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WPVI Action News At 4PM January 17, 2017

Pounded violently on the door. If he rang the door bell or knocked nicely but she thought he was angry. Her neighbors had their dogs taken on new years day. Their dogs were last seen behind the amish school house and vanished. We spoke to the police chief and its something they are trying to get to the bottom of. Sounds like someone took the dogs and took them out of the area. Okay again in the words of the police chief here, he believes that a dog thief has come to town, he is advising everyone to keep a close eye on their pets. Bob brooks, channel 6 action news. All right the warning is out there. Bob, thank you. The suspicious device found on temples campus forced 300 students to evacuate this morning. The bomb squad detonated it as a precaution after determining it did not pose a real threat it all started when the trash crew found the canvas belt hanging out of it at 12th and norris street. Temple police are praising the workers for report what they saw. A south condo building is boosting security after a resident was robbed at gun point. Crews fix aid broken door after action news show you the door could be open easily without a key fob, after two robbers followed a woman through the parking garage with a different gate and the man threatened a Security Guard before stealing the bag and cell phone. I ordered a guard to be there until im satisfied that its repaired and safe. Both locations are under camera and they go to our live 24 7 security. Police are still looking for both robbery suspects here. Here at the big board now, in just three days, 2 days and 20 hours. Donald trump will be sworn in as the next commander and chief. There are more Senate Hearings for his cabinet. And the latest polls showing that his popularity is taking a hit. A new abc News Washington post poll shows that trumps Approval Rating is the lowest seen for an incoming president for the last seven taking office. Trump is dismissing the low numbers saying they are just like quote, the phoney election polls. Now, today at trump tower, he spent the day at a meeting with boeing ceo, saying great progress is made with negotiations with a price tag for the air force one program. Trump is working to secure a better price to replace the aging fleet of president ial aircraft. And a hearing today for betsy devos, teachers unions and democrats are saying that the heir to the am way fortune and Major Republican Party donor will try to destroy the Public School system but devos says she will be a strong advocate for it and plans to promote alternatives like charter and magnate and religious schools. A hearing is also already way for ryan zincy the nominee for secretary of the interior. Ahead of fridays inauguration in washington, d. C. , right now the number of House Democrats planning to boycott it has grown to more than 40 and just a little personal touch for you here. As again we countdown to friday, donald trump will be sworn in with two bibles and his own and the bible that Abraham Lincoln used at his first inauguration. Thank you. Be sure to stay with action news for continuing coverage of the inauguration. Brian and i will be in washington, d. C. , for all the events, leading up to fridays swearing in and you can see our reports from the Nations Capital right here on action news at 4 00. I understand that rain may be in the forecast for the inauguration itself. We are all dealing a little bit of rain here today. Lets head out to to meteorologist, adam joseph, with the umbrella handy. Its damp and dreary on this tuesday. Not heavy rain and mist and drizzle and low lying cloud cover. On the wider picture here, we are tracking steadier rain to the west that pushes through during the evening rush here and all of this is moving to the north and east. Providing quite a bit of snow in Northern New England 6 to 12 inches expected up there. Winter is squeezed way up into the northern part of the United States. Stormtracker 6 live double scan live locally here well show the steady rain along 322 and chester and Montgomery County soon going over the northeast extension. Temperatures 45 which is above average for this time of year. But look to the south and west. Lurking there is in the 60s for pittsburgh, and charleston, West Virginia and 65 degrees and a rare stretch is about to unfold here. As we get a winter break with highs in the 50s, running 10 to 15 degrees above normal. Well look at the numbers through that sevenday forecast. If you like a little break in january of the cold and snow, its coming your way. Well talk about it in the full accuweather forecast. Adam, thank you. A fight with a Security Guard may have led to a bar managers death in german town. He was shot to death late last night. Action news reporter, Katherine Scott has more on the investigation. The bar manager was hit twice in the torso and once in the leg. When police and medics arrived here last night he was conscious and talking and pronounced dead at the hospital at 11 22 p. M. The Security Guard was taken into custody. Police were called to sharons little spot. A uniformed Security Guard reported to officers that he shot a 44yearold bartender after an argument. It didnt make sense to me. Both men were working at the time of the shooting and in a back room for employees only at the bar at 5600 boyers street. An altercation escalated and turned physical, stemming from something that happened a week ago and the guard said the manager came at him with a bottle and he shot him three times. When Police Arrived on location. The 28yearold Security Guard remained on the scene. He was taken into custody by police and police also took possession of his weapon. It does not appear to be justified to us at this point in time. But well see what happens in talks with the District Attorney. Investigators have raised questions about the Security Guards gun. Are you suppose to be licensed properly to carry the weapon for sure. There may be issue fz that was even the case. There are cameras on the outside of the bar but none on the inside. And they interviewed a customer and bar tenner in the bar at the time of the shooting. A number of local lawmakers took the oath of office including delawares new covery. Rain did not stop john carnies oath of office. The lieutenant governor, bethany long was sworn in today. Former Montgomery County commissioner josh shapiro took his oath as pennsylvanias attorney general. He did so in front of a crowd of 700 people and spoke about restoring integrity to that office. After Kathleen Kane resigned after being found guilty of perjury and other charges. Matt pellman is here now traffic center. Speeds are down in this gray afternoon as we look live where the roosevelt boulevard comes in a busy spot in the afternoon and even a wet afternoon, on the westbound side from the boulevard to gladwyne you see already a 13 minute delay on the westbound travel time. Eastbound side going on 10 minutes behind, and the volume and damp conditions. We are watching a number of accidents on the big picture in addition to the red zones. A crash in society hill at 7th and delancy, and one at winter in the process of being cleared out. Delays forming along 95 and a wreck close to worchester Elementary School at valley forge road at Skippack Pike and a nasty one in hamilton county. Close to 19th avenue. Stay on the black horse pike as an alternate around that. Lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report. It feels like a monday. Back to work tuesday sort of afternoon. A crash in delco close to elm avenue but that too is in the process of clearing out. Well be back in the next half hour. Dont go far. Still ahead on action news at 4 00, we learn more about the man accused of the deadly shooting inside of the ft. Lauderdale airport. Find out what he apparently told investigators about isis. And two children missing for more than 30 years have been found alive as adults. We have details about how police solved this case all these years later. A federal judge in florida denied bond for esteban santiago. He said he carried out the attack in the name of isis. That santiago told him he was in touch with like minded people in jihadi chat rooms that were also planning attacks and his mind was being controlled by the cia. Santiago purchased a one way ticket to ft. Lauderdale two days before the flight and checked only the gun, once he retrieved the checked back he reloaded it in the bathroom and opened fire. And he could get the death pen if i tore airport violence and firearm charges that resulted in death. Santiago has yet to enter a plea and his charges do not include terrorism but that could change. His arraignment is scheduled for january 30th. Not the only one in court today. The wife of pulse nightclub gunman omar mateen when for a judge as well. Nor solomon when into a florida courtroom. Accused of aiding and abetting her husband in a shoot that killed 49 people in an orlando nightclub. She moved to San Francisco following the murders. Her attorney will seek her release from jail. Salmon had little to say to the judge but her uncle says his niece is a victim in all of this and innocent. Two sisters kidnapped in rhode island back in 1985 were found alive living in texas. An anonymous tip led them to kimberly and kellyates now in their 30s. This is age progression showing what they may look like now. They were only small children when their mother, who did not have custody took them out of state and changed their names. Their dad russel yates reported them missing and spoke today hearing his former family is living in houston under different identities. I have always been trying to find my children, and now its up to them to find me. His wife is being extradited to rhode island to face charges. General motors is touting a 1 billion investment in factories here in the United States and adding 1,000 job mostly in michigan. The move is planned for months, part of the progress of building new models but was announced today because of criticism of auto trump. Trump demanded the Auto Industry build more cars in the United States. Walmart made a big announcement today adding retailing jobs as it expands existing locations and estimates it will generate 4,000 construction jobs. They are adding fewer stores but adding positions for grocery pick up and training academies. Reacting to news from gm and walmart trump tweeted out that they are starting the jobs push back to the United States. That had little impact on wall street, daw falling 59 points and nasdaq falling 35 points and s p nearly 7 points on the day. And today Mercer County Community College developed a Nursing Program with Thomas Edison university. Students can transfer and apply up to 90 credits to the State University allowing them to get a nursing degree in four years time. Now its time to get a check of the accuweather forecast. Adam joseph is joining us now with the green radar. You see it there to the south and west, a batch of steady rain that passes through over the next couple of hours, the flavor for the overnight is really scattered showers and mist and drizzle and light in nature with patchy fog and as we close into stormtracker 6 live double scan it is all rain to the Lehigh Valley and only in the higher terrain in the poconos is there left over freezing rain and 322 a wet drive and western Chester County and then bumping into northern Lancaster County and here near adams town and honey brook and higher terrain of elverston with a burst of moderate rainfall near birdsboro and route 100 about to get ponding on the roadway there. Slow go, here this evening especially west of the city. As we look ahead here to try to lighten your mood a little even though these are pretty long amount of days before we see this. Spring begins 63 days from today. 78 days from now is when our average High Temperature will hit 60 degrees but in the next 10 days we could see 60, a few times, if things work out perfectly and 81 days before the first pitch at Citizens Bank park for the phillies. As we look at numbers, we are far from it. 41 reading and 43 in wilmington and 45 in millville and dover. And numbers run ago above average but raw and damp out there. There is that solid batch of rain coming in from the south and west and it breaks up as you head down to charleston, West Virginia and roanoke, virginia. And lows tumble back into the 30s in the city and scattered showers and watch for some patchy fog to develop. Future tracker 6 at 7 00, the steadier batch of rain to the west moves over the city and Lehigh Valley and Atlantic City at 7 00 this evening. That lifts to the north and there is pockets of it around here and there. At 11 00 tonight and as we get into its first part of your wednesday morning low lying clouds and could be mist or drizzle around at 8 00 in the morning but the steadier rain or imagi majority of those are gone for the morning rush. The day planner for wednesday optimistic with that much sign between 9 00 and 1 00 and some peeks but the clouds will win out tomorrow and milder as we go into the lower 50s. The four day at 4 00 forecast, 52 tomorrow and morning drizzle again with a lot of clouds lingering and then thursday that is the pick of the week. Decent amount of sunshine. 14 degrees above normal with highs in the middle 50s. And rain comes in late in the day on friday, 51 from a system in the south and then clouds give way to sun on saturday. Right now we go 55 but if we see enough sun on saturday we could get close to 60 degrees and that may not be the only time as i said. Well look at the very warm january seven day coming up in just a bit. Thank you. Up next at 4 00, a Delaware School district puts its cafeteria on wheels, the new idea to make sure children are served nutritious meals every day. And beer drinkers rejoice, pennsylvanias updated laws are in effect and already having a positive impact on businesses. And coming up in big talkers no matter now you feel about the Dallas Cowboys well introduce you to the teeny fan that finds their work on the field soothing. Hambone sally 22 hut hut tiki barber running a barber shop . Yes surprising. Yes whats not surprising . How much money david saved by switching to geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Whos next . Some scary moments this morning at a school in Lehigh Valley county. A man apparently high on cocaine ran into a school armed with a screw driver. Security officers chased rafael outside before he made his way into the gym at the innovative arts school. He was yelling about guns but didnt believe he meant any harm to anyone. The doors were unlocked because it was when students were arriving. Nobody was seriously hurt. A wilmington man is facing charges of a bank robbery from friday afternoon. That james mullen jr. Got away with cash from the Td Bank Branch on marsh road. Witnesses saw the suspect leave the scene in a blue cadillac, Police Quickly caught up with the suspect and took him into custody. The 27yearold had a handgun and found the cash from the robbery right there inside of the cadillac. Good news here, habitat from humanity is working on their 103rd home. The house is being built for a family of eight including a child in a wheelchair. Right now they are cramped into an apartment. Its more than a dream come true. More of a reality you can see. Thank you. Thank you for giving us a chance and believing in us. The family expected to move into this new house the first one they ever owned in july. Habitat home buyers contribute 100 hours into sweat equity during construction. The dover School District is taking a new step to help some of its students in need. A food truck will bring meals to students who cannot get to school for their free lunches. They tested it while students were out of class for the mlk holiday. Right now the truck is in a trial run to gauge the interest. Right now on action news at 4 00, the many appliances sold at ikea are put to the test. Well tell you if its worth it to buy your refrigerator at that discount store. And a robot is ready to greet you at a hotel in japan. That and mr. More coming up. Action news continues with meteorologist, adam joseph, and brian taff. Action news continues with a plea for help to find a missing elderly man in delaware. Plus, dish washers and refrigerators and even stoves. You may not know it but ikea sells these products and Consumer Reports tested them for their quality. And immaculate lowering the price of tuition. And today is the day for laws for beer sales in pennsylvania change. Loose irregularlations allow beer distributors to sell any quantity of beer including sixpacks and growlers. John rawlins live outside of a store in king of prussia. Reporter hi sharrie, well they allowed me to come inside and its a much nicer place ill tell you that. Some supermarkets in pennsylvania were allowed to sell sixpacks of beer troubling for family own distributorships and todays change puts them on a par with the super markets and can sell sixpacks and less than sixpacks and good news for them and for f

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