Happening and got out of his car and chased the suspect and the police joined the chase on the College Campus and they found what they believe was the suspects coat and the victims hat sources say he was seen discardeding inging them as he ran. The parking lot was owned by the one town apartments and residents were horrified to hear what happened here. I am surprised it seemed safe. Women that use their garage always felt safe here. I always felt safe but now im not sure. This is a relatively crime free section of town, some thefts of vehicles but nothing violent. People that live here is a this is a first. This is the first time this ever happened. I am working here ten years and this is the first time this ever happened. The victim is hospitalized in stable condition and the suspect is still being questioned and so far there is no word on criminal charges live in spring gardidnt david henry channel 6 action news. Thank you david. Bensalem police are investigating a home on the 1100 block of wittier avenue at 11 00 police got a 911 call of a selfinflicted gunshot that left a woman dead, police are questioning a man that lives in the home and the person is said to be cooperating with detectives. It only took one hour into 2015 for the city of chester to record its first homicide of the year police found a body in a yard on culhane street. It was Ramon Anderson and that her son had two children and a fiance. He turned his life around and tried to help a lot of people. But let me tell you something. Whoever took my sons life you dont have to worry about me coming after you, you better worry about god. At the same time police are investigating another shooting in the 2900 block of west 11th street. That person was taken to the hospital in a private vehicle, its unclear if the two shootings were linked. There was a record homicide last year with 32 of them and Delaware County set a record with 39. It may have been cold but the sun was out and folks went for a stroll on the ocean city boardwalk we are in for a repeat performance before changes roll in on saturday, lets go live to cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast. Its a great day to start your new years off right and get some exercise philadelphia reaching a high of 42 degrees, 41 is the average high for january 1st. Allentown 39 and wilmington 42 and wildwood 45 and trenton 40 degrees it felt quite a bit cooler thanks to this, a peak wind gust of in philadelphia of 32 and reading is 30 and trenton recording a peak wind gust of 29 miles per hour. You add the winds with the current temperature and the windchill the way it feels right now 33 in philadelphia and some windchills dropping down into the 20s and feels like 29 in trenton and wilmington and the windchill is 28 degrees in dover and reading and the windchill is 26 degrees in allentown and its another seasonably cold night. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing we saw full sunshine throughout the day and high clouds are cropping up south of philadelphia but what im tracking for the weekend is low pressure that is beginning to move into texas you can see the moisture is starting to develop there into the gulf of mexico and that is the system that brings us big changes in the term of rain and a major spike in temperatures this is what is what head, more sunshine through the day and high, thin clouds in the afternoon im tracking a rainy second half of your weekend and temperatures are in the 60s on sunday, and then later next week, our afternoon highs will be plunging only in the 20s. Well talk more about all of these weather changes coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Thanks cecily. Thousands lined broad street to watch the mummers strut their stuff during the annual mummers parade. That is the duffy spring band with their performance just a sample of the new years Day Entertainment provided by the string bands fancy brigades and wefrnls. Its a pure philadelphia tradition that keeps families coming back year after year, ali gorman is here with that part of the story tonight. The parade is winding down but the Party Continues here on south broad street. You can see some of the mummers making their way down to washington avenue. Lots of people out here to enjoy the new years celebration. As the mummers strutted their stuff down broad street thousands lined up for the fun and to see the flair. For many its a family tradition. Mummer rocco performs with his grandson, jaden. We walk down the street and laugh and smile and have fun and its what it is all about. Samantha garty is carrying on a tradition. My dad is from philly and its the best place to celebrate. And these two friends come avenue year, a time we can get together and make more memories to hold in our hearts. For others 2015, ushered in the first mummers parade experience. I noticed it every year and i wanted to come out and experience it this year. Never saw it before. Saw it on tv. Never live. What do you think . Much better live. It is a great parade to watch live a few more bands are making this way down south broad to the end of the parade at washington avenue, as for the changes to the route some say they liked it and others didnt like it but the mummers take it all in stride. Reporting live ali gorman channel 6 action news. Happy new year. Happy new year ali. Where our mummers coverage continues for you at 6abc. Com youll find pictures from todays parades and well post the names of winners as they are announced its all there at 6abc. Com. More than 100 firefighters were called in for a blaze in Burlington County this morning and flames damaged nearby homes and Nora Muchanic has the story of this massive fire fight from mount holly. This is what it looked like when the home in mount holly went up in flameser more than 100 firefighters battled water supply problems and the bitter cold and they were hampered by the construction of this centuries old manufacturing building. Floors that were soaked in years and years of oil from this machine shop and it made the fire burn that much quicker and that much hotter and made it harder to put out. I put on my shoes and ran out the door. Sara was evacuated and sheltered at the Community Center across the street. I was terrified i was walking through the backyard and all i heard was boom. The flames were intense and the fire was so high and so hot it made its way across the street and two buildings here caught fire. Was afraid because when i got outside the debris in the air you could see all the pieces of fire in the air. Firefighters were dousing hot spots throughout the day and heavy equipment was brought in to demolish the rest of the building. The blaze knocked out power to several buildings in the area and the Community Center is scrambling to find other accommodations for their clients. We have a soup kitchen here we are suppose to feed people and find places for the Homeless People to go. The cause of fire is undetermined and the firefighters have not been able to examine the scene yet because its too hot and too unstable. Philadelphia Water Department took advantage of a light traffic day to make repairs, montgomery drive and Martin Luther king drive was shut down from 4 00 a. M. To 4 00 p. M. Today. Montgomery drive is now reopen to drivers ton. Coming up on action news tonight. All parents have their reasons to believe their child is special and well introduce you to the baby taking the title of first baby born in 2015 in philadelphia. And folks take the plunge into the Atlantic Ocean for a good cause. Cecily . A dry start to the new year but im tracking a rainy weekend and swings in temperatures. Ill have all the details. And ducis rogers has the quarterback question facing the eagles that and more is ahead in sports. The Holiday Season is here, which means its time for the volkswagen signthendrive event. For practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a germanengineered volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta. And the 2015 motor trend car of the year allnew golf. If youre wishing for a new volkswagen this season. Just about all you need is a finely tuned. Pen. Hurry in to the sign then drive event and get a fivehundred dollar new years bonus on select new volkswagen models. Offer ends january 2nd. New year, a new minimum wage for new jersey it went up 13 cents. The rate will rise each year in tandem with the Consumer Price index. Families took advantage of the extravaganza in philadelphia. There were balloons and artists and face painters and it offered warm seats over looking the mummers parade. And Pennsylvania Hospital welcomed the first baby of the new year, Sophia Grayson dawson is born this morning and they were waiting for this bundle of joy for ten years she is the couples first child and the first grand child. Making her the first baby of 2015 make its sweeter. She is special for a lot of reasons but this is another great reason she is special. The dawson has lots to smile about on this new years day. Ducis is here and the eagles have a quarterback question. They did not get good play from the quarterback so who should quarterback in 2016, we know the answer is not mark sanchez do you go back to nick foles the way he regressed this past season. Ron jaworsky shared his thoughts. I am an absolute believer that nick fole is the quarterback of the future and the longterm answer he had 27 touch downs and two picks he raised the bar i didnt expect him to play that well this season and look back at some of the problems that the eagles had in the beginning the season the only healthy guy was peterson and andre was suspended the first three games the lack of the offensive line hurt nick foles this season and this could be a Super Bowl Team with nick foles as the quarterback. Today two semi final days to get us to a national championship. And the rose bowl is from pasadena, california, Marcus Mariota from oregon the guy that the eagles would like to see he pitch its and gets down to the 1 yard line and Royce Friedman finishes the job and oregon leads 133 in the fourth quarter. And alabama and ohio state hook up at 8 30 on espn and we are getting ready to name the new national championship. Lebron james is expected to be out for two weeks with back problems. And last night in colorado the flyers held a 32 lead on this pretty Claude Giroux goal but it fell apart from there a couple of minutes later the avalanche went on the power play and they scored and tied the game. We are 20 seconds away from going to a shootout when rhino rhino oreilly ended thing. We are not play that bad but we are not finding ways to win but if you look at the play by the other team, our execution and we are not pinpoint accurate but we are not that bad, we have to keep plugging away here. The winter classic in d. C. , over 42000 fans checking out the caps and black hawks under 20 seconds to play, troy bougher with 20 seconds to go washington wins it. The way hockey was meant to be played. Thank you ducis. Hundreds towed the line for a 5k walk on the boardwalk in the chill a great kick start for a great 2015, ocean city first day of activities. Forget the ice bucket challenge ways that people in welcomed the new year, they were water skiing on the schuylkill river, they started it with a bet and its a fun afternoon and a fundraiser for camp rainbow they invite anybody willing to give it a try to come out january 1st. I love water skiing but i dont know. I water skied in april and it was 45 degrees and i had a wet suit on and i was miserable. Great for them. It felt like january. It was dry and typically cold stormtracker 6 live double scan showing we have a dry first night of 2015, the nice thing about today though the sunshine and the action cam taking a look at the wilmington waterfront, earlier today looking up to see the blue skies and bright sunshine and you can hear the gusty winds that were blowing threw all day long. Lets go to a live snapshot of Shawnee Mountain and you can see that we hadnt had natural snow, the ski resorts are making snow and folks are out there doing night skiing and it will be a big night for skiing. Bundle up in the poconos, lots of sunshine but not as harsh. 26 degrees by 2 00, 32 degrees and the windchill on the slopes will be right around 20 degree. 42 was the high in philadelphia 1 degree above the average high, this is seasonable. Allentown 39 and wilmington 42 and Atlantic City 42 degrees today and it felt cooler with the wins. Looking at january, the average high for the 1st of january is 41 degrees, we typically stay cool all month long, the average high for the 31st of january is also 41 degrees and typically snowfall does increase during january and in december our average snowfall is 3. 5 inches and january its about 6. 5 inches and february is typically our snowiest month. No snow today. Allentown 35 and trenton 36 and wilmington 36 and the poconos currently 29 degrees, factor in the breeze and it feels like 29 in wilmington and 33 in philadelphia and feels like 26 in allentown and 28 in reading. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing we are pretty much in the clear High Pressure is still in control of our weather, if you look down across the gulf coast the moisture is beginning the gather and low pressure moves into texas and this is a storm system that brings us a wet second half of the weekend. Tomorrow looking good High Pressure is in control and a fair amount of sunshine and breezy and not as windy as today and temperatures up a little bit. A high of 44 degrees, all in all a nice january day. On saturday the clouds roll in in the morning and the rain moving in and a high of 42 degrees, this low pressure sweeps to the west and this will drag a warm front through during the night on saturday and temperatures are rising in the overnight hours this is what we expect for the weekend, rain is moving in midafternoon and that could briefly mix with sleet along the i78 corridor and areas north and a quick change over to rain and a good soaking, a half inch to inch of rain and temperatures on sunday will soar for one day into the 60s. The next 12 hours mostly clear and a january chill 25 to 30 and the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast tomorrow good amount of sunshine high, thin clouds in the afternoon and 44 degrees and saturday the rain moves in in the afternoon and a brief mix in the far north and west and on sunday periods of rain and look at the high, 62 degrees and then a cold front moves through by monday and its windy and colder and 39 degrees on tuesday and a fast moving clipper could bring us evening snow showers and that clipper opens the door for true arctic air to arrive on wednesday bitter cold and 29 degrees and thursday a little bit colder the afternoon high only 28 degrees we are looking at the coldest air of the season arriving next week. It was a great day to take a dip in the ocean more than 1,000 swimmers jumped into the Atlantic Ocean for the brigantine Polar Bear Plunge it is expected to raise 29,000 in the sale of merchandise and clanders and it benefits fisher house that benefits families of Wounded Service members. Action news continues at 10 00 on phl 17 with brian taff, shirleen allicot, adam joseph and ducis rogers and join us for action news at 11 00 on channel 6, for jim gardner, cecily tynan and ducis rogers im Monica Malpass have a good first night of the year. Get ready for some german engineered holiday excitement. At the volkswagen signthendrive event. Right now, for practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a new volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta and the precisely engineered passat tdi. Ah, the gift of clean diesel. For the new volkswagen on your list this year just about all you need, is a pen. Festive, isnt it . 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What triggered the chaos . Race against time. The air asia jet still not found. Now the search area is doubling. Ready to run . The biggest sign yet that jeb bush will throw his hate in the president ial ring. And back to the future. 2015 . Does 2015 look like the place marty mcfly visited when he went into the future . No flying