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WPVI Action News At 4PM October 24, 2016

Whole idea of the appeal and the bail that was set today. Whats clear from this is that nobody is above the law. This is a significant jail time for the chief Law Enforcement officer of the state. Because of the length of her sentence less than two years shes entitled to the same bail status as she was prior to her conviction. Obviously she was on bail. So, the judge however increased the bail due to her changed circumstances. Reporter so, interesting set of optics as we said on the one part she will be out on bail but for today at least she has been taken away in handcuffs and will be processed at the Montgomery County facility, the criminal justice facility there in eagleville. Now, the judge today had some ry harsh words about what happened here. She said this was retaliation and revenge talking of the crime miss kane had been convicted of against perceived enemies she believed had embarrassed her. She had been driven by eagle he go concerned about her image focusing on fighting crime battling those perceived enemies and exploited her position to do it. Again Kathleen Kane sentenced to 10 to 23 months in Montgomery County prison and then followed by eight years of supervised probation as the judge said today she will be under her watch for about 10 years. So thats the story right now live in Montgomery County at norristown courthouse, john rawlins channel6 action news. Sharrie. John big developments there. Thank you. Of course we will have continuing coverage of kanes sentencing throughout this evening and of course extended coverage on our web site 6abc. Com. This was how it looked at philadelphias Historic Union league this morning. Its ornate stone staircase broken and scattered on the sidewalk. Now police say this was the work of a thief who was trying to steel the valuable railing that was on those steps. Action News Reporter bob brooks live on broad street way closer look at the damage and what police say happened here. Bob. Reporter brian, the suspect was apparently after that brass railing. That suspect or multiple suspects thought they could get some money for it. When they yangd eight it the whole thing came tumbling down. So terrible such a beautiful structure. The good news is you can see construction has started to fix it and we also think we caught the suspect, the suspects on tape on Surveillance Video. Lets take a look at it. Its Surveillance Video that shows the suspect that has much of philadelphia talking today. It appears they have the brass railing of the union league wrapped up and tied to a cart in an alley just a block away. Then they walk out of frame. To get the railing they did this. Big time damage to the iconic circular stairs leading to the Union Leagues front door. Thats sad. He had to be nuts. Had to be something wrong with himmism according to a union League Spokesperson at 3 a. M. The suspect was caught yanging off a lamp portion of the brass railing. Everything else crumbled down. Incredible hulk or something. Reporter the union league says yes it appears they acted alone. Its on tape he came up the steps this way kind of 3 02 kind of came back to the railing grabbed the brass ripped it down causing the structure to fully collapse. Reporter ick see you can see half of the brass railing is gone. The vandals picked it up walked down south broad made a right on moravian and disappeared. The suspect crosses 15th continues on moravian to wrap up load up the brass and cart it away. And it even appears as if hes being helped by another man at that point. The famous stairs used for wedding pictures and other events are in bad shape but were told theyll be fixed as quick as possible. Were in the works to have that taken care of immediately so it can be restorm. We have upcoming weddings and events. Disappointing for sure for a lot of people. Reporter okay, back out live you can see crews have a good handle on things. It looks like theyre making some progress pretty quick to get these stairs fixed and also the union league has multiple cameras out here. The suspect is captured on that as well. Hopefully theyll be identified soon. Reporting live in center city bob brooks channel6 action news. Sharrie. All right, bob, thank you. Quite the mess there. We have some breaking news now to get to. This happening in Montgomery County. Chopper 6hd was flying over the scene earlier. This started as a water rescue. It was under way in the Schuylkill River in norristown where a man wanted by police jumped into the river. It happened at the haws avenue bridge if youre familiar with this area. Police say they were chasing a suspect on foot when that suspect jumped into the river. This all happened about an hour ago. And we are now being told that suspect is in custody. Association the Association Association so the water rescue happened. If we get more information on it were pass it along. New information about attacks on both Temple University students and campus police. Today the universitys Campus Safety says its working with Philadelphia Police to investigate at least four different incidents that happened just off campus on friday. Now, these incidents are all linked to a group of juveniles Officials Say are attacking people at random. And this afternoon four teens are behind bars. The incidents include a robbery at 1400 oxford. Two people were also assaulted at 1700 cecil b. Moore. Two Police Officers were assaulted at 1900 north broad. And a police horse was punched in the face at 1700 north broad. These four incidents all happened between 8 oclock and 10 oclock friday night. Temple first sent out an alert about a large crowd around 9 30 p. M. They believe this all started on social media with hundreds of kids showing up to the pearl theater. Now, when they couldnt all fit in, thats when the trouble began. Its very concerning that you can get a group of juveniles to pull together that quickly and some become violent. With that he weve increased our patrols. The people we have in custody 15, 16, 17 so these are kids, i mean, theyre teenagers but again thats something thats now going impact the rest of their lives as being involved in this kind of nonsense. And because of that, police are urging parents to get involved, know where their teens are at night and because this is still under investigation, they say more arrests could be announced soon. Brian and sharrie. All right, alicia, thank you. It is time now for a check of the accuweather forecast. Mix of sun and clouds out there. A lot of wind. Meteorologist Melissa Magee in for adam joseph today. Live outside right now. Hi, melissa. Hi brian and sharrie. Is this not a bad start to our work week. We have sunshine and clouds and those winds are still blustery out of the west. Right now well show you the numbers. In philadelphia were coming in at 64, 60 in new york city a little milder to the south much Richmond Virginia 76 but to the north and west in buffalo in at 48. Here is satellite6 along with action radar. You can see we he do have some instability clouds across the region. This will help to reinforce the colder air that moves in overnight tonight and even through the day on tuesday but the clouds will break up underneath a mostly clear sky so well talk about tuesdays chill. 8 oclock in the morning 43. 48 at 10 00 a. M. By noon tomorrow, just 52. Well max out close to the middle and upper 50s across the region underneath a mostly clear to partly cloudy sky. So, only in the 50s for highs tomorrow. Also tracking a freeze watch wednesday morning and some late week rain. Well take a closer look coming up with the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. Brian. All right, melissa see you shortly. Thank you. Believe it or not we are just two weeks and one day away from the president ial election. And both candidates are racing to make use of every last second. Democrat Hillary Clinton campaigned today in the battleground state of new hampshire. She was joined by massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. The latest abc tracking poll shows Hillary Clinton with a 12point lead nationally over republican donald trump. Mr. Trump meanwhile met with farmers in florida today where he told them that many of the polls that show him trailing clinton are phone he knee. In fact he is winning. He also told reporters he felt very good about his chances in florida a state that is essential for him to win the white house. Voters in parts of florida, colorado, texas and several other states have already begun heading to the polls. Those states have rules that allow voters to cast their ballots before election day without an excuse to vote early. Again election day is coming up november 8th. And brian, we are just hours away from republican senator pat toomey and democratic challenger Katie Mcgintys final debate before the election. Lets take a live look from Temple University and this is where the two will face off tonight. The contest could help determine which party gets control of the u. S. Senate. And action news anchor jim gardner will moderate that debate tonight. Of course you can watch it live at 7 00 p. M. Right here on 6abc. All right time for the action news traffic report on a monday. Matt pelman standing by with a first look. Fresh start new work week. This afternoon were dealing with some of the same old backups. This morning talking about a lot of construction that was going on the roads today. There was roving crew on the blue route 476 northbound side approaching the schuylkill expressway. Crew is gone now so the lanes are opened but you can see were still dealing with a lingering northbound delay coming away from villanova headed up toward i76. Also still have that police activity, the water rescue coming out of norristown. If youre on the southbound side of 202, crossing the danne hower bridge headed toward king of prussia the right lane is still blocked there. So, comeing a away from the Dunkin Donuts i would expect slowing because of the police activity. A broken down bus on the roosevelt boulevard southbound at strahle street there where deer meadow he Retirement Community is. Typical delays on 95 by the betsy ross bridge and the ben franklin bridge just 8 Miles Per Hour there. Farther north on 95 by the scudder falls bridge coming out of bucks county into Mercer County theres construction once again today so just one lane is getting by at this point speeds arent too bad but as the after progresses they will get worse. So might want to stick with route one through bucks county into mercer instead of i95 northbound. And all day today weve had delays on the Paoli Thorndale reach Regional Rail line. Lets grab the ipad do the commuter report on this monday afternoon. Concorde township a crash along baltimore pike. Watch out for that as you head toward Mill Creek Park as you can see it is causing some slowing. Well check it again brian and sharrie, coming up in the next half hour. Matt thank you. See you then. Still ahead the deal isnt approved but wall street is responding to the possible at ttime warner merger. The truck driver involvedly in a deadly accident describes what happened the moment a tour bus slammed into him. And a new jersey neighborhood living on a dangerous and toxic dump. Find out whats next for their community. In palm springs california this afternoon there are still questions surrounding a deadly tour bus crash that killed 13 people and injured dozens more. Police say around 5 oclock yesterday morning, a u. S. Holiday tour bus carrying 44 people heading home from a night of gambling and festivities slammed into the back of a big rig. 10 women and three men were killed. 31 others were injured. The driver of that big rig that got rearended describes the scene. The impact, just, you know, hit he me, hit me from behind and, uh, i just blacked out for a minute and when i gained my consciousness undid my seat belt and looked around, tried to see what happened, felt like i got ran over by something and thats when i got out my truck. That driver who only wants to be referred the as bruce was injured but has already been released from the hospital and says hes just happy to be alive today. As for the condition of those injured who did survive, doctors say because of the high speed and then the sudden braking, most of the victims were also any not wearing seat belts. There were spinal injuries and extensive facial trauma. Now, just as to what caused that tour bus to crash into the tractortrailer, thats still under investigation. They say the bus had passed all recent inspections. Police describe this as one of the most devastating scenes they have been called to recently. Sharrie. The images are just devastating. All right, alicia. Investors on wall street are reacting to the news at t is buying time warner for 85 billion. The stocks of both companies fell after the opening bell. At t specializes in video cell phone cable and Internet Services while time Warner Holdings include hbo, cnn and warner brothers. Some public intergroups fear the merger will lead to higher costs and fewer choices for consumers and both president ial president ial candidates have also criticized this defect heres a look at todays closing numbers and they are all upward today. Green arrows here the dow up more than 77 points today the nasdaq up nearly 52 and a half points, the s p 500 just up over and the points today. Dozens of job seekers turned out in south jersey today to get plugged in about the future of energy. The action cam was at the Second Annual utility job and career fair at Mercer County community college. The event is as much about filling a need as it is about filling jobs. 55 percent of the utility workforce in new jersey and elsewhere may need to be totally regenerated in the next decade. And with increasing emphasis on new Energy Sources experience and train regular essential so say industry experts. All right a bit of a cool windy start to the week as we check the accuweather forecast. All right. Going to have some cool nights ahead. Meteorologist Melissa Magee joining us live with the accuweather details. Hi brian and sharrie. Big changes ahead as we go throughout the north korea next few days. On this monday afternoon we have sunshine and a few fair weather clouds moving across the region as well. Currently in philadelphia were in at 64. 62 in allentown, the Lehigh Valley, 62 as well in lancaster, 67 down in dover. You notice we have that northwesterly wind. We had gusts today close to 30 Miles Per Hour. Right now the gusts are 23 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia, 28 Miles Per Hour wind gusts for both allentown and reading and a gust clocking in at 30 Miles Per Hour out to the west there in lancaster. Heres satellite6 along with action radar. You see its pretty dry and quiet. The clouds help to reinforce the cold air for the rest of tonight and even for the day on tuesday. So, over the next 12 hours heres the call from accuweather. Well drop down to 42 in philadelphia for the overnight low. The upper 30s north and west of town. 44 down in cape may underneath aostly clear sky. And we have a bit of a chilly breeze. Heres future tracker six. The morning numbers in the 95 corridor still in the upper 40s as well as north and west. 50 in wildwood and 51 degrees for both dover and wilmington. By 4 oclock tomorrow afternoon with that colder air rushing on in thanks to that northwesterly wind, just 55 in the city, 42 in the poconos and 54 degrees out to the west in lancaster. By wednesday morning, here is the big change. You can see only 37 in philadelphia. 7 30 in the morning midweek numbers hovering close to the freezing mark north and west of town. 41 in wildwood and just 29 degrees in the poconos. In fact overnight tuesday into wednesday morning, our freeze watch goes up for the areas where we are still having our growing season. This is for allentown down to Quakertown Coatesville and middletown, even into areas in south jersey from 2 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. On wednesday as temperatures will be close to 32 degrees and the coldest it has been since april in many of these locations. Here is the four day at 4 00 and you can see weve got cold air coming our way. Bright but breezy on tuesday, a High Temperature of 56 degrees. On wednesday, its chilly. Afternoon high clouds, a High Temperature of he 53. Thursday periods of rain move in and at 58 degrees and on friday a nice mixture of sunshine and clouds and at 59 degrees. So, we had a tease on saturday with the winds then the showers and the colder air. This is going to be even colder with numbers only in the 50s guys. All right. All right. Thank you melissa. Got it. Still ahead here today after celebrating its 90th anniversary a church in wilmington is forced to shut its doors but it may still be able to serve the community. And take a look at this dog here. Its credited with saving his homeowner from a fire in philadelphias Port Richmond section. The story from neighbors coming up. And moms hold their babies all the time but well explain coming up in big talkers why this mother called this moment profound. To take away homes from people across pennsylvania. The practice is banned in 35 states because its considered predatory, but pat toomey didnt care. Pat

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