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WPVI Action News At 4PM October 11, 2017

Commissioners. He was convicted of indecent assault for groping his morn who had dementia. Are you worry about the reputation of your board . Absolutely and monday night we tried to at least remove him as president. We cant take him off the board he has to resign at this point. We tried to remove him as president and along the Party Line Vote the vote was no not remove him. And the da says that the investigation is still very much on going and a little over an hour the radnor township manager will hold a press conference and speak on behalf of radnor and discuss this investigation. Chad pradelli channel 6 action news. A Party Line Vote. Pretty astounding chad, thank you. Police have found Surveillance Video of men fleeing a triple shooting in point breeze but withholding the footage as they continue to investigate the bloodshed. Two victims are still hospitalized and Police Believe they may have been among the intended targets. Miguel soto says he was an innocent bystander well hear about his close call at 5 30. And hours after a fuel tanker crash an 11 mile stretch of route 1 through townsend is still closed. Sara bloomquist covering the story for us, live in the Satellite Center with new details about the accident and the massive cleanup effort. Reporter that is right i have just been handed an update from del dot. The tow company is if the process of removing the tanker, its estimated that the northbound side of route 1 will reopen again at 4 30 barring any inforeseen circumstances and southbound will reopen at 6 30 this evening. After all the debris is cleared. This appears to be ahead of schedule. They predicted a difficult cleanup considering that the fuel out there on the roadway is highly flammable. This was the scene from chopper 6 hd after the tractor trailer carrying hundreds of gallons of gasoline overturned and rolled down an embankment down the side of route 1 townsend delaware. The driver of the tractor trailer a 56yearold vineland man suffered serious injuries. The driver was out of the vehicle when the Townsend Fire Company arrived and they had them get them out. The chevy van with a 55yearold dover man at the wheel was pulling a car trailer traveling on the northbound side of the highway. At some point the right side of the tire blew out causing the operator to lose control and the vehicle crossed the Center Median at route 1 and travels into the southbound lanes of route 1 and into the path of the tractor trailer hauling 8900 gallons of fuel. The highly flammable gasoline started to leak out and both sides were shut down between route 299 and the norm smyrna exit. This is more of a hazmat situation with the tanker truck spilling the fuel on the highway and into the ditch on both sides and we need to remediate that before we can safely reopen to traffic. Environmental experts are on the scene overseeing the cleanup today a person on their team had to be transported to the hospital. When he or she became overcome. And traffic is diverted on to u. S. 13 and other alternate routes, the update minutes ago the northbound side of the highway expected to reopen to traffic at 4 30 southbound on a limited basis northbound at 6 30. Sara bloomquist, channel 6 action news. Thank you. We have some more grim news out of northern california. Officials say that the wild fires have killed 21 people and nearly 700 are listed as missing. Firefighters are focusing on protecting lives and property as they try to battle the fast spreading flames and the fire chief is calling it as serious and critical and catastrophe vent and so far 3500 homes and businesses have been destroyed. Firefighters from all over are billion called in to help with thattest. A cloudy gray day as we get a check of of the accuweather forecast. Rain falling here and there. Adam joseph checking in with a first look at the accuweather forecast. Despite the clouds and on and off showers, temperatures stay on the warmer than average side. Stormtracker 6 live double scan, the most concentrated showers are way to the north. We have low pressure near cleveland and detroit right now. That drops through virginia overnight tonight. And you can see scattered even downpours near pittsburgh than will rotate through here tonight. And we are not done with the scattered showers and as we look to the north and west this is the best concentration with wet roadways for the evening rush hour. Along 78 it is a wet drive early this evening here and as we go through the overnight hours, into the day tomorrow, they are going to remain showers, the showers that is. It continues with the easterly wind and that locks in the clouds for the majority of the next two days with even some patchy drizzle early tomorrow morning. Well talk about the sun returning as we go into the upcoming weekend and also well talk about the 80s coming back alicia in the full accuweather forecast. All right adam thank you. Meanwhile at this hour President Trump is about to touch down in pennsylvania as he continues his Cross Country tour to sell his tax restorm plan. The white house says that the tax proposal will benefit Truck Drivers by lowering their tax rates and boosting manufacturing and many are in the crowd tonight. Action news reporter, john rawlins joins us at the Air National Guard base where the president is expected to arrive shortly. Reporter yes, we should explap where we are. We are at the base at the lobby of one of the billings that belongs to the 139 special Operations Wing and we cant get to the hangar that is where the president will speak because its in use for another matter. We believe that the president is suppose to speak at 4 45, the primary subject the tax reform plan he rolled out last month. Donald trump the deal maker flying into harrisburg to talk about his tax plan and how it will affect the trucking industry. Central pennsylvania is home to large warehouse operations at this nearby travel center they are happy the focusing on the companies that move tens of thousands of tons of freight a year. It makes it easier to progress through the world and have a better life. Cody says that he thinks the cuts will likely help big operators more than the little guy but thinks trump is on the right track. I think so. I hope that he stays on that track. Yes, im pulling for it. Trump is expected to talk about rolling back corporate or individual tax rates, a married couple making 50,000 a year. Would now owe no federal taxes under his plan and over 100,000 just 10 . And holland will re recognized by trump and he believes the current tax burden locks people into living paycheck to paycheck. I see democrats embrace them because they will get a lot of, you know support from constituents, they want the tax break. What is mr. Hollands take here. He is from northeast philadelphia and is a republican. But his take is that the tax reform package is so attractive the democrats and republicans will want it. We shall see. Back to you guys. John, thank you. Other news now, police are looking for a daring robber that targeted a West Philadelphia business. Newly released Surveillance Video shows the man with the hood of his sweatshirt pulled unand a mask covering his face. And he ran into the felton mini market yesterday pointing the gun at the clerk. The worker handed over 200 in cash. The masked man ran away. Sara shared with us there are ongoing situations on the roadways Second Quarter lets get a first check of the commute right now. Lets check in with matt pellman. That is our biggest deal. First first state we started to deal with this at 8 20 when is the fuel tanker rolled over highway 1 in townsends. And carrying 8900 tons of fuel and a lot of that spill out and its turned into a hazmat situation and both ways remain closed. This is the same graphic between north smyrna and odessa. Nothing changed yet but we are expecting to get the northbound lanes open starting at 4 30, but the southbound side sounds to remain closed for remainder of the community. We are seeing delays on the southbound side approaching odessa speeds if the 20s and awful lot of detouring traffic is headed to 13. If you can stay farther away maybe up on route 9 or 301 into maryland. Elsewhere in delaware the construction zone, the new one that is giving us delay as long 95 northbound and speeds in the teens as you pass concord pike. And pennsylvania normal delays on 95 a crash in haverford at grays lane. And we are watching this accident in certain city. Its the vine street expressway eastbound side approaching broad street. Just pushed off to the side but extra heavy east of the schuylkill. Lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report on this hump day afternoon. Another issue in delaware. This is 202 the concord pike approaching murphy road an accident with just 7 Miles Per Hour. Well check it again in the next half hour. Thank you. Still ahead on action news at 4 00, an immigrant living in a Philadelphia Church for nearly a year gets to be among the public once again without fear of deportation. An update to his story coming up. Plus locks representing love and important life moments well take you to the new interactive exhibit modeled after the famous attraction in paris. Do your research. Nd. Find the best fit. Why not do the same for your Prescription Drug plan . At silverscript, were experts in Medicare Part d. And 5 million people, just like you, trust us every day. 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The Las Vegas Hotel from when a gunman killed 58 concert goers last week is questioning the most recent timeline from police, a spokesperson for mg mexico says they cannot be certain about the new details. Police said they believe that stephan paddock shot the hotel guard before it began. They are looking into the critical minutes between the first shot and the beginning of the massacre. An immigrant father is free to leave the Sanctuary Church he has been in for at least a year. Javier flores walked out and we were there for the emotional reunion with his family. After 11 months, garcia won his deportation case and has been in philadelphia since 1997. Crossed the mexico border on foot and met his wife and had his children that are all u. S. Citizens, all of them except him. Authorities deported him multiple times until last december he sought sanctuary in the church. Want to thank all the people that were there and it was hard. And im really excited that i get to have my dad at home. This is really a victory today that well savior and those victories are too far between. Garcia says he stayed in the church because he feared leaving and being arrested and deported again. The church became his sanctuary. And he will stay in philadelphia and look for ways to support his family but today lots of tears and hugs and an emotional reunion sharrie the victim of a terrible bullying incidents is trying to prevent it from happening to someone else. Mark smith is the mentally challenged man attacked at a philadelphia bus stop in june. You remember this video. The 40yearold is fighting for programs to stop that type of vicious behavior, he was on hand when officials introduced a resolution to recognize as october as bully prevention Awareness Month in pennsylvania. Grocery store chain, aldi is expanding their new jersey workforce today with the goal of making 250 job offers by the end of the day. They were at the locations at collingswood this morning as applicants filled out the paperwork with their fingers crossed and they have plans for Egg Harbor Township and ocean county. And a rare aircraft was on display in Newcastle County delaware today in honor of world war ii veteran, the wings of freedom tour brought the vintage b 17 flying fortress to the newcastle airport. Its one of only eight in flying condition in the united states. The b 17 and other flying aircrafts are on a 100 city tour. They can play for a once in an opportunity to fly this beautiful aircraft. Cool stuff. Adam joseph is joining us now with the accuweather forecast. Warm and humid and a few scattered showers out there and get used to the clouds they lock themselves in and they brighten up in time for the weekend. We take a look at clouds across the Delaware Valley including the Lehigh Valley and here specifically on sky 6 hd over the Commodore Barry bridge in chester, and again its a sea of gray upstairs and a couple of things going on. Our systems in the upper part of the atmosphere where the weather is made are steered by the westerly winds, 20,000 feet up here as you go into tonight and the next couple of days, the westerly wind and that will be screaming out of the west but below those winds closer to where we work and live and play and just above 4,000 feet as you see below there. We have the easterly winds off the ocean and the easterly winds that is going to lock in a lot of low lying cloud cover, so unfortunately it cant break up the clouds and at times drizzle especially tomorrow morning. For the next couple of days, that is why youll see the clouds be a little stubborn, and blame the wind off the atlantic, about 4,000 feet above our heads. As we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan a couple of light showers in salem county but the best concentration is north and west of lancaster and reading and into the Lehigh Valley and the poconos. You can see a pop of yellow at times at need wood 222 hamburg and 209 slatington and as you head toward thes lehigh tunnel a wet drive here this evening. Temperatures though despite the clouds and a little bit of rain they are above average, we hit 79 so far in philadelphia and normal is 69 degrees, right now 75 millville and 75 in allentown and 72 degrees coming in at beach haven. Low pressure is back towards pittsburgh and cleveland and that drops down to the south, also that is going to help bring that wind out of the east coast with the low to the south and winds are clockwise around that. 11 tonight a few scattered showers and steady rain in the wee hours of the morning and then the afternoon there could be a little bit of brightening if we are good enough here late in the day at 5 30, as we take a look at temperatures, mid60s tomorrow with the breezy northwest wind and there by 8 00 we see the clouds trying to fall apart just a tad. As we look at the four day at 4 00 forecast, the clouds the next two dales highs in the 60s and close toward average for this time of year. And saturday and sunday the sunshine comes back and the temperatures also go back up into the low to mid80s and also it turns humid once again. A summer like weekend on tap and let you know where temperatures go in the seven day in the next half hour. Adam thank you. 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