What and possibly who was inside that room at the time of his death. It is monday night. Jims off, im brian taff. The big story on action news tonight is new details in the suspicious death of a wellknown philadelphia doctor. It happened at the rodeway inn at 12th and walnut in center city, and thats where action News Reporter dann cuellar is live tonight. You are learning more about what could be some clues here. Yeah, we learned a lot tonight. Although we do know the doctors name, we are not releasing it until the police have been able to properly notify his relatives. Tonights mystery deepens. Police sources say the body of the prominent philadelphia psychiatrist discovered by a housekeeper on the floor of his Rodeway Inn Hotel room before noon. There were sex toys around the room and the 75yearold had a cloth wrapped tightly around his neck. The suspicious death and manor. They are looking at it and investigating it, and taking it stepbystep from there. Sources say no other visible trauma on the doctors body other than around his neck. No sign of forced entry and the place not ran sacked. They say the psychiatrist frequently used this hotel room as his apartment with his office a couple of blocks away. The activity on walnut raised concerns with others who work on the block. I immediately got a little worried because i know so many people around. But, you know, i tried to keep calm and told my manager and coworkers to stay calm. The police have Surveillance Footage and trying to identify people coming and going from his hotel room. And the bartender next door says it attracts a wide variety of people. A mixed cloud. A lot of transients, a lot of shady quote unquote and also a lot of business people. The police are waiting the results of a medical examiners report to learn the exact cause and manor of death. So far no arrests in connection with the case. Life in center city, dann cuellar channel 6 action news. Brian . Thank you. The philadelphia homicide detectives also working this case tonight. A man shot to death while out walking his dog. This is the 300 block of horton street in west philadelphia. Its not clear right now if the victim was targeted but investigators say he was shot once in the head. When the neighbors saw him laying on the sidewalk he still was holding the leech in his hand and the dog was attached. So although he was unconscious and lying on the sidewalk he was Still Holding on to his dog leash. The gunfire about 7 25 tonight. The police have not so far identified the suspect and the motive a mystery. Loved ones came out to mourn the three women whose lives were cut short in a fiery crash this weekend. And we are live at the scene which hosts tonights vigil. Amonie bartons family says she was the one driving when the car crashed and caught fire. Now a growing Memorial Steps from the intersection where the three women lost their lives. When my mom was alive i used to and at 7 jaden knows the pain of losing parent. His mother, Amonie Barton driving with two passengers when the car lost control and slammed into a tractortrailer with herbicide. And her car burst into flames. Now candles, flowers and stuffed animals are steps from where the police say barton, 22yearold Giavanna Scavo and an unidentified passenger perished in the inferno. I really wanted to thank the guy who tried to stave stave save [crying] tried to save them. And torresdale has a history of accidents. Despite neighbors claims the police say the tractortrailer was parked legally. Amonie is not the type of person who would speed because she has children. And her family believes on a higher power. We have faith in god. Its not our will, but its his will be done, so well get through it. We have learned the passenger Giavanna Scavo was the only survivor of a murdero ouous ram. When she was a toddler they are father killed family members and he later died in prison. All right thank you. We are learning more tonight about the woman who the police say drove her car into the people along the las vegas strip. Holloway was living in the vehicle with her child for days. And some injured were from the Delaware Valley university. And the team and coach were on the strip when it happened. The team was on their way to see star wars after working out before a tournament. Everyone is out of the hospital tonight recovering from mostly bumps and bruises. The coach believes they didnt need to focus on wrestling. He said they were looking to come out of this trip with four wins, and what they got was six victories. And the team and coach are expected to return to campus sometime tomorrow. Well, enjoy your last few minutes of autumn, winter is coming at 11 48 to be exact. And it doesnt necessarily mean it will feel like winter. And cecily tynan with the final fall forecast. And the forecast that will look and sound like spring. Plenty of moisture on the way, but this is all liquid. No snow at all. And you can see this conveyer belt of moisture headed our way with winds out of the southwest. That is also pulling up some very warm air. Temperatures in the 50s. And today we are holding at 56. And to the south the temperatures are actually in the 70s. We will be tapping into temperatures into the 70s, that type of warmth as we head towards Christmas Eve. Now it is going to come at a cost. I am not talking about sunny, warm weather. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s, historic warmth, Christmas Eve could be the warmest december day on record. However, its going to come with clouds and rain. And futuretracker showing the next three days we could get more than about an inch and a half of rain in some areas. Talking about the timing of the rain and when you need the umbrellas in the full accuweather forecast. See you shortly, thank you. As we head into winter keep 6abc. Com weather bookmarked as your favorite. There you can quickly access the live stormtracker 6 radar and get the full sevenday forecast. And a septa bus driver expended without pay after this video surfaced of him assaulting a rider. The video shows the driver pouring water onto a passenger, and it was posted on social media. The septa police tell action news it happened friday while the route 57 bus was stopped in the olney section. Officials think the incident stemmed over a fare dispute. The fire chief among three members charged, chief gary brice and others face con spir i didnt and theft charges. They say this trio stole more than 50,000 of department funds. He says they wrote themselves checks and made cash withdraws on several occasions. The wilmington shooting we told you about at 6 00 tonight has now become a homicide investigation. Police say the 36yearold victim passed away this evening. He was shot in the head. It happened on east 23rd street near market at 4 25 today. Investigators are asking anyone with information to please come forward. A 31yearold Burlington Township man facing murder charges in the shooting death of a Convenience Store clerk. It happened at the quick and go on mlk, jr. Boulevard. They allege the suspect seen on Surveillance Video demanding money from the clerk, and the two fought in the parking lot leading to the deadly shooting. Comedian bill cosby suing model Beverly Johnson saying he defamed him. And she claims he assaulted her in the 80s. And he says johnson is using it to rekinding her career and the eighth accuser he filed suit against this month alone. And he denied accusations by more than 50 women that he sexually assaulted them. Amtrak with a Safety System that experts say would have prevented the deadly derailment this way. Positive train control, ptc, uses sensors to automatically slow down a speeding train. The railroad turned on the technology along the tracks between philadelphia and new york over the weekend. From our new jersey news room, 176 Police Departments across the garden state getting money for body cameras. The state Attorney Generals Office distributing 2. 5 million for the initiative. The funding came from money forfeited by criminals. It is expected to be enough to buy and equipped more than 5,000 body cameras. And our area, gloucester township, Camden County the most, 123 cameras. Available tonight and the identity of one of the soldiers killed in the deadlyist attack in afghanistan in years. And the ruling on the Death Penalty in pennsylvania from the state Supreme Court. It is not rocket science, but this time it is. The historymaking mon money moment. And temperatures are soaring, 20 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. The real warm air has not made it here yesterday. The details on that and the timing of the rain in the accuweather forecast. And jamie apody with the final flyers home game of the season when action news continues tonight. Its the holidays, which means a house full of people, who all want to get online. So hurry and get verizon fios. Only fios has the Fastest Internet and wifi available, with speeds from 50 to 500 megs. And right now, for only 79. 99 a month online, you get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for your first year. Plus, with a 2year agreement, fios gives you 400 back, and all the premium movie channels for a year. So go online or call now for this great offer. Get out of the past. Get fios. A suicide bomber killed six american troops in afghanistan today. Two others were hurt. This is the deadliest attack on u. S. Forces in this country since 2012. The taliban is taking responsibility for the attack in the village near the Bagram Airfield outside of ka kabul. And they drove up on a motorcycle packed with explosive and a nypd detective is a victim, joseph lemm was serving in the National Guard and troops are trial in afghanistan even though the combat mission ended last year. Governor wolf is pleased by the state Supremes Court unanimous decision. Issuing repreach to death row with a moratorium on them until they issued the ruling. The philadelphia d. A. Challenged the Governors Authority to postpone the excuses but the high court decided with the governor. They executed only three assistance 1976 and none since 1999. The Supreme Court justice arriving for a Court Hearing of his own. The pennsylvania Judicial Ethics Court considering whether to temporarily suspend him in porngate, the states sexual, racial and email scandal. And he tearfully apologized but argued his Job Performance was not affected. The f. B. I. Probe into the allentown city hall snared the third suspect, the highestranking yet. Charged with conspiracy so commit fraud. Saying an unnamed official ordered them to affect the bidding progress to affect a campaign donor. Senator Lindsey Graham dropping out of the race for president. He never gained much tracks in the polls and was therefore kept off the main stage in his debate. 13 candidates are left for the republican nomination. A short time ago in a gallaxy not far away it shattered box office records. And the final numbers are more than the estimates, it debuted to 248 million in its Opening Weekend nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in 3 1 2 days. And that beats jurassic worlds record. And the star wars passed the global record taking in 529 million worldwide. Star wars is distributed by disney, the Parent Company of 6a 6abc. And another stellar accomplishment, spacex making history launching a rocket and successfully landing part of the booster rocket back on earth. It happened at Cape Canaveral tonight and the Company Officials gave an analogy to the difficulty and precision like flipping a pencil over the Empire State Building and having it land straight up and down inside of a shoe box on the other side. How about that . Employees could not contain themselves as the rocketings landed safely. Think they are excited . Spacex previous attempt on a barge was close but ended up like you saw there, a fireball. The milestone not only an engineering feat but a business one as well. The company intends to reuse the rocket parts, significant savings. And taking a spacewalk today for vital repairs. Scott kelly and timothy had to unjam a rail car. They had to get it moved to a cargo ship with nearly 3 tons of food and supplies that can dock there wednesday. Amazing stuff. It is incredible what they can do. The pictures so clear, too. And also the fact that we are talking about 70plus degrees on Christmas Eve. Christmas eve parties, open up the pool make it a Christmas Eve pool party. It will be almost that warm. Stormtracker tonight showing we are dry. And the action cam, a great shot with some of the clouds moving over the waxing gibbous moon. This moon will be full on christmas morning. The first christmas moon since 1977. So. Kids wake up early before the sunrise they can see the full moon. You know the kids will be waking up early. We are now less than a halfhour away from the arrival of winter. This is when we have the shortest days and the longest nights. The sun is lowest in the sky. After this, our days begin to get longer. But it seems like we have jumped over winter into spring. 65 degrees currently and allentown 43, trenton 54, millville 55, and wilmington 54. And temperatures really not falling much from where they are right now. The overnight low for philadelphia tonight 51 degrees. Very mild flow of air. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing you can see the direction of the clouds and the radar echoes out of the southwest. That is pulling up the warmth, but also bringing us a lot of moisture. Right now in the form of clouds, but futuretracker showing by 7 30 tomorrow morning we will have some showers breaking out, mainly northwest suburbs, northern Lehigh Valley and the poconos. And this fills in around lunch tile. You can see quite a few showers around and it is pretty fastmoving. And the warm front that is advancing through. By 5 00, moisture out of here. Actually some breaks in the clouds by then. What this will do is open the door for some very warm air. 64 degrees tomorrow despite the clouds and the showers. And what this frontal boundary will do is stall over us wednesday. Dragging another warm front our way. This has more moisture with it. Wednesday, dense fog and a soaking rain. Aroundinch of rain, mainly the middle of the day into the afternoon. 64 degrees on wednesday. The front lifts to the north on Christmas Eve and that gets us into the very warm sector of that system and that means the temperatures are up into the 70s, very unusual. The exclusive sevenday forecast, tomorrow the first day of winter is going to be warm but clouds and showers. Not seeing much sunshine. 64 degrees the high. Wednesday, big travel day. I think fog will be a problem. Sense fog, periods of rain, another warm day. 64 degrees. And look at this, Christmas Eve 74 degrees. To put this in perspective, consider the normal high for Christmas Eve is 42. The record high for december 24 is 64 set last year. But the alltime record warm day in december is 73 set back in 1998. And we likely will be setting a new record with a high of 74 degrees. On christmas day, cools off a little, mixture of sun and clouds, 64 degrees. Saturday down to 57 with periods of rain at times from the beginning and the clouds and the rain continue on sunday and 60. And monday, mostly cloudy with a high of 54 degrees. Of course, david murphy will be here on action news beginning at 4 30 to monitor the timing of the rain for tomorrow. Day take the umbrellas, leave the went coat at home. A party with a purpose in west philadelphia. The state senator hughes and his wife hosted the Holiday Party at First District plaza. Food, music and dancing and the partygoers donating nonparishable food to the food program. And helping kids meet, and he dressed up as buddy the elf. Recognize him . It was for the playground celebration on jackson street. Even hot chocolate and a train ride for the kids. Its the holidays, which means a house full of people, who all want to get online. So hurry and get verizon fios. Only fios has the Fastest Internet and wifi available, with speeds from 50 to 500 megs. And right now, for only 79. 99 a month online, you get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for your first year. Plus, with a 2year agreement, fios gives you 400 back, and all the premium movie channels for a year. So go online or call now for this great offer. Get out of the past. Get fios. A man from belmar, new jersey having plenty events to attend next year. He won two tickets to every event at the Wells Fargo Center next year. Before the flyers game five finalists in the sweepstakes each unwrapped a gift. And jack had the winning ticket. And he will try his best to get to every event. Wow. Pretty awesome, right . Sporting events, concerts, everything. Disney on ice. The only event i will be going to. And a heck of a show down there tonight with the flyers. Yeah. They wont be home for the holidays it is the final home game of 2015. The u. S. Army specialist josh spicer will be. And the flyers helped him surprise his family. And the twoonone, and simmons the first score at home this year, how is that possible . The power play in the third, and the shot off the leg and in. And that tied the game at 33. Later in the third, white and the great pass and medvedev scores the gamewinner and they beat the blues 43. No panic. We have been saying it a long time now. No panic. Try not to, you know, we cant keep our heads down. We have to keep going harder and harder and harder and thats what we did tonight. Just what you want to do after the 4017 loss is talk playoffs. Remarkably the eagles are in the hunt. Should they lose to the redskins they will be out of the hunt. But beat the skins and giants they win. If they lose to the giants they need a lot of help. This rookie running over them for 187 yards and two touchdowns and now a lot the team needs to fix in six days. I still think we have a good football team. Whether we play to our capabilities we are a really good football team. Thats what we have to do. We have to do a better job from a coaching standpoint to of so we have the team who played against buffalo and new england play against washington. And the giants are still in it, too. But the chances took a big hit when Odell Beckham hit everyone he came in contact with yesterday. Mostly josh norman the california corner. And he is suspended for one game by the nfl. He drew three personal penalties and will appeal. And coming up, boca bowl eve for the owls. And shopping for a cause. [ dog barks ] [ bark ] there it is [ gasps ] oh no look, the skys awake that. Was. Epic [ bark ] from the turf to surf the temple owls with down time at the beach. Hoping to make a splash tomorrow at the bowl. And facing a toledo offense thats really good, the coach says it starts with the run game. When you have great running backs you have a passing game you cant load the box up, they can throw it. Versatile Wide Receivers and get down the field. They do unique things and are really well coached. And Jahlil Okafor went shopping, but not for himself. Surprisings 20 kids from the ymca of greater brandywine with a shopping spree. Very cool. And Jimmy Kimmel Live next on channel 6 followed by nightline. And action news continues at 4 00 a. M. For cecily tynan, jamie apody, ducis rodgers, jim gardner and the entire Action News Team im brian taff. Have a great night tonight, see you tomorrow. And now abcs Jimmy Kimmel Live. Dicky from hollywood, its the Jimmy Kimmel Live red shopathon tonight, bono Scarlett Johansson snoop Dogg Olivia Wilde and matt damon and music from the killers, with cleto and the cletones. And now, if you havent heard, heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ]
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