Anything and tonight as the Camden County man is sentenced his family is still maintaining hes innocent. Sporting a new short haircut instead of his long ponytail david d. J. Creato entered a Camden County courtroom for sentencing in the 2015 death of his son threeyearold Brendan Creato of haddon township. Creato made a plea deal with prosecutors weeks before his second trial where was to start in december admitting to aggravated manslaughter. He said he deprived brendan of oxygen but didnt say how. He lied to the police. He lied to his parents. Worst of all he he lied to brendans mother who certainly had a right to know exactly what had happened to her son. Reporter a 14 minute video was played showing dozens of photos from brendans short life. It was silent. Court rules dont permit music. Creato declined to say anything before the judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison. After the sentencing his family maintains hes innocent. He took the plea bargain and my life and i and a lot of family and friends still believe in his innocence. He agrees that its his recklessness that led to this. Hes accepting responsibility for that end of what occurred here but that is a very different situation from saying i know what happened and im responsible for everything that happened. Reporter Samantha Denoto and christine she was had no comment as they left the courtroom. Prosecutors read a statement from djs maternal grandmother saying that she thinks the little boy was a angel and they hopes one day creato will say exactly what happened to the toddler and why. Meantime given the time hes already served creato could be out of jail in six and a half years. Live in camden, im nora muchanic, channel6 action news. Nora, thank you. We have breaking sports news this afternoon. The phillies are replacing manager Pete Mackanin. He will finish out the last few games of the season and take on a new role come 2018. Sports director Ducis Rodgers joining us with the details. Of course this has people talking. Some saw it coming, maybe some didnt. I didnt see it coming. Pete mackanin was named manager of the police phillies in 2015. Mccann nick owns a 172 and 237 record during his time with the phillies. This season the team showed some improvement since the allstar break this year the phillies have gone 35 and 37. Thats not great but its not terrible. Mackanin got the phillies from point a to point b in this rebuilding process. Management is looking for someone to take them to the next step. Our goal for the search will be to identify a leader that can help lead us into the future and take us where we want to go. But i still trust pete. I still want his opinion. I still want to be able to call him and run thoughts by him. Im good with it. Lets put it that way. Im not im disappointed surely and im not going to sit here and say im tickled pink about it but i understand it and im happy to be a part of it down the road. The general manager says the organization will interview both internal and external candidates. Once again, Pete Mackanin will finish off the year beginning tonight against the new york mets at home. Thanks ducis. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast. All right. Friday afternoon, lets head outside to meteorologist adam joseph taking us into the weekend as we say so long to september, adam, hm. Yes, we begin the new month on sunday here as were he he we go into that october. Take a look at the numbers on monday in philadelphia. We were at 91 degrees. Way above that normal of 73 degrees and weve been slipping ever since but that 89 on tuesday to 85 on wednesday. Even that 78 yesterday is above that normal and today were just 2 degrees shy of it despite that it does feel on the coolish side. Temperatures to our north in the 60s right now for burlington syracuse. That is it. Even pittsburgh right now settling in around 71 degrees. So, it is friday night. If youre heading out on the town here, bring a light jacket, 65 degrees at 9 oclock under a mainly clear sky. A few clouds bubbling up by 11 oclock at 62 degrees. The low overnight 56 degrees. But then more changes do come. You can see this spin strong low pressure and an associated cold front with some clouds and showers working its way from the northwest to the south and east. Ill let you know what this means as we head into the upcoming weekend in that full accuweather forecast. A big difference between saturday and sunday and well chat about that in just a little bit, sharrie. See you in a bit adam. Thank you. Well, President Trump today is defending his response to puerto ricos hurricane destruction and says Big Decisions are coming in regard to the cost of rebuilding the island. More help is on the way to puerto rico. Medical aid in the form of a ship is heading down right now. The u. S. Ms comfort left virginia today. The 894foot long navy ship is in essence a floating hospital. The president is expected to survey the damage on the island come tuesday. Action News Reporter dann cuellar is live in puerto rico which is a heavily damaged town where people are in dire need. Reporter thats right, sharrie the scene is indicative of what is going on in many other parts of puerto rico. Long lines of people trying to get necessities, basic necessities like ice, water and gas. And the backdrop for all of this are scenes like this, buildings left heavily damaged by Hurricane Maria. And then resourceful people using spaces that were damaged trying to run a business. A sign that Puerto Rico May be down but definitely not out for the count. Nine days after Hurricane Maria blew through here, the National Guard is now directly traffic in the absence of traffic signals. A sign that the government appears to be getting a plan in order to deal with the chaos. There is still no electricity and there may not be for some time. That means people need things like ice to keeper are you surables from spoiling but the lines have been long and the availability of ice sporadic. Many of these folks have been waiting for hours. One bag of ice per person. One bag per person in all this wait for just one bag. Yeah, right. Reporter hardly seems worth it. Well, you can say that again. Reporter but you need this ice. Yes, true. Reporter there are also long lines to get gas to run vehicles and power generators. Availability of gas has also been sporadic. The trick is trying to find out when the next tanker truck arrives. Sometimes people are told it will come soon. Sometimes theyre told it may be tomorrow. Frustration is growing here. Really frustrated with the government and the private agencies. They need to step up the plan here, yeah. Reporter the reality is a lot more coordination is needed between the local and federal governments in dealing with widespread issues. Until that happens, frustration and anger will only increase in the desperate effort here to survive. Live in puerto rico, im dann cuellar channel6 action news. Dann thank you. Theres more breaking news at this hour. Theres been an arrest for the deadly gunfire in the typically quiet town of phoenixville yesterday county. 21yearold keon carpenter was taken into custody moments ago. Action News Reporter vernon odom talked to carpenters family when he was still on the run. He joins us live from the Police Department with more. Reporter vernon. Reporter rick, the police here in phoenixville had been confident that the suspect had not fled the area that he was somewhere in the philadelphia region. I did talk with the suspects family earlier today and they expressed sympathy for the family of the victim as theyve lived out this nightmare. Tonight this man, 21yearold keon carpenter of phoenixville remains at lamp and wanted for the murder of this phoenixville resident 20yearold joshua mitchell. They knew each other. Police say it happened at 9 45 on bridge street. Witnesses saw the two men arguing then heard two gunshots. Later outside a nearby Church Police found what they believe is the handgun used in the murder. This Mitchell Family friend say this is the second tragedy to befall this family. This is the second shouldnt got killed. The first got killed in pottstown. Reporter police have not reached a motive on the killing but their theory includes drugs and guns. I spoke with carpenters aunt and mother who are devastated by this turn of events. You wont see their faces. First of all i know my son aint a bad boy. Second of all, all kids have their ways. My son out here like the average teenager. One thing i do know hes not going to jump off for nothing. My nephew is not a bad child. My nephew is a boy. He is not a bad child. He does not look for fights. I raised him. Reporter both ladies say they have not heard from keyon since last night. They extend their sympathies to josh mitchells family. Im vernon odom channel6 action news at Police Headquarters in phoenixville. Vern thank you for the breaking details there. Time for the action news traffic report. All right, lets go live to matt pelman in the action news traffic center. Matt, t. G. I. F. , hm. Yeah, we made it. Happy about that but ill tell you rick and sharrie, i walked in this afternoon i said oh, boy, its going to be one of these afternoons. We have a vehicle that flipped over 10 minutes ago along the blue route 476 northbound in delaware county. This is approaching the media swarthmore interchange baltimore pike. As you can see a lot of emergency crews have arrived on the scene in the last 10 minutes and traffic is only squeezing by on the right shoulder coming northbound on the blue route off of 95. So, quickly, were stacking up with speeds like 3 Miles Per Hour. You want to think alternates like 320 or 252. We had an earlier crash on 95 southbound by the barry bridge. That was already backed up there. That crash has cleared but the delays now from the blue route accident are spilling back towards Philadelphia International airport. As youre detouring through delco watch out, there is a crash along 452, pennell road at marionville road. Police activity in bucks county along route one, the super highway at oxford valley. Luckily that has cleared out so were getting back up to pace there. If youre lucky enough to be down the shore theres a crash here this afternoon, garden state parkway northbound side by the new great egg harbor bore bridge just 10 miles an hour. New castle county a crash blocking the northbound side of 13 at Black Diamond road. Highway one can get you around that. Well check it again sharrie and rick in the next half hour. See you then. Thanks matt. 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This all comes in the wake of Unexplained Health problems which have left more than 20 diplomats in cuba with hearing loss and traumatic brain injury. Cubas government firmly denies any involvement in this and says that reducing staffing at its Havana Embassy is precipitous and will damage relations. But travel providers this afternoon say there have been no reports of american travelers being harmed. And also say travel to cuba by americans does remain legal so travel at your own risk despite these warnings, rick. All right, alicia, thank you very much. Well a 12th patient has died after being rescued from an overheated nursing home in florida. The facility lost air conditioning during hurricane irma. Police in hollywood are treating all 12 of the deaths as part of a criminal investigation. Some of the victims had body temperatures near 110 degrees. The nursing home has since been shut down. Investigators want to know why the patients were left in such conditions when there was a hospital that had power and was fully functioning right across the street. Climbers in Californias Yosemite National Park on alert after two rock falls over the past two days. Yesterday a hunk of granite broke off in the parks popular el capitan rock formation leaving one man injured and filling a nearby valley with dust. The slide came one day after another slab of granite broke off the same formation killing a british tourist and injuring his wife. Park Officials Say rock falls happen about 80 times a year but deaths are rare. The last time a rock fall killed climber at yosemite was in 2013. There is a renewed push to rename 30th street station in honor of a long time philadelphia congressman. Senator bob casey along with a host of elected officials held a News Conference there today. Well, they are urging amtrak to rename the station for william h. Gray, iii 30th street station. Congress approved the renaming back in 2014 but it still has not been done. Former mayor wilson goode is among those calling for the change. If theres anyone in this city, in this state, in this country that this station deserves to be named after, it is William Herbert gray, iii. Gray who was the former pastor at Bright Hope Baptist Church served in congress from 1979 to 1991. Amtrak says it has proposed ways to honor gray and looks forward to working with the family to recognize the former congressman. All right. Time now to check the numbers on wall street and it was all the numbers on indices were up on this end of the work week. As you can see the dow is up 23 and change nasdaq up 42. 5, s p 500 up almost 10. Ikea furniture is notoriously difficult to assemble and now the company is getting smart by buying a startup that can help out. The Furniture Company just acquired task rabbit which lets users hire people to help do various tasks. One the deal goes through there will be task rabbit kiosks in ikea stores. It will still operate in its current online platform. No word as to how much ikea paid. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast. Adam is back and what a cool night. You said crisp and you were right about that. Yes, kind of like that lightness to the air today. Chilly actually this morning, though. And thats seasonable, normal but weve been so far above normal that you for got. It felt really cool. Outside our window there in the Weather Center on sky6 live over the ben franklin bridge, a lot of blue today upstairs just a few high clouds at times but, yes, another dry day on tap and as we head into the weekend there are some changes to begin the weekend on your saturday. Well have some sun in the morning and then as we go through the morning into the afternoon youre going to notice a lot of clouds erupting in the sky because of a weak front that passes through. It could spark an isolated shower but most of us dry tomorrow and a cool breeze, a high of just 67 degrees but we gain all that sun back on sunday. That is the pick of the weekend. Wall to wall sunshine, still comfy temperatures of around 71 degrees. Look at the numbers right now. Basically 71 is a pretty popular number for wilmington philadelphia dover. Sunday will be much like today. 70 in allentown, 73 in millville and along the shore a bit cooler in the 60s. Now, when we look at the month of september we have one more day to go, tomorrow, but we started the month at least the first half of the month well below average. It was really cool for the first half of september. Then once the 14th hit, all bets were off. That cool month flipped right around and weve had 15 Straight Days in a row with temperatures above normal, closing out the month close to two and a half degrees above normal. Today goes down as a cooler than average day and so will tomorrow. As we look at satellite and radar, there you can see low pressure near toronto. That low and associated front is going to sync to the south and east and bring some clouds our way but again, keep most of us dry here during the day tomorrow despite it looks ominous at times. Friday night lights weve got High School Football and High School Huddle tonight partly cloudy light winds kickoff 654th quarter at 60 degrees. Reminder you can see the highlights tonight at 11 00 p. M. For your favorite team. Future tracker at 9 oclock tomorrow morning, there you can see the clouds coming from the north and then they kind of take over at times during the afternoon and again there could be a stray shower around and also in addition