Almost 3200 workers got the bad news tonight. Atlantic city revel casino will shut down this summer and those workers will lose their jobs if the owners of the casino cannot find a new buyer. Its thursday night and the big story on action news tonight is the financial crisis for the Revel Casino Hotel coming to a head. Revel fired for chapter 11 for the second time today since it opened in 2012 and dap those jobs are hanging in the balance. Jim, i hate to say it. Revel is on life support. Many had high hopes for the mega resort hoping it would be the economic spark to turn things around in Atlantic City. From the beginning it seems we watched a slow, painful death and sparkling city by the sea. And the 2. 4 billion mega resort and casino opened a fan fair with stunning design nont embrace the sun and ocean and anyone who stayed her would till the same thing. Theyre pretty and well and one of the best weve ever seen. I love the architecture of the space and restaurants are amazing. It seemed to die revels future seem to be cast from the beginning. They were not focus folking on the gamblers but looking for a mega resort. They fired the ceo and brought in a new guy to focus on gamblers and pi the time they tried to turn the ship around. They were a day late and dollar shot they needed to do this from day one. Theres nothing that makes it less beautiful than the regatta some say better but gamblers will tell you this. Theyre not paying. As far as . Gambling. They can give you all the free rooms they want. Its like having a 7eleven on every corner all of them cant make a living. They need to find a buyer by midaugust. If it sun able to complete a sale propertyly revel expects to close the entire facility. From bob mcdevottmcdevitt there was this. We believe sale of revel to a buyer that wants to keep the property open and retain employees are best for workers, Atlantic City and revel. Local 54 is committed to working with all parties to save jobs. And to be fair revel opened during one of the greatest recessions ever at a time every state on the east coast was going into the casino business. For the record the folks that run hard rock casinos were looking to buy the place but so far no deal reached. Were live outside the revel casino in Atlantic City, im dann cuellar, channel 6 action news. Back to you. Thank you, dap a pep saucon High School Student is it faced several charges after police say the girl slashed a classmate in the face. It happened on a school bus this afternoon. The 16yearold slashed the girls face with a sharp object and the suspect was immediately taken into custody. Shes been charged with aggravated assault and Unlawful Possession of air weaponch the victim was treated at Cooper University hospital. Salem police are investigating an accident left a pedestrian in critical condition. It happened 7 00 in the 4,000 block of bristol pike. The victim was taken to aria torresdale with critical injuries. More alleged victims came forward in the child sex abuse case against a chester count why you music teacher. District Attorneys Office says antoine was accused of inappropriate photographs of nude children to several new victims. Foeman is charged with endangering welfare of children. Last week the da charged 44yearold with attempted aggravated indecent assault for allegedly abusing three students at the Malvern School of music. President Barack Obama Says hes dispatching 300 military advice others to iraq. Obama told reporters at the white house today hes not sending military back into combat but including military personnel already there the president s actions today will put 600 americans in the middle of unstable security environment and isys extreme riingts continuing their march to baghdad. And obama emphasized again his actions do not mean a return to a combat role. American forces will not be returning to combat in iraq. But we will help iraqis as they take the fight to terrorists that threaten the iraqi people, region and american interests as well. Some of the American Forces will be collecting intelligence about the positions of the isis force so that the Iraqi Air Force can be more efficient establishing target. Back in this area tonight the School Reform Commission Approved sale of former William Penn High School property in north philadelphia to temple university. The deal will bring in 15 million for the cashstrapped Philadelphia School district. And earlier today city counsel ail proved more funding for schools. It approved a bill authorizing 27 million in loans this year. And council also approved a bill providing another 30 million in loans next year. Council also approved a bill that would make possession of small amounts of marijuana punishable by a 25 ticket instead of nights in jail. Democrats voted yes and republicans no. Live in University City sharee williams. Sharee its interesting to note the author of the bill james kinney will save the city 7 million a year. And jim, heres how the 7 million breaks down according to the councilman. He says the Police Department will say 4 million in costs with officers spending fewer hours processing these type of offenses and 3 million will be saved in court costs. And owe bone ebts say its not about saving money thats besides the point. Theyre concerned the measure may send the wrong message. Majority of them are voting in the affirmative and the bill pass. Philadelphia city Council Passed a measure today decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana it means no jail time and instead a 25 fine if caught with one oups or less of bought pot. Philadelphians weighed in. You have some that want to go higher. That will not sea them. Then theyll go for something else. Then its crack. Then its dealing. Marijuana is like alcohol or toe baca owe and should be treated as such and todays decision was a big thing in the right direction for helping the city. The bill passed 133 every dam cat in favor of it and every republican against it jim kenny sponsored the bill and says enforcement of the current law is discriminatory, 4,000 ayear aested and 82 of them african americans. Thats the most important thing for me is not creating a prison pipeline once you have a record you cant get a job and you do other stupid things to get yourself in jail or dead. Dennis obrien voted against the bill not because he disagrees with principle he says council over stepped bounds. Im not against reducing penalty but it has to be done or should be done in harrisburg. Proponents said it could save the city millions of dollars by not spending resources to prosecute offenders and we also spoke with residents who think the simple fine of 5 is too lenient of a penalty. Theyll all brush that off like oh, well, its only a 25 fine and i aint going to get no jail time mayor nutter has until september to decide whether to signoff on the bill or not. But with council vote of 133 it is veto proof. Live in University City. Sharee williams. Channel 6 action news. Thank you, sharee. Criminal justice cents are down the block from city hall is re2345eu78d justice juanita kiddstout center. Juanita kidd stoudt was the first to serve africanamerican woman to sit on any state Supreme Court when appointed in 1988. Police are investigating what caused a truck to slam into several other vehicles in the Port Richmond section of the city today. The crash happened 4 00 this afternoon. And in the 3100 block of aramingo avenue. Police say the truck damaged at least 5 vehicles. Fortunately nobody was hurt. And federal investigators say toptd that the truck driver involved in the crash with actor Tracy Morgans limousine was speeding before the vehicles collided. Ntsb released preliminary report today and report says kevin ropier was driving 65 miles an hour and in a 45 mile app hour construction zona long the new jersey turnpike. Morgan suffered critical injuries in the crash and his friend was killed. Driving through delaware will soon cost a bit more open weekend. Markle administration plans to raise tolls on route 1 by a dollar on saturday and sunday. And the current total of 2 bill go to 3 and weekday toll will remain at 1. And the revenue will help pay for road maintenance. Drivers in delaware expect heavy traffic near dover now that the fire fly Music Festival underway. More than 08,000 people are expected throughout the four day festival Dover International speedway. 50,000 people are camping out for the weekend. This is the third year for the festival which is becoming the biggest such event on the east coast. Still to come on action news tonight the timing of the first cigarette of the day may be related to a smokers risk of lung cancer. And the c d c is dealing with internal an tax scare and dozens of its own employees could be at risk. Cecily. Heat and humidity of the past two days is pushed to the south. Were heading to comfort zone tonight. Ill let you know how long it stays that way coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Can phillies continue with whipping ways moving into st. Louis tonight. Ducis rodgers has the answer louis tonight. Ducis rodgers has the answer when action news continues. One person is unaccounted for after explosion leveled a no suburb of denver the blast happened this navrp thornton and the boom could be heard for miles. They dont know yet what caused explosion. Timely warning helped entire south dakota town escape serious injuries from a tornado last night. Dozens of homes and businessing in westington spripingz were destroyed and only a handful of injuries. Officials say the twister cut through the center of town just barely missing a hospital. But everybody was in the courthouse basement taking shelter. In washington, House Republicans have a new leader tonight. They elected california congressman Kevin Mccarthy to join majority leader canter. He unexpectedly lost the election last week and mccartney was sevening as maamty whip and steve louis was replaceding him in that post. The countrys newest medal of honor recipient should not ab live. Thank god he s Corporal William Kyle Carpenter receive the honor today at the white house. In november of 2010 carpenter jumped on a live green tide save a marine. He was severely injured in the blast and lost his right eye. Carpenter is now the 8th living veteran of combat and iraq and afghanistan to receive the medal of honor. Centers for Disease Control and prevention says that about 75 workers in at lap ta laboratory may have been accidentally exposed to dangerous anthrax bacteria. It what happened samples were erroneously moved with a lab from high Safety Measures to lower level lab. Although risk of infection is low workers are monitored carefully and given precaution arie antibiotics. Timing of a smokers first cigarette of the day may predict chances of lung cancer. Government scientists found those lighting up within five minutes of waking up had three times the lung cancer rate of those that waited at least an hour. And that was true for moeingt both men and women and lights and heavy smorkz. Doctors say the information may help them better identify those that need cancer screening. A local Health Insurer is taking creative approach to improve members health. Keystone first rolled out mission ge d program in West Philadelphia tonight it provides tools and support for members that want to get their High School Equivalency degree. A good education can mean a better job. Better income and Better Health for adults as well as children. A 23,000 dollar donation will help Mission Kids Child Advocacy center continue to fulfill the mission. Lisa daneer Domestic Violence Foundation Present aid check at the facility in east norriton. Mission kids will use the funds to purchase new equipment and pay for forensic investigators and family advocates. New money for this mission tonight. Accuweather forecast for the next 7 days. We have beautiful weather moving in tonight. Stormtracker 6 double scan showing we have cleared out of the showers that we had earlier today and action cam rather sky6 i should say taking a look at center city sky line as sun was beginning to set. Beautiful end to the day after a wet and stormy beginning. The sun now setting at 8 32. Temperatures cooling off nicely. Its a comfortable night. Philadelphia, 73. Allentown dropped down to 68. Wilmington 69. Millville 65. Trenton 68. Accuweather airport 68. Compare this with temperatures 24 hours ago this time lasts night 84 degrees it was warm, humid, for 11 degrees cooler in philadelphia right now than last nights. Wilmington and millville 13 cooler and of course last night preparing for storms to roll through and they did. We had a lot of lightning strikes and intense wind gusts as well and plenty of thunder this whole complex moved down to the south. You can see how clouds really cleared out. Winds out of north thats a dry flow of air. Tomorrow which is last day of spring will be beautiful. Refrshing change of north wind. 84. Seasonably warm. Low humidity loads of sunshine. This front stalls to the south and as we head to the weekend, saturday, summer begins. Low pressure develops along it and i tell you the latest computer models continue to trend low pressure further and further to the south. That means a lot of dry air will be moving in. We could start the day with clouds. Especially south of philadelphia. But it looks like most of the showers should be missing our region. 77 degrees. And then this whole system really washes out on sunday. And well see loads of sunshine f youre headed to the shore, its looking really nice tomorrow. The ocean temperature in the upper 60s. Mentty of sunshine. Low humidity. Comfortable, 77 on saturday. Clouds will break for some sunshine 74. Sunday will be a brighter day mostly sunny skies and high of 76. If you head to the poconos, take a sweater overnight lows 50 degrees. Afternoon highs in the 70s. Very nice. Friday, plenty of sunshine. 5 degrees. Saturday, partly sunny, still a nice day. 73 and sunday, sunny, beautiful, 77 and the fire fly Music Festival a lot of folks camel out there tomorrow. Mostly sunny. 8. Dover is far south. Is it a could see a few showers. 77 and sunday the sunshine is back with high of 80. So the exclusive accuweather 7day forecast beautiful tomorrow. 84. Low humidity. On saturday, more clouds but again right now it looks like showers may miss us to the south. 77 degrees. On sunday, bright sunshine with high of 83. So the weekend is looking really, really nice. Sunday the better of the two days. Again saturday is not looking bad. As we head into non will be seasonably warm. Good amount of sunshine. High of 84. Then we get a little more humid on tuesday. Temperatures warm up to 86 degrees. Some instability and could see a few showers or thunderstorms popping up especially late in the day on tuesday. And on wednesday, warm, muggy, 87. And begun a chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. Heading in through thursday becoming partly sunny with a high of 8 degrees. So a really nice looking 7day forecast and again the trend on saturday is pushing that low pressure further and further south and that continues and well miss out on showers. A lot of people will be happy about that. Wouldnt that be nice. Yes. Thank you, cecily. This was a proud night for seep jurors at Parkway Center high school in philadelphia. Action news was in west mt. Airy for graduation ceremonies. School leaders urged grads to dream big as they enter their careers. Graduation ceremonies also held tonight for class of 2014 for Martin Luther King High School lee core acenter temple was filled with graduates and families and special certificates wept out to those at the head of the class and we congratulate all of the graduates from mlk. Tents wept up tonight to transform rit ep house square to a gala night spot for ball open the square. The black tie event was held by friends of Rittenhouse Square to raise money fort restoration and preservation of the park and look who is there. App an among the 500 people that turned out to celebrate tonight. Jimmy kimmel live coming up 11 35 after action news. And heres jimmy with a preview of tonights show. Thanks, jim, hello, philadelphia, take a gander of what is up with us after the news. 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It took 11 days and Massive International rescue expert to pull an injured cave explorer to safety in germany. He suffered app injury 130 feet under ground and more than 700 people took part in the rescue. Organization that helps immigrants and refugees in philadelphia celebrated 30th birthday tonight. Action news was at the university of the arts for celebration of cmac South East Asian mutual assistance Associations Coalition and other countries may differ over the years and cmac support for asian new comeers remain the same. Phillies in st. Louis and theyre trying to keep it going. Lets hope theyre not teasing us jim that would be cruel. Phillys are hot. Whipers of 7 last nine games and today they begin a four game snet st. Louis where ryan showered always hot. Well get to ryan in a moment. First give it up to david buchanan. The rookie is not always sharp this schbility gives up one run in 7 and twothirds inning of work. Howard a career 36 hitner hometown coming in. And that single makes it 10 phillies lead and to the 6th. Howard again. This ball not coming back. Tworun homer 14th of the season in 27 games of st. Louis dmrich 3 runs and phillies win 41 for fourth straight victor yivrment. Eagles have wrapped up their three day mini camp no drama no controversy just football. Thats the way coach kelly likes it players wont be back until Training Camp a month from now. They may look forward to the break but not chip himself. I dont look at this as i need a break from what weve just done this is our life choice and we enjoy it if its not like i cant wait this is not Fred Flintstone yabba dabb yabba dabba do. You have to give your mind time relax but at the same time you can not get out of shape. Andrew wiggins third overall may have a giant hole in it what if the kansas guard is done. Thats a strong possibility. Joel embib needs surgery in his foot. Cleveland was expected to time him and parker to milwaukee. Parker will likely be off the board by then. Nba draft is one week away. Still to come in sports a decision made on josey altidores status for this weekends world portugal cup sglach what vo after 50 years of designing cars for crash survival, subaru has developed our most revolutionary feature yet. A car that can see trouble. And stop itself to avoid it. When the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tested front crash prevention nobody beat subaru models with eyesight. Not honda. Not ford or any other brand. Subaru eyesight. An extra set of eyes, every time you drive. World cup news jos jury altidore is no good for the match on monday. Hes suffering from a hamstring injury. Theyre hopeful altidore will be available at some point during this tournament. England and urugay. England down 10. Sweet pass to johnson to roojy tied at one thats rooneys first ever world cup goal. Swarez how does he get behind the defense . Second goal. 21. What were you accomplishing 11 years old. 11yearold lucy lee is youngest qualifier ever at the u. S. Open. This sixth grader has a pair of birdies and finishes at 78, 11 back of lead. Still remarkable for a preteen and shes certainly having the outfit of the day at the u. S. Womens sglop ducis thank you it was a night of fun and music to benefit kids in center city. Yakatori boy restaurant hosted a fundraiser forte Flight Foundation created by brent celek. There was raffles of eagles memoriabilia and the club is creating sushi roll named for celek and so contribution can go on. Jimmy kimmel live next on channel 6 followed by night lane. Jimmys guest, eric bana or is that banna, not banna. I dont know. Well find out in a minute. Los angeles dodger clayton kershall and lincoln park. Action news continues at dicky from hollywood, its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight, nba champion tony parker. This week, and music from linkin park. And now in all likelihood, heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ] jimmy welcome to the show. Thanks for coming
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