphias chinatown neighborhood is getting a new community center. Tom wolf was ain town to announce the grant to Start Construction on the chinatown eastern Town Community center, at the corner of 10th and vine. Consisting of office space and room for community events. Corruption begins late they are year. There is more ahead on action news at 4 00 today. A man met someone to buy an iphone being sold on craigslist and ended up being robbed and shot. We have the latest coming up. Plus im nydia han there are steps to take right now to make sure you dont get hit with an unexpected medical bill. Action news continues with the search for the man that put a plastic bag over his head before stealing cash from a knowledge store. Plus, there are a lot of good parents out here but we think sandy and bud from nebraska win the prize. 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