Behind the wheel of this suv, not have her parents permission to take the vehicle but she doesnt have a drivers license. A fatal decision that took the lives of three students from council rock. We spoke to students. Heart breaking, no parent should have to see their kids go through this and no commune should have to lose kids like that. The driver was accompanied by a 16yearold girl within they picked up the four boys last saturday morning, authorities tell us they went to breakfast and were on their way back when the driver lost control and rolled the vehicle. Three rising sophomores were killed and the Fourth Council rock student was treated and released for minor injuries as were the two girls from new york. Shane brown who knew the victim says he and his friends dont know how to handle this tragedy. Tragic, nobody knows what to say, you cant really say much, have you to move on and never forget them. We spoke to council rock parents. Well say a prayer for their families, they can get over the loss, somehow get on with life and i dont know how. It doesnt seem like drugs or alcohol were involved. They face a slew of charges. Reporting live from holland, buck county. Thank you walter. Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting, that landed a 9yearold boy in the hospital this afternoon. A fire erupted at torresdale avenue in the tacony section of the city. It happened at 3 20, the boy suffered a graze wound to the head when he left the library, is he in stable condition when he left the hospital, this is the scene in Atlantic City this morning as they shut the doors to the casino at the revel casino hotel. The hotel itself was closed yesterday and action News Reporter Kenneth Moton has the full story. For sale, 47 stories of luxury, ocean front views and 2. 5 billion to build and only a few hundred million in debt. Im complaining about my 9,000 in property tax in new york. Patrons had to laugh to keep from crying, gamblers played their last hand at 6 00 a. M. And the chains went up on this property at 6 00 a. M. The mayor says with four casino closures in one year the work has begun to help the 8,000 laid off workers. There are potential buyers that could get creative with this prime piece of real estate but a deal could be months away. You want to buy a property, but not on labor day, but you want to buy it in march and be up and running on memorial day. Its one customer was revel. The planned south jersey Parent Company is owed millions, but will provide minimum power to prevent problems like mold. They declined to comments about things like mold. They are hoping they maintain the property. Its rough on investers they lost a fortune in it. The union for the casino workers said there is nothing left to say. Reporting in Atlantic City, Kenneth Moton, channel 6 action new news. And once again the trump plaza will be the fourth to close, they got final approval to shut it down in two weeks, the state differition of gaming enforcement gave the closure notice, they will close 6 00 a. M. September 16th, Atlantic City began the year with 12 casinos there will be eight by the middle of september. The Camden Police report a drop in crime over this time last year. A dramatic decline, there are 22 murders so far this year in camden. Down 32 . And a 26 drop in rape cases and aggravated assaults are down 12 . The driver of a dump truck was trapped when the vehicle overturned today on i295 in gloucester county, the accident happened in west depford, and the truck spilled its load of rock and the traffic was getting by in the left two lanes as crews worked to upright the vehicle, the crew was taken to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. This was a day of damming testimony for former principal and three teachers charged in the Philadelphia School district cheating scandal. Live now in center city is action News Reporter vernon odom. Jim, much of the testimony today came from their former colleagues at the Tioga Elementary School then will stand trial charged with changing students scores on state testing and giving students answers to falsie jack up their test scores. Former principal, evelyn corez was the chief cheating on tests from 07 to 12. Teacher Margaret Dole says she was told we need to get these test scores up or red flags go up and well be in trouble. Make sure the students respond correctly on the pssa test. Go over their work and make sure they respond correctly. Dole says that cortez offered this advice, we were advised to say we did everything right. Test booklets were locked away. I know my kids did okay i gave them all the answers. They threw out the big of the charge, the corrupt organization charge. The commonwealth has a low burden, we anticipated they make the burden and 99 of time they usually do. Three teachers from the Tioga Elementary School says they were intimidated and sometimes denoted if they refused to play ball. Live at the criminal justice center, vernon odom, channel 6 action news. City leaders marked National Preparedness month in philadelphia this day, by putting Vital Information in the hands of residents. Mayor Michael Nutter kicked off disaster readiness drills with fema, directing people how to build a family emergency plan and items to have on hand before disaster strikes. Lisa thomaslaury has more on how the district is dealing with fewer teachers and tighter security. And the eagles get back to work for the season openers, Jeff Skversky has that story. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing showers and thunderstorms moving in ahead of a system. That brings us brief relief from the heat and humidity and the accuweather forecast. Those stories and more when action news continues. Today marked the first day of school for a new district in new jersey. President sweeney cut the ribbon for the recently consolidated east hunterdon School District. Officials say that the consolidation has saved taxpayers more than 100,000. Students in camden returned to the classroom today with fewer teachers and Staff Members and with fewer high hopes for the school year. Lisa thomaslaury reports that despite a budget shortfall and layoffs, they have a lower focus on School Safety and achievement. Welcome back. Nearly 13,000 students in the camden School District returned to school this morning, mayor dana redd and the superintendant were at the Wilson Family school to greet them. The superintendant says they worked hard in the past year to prepare for this day. In particular we have done a lot to improve the way our students feel about safety and the way our families feel and that families feel safe to and from school. Students and their parents a refewed partnership between the district and police department, feeling safe going to and from their classrooms by providing a Police Presence on the routes to and from school. And mayor dana redd met with students about their expectations for the Upcoming School year. They shared their thoughts and had questions about their education. They gathered last year to protest teacher and staff layoffs. The superintendant in his first year is faced with the task of closing a 35 million shortfall in the school budget. We were spending 27,000 a student and 23,000 per student than is one of the highest in the country and we can make due with that. They are confident that they have enough resources to serve their students well. Lisa thomaslaury, channel 6 action news. And the new school year started with ceremony outside of beaumont Elementary School this morning. One nation under god students and staff at the devon school recited the pledge of allegiance at a flag ceremony and then it was time to this flu season. Remember this. Your immune system doesnt work the way it did when rock was young. So we made fluzone highdose vaccine. For people 65 . Fluzone highdose vaccine has a high high higher. Dose of antigen. For a stronger immune response. Fluzone highdose vaccine is approved for people 65 and older. Its not for anyone whos had a severe allergic reaction to any vaccine component, including eggs, egg products, or to a prior dose of any flu vaccine. Tell your doctor if youve had guillainbarre syndrome. Side effects include pain, swelling and redness at the injection site; muscle aches, fatigue, headache and fever. Other side effects may occur. If you have other symptoms or problems following vaccination, call your doctor immediately. Vaccination may not protect everyone. So if you hopped around the clock, ask your Health Care Provider about fluzone highdose vaccine. Fluzone highdose vaccine. The eagles preparing for the real thing, against the jaguars. Its all jacksonville, the eagles were the number one offensive team and the eagles hope that that carries over into the regular season as they kick things off at home against the jaguars. Quarterback nick foles won the job with 27 tds and just 2 interceptions. Former eagles quarterback Donovan Mcnabb was asked if he is a franchise caliber player . I would say no at this point. I think what he will do is, he wont do what he did last year. That just wont happen. Everybody is entitled to their opinion, its a week to week thing and my job is to play to the best of my ability. I havent earned anything yet. Maybe when im done with football. But no. Of course there is High Expectations for foles and the eagles. In the rookie year the birds were 106 and won the division and went to the playoffs. Kelly will not put a number on it in 2014 but is ready to roll. We think the preseason counts, any time you compete against a team it counts. Obviously its year two and we have a bunch of guys around us and you are around them. In terms of what well get accomplished. We are excited, we are for real and it counts. Getting set for kick yours, two plannedy sunday shows, eagle kickoff starts at 11 30 a. M. With ducis rogers and recap and interviews on eagles game day final sunday night after action news at 11 00. Baseball now, pat gillic says today he has final say on baseball matters while he fills in for david montgomery. Both ruben amaro and ryan sandbergs jobs are safe for next season. The same cannot be said for cody ashy. Franco is making his debut tonight, batting third and playing second. He is on fire in aaa since the beginning of july, hitting. 324 and a league high 47 runs batted in, the 22yearold may see time at first basz. Finally, after throwing the first combined team nohitter in atlanta yesterday, its another reason to be excited. Flyers dont drop the puck for another month but zach ronaldo gets a two year extension and is he surprised this happened so early. Training camp is just weeks away. Chopper 6 hd is over hunting park and wissahickon avenue in philadelphia. This is the scene of a hit and run 20 minutes ago, a 62yearold man was hurt and rushed to Temple University hospital. We dont know his condition yet police are still trying to get a trips of the hit and run vehicle and action news dozens students are starting the school year in a brand new building, the muscle man center on sandy street is the latest edition, more than 250 kindergarten students will get their educational start here this year and they got started in class and drawing about what they did to get ready for the school year. How about that . First day of school. First day of school and how about the next seven days of accuweather forecast. It will get stormy tonight, stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that most of our region is rain free, we do have a few storms in northern berks county and beginning to move into western Lancaster County, this one ive been tracking is over crumbsville, 10 lightning strikes are associatied with ths and a long line of storms moving out of york county, moving east at 35 miles per hour. And moving into Lancaster County. This in edition has lightning and damaging winds and hail. And parts of land caster county, western Lancaster County could get hit hard with these storms. Ahead of a cold front bringing us changes over the next few days. Its hot and humid and the morning low, 76 degrees and temperatures in the 90s. 93 degrees, that is 10 degrees above normal. Not quite a report though, the record is 100 set in 1953 but when you factor in the humidity. The heat index soared to 99 degrees, its oppressive out there. Not feeling like september. Currently in september, 91 in philadelphia and allentown 88 and wilmington 89, even on the beach a warm day, sea ill city 81 degrees showers and thunderstorms are ahead of a cold front that is shifting our winds tomorrow and we are not looking at a solid band of storms, that being said any of the storms can contain heavy downpours and brief torrential rains and gusty winds and lightning. If you hear the thunder get inside. Future tracker showing that people will miss the storms, future tracker showing at 9 00 its the best chance to see spotty storms around philadelphia and another round hand 11 30, they move offshore at 1 00 in the morning and tomorrow its storm free and it begins to feel better, still a warm day, 88 degrees and bright sunshine and if you get the winds from the northwest. That is a dry flow of air over land, the humidity is dropping as we head through the day. Thursday, the humidity will be fairly low and 88 degrees, this warm front moves through friday. Temperatures of 90s with humidity as a cold front moves through over the weekend with the possibility of wet weather and the cool down for the second half of the weekend. The next 12 hours its warm and humid and spotty, evening thunderstorms again and not all that widespread. 65 in the suburbs and 72 in seventier city. The exclusive accuweather forecast, a warm day tomorrow, but noticeably less humid and good weather for the union game, with a high of 88 degrees, a little bit on the breezy side. The humidity is still in check with a high of 88 degrees, on friday it gets hot and more humid. Saturday the temple home opener its warm and humid and 98 degrees, and thunderstorms around late in the day and the showers are lasting into the morning, hopefully they clear in time for the eagles home opener, a lot cooler and high of 80 degrees and monday and tuesday, this is going to feel more like september. Temperatures will be dropping down into the upper 70s with a low humidity. A little bit of a break for the next two days and two more hot days and cooler next week. Wonder woman and super man handed out high fives using their powers, they also provided encouragement for students that need an extra push on this first day. The teachers inside are also heroes, they just wear a different costume. Abcs world news is next on channel 6, action news continues on 10 00 on phl 17 with brian taff and adam joseph and ducis rogers, and join us for action news at 11 00 here on channel 6. For cecily tynan, Jeff Skversky, ducis rogers and the entire action news team. Im jim gardner we hope youll join us at 11 00. On world news tonight this tuesday, the breaking news, the horrific images, the second american hostage apparently killed by the terrorist group isis. Brian ross and Martha Raddatz standing by with what theyre learning right now. The Severe Weather hitting tonight, tornados warnings in effect, twisters already doing damage. The lightning striking, the massive hail. Ginger zee with a storm track right now. The stolen childhood tonight. We are just back from the syrian border, the children running from terror forced to work at 7, 8, 9 years old. Is anyone helping the children . Breaking tonight, what were just now learning about how those private photographs were hacked, the famous faces, and this question, how safe are your photos . The one thing you should do right now
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