Have been a foot, 2 feet or Something Like that but he still had the gun in his hand he wouldnt drop it so as long as he had that gun in his hand i knew he was a threat. Reporter the wounded attempted robber fled. The reverend now with his wifes gun in tow pursued the suspect who eventually discarded his weapon. But the episode was still not over. He started telling people that i was the robber and that i shot him so people started coming out after me and i kept the gun on his fails the whole time in case, you know, he did something. Reporter rick, eventually police did arrest that suspect. Hes a 66yearold man. At this hour theyve still not released his name. Police have yet to release he they he expect that sometime tonight after hes formally arraigned. Live in northeast philadelphia im vernon odom channel6 action news. Vernon thank you. Camden county Police Arrested a woman in connection with the murder of an eightyearold girl. Gabrielle carter was caught in the crossfire and killed on a camden street last month after drug gangs opened fire on each other. The gunman still remains at large. But now Camden County police have charged shakia land with hunterring hindering an investigation. Were going get every person responsible. Not just those that pulled the trigger but every individual that is obstructing our investigation. There is a 76,000 reward for anyone with information that leads police to the killer. From our new jersey news room now officials in Atlantic City have identified two people found dead in ventnor this week as a result of what they say is a murdersuicide. On wednesday 60yearold Richard Allen and his wife 59yearold Marianne Wilson al let me were found shot to death. According to police allen shot his wife before turn and the gun on himself. Wills eye hospital is the oldest continually operating eye care facility in the country. But soon it could lose its hospital status because of a mandate from the feds. And now a u. S. Senator is stepping in to help. Health reporter and registered nurse ali gorman is at the big board to explain. Ali. Rick, essentially Wills Eye Hospital is stuck in between a federal ruling and a state law. Senator bob casey is now advocating for wills eye and trying to make sure families and patients dont get caught in the middle and lose out on vital medical care having some technical difficulties there. We will bring you that story coming up later in the newscast. We can tell you that the deadline for all of this to come to to have an effect it will be on november 1st. I did reach out to cms and have not received a response yet and we will bring you that story when we can. Rick and monica, back over to you. All right thank you ali. Turning to accuweather, Beautiful Day today. Around the Delaware Valley of course. And looking live at the ben franklin bridge you can see what we mean. Plow skies sun dominating. While the sun is expected to hang around all weekend the humidity will bump up again as well. Meteorologist cecily tynan live outside with that forecast. There was a little bit of a taste of fall this morning. My kids will to put on sweatshirts when they went to the bus stop. Overnight low dropping to 59 degrees in philadelphia, the coolest morning in three months. The poconos 39 degrees, allentown 47, trenton 52 and wilmington the morning low 56 degrees with a bright sunshine breezy conditions, temperatures rebounding pretty nicely, 78 degrees in philadelphia right now. Thats the normal high for this time of the year, the same in allentown, wilmington 75, millville 74. And cape may little bit cooler with that wind off the ocean currently 70 degrees. Satellite6 along with action radar showing loads of sunshine, just a few high thin cirrus clouds out to the west. So that means for your friday night its going to be gorgeous, very comfortable, the evening planner mostly clear. It will be on the cool side maybe a jacket or said, at 8 oclock 69, by 10 oclock 67 bikes 11 oclock, 66. It will be dry tonight. However, i am tracking some much needed rain arriving. Could put a bit of a damper on part of your weekend plansly ill talk about that and next week the chance of near record heat. Its all ahead in the accuweather forecast. Rick. All right cecily thank you. And speaking of the weather, well, this summers high heat could mean less pumpkins this fall. And now farmers are looking to other parts of the country he to make sure pumpkin patches are full for the season. Action News Reporter john rawlins is live tonight at linville la orchards in Delaware County with the story. John. Reporter hi rick. Well, with its farm market here and its big pumpkin land linville is something of an institution in this part of the world. Thats for sure. Its also a working farm. It has about 10 acres of pumpkins that its raising. It also buys from others this guys around me he are from lancaster county. Youre right the High Temperatures and the heat we had earlier this summer has taken its toll in the pumpkin patch. Oh, yeah you got to have the selection, got to let people know that we are the pumpkin placism normal schultz manages the 300 plus acre linville farm. The current dry conditions responsible for lighter less heavy pumpkins this year but the bigger issue, the very hot days of july. Ly schultz says july a critical time for pumpkins. Pumpkin flowers must be pollinated then in order to bear this familiar fruit in the fall. July is when they set and in july that there was that big spell where there was seven days with 102, 110 heat index and it just they did not set fruit then. Because of that this field is yielding about half the expected number of pumpkins. With its big Retail Operation linville buys from other farms but this years weather has hit other locations as well a two month drought in new england cut yields there by 70 percent while in see ford delaware a supplier had another problem. Too much rain and all his pumpkins have rotted. Hes not going to harvest anything off of 60 acres. Reporter fortunately for those who dream of jack o lanterns there are other places where Mother Nature has been kinder and gentler. We will have pumpkins here. I have sources throughout the entire United States. Weve got them as far as texas and the United States in the United States and we have a lot of farms we can buy from in canada. Reporter canadian pumpkins. Who knew. With the low yields and the transportation cost the whole sale cost of pumpkins have been bumping up. The hope is here theyll hold the line on retail costs. They will be selling a lot of pumpkins here in the first several weeks of october. They measure their sales here in terms of multiples of 100,000 pounds of pumpkins. Live in Delaware County, john rawlins channel6 action news. Back to you all. Thats a lot of pumpkin pie. Yes, it is. Thank you. Time for a check of there action news traffic report friday night. Matt pelman in the action traffic center. T. G. I. F. To you matt. Officially it is the last friday of the summer and looking a lot like all our other fridays in the summer really busy on the roads. This is its schuylkill expressway close to the roosevelt boulevard. Check out these travel times. Three times what they ideally should be. 46 minutes to get westbound out of town, thats because basically its a solid line of traffic the whole way from University Avenue on out toward conshohocken. You also have a long line of traffic on the westbound pennsylvania turnpike. Were not really used to this in the afternoons. This is a morning delay. Westbound from bensalem out to Fort Washington teens speeds in the teens and 20s due to two earlier accidents but those crashes have been gone now for a long time. In pottstown our crash that was blocking 100 northbound is gone but now theres one on 422 westbound past 724. That doesnt seem to be impeding us a whole lot and in chadds ford still have that crash that brought down the pole and wires and sparked a brush fire. Ring road remains closed. Heyburn road a possible alternate around that. Its a busy one. Well check it again rick and monica in the next half hour. All right. Well see you then. Thank you, matt. Much more still ahead including an admission from donald trump that has sparked plenty of controversy. President barack obama was born in the United States, period. Coming up at 5 30 the firestorm of criticism trump is now facing after todays 180 on president obamas citizenship. But first a special paint that septa is hoping will help clean up its stations around the Delaware Valley. Well tell you about it when action news returns. Pat toomey started his career as an investment banker. Then, a wall street wheelerdealer, overseeing stock trades in new york, london and tokyo. Next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. In the senate, its no surprise toomeys been siding with wall street. Voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. Pat toomey. Hes for wall street. Not Us Senate Majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Introducing longhorns Great American steak dinner for 12. 99. Perfectly seasoned sirloin with your choice of side. Plus an appetizer or a dessert. Only at longhorn steakhouse. You cant fake steak. Back to our health check story tonight. Philadelphias Wills Eye Hospital the oldest continuing operating eye care facility in the country he could soon lose hospital status because of a mandate from the feds. A u. S. Senator is stepping in to hopefully help. Lets go back to Health Reporter and registered nurse ali gorman at the big board to explain. Rick the hospital is stuck in between a federal ruling an state law so today senator bob casey visited the hospital and he is now advocating for wills eye. Once again we will try to correct that piece and bring it to you from health check. New at 5 00 tonight septa is hoping a new coat of paint will help combat smells and cleanliness problems in its facilities. Its called ultra ever dry. And the coating makes urine spray back on any offenders trying to use a wall or an elevator as a bathroom spot. The coating has been used in San Francisco and germany. Septa will run a trial of the project in the fall though they havent decided where yet. Hundreds of jobs could be coming to berks county over the next several years in part because of a grant. Today Governor Tom Wolf announced a new Industrial Park will be built adjacent to the reading Regional Airport in vern township. Berks park 183 will consist of seven buildings. Developers hope to attract small manufacturers there. This is five to 600 new permanent jobs that are going to be good jobs for people of pennsylvania. Its going to make a real difference. Pennsylvanias three development assist pans Capitol Program gave the project two and a half Million Dollars in grant money. Pennsylvanias Unemployment Rate has picked up for the fifth time in the last six months. It now is creating a gap with the National Numbers that hasnt been seen in more than 30 years. According to the state department of labor and industry, pennsylvanias jobless rate climbed to 5. 7 percent in august. Compare that to the National Jobless Rate of 4. 9 percent. And thats the widest gap between pennsylvanias numbers and the National Average since 1981. Wall street may have closed lower today but markets posted gains for the week. Now investors are looking ahead to next weeks meeting of the Federal Reserve of the. The dow closed down 88 points the nasdaq losing five, the s p 500 falling eight and change. Health check health and government officials gathered this morning at villanova to talk about the opioid epidemic. The department of corrections secretary and physician general Rachel Levine participated in the path discussion at villanovas charles wood school of law. They discussed the scope of the epidemic and how to try to respond to it through policy changes. It is one of the hottest games this year but now Research Shows there could be real dangers playing pokemon go. Researchers at San Diego State evident 98 a 10 day span there were more than a hundred thousand incidents caused by drivers and pedestrians distracted by the game. Researchers warn these accidents are a dangerous side effect to playing that game. And theres much more still ahead on action news at 5 00 tonight. The big moment today for some budding doctors. And a local woman who made a run for the Million Dollar prize on who wants to be a millionaire. Well tell you how it worked out. Those stories and more when action news comes right back. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Hes a racebaiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. Donald trump is a phony, a fraud. Hes not a serious adult. I cant vote for donald trump given the things that he said. Trump should not be supported. I believe hes disqualified himself to be president. I just cannot support donald trump. The philadelphia graduate has announced an official recall of the Samsung Galaxy note7 because of faulty batteries that have caused several times smartphones to catch fire. The u. S. Consumer Products Safety Commission says nearly a million of the phones were sold in the United States. It estimates 97 percent of those contained a defective battery. 26 people received burns and 55 pieces of property have been damaged. Officials are warning consumers to turn off their phones. Now it is the time to act. This recall provides two options. And thats important. First option, you can get a replacement phone. The second option, an equal option is you can get a refund. Samsung promises to have the new devices in stores by next wednesday. Along with replacements, bill credits are being offered as well. Today was the big day apple fans are waiting for, the iphone7 and iphone7 plus went on sale this morning. Three, two, one,. [cheers and applause] customers in Northern California got a special surprise too today. Apple ceo tim cook was there to welcome fans who waited outline. Fans waited outside apple Stores Around Country today. That included a center city store near 16th and walnut. The first person in line got in at 8 00 last night, a full 12 hours before the phones went on sale. It is one of the biggest moments in budding doctors career, 88 new medical students got their white coats today in camden. Theyre entering the Cooper Medical School of rowan university. Faculty mentors help put the coats on while family and friends proudly watched. Todays new class of future doctors bring the medical schools total enrollment to just over 300 students. Congratulations. A woman from Delaware County was a contestant on who wants to be a millionaire. She walked away with a nice h1n1 chunk of change. Thats right. You got it. 30,000. You watched susan taylor from essington try her skills today on the show right here on 6abc. Her loved ones gathered to watch the episode at marty mcgees in prospect park. They watched as susan did real well but then got stumped on a question about star wars and she decided to walk away with the 30,000 she earned. I am going to pay off debt and start my own business. Im going start roasting my own coffee so look out for my coffee brand. All right. Susan brought her best friend to the show to be her guest. Congratulations to her and all of heroinings and you can watch millionaire every weekday at 2 oclock right here on 6abc. Susans roasts. That will be nice. Still to come o. Thats your final answer. That would be my final answer. A check of that accuweather forecast. Looking live outside sky6 hd showing you the Atlantic City tonight. Pretty picture if the jersey shore s meteorologist cecily tynan has your weekend forecast on accuweather when we come right back. Dear fellow citizen, i know what its like to live a full life. But living for today doesnt mean forgetting about tomorrow. 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This is our Temple University camera looking at the center city skyline seeing blue skies sunshine, just a few fair weather clouds out there and temperatures very comfortable. Average high for this time of year is 78. Were at that right now. Allentown also 78, wilmington 75, trenton 74, millville 74. With that wind off the ocean, it is cooler on the beaches. Cape may and beach haven 70. The Atlantic City airport right now 69 degrees. Satellite6 along with action radar showing we have High Pressure just to our east right now so that is keeping our skies for the most part clear. We have a few thin cirrus clouds out to the west but once the sun sets any of those clouds will be falling apart and its going to be a very comfortable night. Temperature not quite as chilly as last night. Philadelphia 60. Allentown 51. Wilmington 58. Cape may 62 degrees. Mostly clear skies so a great night to see the full harvest moon, the moon rise at 7 15. The sunset at 7 07 so it rises shortly after the sunset. Its known as the full harvest moon because its a full moon closest to the start of fall. Fall begins next thursday. But its not going to feel like fall at all. Tomorrow temperatures definitely rising as we start the day 63 degrees at 8 oclock. But then by the afternoon, temperatures back up into the low 80s. Humidity levels a little bit higher than today but dewpoints generally in the 60s so a pretty nice start to the weekend. Future tracker showing as we head into sunday, it gets a little bit more unsettled. It will be very humid and then by 4 oclock some spotty showers breaking out, not a lot of activity but it will kind of get more enhanced as we head into monday. Future tracker showing around 11 30 in the morning some scattered showers and with the potential for some heavy rain. Hopefully we can tap into some tropical moisture. If that happens, some areas could get up to about an inch of rain and we need that did he say precipitately. Speak of proper ticks we have Tropical Storm karl maximum sustained winds at 45 miles an hour moving west at 14 Miles Per Hour. It will continue to do so into next week and then it looks like it will start to curve up as a category one hurricane, should be north of the what mass bahamas. If you have plans to head to bermuda track that storm. The five day at 5 00 showing tomorrow a nice day a little bit warmer than today 84 degrees. A little bit more humid. Sunday though will be muggy with some afternoon showers perhaps a thunderstorm, 86. Monday much need rain especially the first half of the day 82. Tuesdays record high 90. Were going to be close. Wednesday 85 degrees and it looks like it warms up even more for the start of fall ironically. Well talk about that in the accuweather 7day forecast guys. Thank you. Thank you cecily. Much more still ahead. Several residents living near two area naval bases are taking their anger over their Water Quality to court. And big news for all you boxing fadges. Trenton is gearing up for a big event that will pit the best up and comers from around the region. The emmy he awards and youll herey how viola davis the star to how to get away with murder makes sure shes better for the big night. Those stories and more when action news comes back. Action news continues with meteorologist adam joseph, jaime apody, Rick Williams and monica malpass. Hello again. Heres whats happening on action news friday night. Donald trump goes against previous statements and declares president obama is u. S. Born. Hillary clinton immediately goes on the attack calling his assertion a disgrace. Also a fast moving fire guts two homes in philadelphias olney section. And sunday liquor sales could be expanding in the first state. Now to the president ial campaign. An apparent total reversal from donald trump today. He says he does believe that president obama was in fact born in the United States. This goes against previous statements in which trump called into question the president s nationality. During todays announcement trump declared the birth debate started with Hillary Clintons campaign back in 2008 and now he wants to finish it. Clinton inquired back and called us News Conference a disgrace. Karen traverse joins us live with the latestism good evening. This is shaping up to be one of Donald Trumps best weeks in month. The national and state polls were trending in his direction. Hillary clinton was facing very tough questions about her health and she was also defending comments she made about Trump Supporters but instead now the end of the week the spotlight is on Donald Trumps history of controversial statements. Donald trump finally stating this as fact. President barack obama was born in the United States, period. Reporter it was billed by his campaign as major announcement and it was classic trump. He took no questions from the press. He did get a plug for his new d. C. Hotel. Nice hotel. [laughter] reporter and while trump was unequivocal about obamas birthplace he threw out two other falsehoods. Hillary clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. Reporter theres no evidence that clinton or her team eight years ago were behind the birther movement. Today in washington she blasted trump for his crusade. Imagine a person in the oval office who traffics in conspiracy theories. And refuses to let them go no matter what the facts are. Reporter president obama weighing in from the oval office this morning. I was pretty confident about where i was born. I think most people were as well. Reporter for years trump has refused to acknowledge the fact that the president was born in the United States. For many today, his statement amounts to admitting the sky is blue. For others its a cynical attempt to broaden his appeal. Its a coded sort of language for people there have hated obama from the start questioned his legitimacy. It has veins of racism through it. Reporter and in a week and a half it will be just Hillary Clinton and donald trump on stage at that first president ial debate. The commission announced today that no other president ial candidate hit the polling threshold to qualify. Reporting live from washington Karen Travers channel6 action news. Rick. Karen thank you for that report. A federal judge denied Donald Trumps request to delay the trial against his now defunct trump university. It will start as scheduled on november 28th. Trumps attorney asked the judge to delay the trial to january because he must be in los angeles on november 15th for another trial. Trump university is accused of defrauding its students. The federal judge in the san diego case is the same judge that trump has repeatedly criticized suggesting hes biased because of his mexican heritage. And as always you can get breaking alerts from the campaign trail by downloading our free 6abc news app much its available right now on the apple and google play stores. Eight convoys to syria delayed today for the fourth time because the United Nations says it has not received permission from the Syrian Government and that prompted the Obama Administration to warn russia that military cooperation in syria will not happen unless that aid begins to flow. In a phone call today secretary of state john kerry told russias foreign minister unless the aid is delivered the u. S. Will not move ahead with the formation of a joint facility with russia to coordinate attacks on terrorist groups and to share intelligence. World news tonight with david muir will have the late of the news from around the globe as well as more from the president ial campaign trail. You can watch all of that following action news at 6 00. Chopper6 was over the remnants of two row homes heavily damaged by a fast moving fire this afternoon. This is the 100 block of west champlost street. Were told it started in the row home in the middle here and then spread to the one on the left and later the one on the right before firefighters put out the flames. Fortunately no one was injured. The cause is under investigation. Police released new Surveillance Video of a robbery and shooting in west philadelphia. In the video you can see the suspect go up to a woman in a crowd at north 52nd. The two got into a struggle here and after the suspect tried to grab the victims purse. Thats when police say the suspect shot the woman in the wrist and the chest. Authorities say it happened sometime around september 7th just before 9 p. M. The woman is expected to survive. Investigators identified the driver who died this morning in a headon collision in whitemarsh township Montgomery County. From chopper6 you can see police on the scene at flourtown road near joshua road. Were told the driver who died crossed into oncoming traffic. Police have identified him as kenneth green from oreland. The other driver suffered minor injuries. Penn state will mark the 50th anniversary of joe paternos first win tomorrow. Commemorations during tomorrows Football Game against temple will focus on paternos commitment to student athletes along with highlights of the 1966 game. Hundreds of the late coachs former players will also attend a private reunion. Paterno coached at penn state for 46 seasons becoming College Footballs winningest coach. He was fired by the schools board of trustees shortly after Jerry Sandusky was arrested for child sexual abuse in 2011. Paterno died in 2012 of lung cancer. Tomorrows commemoration is angered many of his critics who say he enabled a child predator. Drinking water problems in horsham Montgomery County are leading to a lleyton night. Residents say Firefighting Foam used near two former navy bases tainted their water. Seven people who live near the Willow Grove Naval air station and the former Naval Air Warfare Center have hired attorneys. They are suing the company he that made the foam and others. 3m denies the claim french our delaware news room wilmington stores that sell alcohol could extend hours of operation on sundays if a new ordinance is passed. Wilmington city council is considering allowing vendors to open from 10 00 a. M. To 5 00 p. M. On sundays from october to december. And for the remaining months of the year stores will be allowed to open on sundays from noon to 5 00. A new senior apartment complex officially opened in Burlington County new jersey tonight. The old eagle shirt factory on spring street in bordentown is now the union eagle senior apartments. Action news was there this afternoon for the grand opening and Ribbon Cutting ceremony. It features 48 onebedroom apartments at an affordable price. Looks very pretty. Time to check that traffic scene friday night. Accuweathers matt pelman in the action news traffic center. How we looking. Lots of people trying to get to their homes or maybe down the shore on this friday evening and theyre waiting single file here rick and monica trying to use the ramp from 95 northbound to the walt whitman bridge. Traffic remains very heavy across the span of the bridge and then onto 42 southbound its crowded on down to past 55 where there is an accident but luckily its off to the side so the lanes of 42 are opened. They are just busy this afternoon. Closer to the shore in Galloway Township still have that crash that brought down a pole along moss mill road. Great creek road can get you around in. In Burlington County a vehicle flipped over on the new jersey turnpike northbound approaching exit five. Luckily that is off to the side so you can get by without too much of a delay. Across the river on the roosevelt boulevard northbound at adams avenue were watching a crash in the outer drive just 10 Miles Per Hour approaching it. I think its less than 10 Miles Per Hour here in center city on the vine street expressway jammed solid in both directions river to river. Scattered delays this afternoon on the septa regional rails. On sunday well be shuttle busing on the Lansdale Doylestown line be then coming up on monday new interim schedules again on four of the different lines. Well keep you posted on that when i see you next week. Rick and monica enjoy your weekends. Thanks matt. The biggest night in television is this sunday right here on 6abc. We have a sneak peek at one of the stars of tgit who is going to be walking the red carpet. Next on action news what viola davis makes sure she does for that big night. Lawn wearing armor and he wasnt hiding a white horse but Prince William came to the rescue during a royal visit in britain today. Meteorologist Melissa Magee is in for adam for your friday night forecast. Hi, melissa. Hi rick. Certainly wasnt a bad finish to our work week with storm tracker6 live radar 3d slowing a cold front off to our west that works its way as we led into our weekends. Details coming up with the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. Jeff skversky as eagles and temple football coming up in sports when action news continues in just a moment. Third president . Male teacher and the largest planet . Male teacher someone we havent heard from. Female teacher anyone else . Through internet essentials, comcast has connected more than 3 Million People in need to low cost, high Speed Internet at home, helping to make sure that every hand in the classroom goes up. Male teacher okay, veronica. Amphibian. Male teacher excellent. Welcome to a brighter future. Comcast. Fourteen americans killed in a San Bernardino mass shooting. But after this tragedy when pat toomey had the chance to ban suspected terrorists from buying guns he voted against closing this loophole for terrorists and with the gun lobby. Katie we have to do everything in our power to keep guns away from terrorists who threaten our way of life. Im Katie Mcginty and i approve this message because we cant risk our families safety on a loophole. Count down to the emmy awards is on. Just three days until the big show he. And among the nominees they are two stars of hit abc shows. Vial vy yoel la davis nominated for best dramatic actress. She won that trophy last year. Davis says her experience walking the red carpet has taught her a few tricks of the trade. I take my ibuprofen for my toes and put my smear my crisco on and put my ballet slippers in my evening bag and im good to go. All right. Also nominated for the emmy is Tracy Ellis Ross the star of blackish. Shes making history for being the first black woman in 30 years to be nominated for best comedy actress. You can watch all of the emmy excitement this sunday at 8 oclock only here on 6abc. Get ready for the emmys with 6abc. Com. Well get you up to speed on all of this years nominees and of course find out more about the host jimmy kimmel. Youll find photos from the events leading up to the big night. Check us out. Time for sports and carson wentz and the eagles getting ready for da bears. Thats your best dabears. Can you improve on that. Not going to try. Youre not going to win an emmy. Just like you carson wentz grew up watching monday night football but unlike most of you wentz gets to play prime time against the bears. Eagles quarterback can be the first nfl rookie qb in seven years to start a season two and zero. Wentz named nfl rookie of the week threw for two touchdowns, 278 yards most by an eagles quarterback ever in a first start to a career. Head coach Doug Pederson is not surprised but hes pleased with wentz so far especially his preparation. Jaime apody has more wiped on. Repaired so well last week against cleveland and ive seen him in here already this week getting himself ready to go and we just got to take it one day at a time. What can you say about him. The nation is talking about carson wentz. Hes got the highest selling jersey. The Vice President is telling the president to get on the wentz wagon. You got to be so excited about this kid. Something we saw way back in the spring and didnt know it would be this much attention to us but at the same time we felt like hes obviously a good quarterback and can play a long time in this league and its just theres such a balance between getting your job done and then all of the peripheral stuff on the outside and the way hes handled it already i think is a credit to him and the maturity level that he has and we just got to make sure that he focuses on football first and then the rest will take care of itself. More with pederson monday night were teaming up with phl17 to bring you the eagles and bears can game. Coverage kicks off at 8 oclock on phl17 with our pregame show followed by monday neither football. 1931 and 1932 that is a long time ago and thats the last and only time temple has won two straight against penn state. That could change tomorrow when the owls make their way up to happy valley at noon. Temple coach matt rhule trying to come home tomorrow with the programs first ever win in state college. This is somewhat of a homecoming for rhule. He played linebacker for joe paterno in the 90s. Theres a picture a great shot of rhule in action yes he could play too. Ducis rodgers reminiscing with rhule. Any of your players give you any of the business about your playing days. I have it hanging in my office. Otherwise no one would believe i played football our players always make fun of me in every way they can and we try to keep it very light around here but making sure that they have a picture of what i once looked like is always important as we enter older ages. That is a great shot. More with rhule tomorrow morning on temples football playbook at 9 45 on 6abc. The beauty of baseball theres another game the next day. The phillies host the marlins tonight. Ryan howard is in the starting lineup as the phils try to forget all about last nights ugly finish to the pirates the phanatic trying to make everyone laugh during a tough night. Too bad he couldnt pull that shirt over your eyes. This is hard to watch Andrew Mccutcheon hits two homers from the seventh on the phils allow 12 runs. Its the first time in the 133 years the phillies baseball the bullpen allowed nine runs in just two and a third but monica rick forget all about it. Tonight is a new night. The marlins ryan howard in the lineup expected to be in the lineup the entire weekend. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you. Big night of professional and amateur boxing is coming to trenton next month. City officials held a press conference this afternoon to share details of the event called bridge wars. It will be the first of its kind in the state. Trenton has a rich boxing history. And we were delighted when roxanne and boss Lady Productions came to say they wanted to host this event here in the capitol he city. Recognizing that they could have had it anywhere. The event will take place at the Sun National Bank center october 1st. A portion of the proceeds will go to the ike williams boxing academy of trenton. Well the honors keep coming for two olympic athletes. Today mayor jim kenney recognized nia ali and ajaa wilson in center city. Ali won a silver in the 100meter hurdles last month. Wilson part of the u. S. Womens track and field team. Even though both athletes have ties to new jersey they say they were proud to represent the philadelphia area. Which means we can fix things differently. Thanks for calling fios, this is ryan. You cant tell me this cord isnt in, i know its in, its in but its not working. Im sending you a link to the my fios app thats going to let me see what youre seeing. Really . Yes. Mr. Mcenroe. See that cord . Just plug it into the connector on the right. So you can clearly see whats in and whats out . Oh, absolutely. I like that. Get fios with virtual tech support for 69. 99 a month. You would expect nothing less from a prince. Still Prince William sprung into action helping a veteran soldier right here who fell over during a royal visit this morning. He was standing behind Prince William and duchess kate when he tripped and fell. William quickly turned around and helped him to his feet. Fortunately the man was not hurt. Very nice of him. All right. And back here now meteorologist Melissa Magee is checking outer the weekend forecast. Nice weekends to get out and do things. Certainly not bad. Well be tracking wet weather that will move in at the tail end of our weekend. Well enjoy the rest of tonight and the start of our weekend tomorrow. Storm tracker6 live double scan slows its dry no issues with precipitation. Outside we go the action cam was outside earlier today in board down new jersey along the delaware. Its a beautiful shot weve got a bright blue sky and just a few scattered clouds across its area. The high today in philadelphia slightly above average but comfortable with low humidity. Maxing out at 80 degrees today. Normal for us this time of year is 78. The record 94. Set back in 1991. At this hour tapping into an easterly wind so its 78 in philadelphia, same thing in allentown, cooler in the poconos and at 67. At the coast in cape may 69. 74 millville. And 76 degrees out to the west in lancaster. Here is satellite6 along with action radar. Weve got a ridge of High Pressure thats situated to our east so the windsor thirty one high are clockwise and thats why were tapping into that northeasterly wind today. A few scattered clouds spot he tea just to our south and west. Look off well to the west were tracking a cold front across the midwest and the great lakes. This will work its way eastward as we get into the second half of our weekend. Some of that moisture will trickle over into the start of the work week on monday. The next 12 hours heres the call from accuweather. Weve got a moonlit sky. The full harvest moon on the way tonight and the moon will rise at 7 15 this evening. Its comfortably cool. We drop down to 51 degrees in the suburbs and 60 degrees in philadelphia for the overnighter low so nice viewing conditions underneath a mostly clear sky to check out that full harvest moon. Fast forward into the start of our weekend. Saturday sen meteorologist, david murphy teen of sunshine, 84 degrees tomorrow turning slightly more humid in advance of this cold front. Its slow moving so this cold front still continues to work its way eastward as we get into sunday. High temperature then coming in at 86 degrees. Afternoon thundershowers are likely but more steady rain developing as we get into sunday night and some of that moisture as i mentioned getting carried over into monday. Down the shore its a good looking start to our weekend on saturday 77 degrees, sunshine a few clouds and on sunday rather cloudy as that moisture gets closer, High Temperature maxing out at 79. Heres the exclusive accuweather 7day forecast. Warm and more humid tomorrow, High Temperature of 84 but still a good looking day. On sunday muggy with an afternoon shower or storm and at 86 degrees. Monday a High Temperature of 82 and much needed rain on the way. Future tracker six showing you along the 95 corridor and areas to the north and west thats where the bulk of that precipitation will be confined anywhere from a half inch to a little bit over an inch of rain expected late sunday into monday. In the wake of that on tuesday hot and more humid a High Temperature of 89. Sunny and warm on wednesday, 85. The autumnal equinox begins thursday. Fall arrives then. Not going to feel like that with a high of 87. 90 degrees on friday with a bit of a fall scorcher head our way. So a good start tomorrow but then were tracking wet weather sunday into monday. But we need the rain though dont we he. Much needed. Thank you melissa. With updated hourly forecast the latest from accuweather and the power of storm tracker6 live double scan radar 6abc. Com weather is your go to authority for what lies ahead and dont forget to check in each day with our meteorologists by following them on twitter and facebook. Introducing dunkins new cold brew coffee, steeped slowly in cold water for small batches with an ultrasmooth, fullbodied flavor. Discover the craft of cold brew today and keep on. America runs on dunkin. Dancers with the academy of social latin dances helped kick off hispanic heritage month festivity in Center City Philadelphia today. Pennsylvania secretary of the commonwealth talked about how the Latino Community is taking on a bigger role this year in the president ial election. And right now the Action News Team standing by with these stories and much more coming up next at 6 oclock. The wife of a pastor takes matters into her own hands when a would be robber holds up her family in northeast philadelphia and Camden Police charge a woman in connection with the shooting death of an eightyearold girl. Also family members of Crash Victims give emotional testimony backing the push for speed cameras on the roosevelt boulevard. Those stories and more coming up next. For adam joseph, Cecily Tynan Jaime apody Rick Williams the entire Action News Team im monica malpass. Join me for action news at 6 00 next does have a have a flies weekend. Nice weekend. Narrator terrorism here at home. Fourteen americans killed in a San Bernardino mass shooting. But after this tragedy when pat toomey had the chance to ban suspected terrorists from buying guns he voted against closing this loophole for terrorists and with the gun lobby. Katie we have to do everything in our power to keep guns away from terrorists who threaten our way of life. Im Katie Mcginty and i approve this message because we cant risk our families safety on a loophole. With Ducis Rodgers meteorologist cecily tynan and jim gardner. Friday night jim is off im monica malpass. A cyclist is injured in a Montgomery County crash and the dog days of summer are having an impact on this years pumpkin crop. But the big story on action news tonight is the pastor and his wife who turned the tables on a would be robber. Police say the suspect used a fake gun to hold up the family in northeast philadelphia but the suspect was in for a surprise when the wife pulled a real gun in selfdefense. Action News Reporter vernon odom spoke to the pastor and his wife about the moment that she pulled the trigger. Vernon. Reporter good evening, monica. It all went down rider out here in the 1000 block of pratt street here last night about 11 oclock. A would be robber armed robber got a big surprise when he confronted a clergyman and his wife and son. I was definitely in fear for our lives. Reporter we are shielding the face of Stephanie Cook the pistol packing wife of this man, pastor roberts cook last night she shot the robbery suspect who confronted her husband and 12yearold son outside their home on pratt street around 11 oclock. The man appeared to be wielding a sawed off shotgun. I really believed he had a sawed off shotgun and he was going to kill us. Thats what i feared for thats what my wife thought. He had to be steel. Reporter the reverend and his wife are licensed to carry. Eventually she got a clear shot at the man and she took it. I didnt want to kill the guy. I wanted him to drop the gun and i wanted him to get away. That is why the first shot i did aim towards his lower body. Reporter the wounded suspect shot in the leg fled. The reverend now with his wifes rigor 22 pistol in hand stayed after him