Insurance and had counterfeit inspection stickers. The speedometer and defroster both not working saying i had basically tunnel vision. I only had a small area to see out front. My side windows were fogged up. Zekas family watched shelley enter his arraignment visibly upset. Shelleys friends and family came in his support. Michael feels very bad obviously for the death of someone who is a classmate of his and when the facts come out i think it will be clear what exactly h it wasnt intoxicated, he wasnt high. The family of the young girl obviously is devastated and im hoping that today is the first part of the healing process and the judgment system can take its course the Justice System can take its course. Reporter shelley was charged with overtaking a school bus and four counts of Reckless Endangerment for the other students at the bus stop. Today the judge set his bail at 500,000. Reporting from bensalem, Annie Mccormack channel6 action news. The man killed by Bridgeton Police tuesday night once served prison time for firing on new jersey state troopers. That shooting happened back in 1994 when troopers went to his home to question him about a stolen handgun. Jeremy read was 15 at the time. Hes now 36. He was killed tuesday after being pulled over by Bridgeton Police. Authorities will only say that a handgun was revealed but they have yet to release any more details about that deadly traffic stop. We are learning new details today as well about the violent attack on a woman in a Spring Garden parking garage yesterday. The suspect is under arrest facing rape and attempted murder charges. Action News Reporter chad pradelli live at the scene. This man is behind bars but the incident has really taken the community, hasnt it. Reporter yes monica. People living around here will certainly on edge. Any time you have a Violent Crime like what happened here yesterday, one sense of security is fractured. Police say Steven Woodson followed this woman into the parking garage. She had been dropped off by a friend to get her car on the second level. He put his hand over her mouth. Then allegedly beat and raped her. She was savagely beaten. She was at werent point she states she lost consciousness and when she came to, this male was on top going through her pocketbook. Its just terrible. You cant even walk the streets anymore. You really cant. Area residents are alarmed by the attack though theres some some solace knowing woodson is off the street thanks to a husband and wife who interrupted the attack. Without lesstation they opened themselves up to the victim no got that victim secured in a car took care of her while the other victim while the other witness actually pursued and called 911 at the same time. Reporter Police Quickly responded and arrested woodson around the corner at 17th and Spring Garden. Police say they recovered evidence from the victim on him. The parking garage is used for residents of the one Franklin Town apartments. Today Security Officers manned the lot which residents say is unusual. Regardless some with whom we spoke say theyre not blaming the apartment complex which told action news they had no comment. Police tell me woodson was here visiting his grandparents from pittsburgh. He does have prior arrests for lewdness, robbery and other related charges. Police are now seeing if he is connected to any other open cases. Im live in Spring Garden, chad pradelli, channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you chad. Septa police are investigating a threatening message found scrawled on a bathroom door yesterday. Chief of Police Thomas nestell tweeted this photo of the threat written in the mens room it reads shoot septa cops. Investigators are taking that threat seriously. Please call septa police if you have any information that can help their investigation. Now to a renewed hepatitis a scare in Mercer County new jersey. A Fitness Instructor and a hair salon worker have both contracted the virus both may have unknowingly exposed clients. Registered nurse and health check reporter ali gorman live with more on that. Ali. Reporter monica this time we wont see a mass vaccination like we did last month but there are a lot of concerns. The mayor and Health Officials held an open meeting this afternoon. About two dozen residents came to ask questions after two more cases of hepatitis a were reported in hamilton township. One of the infected women is a 60yearold parttime Fitness Instructor at the new Jersey Athletic Club in lawrenceville and the John K Rafferty ymca in hamilton. Im a member of the y and im really interested in finding out where was the locale where this instructor taught classes. She teaches a spin and mixed muscle class. Both facilities are disinfected daily. We feel pretty confident that our environment is pretty safe. Reporter the hair port salon on South Broad Street in hamilton was also cleaned today. The other infected patient is a 53yearold hairstylist there. I got an email last night from the township on the web site so when i saw hair port then i knew i was involved. Reporter this man Ronnie Stuart got the hepatitis a vaccine today. Health Officials Say employees and patrons of the salon are at a greater risk. It is spread through fecal matter coming in contact with your mouth. Both women ate at rosas restaurant but officials cant say for sure if thats where he picked up the virus. Hepatitis a is rarely fatal but can cause severe symptoms such as nausea, abdominal pain diary and jaundice and Health Officials now are in the process of contacting anyone that is at risk from these two new cases. If you have any questions or concerns, you can talk to your primary care physician or you can call the health department. That number is 609 8903884. Reporting live from hamilton township, ali gorman, channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you ali. Family and friends of 10yearold Matthew Mccloskey paid tribute to his young memory. Matthews loved ones said goodbye and laid him to rest in williamstown new jersey. He was struck and killed by a Police Cruiser in Franklin Township while walking to a sleepover last weekend. His family said today has been the worst so far. Id like to say theyre holding up well but theyre not. Its very tough. The patrol car was driven by an officer who has been placed on desk duty pending the outcome of the d. A. s investigation. There are questions about whether the cruisers lights and siren were on when the little boy was hit. Cheltenham Police Arrested a man caught in a target store after hours last night. Canine officers found 18yearold isaiah bell hiding under a Christmas Display in the store on shoppers lane in wyncote. Police were alerted to the store by targets corporate security office. They reported a man inside putting Electronic Items in a duffle bag. Investigators say bell hid in the store until it closed. Hes now charged with burglary and criminal trespassing. A possible gas leak forced the evacuation of a bank in the holmesburg section of philadelphia. Firefighters responded to the wells fargo in the 8000 block of frankford avenue about noon. Customers and nine employees were told to leave the building. Pgw was called outer to investigate. Coming up on action news tonight, drivers along the pennsylvania turnpike should expect to dig deeper in their wallets as a toll hike goes into effect this weekend. And the stage is set for the College Football National Championship. Jeff skversky with that and more ahead in sports. Cecily. After a dry start to 2015, as, see our luck is going to be changing over the weekend. Ill have new information on what to expect in the accuweather forecast. Those stories and much more when action news continues tonight. 2014 was a deadly year on delaware roadways. Safety Officials Say 125 people were killed in traffic accidents. That is a 24 percent increase over the prior year. Officials say nearly half the fatalities involved impaired drivers. One in four People Killed was not wearing a seat belt. The deadly year comes after a 50 year low in 2013 when only 101 people died on delaware roads. Speaking of the roads get ready to pay more to drive on the pennsylvania turnpike starting this weekend. A 5 percent toll hike will take effect saturday at midnight to pay for projects around the state and action News Reporter john rawlins was live with more. John. Reporter hi, monica. Death taxes and turnpike toll hikes are all a certainty here in pennsylvania. The 5 percent figure kind of a middle ground. The past couple years weve seen the hikes range from 2 to 10 percent. On workdays roughly 120,000 vehicles travel the turnpike between the blue route and fort washington. Starting january 4th drivers will be paying a nickel to a dime more for that short trip depending if they use ez pass or pay cash. To the west Bob Dell Grosso uses the turnpike about once a week. The 5 percent hike. Its not something i think about. Reporter its not a game changer for you. No, no. I would imagine if i was a commuter, i used it every day commuting interstate i would be much more can concerned. Reporter 5. 20 is what this daily commuter pays. Eats looking at a 30cent jump. Would you consider a different route . I dont even know how i would go how id get to it without the turnpike. I dont know. Reporter come sunday there will have been seven toll hikes in seven years. Seven years ago harrisburg designated the turnpike as a kind of transportation cash cow. Besides its own costs it must pay the state billions used to cover debt for road rebuilding and mass transit over the entire state. Unless the law is changed its expectly annual toll hikes will continue into the foreseeable future. Costs a lot of money to support. Theres no getting around it. Reporter this 5 percent toll hike that goes into effect on sunday will go to road transit and now Port Infrastructure improvements all across the state. Live at the midcounty toll plaza, john rawlins, channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you john. A fast moving fire damaged this Port Richmond home early this morning. It broke out about 4 30 a. M. On the 2000 block of east madison street. The owner of the home represents out room. It took about 15 minutes to get that fire under control. No reported injuries. And dont forget, you can take 6abc. Com with you wherever you go. The smart design changes the layout now to fit any device no matter how small or large the screen. Check it out by visiting 6abc. Com any time anywhere. Friction or no friction in the eagles office. Thats a question for Jeff Skversky. When you miss the playoffs and you dont get in. Right. Tensions going to possibly brew, changes will be made. Well see how far this thing goes. Chip kelly and Howie Roseman getting along . Since the eagles season ended kellys right hand man have been let go there have been multiple reports of a power struggle and rift between coach and general manager. We have asked to interview Kelly Roseman and eagles owner lurie to help clear the air here but eagles have not responded to our requests. Earlier this week kelly says he has a good working relationship with roseman and lurie said sunday roseman would be back and he likes to surround himself with strong opinionated people. Chip is connected to be in Arlington Texas a week from monday for the College Football National Championship game watching his former team the oregon ducks take on ohio state. And if you dont have connections like chip kelly you can see the game on espn. Believe it or not the first College Football National Championship game under the new playoff format is actually between the same two schools that played in the first ever ncaa Tournament College basketball title game. Oregon and ohio state. The flyers need a win and they need one badly. This should help. Flyers face off with arguably the worst team in hockey tonight. Nobody has fleur points than the fewer points than the hurricanes. Mason has been terrific in his career against carolina. Sixers are in phoenix later tonight at 9 00 where hopefully reigning rookie of the year michael carterwilliams can get out of this awful stretch. Mcw has missed 24 of his laughter 27 shots. Yeah. Sixers legendary stat man Harvey Pollack is in Critical Condition after being involved in a car crash last night. The 92yearold broke his ribs hip pelvis and jaw. Pollack is the only nba employee that has been in the game since the nbas first season in 1946. Best of luck and a speedy recovery. Villanova is just one win away from their best start in school history. Nova has never started 14 and zero but the cats chase for a School Record hit a big bump in the road tomorrow. Jay wright and the villanova wildcats getting set to meet seton hall. The pirates are 11 and two coming off an upset over 15th ranked jane johns earlier this saint johns earlier this weekly. It make every game a challenge. We might not look that good but if we can find a way to win we got to accept that and not get down on ourselves if we dont look good. Thats the beauty of being in the position were at and we we do what we got to do. We dont base our game off of any team coming to knock us off. Finally in western pennsylvania a high school is in desperate need of a new basketball net. Take a look in a Girls Basketball tournament just a simple free throw does this. Whoa. Whoa is right monica. The rim goes down on an easy free throw. Thats it. Not even a dunk. A free throw. The basket took 45 minutes to fix. Yikes. Did they give her the point . Thats a great question. I dont know. Ill get back to you. Burlington county officials investigating a nasty crash in moorestown that has seriously injured a person. It happened on route 38 eastbound near south Church Street about 5 30. Two people are reported injured. As we said one of them seriously. Route 38 now closed eastbound at the crash scene. Every month, mr. Johnson goes to the drugstore and connects with a pharmacist to renew his arthritis medication. Which means he can keep up with his granddaughter at her wedding. When older pennsylvanians make the most of programs supported by the Pennsylvania Lottery, like Prescription Drug programs, we all benefit. Learn more at palottery. Com. The Pennsylvania Lottery benefits older pennsylvanians every day. Cecily is here. Cold wet warm and its also confusing. We have a little bit of everything this weekend. Tonight its clear but its going to be a cold night. Storm tracker 6 live double scan showing this is the calm before the storm. We have dry conditions out there tonight. Monica is right. It is going to be a wild weekend. Were going from some wintry precipitation tomorrow to a run at record warmth on sunday. Tomorrow for philadelphia this will be a rain event. However when the moisture moves in in the morning there will be enough cold air at the surface that along the pennsylvania turnpike and really areas to the north is where we could see a brief mix of sleet and freezing rain. The best chance of this between 9 oclock in the morning and 1 oclock in the afternoon and there could be a few slick spots especially the bridges and overpasses so be careful if youre driving tomorrow morning. Then on sunday ahead of this can cold front we have a surge of very warm air. The record high for sunday, 68 degrees set back in 1950 and were going to be close to that. Im forecasting a high of 64 degrees. Not going to be bright and sunny 64. Well have a lot of clouds and we will have some periods of rain. Right now philadelphia 38 degrees down from a high of 44 which is 3 degrees above normal. Temperatures slightly above where we should be for this time of the year. An allentown 36, trenton 37, millville 33, Sea Isle City 40 and poconos dropped down to 29 degrees. Satellite6 along with action radar showing were already getting the cloud cover associated with this storm system. The actual low pressure is near houston but you can see how ahead of it really tapping into a lot of moisture from the gulf of mexico and that is streaming up the to the north and the National Weather service has issued Winter Weather advisories for Lancaster County and the poconos. Lancaster the advisory goes into effect at 7 oclock tomorrow morning. The poconos around noon and it look like some of that sleet and freezing rain will likely last well into the afternoon for the poconos so do be careful if youre driving up to the among taken this weekend. Fume tracker showing the storm system moving faster than anticipated by 10 oclock the moisture is here in the form of rain philadelphia south and east and again that wintry mix in the northwest suburbs. It all changes over to plain rain across our entire viewing area by 3 oclock even Lehigh Valley although still that mix across the poconos. Then we get a little bit of a break in the action around 11 oclock. Most of the moisture has pushed up to the north and sunday will not be as wet as saturday but were looking at clouds with drizzle on and off through the day and right along a cold front that will move through in the afternoon. Well get another round of rain through the afternoon and the evening hours on sunday and a heads of that can cold front is where well get that surge of very warm air. Future tracker showing its go to be a wet weekend. Generally between about threequarters of an inch of rain and an inch and the bulk of this will be falling on saturday. So your friday night will be clear and it will be colder i should say partly cloudy not clear but it will be cold and calm 29 degrees in philadelphia, 24 in millville. 25 in allentown. And 26 in reading. The exclusive accuweather 7day forecast, not one of the prettiest weekends. Rain arrives by mid to late morning beginning as a brief mix in the far northwest suburbs. The high 41 degrees. Temperatures rising overnight so sundays high 64 degrees with clouds and periods of rain and then that cold front moves through sunday night the high then on monday, it will be windy and colder, 39 degrees. On tuesday a clipper could bring us some snow showers in the evening with a high of 32 degrees and that clipper opens the door for true arctic air to arrive. Wednesday the high only 29 degrees. Wind chills will be in the teens. Thursday it gets even colder, 26 degrees and friday temperatures begin to moderate with a high of 33 degrees. So, almost something for everyone in that sevenday forecast. No heavy snow, though, on the way for the next week. Thank you cecily. Finally tonight Philadelphia Police officer trade in there Police Uniform for a referees uniform. The 19th district officers hit the hardwood to referee a game in philadelphia. The game took place at the shepherd recreation send. Officers say these events are fun and a way to interact more personally with community members. Action news begins at 10 00 p. M. On phl17 with brian taft Shirleen Allicott and Ducis Rodgers. Join us for action news at 11 00 here on channel 6. For Jeff Skversky Ducis Rodgers the entire action news team, im monica malpass. Have a good night. Notes welcome to world news tonight. Icy pileup. Dozens of cars and trucks crushed. Drivers caught offguard by the whiteout. The winter mess moving from the south to new england as millions of families make the trip home. Payback. The president takes action against north korea. Closing in, search teams making progress but battling huge waves. And the police chief calling 911 after shooting his own wife. The bizarre case, under investigation, tonight
comparemela.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.