Thank are putting together a plan if the virus shows up here. Viruses do not have borders or boundary, so we have to be prepared. Officials are working since this summer on thousand respond to a suspended case of ebola. The task force is made up of educators, police, First Responders and health care workers. Recognizing what to do and having a protocol for response and knowing who to call, these are important parts of dealing with a Public Health threat like ebola. Officials caution that in this day and age a virus like this is only a plane ride away and they have to be ready for that possibility. We have a very melting pot community. We have a community from west africa, we have a large immigrant population from all parts of world and we must take the necessary precautions. Reporter now members of the task force say they will meet with authorities over at Philadelphia International airport to learn what protocols are in place in case of a possible case of ebola there. And they will work with surrounding counties to coordinate a response to a potential outbreak of ebola. Im dann cuellar, channel 6 action news. Thank you. And efforts are continuing to help the victims in liberia, the Liberian Community is working for weeks to gather donations and food and supplies. And the red cross is working with them as well. We are hosting a special telethon and sara bloomquist is live now. All evening long volunteers with the American Red Cross are taking calls from our viewers,s number to call is number. All the money taken in this evening will go to west africa to treat patients and help to work to control the outbreak to bring this outbreak to an end in west africa, philadelphia and the surrounding communities have large west african communes and leaders from those communities have joined together to create the Delaware Valley coalition. They are collecting donations at the church in landsdowne, we have the address, they are collectsing medical supplies and nonperishable foods. Reverend dennis is from the church that is collecting. What are you hearing from people in your home nations in west africa about what they need and how desperate things are. They need basic things like clorox and gowns and Hand Sanitizer and bedding and mattresses, things that can help protect themselveses from family members. They can bring you to their church . In landsdowne, we collect anything that anybody can bring to help get them there as soon as possible. Briefly tell me, how is this impacting the west African Community . Very serious, they get calls every day and people get serious and worried. Worry alone cannot do it, that is why we are here tonight and this coalition is intended to solid if i our efforts for west africa and fight against ebola. Thank you, the address of the church is on our website at 6abc. Com. If you would like to give a monetary donation, the number is 18779406222. We are here until 6 30. Thank you again sara. You can follow the latest developments of the Ebola Outbreak at 6abc. Com. We posted the five most important facts about the virus and the new details about the screening measures at several airports. And world news tonight with david muir has the latest on ebola here in the United States here on 6 abc at 6 30. In other news tonight, police in buck county are trying to find out in a deadly crash on i95 was its case of road rage. John rawlins live with that the latest on that investigation. Police are interviewing witnesses here, the goal is to fine the information that will lead them to the driver of the other car who set events in motion yesterday that took the life of a 44yearold south jersey woman. Gabrielle scrolled through facebook this morning Touching Base with others mourning the death of a good friend, lisa de maio, a wife and mother of three, this is the family at a hershey park outing this year and she was a grandmother and doting friend, she spent time working at the neshaminy mall. She got an ink linking of something wrong she would call. You she was returning yesterday from a family gather, southbound on i95, police say she was suddenly cut off by the driver of a black sedan who cut off the brakes and de maio swerved and hit the guardrail. De maios family wonders if its road rage, her family says de maio was on the phone with her husband paul at the time of the crash. She said oh, my god someone cut me off and then a pause and then a scream and he did not hear anything more, but heard air like the phone was no longer in the car. Those close to de maio hope the other driver will come forward. We all make mistakeses, i wish they would put the familys mind at ease and maybe their own minds and come forth with any information about what happened. Again, this happened at 3 45 yesterday afternoon, i95 southbound between street road and wood haven, if you have information that is helpful to police, at the barracks in. Police are looking for to men that killed a man in an e contusion like shooting. Green was hit ten times and pronounced dead at the scene and green has several arrests for narcotics. A neighbor suffered a gunshot wound to the leg when she was hit by a stray bullet. A boy that is accused of they found Raghunandan Yandamuri guilty of killing 10monthold saanvi venna and her grandmother. A severely malnourished dog was rescued from a backyard of a home in chester. The dog called pearl barely has the strength to stand. She is being cared for by an employee of the spca, and that pearl is a sweet and affection nate girl. The investigation into the home is underway, the spca is accepting donations to help care for pearl. Can you go to 6abc. Com for more information on how to help. 911 calls are released in the arson that killed ceo John Sheridan and his wife in their new jersey home. The fire broke out early in the morning on september 28th, a caller described seeing smoke coming from the window and told the dispatcher that he heard banging from inside of the hom. I heard banging on the door. Are you able to get the door open . Not the door they are up stairs. Can you force the door open . Stay on the line with me until the police get there. But the Somerset County police say the noise was from the fire as it was burning. Authority says that the fire was intensely set in their home in montgomery township. Still to come on action news wednesday night, Superintendant William hite is showing how the money will be spent. Well, temperatures were running more than 10 degrees above average today and this front has a history of violence weather and tornadoes will bring us a soggy end to the summer. Sports flyers looking for their first win. Philadelphia School District remains mired in criticism and controversy tonight as it tries to find funning and appease thord disgruntled School District. We sat down with william hite. Reporter the Philadelphia School souperintendant says the dont have a nickel to waste, 40 of that money goes to operating the district schools including teachers salaries. Charter schools consume a third of the bunt at 337 million. Pension total 271 million and remainor goes to places students in other districts and administrative costs. We wouldnt need all of the counsel if we werent doing things like having to borrow money every year to make ends meet. The Teacher Union is still smarting after forcing the Union Members into paying into their health plan. I wish i knew where all the money is going, i know its not going into our classrooms that is for sure. The massive commitment to Charter Schools represents an enormous amount of waste. 275 million goes into Charter Schools the governors election next month will have an impact one way or the other on school funding. In the meantime, the School System will keep on limping along with far too little funning from harrisburg, vernon odom, channel 6 action news. Two fall and officers were honored in montgomery county. District attorney fuhrman dedicated plaques, family was on hand at the Administration Building in ardmore, fanning suffer as heart attack on the judge in 1966 and fletcher died in the line of duty in 1937, he was killed in a motorcycle crash while pursuing a suspect. New firefighters tonight, that brings the number of firefighters into the city to 24, and the mayor promoted several medical emergency personnel, including the first africaname jaime is here with sports now and the flyers still trying to get the elusive first win. Can you believe that . Its like deja vu all over again. Just like last year, the orange and black winless after three games, the Third Straight season they startd this way, last year Peter Laviolette was out of a job but berube has had big leads and lost them. We were skating well and working hard and just didnt pull one point out of it. Its different than last year but we have to make sure we stick with it and play a little bet better defense. Its not all negative, i think we have done a lot of good things in the first three games and we have to build on that and learn from the negative. The eagles are 51, and we need a midweek break down. We went to mike quick. Through six games, i think the offense has played very, very well, im very impressed. The offensive line dealing with the issues not having the center and not having the all pro left guard there, for this team to be 51 they are doing everything right. The quarterback is doing a great job and they are 51, when i look at the defense, i see a team that continues to get better, i hear coaches talking about it but i can see it. Especially looking at the giants game and how guys are much more comfortable in their position, Going Forward if they can keep Healthy Bodies i can see this defense continuing to be better. Finally, lets talk chip kelly, he is one of the brightest minds in the game, the way he trains and the way he prepares for the games, the way he breaks down the weaknesses on the other side and wearing them down each week. The giants and cardinals are tied in the fourth and the winner takes a lead. Kansas city has a 20 lead in the series against the orioles they play later tonight. Brad keselowski is fined 35,000 for his antics on sunday. It was part of a post race brawl that involved hamlin. But they were not fined. Like a hockey game there. Thanks jaime. Meteorologist, cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast. Have you seen tom corbetts ads attacking me. Get real. Its tom corbett whos been sticking it to the middle class on taxes. Corbett cut a billion dollars from education. Now almost 80 of School Districts plan to raise property taxes. Meanwhile, were the only state that doesnt charge oil and Gas Companies an extraction tax. But corbett raised your gas taxes through the roof. Im tom wolf, ill be a governor who stands up for the middle class for a change. 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. Cecily is here and if you like today youll like part of tomorrow . Temperatures in the upper 70s again like today but will end with rain tomorrow night. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that there is no rain out there today but there is plenty of warm air and i want to show you a photo, this is sent in to my Facebook Page from action news viewer, greg. Lake harmony pennsylvania, this is split rock golf course, the colors are peaking in the poconos so its looking like fall but not feeling like fall. Temperatures run 20 degrees above normal. 79 degrees, normal high is 67, allentown and trenton, just as warm and wilmington is close to that, and wildwood is 75 degrees, typical for september but not october. Future tracker is showing a soaker wednesday night into thursday morning, a general inch to inch and a half of rain, some areas that have thunderstorms to have closer to 3 inches of rain by thursday morning. Whether you like it or not, some people do and some people think its too warm. Swra warm air mass. 74 in wilmington and 72 in millville and Sea Isle City 70 degrees, and it is a breezy day. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing if you look at the movement of the clouds, you can see how the winds are coming up out of the southeast and then the cold front moving through the ohio valley, this system will be pushing through tomorrow night. Future tracker showing you wake up in the morning a bright and sunny day and a few clouds come in and then they rule the sky, at 4 30 in the afternoon showers and thunderstorms develop in our far western suburbs, they will get closer to philadelphia at midnight, the good news is, yesterday it looks like thursday morning during the rush hour we had rain but this time the heavy rain moves offshore and we dry out during the morning commute and the heavy of the rainfalls when most of us are asleep. The threat is the downpours with potential for street flooding this system has a history of tornadoes and it arrives here in a much weakened state and we have wind and hail. The call from accuweather for tonight, mostly cloudy and a warm and muggy night and temperatures typical of highs, 63 in the suburbs and 66 for center city. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, warm tomorrow and rain arriving late in the day and 79 degrees and thursday Early Morning rain and afternoon sunshine and 72, and friday nice and partly sunny and 70 degrees and saturday not a wet saturday morning, beautiful start to the weekend, 70 degrees and a cold front moves through on saturday night, coming through dry and look how the temperatures crash on sunday the high only 59 degrees and monday and tuesday have afternoon highs in the low 60s, ill have the timing on that rain coming up on action news at 11 00. Finally tonight, a new expansion project taking off at the Philadelphia International airport, there was a ceremonial grown breaking at terminal f and construction was underway, they will expand the baggage claim and the ticketing area. World news is next here on channel 6, and action news continues on phl 17 at 10 00 with shirleen allicot, brian taff, ducis rogers and adam joseph. And join us for a special report tonight at 11 00 here on channel 6. Reporter in just hours former nfl players will make a decision if they will opt in or out of millions of dollars and could the nfl settlement be tangled with something they call unfair. The way this settlement is proposed to past, its never going to help the problems i am going through and other players i know. They call the settlement flawed dont miss my special report tonight on action news at 11 00. Now for the entire in cases of rape,pposes aborin cases of incest,ions. And in cases where the Mothers Health is in danger. No woman should be forced to carry a pregnancy from a rape. Mario scavello sponsored a bill to force women to have unnecessary and invasive ultrasounds. Its horrifying. Women need to know that Mario Scavello wants to stand between them and their doctors in making decisions that arent his to make. Welcome to world news tonight. The tornado watches up right now. 23 million americans facing Severe Weather tonight. Deadly twisters touching down. We are live. Also this evening, that massive hurricane gaining strength. The biggest in the atlantic to make landfall this year. First words. Tonight, what the 26yearold nurse with ebola is now saying. The blood, the antibodies rushed in to help her from that other american. What weve learned tonight about her dog. And the new warning this evening, the World Health Organization and their stunning prediction. The air scare. The peaker plane making an Emergency Landing over america. The walls opening up from the inside. The breaking news weve just learned. The punishment for that moment on the track between two nascar greats. And the bold offer from facebook and now