Action news, delaware valleys leading news program, with gray hall, nydia han and meteorologist chris sowers. Its sunday, october 15th im nydia han along with gray hall heres a look at stories a 14yearold run away is safe and a man under arrest after a sheriffs deputy was almost hit by car in south philadelphia. The number of dead continues to rise in california. Where historic wildfires damaged hundreds of structures. A travel headache for drivers on the pennsylvania turnpike. Well tell when you a stretch of northeast extension expected to reopen more in a moment but first outside we go to chris sowers, youre smiling, is the sun out there somewhere . It is just not on city avenue just yet. Mostly cloudy condition, peaks of sun south and east but for the most part cloudy here on city avenue. Temperatures mild sitting at 70 now in philadelphia, 71 in millville, cape may 72, Atlantic City 71, beach haven end reporting 71 at this midday hour, within speeds generally between ten and 15 Miles Per Hour out of the southwest every now and then were seeing gusts went to to 25. You can see over last few frames, couple of polls to the southwest and the east. But mainly cloudy conditions, accu weather said we will see gradual clearing and it will turn breezy, this is almost like a Pressure Cooker as soon as the clouds break the temperaturesw will soar and were up to y as we take a look ahead, were getting ready to in view of the fact a gorgeous weather pattern across the delaware and Lehigh Valley, High Pressure will set up shop across the eastern seaboard and theres basically no chance of cloud cover, yet little rain from monday on, mostly sunny and very, very comfortable. Ill be back along in just a few minutes and have the details in the accu weather sevenday forecast. Guys . A man is in custody after police say he tried to run down a sheriffs deputy in south philadelphia overnight. Investigators discover add 14yearold run away girl was inside the suspects vehicle at the time. Bob brooks live with latest on this investigation. Bob, what are you hearing about this . Reporter s the good the deputy and sheriff are ok. Police say it was around 11 30 last night. A philadelphia sheriffs deputy was attacked by man. The weapon of choice, a car. Police say the suspect tried to run them over near the intersection of bigler and 7th in south philadelphia. At this point, police havent seen a motive for why this happened or many details we do know the suspect had a young lady in the car, a teenager just 14 years old. Police say after the suspect tried to run over the sheriffs deputy they found his vehicle right here in the 900 block of johnson street. Youll see in the video, its a white pontiac grant preand the side view mirror was knocked off. The suspect was caught, no word on who he is but hes facing aggravated assault charges. The good news is the deputy and sheriff were uninjured. Now, again, police tell us that teen a run away, again, just 14 years old, but the good news is shes expected to be ok. That deputy expected to be ok. Reporting live in south philadelphia bob brooks, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Police tell us that a 50yearold man was shot and killed while sitting on a porch in the citys fair hill section. That victim was shot just after 11 30 last night. On the 200 block of East Westmoreland street. Police say he was shot once in chest and once in the face. He was taken to Temple University hospital where he later died. Police were talking to witnesses to determine if the shooting was a result of an argument at a nearby bar so far no arrests have been made of a a man was shot twice in the back in germantown section. The victim was so the before 1 00 this morning. The victim was taken to einstein hospital where he is expected to be survive. So far, theres no information about a motive and no arrests have been made. Historic and Deadly Wildfires continue to rage in california. Dry conditions fueling the flame. While the number of dead continues to rise, many more families are being forced from their home abc llenas is on the ground. Reporter firefighters in an allout battle to save lives and homes. Let me get her feet. Driving fresh fire storms, burning more buildings in the santa rosy area and near sonoma city. As an army of aircraft waged war on the planes from above desperately trying to protect homes and wine engineer, on the ground, 10,000 firefighters tested by volatile conditions. Theyre take down trees the fire is forcing new emergency evacuations. Police waking up residents hours before dawn on saturday. Of evacuation order, leave your home. Chaos and panic. People running out of their houses knocking on the neighborss doors you have to leave. Reporter hundreds scrambled to get out only to find themselves in a traffic jam, 100,000 people now forced out of their homes since the disaster began a week ago. The i go to work every day and concerned but. Reporter this morning, the death toll climbing to at least 40 people. This is truly one of the greatest if not the greatest tragedy california ever faced. Reporter that was abcs lens janice with that report. To the ongoing crisis in puerto rico. Its been more than three weeks since Hurricane Maria hit and still only 15 of the island has power. The governor says power may not be fully restored until mid december. Authorities in the u. S. Territory have raised the death toll from Hurricane Maria marry by three, that means 48 people have now lost their lives. While the island continues to struggle, more help has arrived. The army just set up a hospital southeast of san juan with hospitals the capacity and staff stretched thin the 44 bed makeshift hospital is a critical life line. A lot of music skeletal bone join injuries, congressman the ranking democrat on the Homeland Security committee is asking for an investigation into the water situation on the island. Following the reports that people are Drinking Water from a Hazardous Waste site four philadelphia officers are on their way to help with the relief effort, inspector sergeant and two Deputy Sheriff officers were given an official escort to the Philadelphia International airport this morning. Theyre heading to rio in puerto rico to help get supplies to those in need. Following the devastation of Hurricane Maria. All four of the men also have family there in puerto rico. Some of our family members weve heard from. Others we havent heard from. Were hoping we can mac some contact while in the island. The group is expected to return to philadelphia on november 4. A long stretch of the northeast extension of the pennsylvania turnpike remains closed this afternoon, crews are replacing an old bridge. The speed limit is 70 but drivers are lucky if theyre able to go 20 while approaching the tourist. The map shows the closures in red and running from the mahoney evaluative exit 74 to the Lehigh Valleytive 56. The deviate in blue a takes drivers on route 2233 then interstate. He had a plan he hoped would keep his little boy from getting ansi give him the tablet and hope for the best this is video of a similar project being worked on in western pennsylvania. Officials are hoping to complete the work in our area by tomorrow morning at 4 00. Thankfully to relief on the way. So much more to come for the sunday afternoon, a homecoming celebration put on hold at a college in virginia after shots are fired. New Health Concerns about giving a certain medications to babies and meteorologist chris sowers will be back with the full accu Weather Forecast when action news continues. Australia australia. Welcome back, sun . Oh, sun, where are you . Meteorologist chris sowers tracking the forecast, a live look, sky 6. I dont see the sun, bunch of clouds but were told the sun will eventually come out. I thought you were a man your word, chris. Whats going on what happened. Did we say 12 01 or 1 01. Ok, well give you an hour clouds are hanging tough, were seeing a few peaks out here in philadelphia just, theres the live shot in cape may. And still dealing with lots of clouds, the humidity has increased a little bit. Temperatures are kind of holding steady. Right now the numbers for the most part are right around 70, but as soon as this cloud cover begins to erode and pull away, the numbers probably will shoot up five, at the point degrees within like an hour or two. The 50s are temperatures at 5,000 feet are is extremely mild. As soon as we get rid of the clouds it will be very warm. Decreasing clouds will be the call from accu weather for the remainder of the afternoon, showers possible as a cold front approaches. Then chilly monday and tuesday, as a matter of fact, Tuesday Morning could be some of the coldest air weve seen so far this season, with overnight lows into the mid 30s. North and west and sunny skies through friday afternoon, we get into this really nice weather pattern overall where High Pressure sets up shop kind of the of the carolinas and when you get underneath those highs, again, the air sinks cant get any clouds, thats pretty much what well be dealing with, nice stuff is on the way, you just saw Storm Tracker 6 clear, temperatures mild, 70 right now in philadelphia with a due point of 64. Wind are out of the South Southwest at 15 Miles Per Hour, wind speeds are actually increasing and visibility up to ten miles. Lets go around the region, 59 in the poconos, allentown 68, keep in mind, numbers are kind of holding steady, all of these numbers anywhere above the normal high for this time year, which usually kers around 4 00, 71 in millville, dover, 70, cape may 72 Atlantic City 71, its still a nice day temperature wise heres satellite 6, low level clouds, maybe if you look close enough you can see the breaks here there and especially south and east of philadelphia, that will be the trend over the next few hours or so. Winds again shifting out of the south, clouds beginning to erode and lift to the north and pull away as we get to Late Afternoon and early evening hour, lets say combination of sun and clouds only to see those counselors lower and thicken overnight right around midnight, thats front right there pushing through reading and allentown, couple of showers possible as front pass, we get into tomorrow morning, starting out with a little bit of cloud cover through 6 00 or 7 00 a. M. Then we get into the sunshine, 9 00 a. M. Sunny, i was, by afternoon its full sun, thats the setup for tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday and saturday. Future tracker with the temperatures, now, this 76 is assuming the models assuming we dont see that sun later this afternoon, accu weather says well get into a little bit of sunshine, were still going 80. Overnight, temperatures will cool down but still fairly mild, 59 in philadelphia for the middle of october. Really not all that bad. Low 50s north and west, poconos 43. Tomorrow afternoon, temperatures holding steady, right around 60 to 62 as we see that northwestly breeze dry that colder air in from canada, tomorrow start to see at the chill, mid 30s and 40s in philadelphia, allentown 34, two degrees above freezing mark, well 38ing reading 35, millville 39 be then wednesday and fairly chilly, high temperatures just above 60, so for today, decreasing clouds, 77 in reading, 80 in in philadelphia, 81 in millville, allentown 76, dover 81 and cape may 78 becoming breezy overnight maybe a couple of showers right around midnight, 52 degrees in allentown, 58 in philadelphia. The exclusive accu weather sevenday forecast, no changes from what we had this morning, most of the week looks absolutely stunning becoming sunny for tomorrow breezy 64. Tuesday, sunny and cool 63 and then wednesday right through saturday, temperatures are going to warm a little bit through the mid 70s and a ton of sunshine. Thank you so much for the update. Police lifted a lockdown on Virginia StateUniversity Campus after a shooting injured one person. Police found man with gunshots injuries that victim was taken to the hospital, but he is expected to survive. The campus is put on lockdown for about four hours. Officers believed the shooting was an isolated incident and theres no further threat to that campus. The shooting happened during home coming weekend for the university. This time, not clear if that victim is a student. 6yearold girl is ok after getting stuck between two walls in china. The girl was playing with friends at school when she managed to get her upper body stuck between the walls, firefighters responded and at first tried to free the girl but it turned out to be load bear so they a instead used sand paper to create an opening. With the help of lubricating oils crews were able to free the girl unharm. Glad. Pope francis added 35 new thanks to the Catholic Church nearly all of them mar teres from past send release, the latest were preclaimed today during a mass celebrated in st. Peters square. Several suffered anticatholic persecution in 1625. Since becoming pontiff, pope francis repeatedly paid tribute to christians hormone levels could be misleading women about infer till tea, brand new research. Women having trouble getting pregnant pay collusion to the results of fertile tea tests. The Research Suggests those numbers may be misleading and cause women to lose hope unnecessarily. The study finds that high fhs and low ams levels were typically thought to be of concern may not be significantly tied to reduced fertile tea at all. The study involves 750 women between 30 and 44. Contrary to popular belief, researchers found having an epidural does not slow down labor. Researchers in boston examined more than 400 first time mothers. Found that epidural medication had no effect on the time it took for the women to deliver their child. During the study, women were either given an epidural or placebo, durations and outcomes of labor were similar for both groups a Study Questions the use of those is up pursuing drug that is keep infants from spitting up. Recent years doctors prescribed power Proton Pump Inhibitors but the journal of the American Medical Association said the drug dont really control and there are concerns that giving these drugs to babies under the age of six months can raise the risk of bone fractures in adulthood. You may want to add banana or of a ka do. Foods that have hypo it has young man can lower the risk of hard disease, the morepotassic, the less likely they were to have built up in arteries. Theres so much more on action news, the flyers gave their fan as lot to cheer about during the first home game of the season. Thats next in sports. Off of a the flyers thrilled fans and their home opener it was an exciting opener for the National League championship series, chicago cubs in los angeles and dodgers had home feel advantage and showed when they made a startling come back in the sixth, the dodger rallied to a five two win over the champs in the al, astro to a twonothing series lead. Heres skref skversky with the rest of the sunday sports. Is that worth the way the . Flyers Home Sweet Home the last team in the entire conference to display at home. Its worth the way the. Flyers beat up on the washington capitols last night, Claude Giroux and the flyers lighting it up. Put on a show on their own ice, kicking up final minute on the first, Scott Laughton comes up with two steals and to scores. Two one flyers, and vorachek, what move. Ridiculous. Passes it to wayne simmonds, three one flyers, seven minutes later, Claude Giroux, the captain, redirects and kicks it in. Scores twice three goals in the second. Three more in the in this regard, laughton, the laser, the former first rounder gets his second goal flyers win eight to two. Most scored in a home opener in 35 years its really big for our group playing a good game. I dont remember last time we won. 82 oh or Something Like that we were a they were a little bit tired and it was important for us first win at home top line putting up ten points. With the much anticipated sixers Season Opener days away in washington on wednesday, the sixers trimming down the roster, among athlete guys cut, chris him frees and oakford. Football eagles with the weekend back at it on monday night football against the washington redskins. Tight end zach ertz said hes among those who could use the rest. He feels banged up, who would know . Hes having a career year, ertz was all nfl tight end touchdowns in yards and catches, whats the difference ertz said hes way less stressed out this year. My mindset right now is so different before im not pressing im just letting the game come to me. I think thats basically the guys ive had around me kind of changed my mindset on life. Carson, trey, Jordan Matthews and hicks. Penn state fans will be happy about this, its Espn College Game Day is coming to happy valley next saturday. The future the penn state michigan game will air on 6 abc saturday and by the way the lions could move up to second in the poles as well. Temple fans putting their money yesterday. Up 70 points last week third quarter. Logan picks off. 34yard pitch to temple runs out of time. Owls lose 2824 villanova and penn losses as well. That is sports. Im jeff skversky. Have a good day. A she would dog in nebraska got to spend the day as an honorary member of a police department, he was to be part of the Police Departments k9 cop for day program. The goal to get older less popular dogs out into the community and hopes of finding them a f