Me to fail. Reporter there was an administration sanctioned rally in the football stadium from 8 00 to 10 00 this morning to allow students to speak about overt problems like students displaying pumpkins carved with ku klux chain. In recent days a dark skinned doll was hung by the neck in a locker room. Leaders of the boy cat say this was a necessary act of defines. We felt like were being manipulated not just as a student body but as a community because they tried to put out an email saying this was going to be a unity rally. They treat it as a pep rally and thats not what we agreed to. We agreed to a protest. Reporter half the student body is black. A lot of parents do not like the vibes coming from those in charge. I think that the parents of the students who are responsible for the doll and to the parents who are responsible for the pumpkins they ought to be ashamed of themselves. Top School Officials say theyre still investigating. They have not found the race baiting culprits yet. Weve involved the district attorney, local police, School District police so that is an Ongoing Investigation and certainly it is very troubling for all of us because we dont want to accept any intolerance or any hate. Reporter monica, theres a big Football Game tonight. Coatesville playing one of its arch rivals out on the road maybe it will boost some morale here by monday morning. Live in coatesville, im vernon odom, channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you vernon. Pennsylvania state Police Investigating this crash in bristol bucks county. Chopper6 overhead at the ramp from 439 to 95. It happened about 3 00 p. M. Two vehicles were involved. You see one flipped on its roof there. Officials say several people were injured. Were working to find out how badly theyre hurt. In atlantic city, a gas leak sparked a scare at a nearby school. The new york avenue school. And several homes were evacuated after a gas line was hit by a construction crew at 11 00 a. M. South jersey gas had it under control an hour later. No injuries were reported. Officials have busted a major Illegal Gambling Ring in philadelphia. They say the operation helped fund one familys lavish lifestyle. Action News Reporter gray hall has details from center city. Reporter the Philadelphia DistrictAttorney Says these nine people are behind one of the largest illegal street lottery organizations in the city. She says the ringleader is gary creagh. Authorities say he employed dozens of people including his son daughter and nephew. Police say the family operated the illegal lottery for at least 20 years and raked in millions of dollars. Over a 30 month period between 2011 and 2014, creagh deposited over 3 million into his personal account. Reporter the d. A. Says with all that cash he lived a high life buying Million Dollar homes in several states and pricey cars. She says that illegal money making scheme operated out of about 40 locations throughout the city, many of them in low income neighborhoods. Police say the operations were highly organized and located in unmarked buildings. Players could cast bets between 10 cents and 20 depending on the game and creagh paid winners a greater value for the winning number, 700 to one compared to the commonwealths legal lottery that pays 500 to one. Reporter investigators say players betted on the numbers from pennsylvanias daily lottery drawing, the pick four lottery drawings and horse races. Detectives conducted undercover and surveillance operations at numerous betting locations and say they all led back to creagh. His lifestyle was significantly different than the people who both worked for him and the people who placed bets and received payouts. During the last several years, creagh spent almost 500,000 on luxury vehicles and millions of dollars to purchase numerous properties. Reporter we can tell you that we spoke to his attorney by phone. He tells us that his client is a nice guy with a nice family. He looks forward to facing these charges and coming up with a resolution, a Pretrial Hearing is scheduled for october 25th. Reporting in center city, gray hall, channel6 action news. Thank you, gray. Protesters gathered outside u. S. Congressman Ryan Costellos west Chester Office today accusing him of profiting from the opioid crisis. The group pointed to his role as cosponsor of a bill that critics say weakened law enforcements ability to fight it. Ryan costello was whipping the votes for a bill that devastated the deas ability to stem the flow of these prescription narcotics. And taking these big contributions from the pharmaceutical industry. Congressman costello responded saying the legislation was signed by the Obama Administration with no objections from the dea. He says he is currently reviewing the law to see if it needs to be amended. Costellos staff say these accusations are politically motivated by democrats. Basketball is back in philadelphia. Tonight the sixers host the celtics for their first home game of the regular season. Jeff skversky live in south philadelphia now for the exciting preview. Hi, jeff. Reporter hey, monica. You can feel the energy. You can feel the excitement building here at the Wells Fargo Center. We are just an hour away from tipoff in the home opener for the sixers against the celtics. Theyre coming off that loss wednesday of course against the washington wizards. Theyre looking for that first home opener win tonight in four years. And guess what . Its going to be rocking tonight and joel embiid says first of all, philly fans are passionate and i love that about them. Just me going out there playing hard and like making plays, just to get them off their feet to yell and like just go crazy. I just love that. And it gets me going, too. Reporter embiid coming off that doubledouble in the opener. What will he do tonight in only his 23rd home game of his young and hopefully brilliant career. Sixers head coach brett brown says this place will be loud and proud and with that that comes the expectation to win. Sixers trying to win their first game before the month of november in four years tonight here at the Wells Fargo Center against the boston celtics. More coming up in sports. For now were live in south philadelphia, Jeff Skversky channel6 action news. Thank you, jeff. Halloween of course just around the corner and one house at the shore is getting plenty of compliments and some complaints for its holiday flare. The front yard in ocean county depicts a bloody scene some say is too realistic but others say its in the spirit of halloween. New jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic with that story. Halloween is a big part of my life. Reporter kristen has decorated her front yard in waretown with a bloody scene inspired by the idea that zombies were taking over the community. One of the zombies is pinned by a car against the tree. Another is on the ground. Its realistic enough or maybe too graphic that its prompted police to come to her phone. The police did show up. They did come knocking at 10 00 a. M. At first i was like oh my god something happened the my husband and then they were like laughing. They were like nope we got a call about your zombies. How could anybody call the cops on a halloween site. It clearly is fake. Reporter kristen stuffed the zombies with pillows and made legs out of car parts. The blood she says came in a bottle. Shes hearing compliments and complaints about it. I dont like the graphicness but people do so, you know, to each his own. The first time i seen it i said, oh, man, you know, that was pretty good i think. Reporter its all in fun. Yeah. Halloweens fun. Reporter kristen who used to work in a halloween store says all the ghosts and goblins in her yard and that gruesome zombie scene bring her back to another time. Its like halloween has died down and become nothing like what it used to be. And thats what we want to bring back. Thats what we want to remind people of. Reporter kristen says lots of people have been driving by to get a look at the display and she says even if everyone doesnt like what they see shes pretty happy with what shes put together here. In waretown, im Nora Muchanic channel6 action news. Coming up on action news tonight one of philadelphias biggest Tourist Attractions about to celebrate a big birthday. The plans unveiled today for a celebration 125 years in the making. New at 6 00 the new place for some West Philadelphia students to learn thanks to a generous local business owner. Cecily. Hope the warmth continues. Todays temperatures in the low 70s. Today made it up to 74. It gets even warmer tomorrow. Well have all the details in the accuweather 7day forecast. Also jaime apody with more on the sixers home opener when action news continues in a moment. Delaware Army National guards first africanamerican general is making history again. He was promoted to big dear general. Hes spent nearly three decades in military service and law enforcement. In 125 days the Reading Terminal market will celebrate its 125th birthday. Today to mark its management merchants unveiled the Anniversary Logo and this painting created in honor of the milestone. The markets birthday is not until february. For those involved it is a very big deal. It is a testament to the buildings rich history, to the efforts that were involved in saving this place from the wrecking ball. Reading Terminal Market is planning a year long celebration. It is one of the most popular sites in the city and one of the most delicious. One of philadelphias Affordable Housing communities got makeover today. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society teamed up with volunteers from td bank to plant trees in kensington. The old factory site has been transformed into a neighborhood for low income families. New at 6 00 West Philadelphia students have a new place to learn thanks to a very generous local business owner. John rawlins with that story. It really is going to make a major impact. Reporter the where, longstreth, the when, the what the state of the art classroom where none existed new smart Board Computers desks and tables. How . By private donation. Who from mr. Sang na. Hes not comfortable with english so his daughter explained why he did this. My father immigrated to this country about 30 years ago so he grew up knowing what its like to be lacking resources and not having everything he needs to flourish. Reporter he worked hard and came to own Penn Center Beauty supply in s years ago he approached councilman david oh with an offer to help school kids. Especially school kids. Because his business includes selling africanamerican Beauty Products he says i want to focus on africanamerican kids in some of the poorest neighborhoods in philadelphia. Reporter this is not the first time mr. Na has reached out to help philadelphia school. Hes given gifts of computers and Sports Equipment to three other philadelphia schools. Oh says na is reluctant to take credit. Hes very humble. I think the kids need to see that someone who doesnt look like them who doesnt speak english cares enough about them to do this. Its what life is about and creating community and creating the kind of relationship we need between businesses and community members. Reporter in West Philadelphia, john rawlins channel6 action news. Very many stories that make us at action news proud like that one and more stories about our community can be found easesly. Head to 6abc. Com proud. Jamie a here for ducis. Sixersceltics were excited. Its a moment years in the making, the long suffering hometown sixers crowd will finally get to see the fruits of all that losing right in front of their eyes tonight is the night our Jeff Skversky court side at the Wells Fargo Center where the sixers and their big three are getting set to face the celtics in the home opener. Hey, jeff. Reporter hey, jamie, this place will be rocking tonight. A soldout crowd will be on hand for the sixers home opener against the celtics and every fan is going to get one of these shirts. It says welcome to the moment. It will be a whiteout here want a moment it will be. If the sixers can get their first home open erwin in four opener win in four years. Joel embiid warming up. Hell be in the starting lineup against the celtics. Brett brown is going with his same five starters as he did in the opener on wednesday down in d. C. And embiid is looking to build off those 27 minutes when he scored 18 points. Look, this entire sixers team, they havent seen anything like this. A place this loud, this buzzing, this excited for an opener and a long time. Listen. This crowd that we will go play in front of in here is loud and its proud. And good for them. Good for them. And we want to give them something to cheer for. Man, the atmosphere and they been waiting all year to really see what we have been doing tonight they get a chance to see what everything has been about. Its going to be huge especially since its our second game. We want to get our first win under our belts. Having home support is always great. Reporter sixers fans will get their first look at ben simmons as we get a look at Robert Covington who scored a game high 29 points in the opener. Sixersceltics less than an hour away. Jeff skversky channel6 action news. Thanks jeff. The magnitude of monday nights game cannot be under stated. Eagles with a chance to sweep the series from the redskins who sit in second place behind them in the nfc east standings. Eagles want to see if they can move their record to six and one. If you look at the prominent las vegas odds theyve got the birds as the favorite to come out of the nfc and get to the super bowl. Chris long won a super bowl with new england. Everything is possible for every team in the nfl and certainly we put the work in to this point. We have a long way to go i mean at some point months from now well look back and, you know, october will seem like light years back and it will seem like it was years ago, so we have a lot of building to do. We are teaming up with pl17 to bring you a full night of football monday night. Its our special count down to kickoff at 8 00 p. M. And then the game at 8 30. Eaglesredskins monday night on phl17. Revenge sure is sweet. Unlike last year when they lost to michigan 49 to 10 penn state is now undefeated ranked second in the nation plus the game is at their house. They havent lost at Beaver Stadium since 2015 when they were beaten by michigan. Really theres no overselling just how big this game is not to mention the wolverines are ranked 19th. Wow. At the end of the day none of those things matter. Its about our preparation and, you know, a lot of times i think probably the most important job of a head coach in my opinion is to eliminate distractions and if not handled right thats what these can be. 6abc is the place to be for penn state and michigan. The whiteout game. If you cant get to happy valley do your part, wear white, watch it on your couch tomorrow at 7 30 right here on channel6. Exciting weekend and monday night for sure. Thanks jamie. Much more action news when we come right back. Stick around. 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Yes, unseasonably warm not feeling like october at all. Even tonight. Sky6 taking a look at the center city skyline. The sun has now set. It set at six 13 and you can see not a cloud in the sky coming off another bright and sunny day. Lisa posted this on my Facebook Page from east windsor new jersey. A little bit of reminder that it is fall. Leaves are beginning to change. It certainly doesnt feel like fall and that will continue right through the weekend. The accuweather highlights show you another very mild weekend but i am tracking a soaking rain ahead of a cold front on tuesday and behind that we do have a brief cool shot for the second half of next week but tonight its very mild. 72 degrees down from a high of 74 which is 9 degrees above normal. Allentown right now is 68. Trenton 71. And cape may currently 67 degrees. So, satellite6 and action radar showing that High Pressure still in control of our weather and you can see its really carving out this clear skies really from the ohio valley through the midatlantic but the system is beginning to get its act together across the plains. That is what will bring us the change early next week but tonight clear skies now that the sun has set. The winds are diminishing and really not that chilly for this time of year. 52 in phil