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WPVI Action News At 4PM April 19, 2017

Daylight on the b and tioga streets in philadelphia was caught on camera. Police are working to find the three men seen here viciously beating the 25yearold victim. Its hard to see something of that level of brutality and what appears to be that random looking and in that broad daylight conditions, it gets a little startling. The crime happened this past saturday at 12 30 as the victim was leaving a restaurant, you see the group in question walking and looking in windows like they were looking for someone. The victim was there to get a job application and they were too afraid to talk on camera but couldnt believe what happened as the man left the restaurant. No sooner he turned to the left he is confronted by three males one hits him in the face so hard he falls to the ground and one repeatedly kicks him and punches him while removing items from him. At tacker his no mercy and repeatedly punched and kicked the helpless man. The brutal beat down gets worse and the suspects knock him unconscious and then take the victims money, wallet and cell phone and neighbors are thankful that the cameras were recording and captured pretty good images and they hope someone will recognize him and report it. They see someone and want to attack or was that their plan that day. That is another reason why we want to get them in. What transpired was brutal. Reporter back out live, you saw the video indeed it was brutal. Police are not sure if the victim knew the attackers and a motive is not clear and police had to drive the victim to the hospital and since treated and released and again if you have Information Contact police, live in Kensington Gray hall, channel 6 action news. Gray, thank you. The jury is now selected and Opening Statements are set to begin in the trial of the Camden County father accused of killing his 3yearold son. His son brendon was found in a wooded area in october of 2015. Prosecutors say that creato killed him because he was getting in the way of his relationship with his teenage girlfriend. He pled not guilty to murder and child endangerment. Opening statements are set to get underway tomorrow. And a home in south jersey is a pile of rubble after a fire destroyed it overnight and flames ripped through the home in pennsauken and two families lost everything and fortunately they all got out safely. I never thought this would happen to me. Juliana sharpos was visibly distraught as she saw her childhood home go up into flames in the night sky. My brother has nothing and my mom has nothing. She was baby sitting her brothers at her Fathers House in philadelphia and he got the panicked call from her mother. She called me and said my house is burning down and right away i knew they was serious and she was crying hysterically. She rushed home to find the neighborhood lit up in flamed as the fire tore through her home. Just cant believe it. The Camden County Fire Department says that the blaze broke out at 2 30 wednesday morning. Several engines blaired their sirens as they descending on the quiet neighborhood. My husband said it was Something Big and i operated the door and it was shooting up into the air. It was really bad. By the time firefighter as rived. The flames were burning through the upper floors of the two family home and embers were flying to nearby homes and rails and new Jersey Transit briefly interrupted Early Morning light rail service. Its pretty much the top floor so everybody they have is gone. The two families live inside were able to evacuate safely and one resident says its thanks to his dogs that woke them up in time. We got water and coats and blankets and all the neighbors up there were helping them. I feel so bad. A firefighter was briefly trapped in the upper floors and he managed to evacuate in time and another injured his ankle. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Reporting in pennsauken, channel 6 action news. A woman remains in Critical Condition after reportedly being hit by a Police Cruiser in the kensington section of philadelphia. Officers were chasing a man in the park when they barked up into the woman. They deny that the Police Officers were pursuing anyone. Vernon odom is live with more. Reporter hello monica, good afternoon the woman hit by police in the park yesterday afternoon remains in Critical Condition at this hour. But Police Believe her chances of surviving are steadily improving. This is exclusive video of police in Mcpherson Park carrying a woman to their cruiser to rush her to the hospital. They accidentally backed over her as they prepared to pursue an unknown suspect. The officers then transported her to the hospital. Police are still investigating this accident and the officer involve said placed on none driving status and the park is known in kensington as needle park and drug addicts come here to no shoot up all hours of the night. And Terry Hackett comes to pick up the discarded fielded over 5,000. He does it to protect the children who use the library in the park. I got poked one time when i was working at the gas station and he was here when it happened. All i see was them carrying her into the car. Reporter so brian a slice of life here in Mcpherson Park. Life is raw in needle park, its a daily struggle to survive for so many people. That is the norm. Live in kensington, channel 6 action news. Aaron hernandezs lawyer says he plans to conduct his own investigation into its disgraced nfl stars suicide today. He was found hanging in think cell in a high security prison many massachusetts. He was serving a life sentence without the probability of parole for the slaying of odin lloyd. And hernandez told him he was looking foreto a chance for another opportunity to prove his innocence. A spokesman for the former Team New England patriots declined comment on the news the same day the pats went to the white house to celebrate their fifth super bowl title. Tom brady skipped it because of a personal family matter and other players were on hand to accept congratulations to president trump. And gronkowski crashed the room to offer help to sean spicer, the press sent plightly declined. We are a week away from the nfl draft, and there is now traffic restrictions ahead of the big events. Phase two closed the inner lanes from eakins oval to 20th street and the grand stage is set up at the bottom of the Art Museum Steps and action news has a front row seat for you. And the parkway will have many events for fans all of them free. And we have full coverage of draft preparations at the channel 6 action news app. And where channel 6 action news will be live for you as football history is made. The 6 abc app is a Free Download for your mobile device. Hopeful for good weather when that comes to town. And clouds have moved in. Lets get a check of the accuweather forecast. Lets go outside to adam joseph. We saw a little bit of fine in the mid to late Morning Hours and the clouds raised in this afternoon and cooled temperatures as well. The winds from the southeast 60 in philadelphia and 58 in baltimore, just 49 in new york city. And pittsburgh jumping to 72 degrees, there is a front that well track that pushes through tomorrow morning and will send warmer air our way. As we look to the norm and west. The bulk of the steady showers are along the pennsylvania and new york border all of that heading into new england and a scattered showers into the overnight hours tonight and overall the clouds are here to stay. So the evening planner, 61 degrees at 7 00 and by 9 00 dropping back into the 50s and staying in the upper 50s through 10 00 and 11 00 and the clouds overnight the clouds drop to 50. And a band of showers tomorrow morning as well as on friday morning. And both thursday and friday brighter afternoons with pops of sun and then we are tracking a washout for the second half of the weekend. Monica and brian well chat about that, and future tracker for the showers the next couple of days in the full accuweather forecast. Thank you sir. There is more to come on action news at 4 00. New developments in the sexual allegations against fox host, bill oreilly. The latest next. And subaru is recalling tens of thousands of vehicles that could cause a problem that causes one type to stall. Cheaper and easier to get. I was a full blown heroin addict, selling my soul to get high. When i realized i needed help i didnt know where to go. But i got help and you can too. Youre not alone. 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Police responded to reports of shots fired at 24th and market in wilmington and Newcastle Police were trying to stop someone in the area and stopped by police in the parking lot of saint helenas church. And the suspect reportedly got out of his car and fled on foot and Police Chased him around the church and they radioed they had someone at gun point. Several Police Officers were taken to the hospital trying to stop this fleeing individual. A Police Vehicle was involved in an accident near the first scene though its not clear if that car was involved in chasing the suspect. But back out here live police are trying to piece together what happened and how this unfolded. Well be following this story throughout the evening. Reporting live, channel 6 action news. All right thank you. Voters in georgia have set the stage for what could be a very revealing election. Democratic john ossoff fell just shy of an out right win to fill an empty seat in the historically republican sixth district. And ran against 11 republicans handily beating all of them and now he will face karen handel the top vote getter. They say its a big republican win and the vote will measure antitrump sentiment nationwide. And bill oreilly is out at fox news. They announce they had are cutting ties with the top rated host after allegations that oreilly and fox privately sell the a number of Sexual Harassment claims against the host. And more have risen in recent days. He will not return for a final show. A new marina is ridley township and the revitalization of the ridley mall are two developments being celebrated in Delaware County. It was laid out at the state of the county address in drexel hill and looking to boost the economy by attracting businesses to the area. Time now for a first check of the action news traffic report. Lets go to matt pellman. Monica and brian the state of the streets could be better, welcome to phase two of the nfl draft closures what fun we are having, dont know about that. Inner drives of the ben frankly parkway is now blocked and this is the outbound traffic on the parkway being forced out at fringe Lynn Institute into the outer drive that is crowded. At 6 15 they blocked out the inner drive in both directions. Have a broken down bus on 9th street and that is cleared out and 4 Miles Per Hour on the westbound schuylkill. And midday construction that gave us big delays on the blue route, 476 at this point. Its normal northbound volume and southbound delay starting to kick in. And Burlington County we have an overturned vehicle and that cleared out and harrison township. 22 eastbound is blocked by 55 by the bb and t. I would stay on main street through pitman or elk road. And wilmington philadelphia pike is blocked by saint helenas church and governors prince boulevard or 495 are alternates there. Thank you matt. Subaru is recalling more than 33,000, 2017 impressa cars that the engines can stall without warning, they say that the winter blended fuel can turn to vapor and causing the engine to run rough and then stall. And drivers can not immediately restart the cars and increases the rick of a crash and dealers can do a Software Update to fix the problem. We take you live now to drone 6 over the museum of the American Revolution in old city. This is the grand opening today. That is the 242nd anniversary of the shot heard round the world in 1775. A brand new museum for our area and former Vice President , joe biden, was there. You can see all the events on action news at 6 00. All the initial reports stunning inside. Cant wait to go. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast. Stunning is not the word for the weather. Adam joseph tracking thick clouds. Yesterday was the day that was stunning outside and bounce in the camera and a cool wind coming in from the southeast as we look at camden and city hall there, sky 6 hd live in society hill in philadelphia. And as you look to the north the upper part of your screen there, a lot of clouds have taken over the sky here. 60 philadelphia now and most areas are only in the mid50s, for wilmington millville and low 50s the Atlantic City airport and 57 in reading and 57 in trenton, so philadelphia the lucky spot right now that is the only location at 60 degrees. And a big change from 24 hours ago, temperatures have tumbled back 5 and 10 degrees from where they were this time yesterday and due to the stronger wind off the atlantic. And satellite and radar a hit of sun during the mid to late Morning Hours. Clouds moved in and a few rain showers far to the north and a boundary that is draped by here late tonight and early tomorrow morning. Than could trigger a quick little scattered shower or two or sprinkle overnight tonight and just a cloudy night with temperatures falling back to 50 in allentown and 53 in millville. And the temperatures are not going to lower that much more than where they are right now. As we look at the day planner here for thursday, a couple of showers scattered around the region, very early tomorrow morning. And then breaks of sun developing in the afternoon as the front swings to the north and that will allow temperatures to jump to 75 degrees or so tomorrow afternoon. We are looking at a 20 degree difference here tomorrow. In some locations. Future tracker 6 at 6 00 in the morning, a few showers in the morning and that moves away and we see the breaks of sun at 4 00 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. As we get into tomorrow night the front starts to sneak in back from the north and could trigger a downpour late thursday night into early friday morning and the four day at 4 00 forecast tomorrow the sunny breaks will develop in the afternoon and much warmer of 75. Could be a morning round of a downpour or thunderstorm, friday and then breaking sun in the afternoon very mild at 80 degrees. And then that system move as way saturday, sun giving way to clouds in the afternoon of 76 and then a raw and rainy sunday a high of of just 53 degrees. Could see anywhere from a half inch to inch of rain for the second half of the weekend. Thank you. Septa just held the first of several public hearings on proposed fare increases to give their input on possible changes at the courthouse in media. They want to raise the price to ride the regional rail. Septa is hosting another hearing on the issue tonight at the same place. Work has begun on the second phase of a project. John carnie was there to kick off the second phase of the flap community and existing buildings will be redeveloped over the next ten years, designers and architects are working to maintain the neighborhood. Drexel students celebrated the earth all she has to offer. A recycled material sculpture contest and a green roof display and they hosted that event. There are now more than 40 affordable apartmented ready tore reads in mantua, they cut the ribbon on Mount Vernon Manor two. All of the apartments are Energy Star Certified to assure low operating costs for residents and each has their own washer and dryer and sentral air. And another taste of broadway is playing here in philadelphia. The local engagement of headwig and the angry inch. It follows him as a rock singer and the show features flash and rock music and comedy. It runs at the forest theater at 11th and walnut through this sunday. And more on action news at 4 00, including the latest food craze sweeping the northeast. Why people are shelling out 80 for a pizza topped with guacamole. Interesting concept. Plus should a dashcam be heading to a dash board near you. Something you should consider for your vehicle . How do you know when to trust your instincts . Will they lead you to this . This . Or this . If so, trust them. If not, you need better instincts. You cant fake steak. Longhorn steakhouse. Tonights special, bonein, bold flavors. Get our new pork porterhouse, our new grilled lamb chops, and our signature outlaw ribeye. And for lunch, try our steakhouse burger. Or any steakhouse lunch combo. Only at longhorn. It is 4 30 and action news continues with breaking news from Newcastle County, delaware. Where police shot and killed the suspect this afternoon and officers were t

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