Transcripts For WPVI Action News 6PM 20151116

Abdeslam. French fighter jets conducted massive retaliatory bombing raids last night on the syrian city of raqqa, the self declared capitol of the islamic state. Meanwhile isis released a video today in which a fighter declares that washington, d. C. Is the next target. The exact quote was this. As we struck france on its ground if paris, we will strike america on its ground in washington so what about the security situation in philadelphia . Action News Reporter john rawlins is live tonight at independence mall. Reporter we spoke with the head of the Homeland Security unit here in philadelphia. He says the city has taken appropriate measures in reaction to what happened. Among the things he could say was within minutes of the attack he was in that contact with the fbi and that the state police also came to the aid of philadelphia this weekend by giving some tracks support here particularly for the largest gathering, public gathering for the weekend, the eagles game. Were certainly going to follow the advice and instructions of our professionals who do this. Reporter the mayor elect today talking security in the wake of the paris attack. One of philadelphias top professionals chief inspector joes sullivan. Today he said the city is not aware of any specific threats though he is always concerned about possible home groan extremists. As for protecting soft targets he maintains people need to be aware. If in a subway you see someone put down a bag in a crowded location and walk away as we always say if you see something, please Say Something and Say Something means that if you see something out of the ordinary that concerns you, look around. If you see a police officer, bring it immediately to the officers attention. If you dont, please call 911. Reporter the paris attackers focused on soft targets. Can something be done to protect people in theaters or restaurants . What about airport style security . Drexels terrorism expert dr. Scott white is very skeptical. Check points he says often mean backups. Remember the long lines at the papal visit check points. Groups of people he points out are soft targets. If youre bottlenecking civilians, bottlenecking people as they move through youre vetting process, that becomes your target. White who was formally with the Canadian Intelligence Services agrees with Cleve Sullivan on the see something Say Something saying its a critical last line of defense in a democracy. Live in independence hall, john rawlins channel6 action news. Jim. Thank you, john. In the wake of the attacks in paris, more than a dozen u. S. Governors are threatening to block efforts to allow Syrian Refugees into their states. The pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf says his administration will keep working with the federal government to properly screen and reset tell Syrian Refugees in pennsylvania. A spokesperson for Governor Wolf issued this Statement Today saying that we must not lose sight of the fact that families leaving syria are trying to escape the same violence and unimaginable terror that took place in paris and beirut. For the very latest on the attacks and investigation, you can log onto 6abc. Com. There you can find updates as well as photographs from the scene and tributes from around the world. And of course world news tonight with david muir will have continuing coverage of the attacks from paris and that is next here at 6 30 on channel six. Police in radnor have arrested three individuals including two members of one family who Officials Say were selling drugs to local College Students and other residents. Action News Reporter dann cuellar is live at Radnor Police tonight. Dan. Reporter jim, Radnor Police say it appears to be a mom and son operation that they were doing a brisk business selling drugs to College Students from their bryn mawr home. Radnor Police Arrested 53yearold joanne badey and her 24yearold son george badey the fourth and these are pictures of some of the drugs confiscated from their home in the 100 block of garrett avenue in bryn mawr. The mother and son of that residence were selling to our officers undercover officers as well as several other residents in that area and local College Students and as youre aware were very close to several colleges right in that area. Reporter police say more than 4,000 in marijuana was confiscated as well as thousands of dollars in heroin and prescription drugs. Rosemont and Villanova University are among the campuses nearby. It was not immediately clear if the two were actively going to the campuses allegedly selling drugs. We do know that local students from the area colleges were come to go that property specifically and purchasing different types of drugs. Reporter george badey the fourth is the son of george badey the third, the head of the Democratic Party in radnor and a former radnor commissioner. Joanne badey is his exwife. Regardless of who these people may be related to, that has no bearing. I dont care what your race, sex, sorry socioeconomic status is or anything of that nature. It does not matter to us. Reporter now a third person in the home was listed on unrelated charges of carrying xanax and other prescription drugs without a prescription. The two badeys have been arraigned and released from jail after posting bail. Were live here at Radnor Police, im dann cuellar channel6 action news. Thank you dan. Concerns over a missing man prompted a lockout at Cheltenham High School today. 19yearold Jacob Marberger is former student reportedly took a rifle case from his parents home this morning. A relative told police that march burger has been despondent over recent issues at his Current School Washington College in chestertown maryland. Police say marberger has made no threats but Cheltenham High School was put on lockdown in an abundance of caution. The medical Examiner Office says the bodies of two babies found yesterday were medical specimens before they were discarded in the kensington section of philadelphia. A nineyearold made the gruesome discovery along the 1800 block of pale thorpe avenue. Authorities say the corpses had been donated for research or training. Police are still looking for whoever improperly disposed of the bodies. New jersey lawmakers are considering legalizing Recreational Marijuana and today supporters from the Law Enforcement Community Health professionals and civil rights organizations testified during a Senate Committee hearing. Chairman nick scat tar resays it could become a billion dollars industry and would levy a sales tax. Dozens of education advocates went to harrisburg today to fight for funding. The group public citizens for children and youth boarded buses in Center City Philadelphia this morning. They met with lawmakers and asked them to pass a budget that invests in schools and communities. Pennsylvania has been without a budget for the last four months. Governor tom wolf said a deal should be in place by december. Septa Regional Rail pals jersey are making a new stop in Montgomery County. Congressman Brendan Boyle joined Montgomery County Commission Chair josh shapiro and others this morning to cut the ribbon on the ninth street station in lansdale. The new station is located between the lansdale and for tuna stations. It is septas first new station in almost 20 years. Coming up on action news tonight, social media outrage has prompted a local mall to make some changes for those wandering a visit with santa and Ducis Rodgers with the eagles reacting to their devastating loss to the dolphins yesterday. We had winning weather today. Sunny and warm but this back door front will bring us cool changes tomorrow. Ill have details and track some late week rain on the way in the accuweather forecast. Those stories and much more when action news continues tonight. [ female announcer ] Business Travel isnt just about the going. Its also about the going home. And being connected all along the way. Whether youre working or recharging, do Business Travel on your terms. Acela. Take off. Do Business Travel on your terms. This is new at 6 oclock tonight. The Cherry Hill Mall has made some late changes for families that want to visit santa claus this holiday season. Action News Reporter Sarah Bloomquist is lie at the mall tonight. Sarah nothing like a little santa controversy to kick offer the holiday season. Reporter jim, social media went crazy when people found out that the cost to see santa here at the Cherry Hill Mall was between 35 and 75 this year. Some even called for a boycott but in the end facebook won and late this afternoon, the Cherry Hill Mall made seeing santa free again. The visit sit to santas happen is a holiday tradition. When for the second year the Cherry Hill Mall decided to give santa a unique high Tech Experience social media went. This year the mall started charging 35 top 75 to see saint nick. Gails post on facebook was typical. Its an absolute disgrace that youre charging so much money to get in to see santa. Outside the mall, the same. I dont think people should be charged for santa claus. Why not. I mean, its christmas. Come on. Whats the real meaning . Reporter the adventure to santa attraction is one of only 12 like it in the country. And mall management was surprised by the negative reaction. We have never want anybody to feel like theyre excluded or that they cant come here. Reporter the mall got the message and this afternoon dropped the required prepurchase of a photo package. You can come in and visit with santa for free. Youll no long very to make a minimum photo package purchase. And you can just visit with santa instead. Reporter gianna and her sister paid to seat north pole attraction prior to the policy change and there was the it was worth the price. I like when we go on the sled and you see its like youre actually moving in the sled. Reporter still shoppers were glad to hear seeing santa is free again. Perfect. You think thats right. Absolutely. Gives more children the opportunity to have the experience. Reporter and as we look back live it is a pretty cool experience. Takes about 15 minutes to do the whole thing but if you want a photo or video that will still cost you between 35 and 75 which we found is comparable with other santa photo packages at malls around the region. One additional thing you have to go online and make a reservation prior to coming here to see the santa. That is unlike to change. Live at the clerica cherry hill, im Sarah Bloomquist. Jim. Thank you sarah. We here at 6abc are helping you connect, share and give to our neighbors in need. So please join us this wednesday for a live telethon to benefit philadbundance. Volunteers and some special guests will be on the phone taking your donations from 4 00 to 6 30 p. M. You can also log onto our web site at 6abc. Com for a link to the philadbundance donation page. First grade students in fairmount in philadelphia learned aboutry recycling today. Students at the Martin School celebrated america recycles day. They played a game that helped teach them if an item should go in the trash, compost or be recycled. Todays interactive lesson was organized by sca. Its a Paper Products company with american headquarters in philadelphia. Come on in pop pop. Happy birthday. I just had a heart attack. And now i have a choice. For her. For them. And him. A choice to take brilinta. A prescription for people whove been hospitalized for a heart attack. I take brilinta with a baby aspirin. No more than 100 mg. As it affects how well it works. Its such an important thing to do to help protect against another heart attack. Brilinta worked better than plavix. And even reduced the chances of dying from another one. Dont stop taking brilinta without talking to doctor. Since stopping it too soon increases your risk of clots in your stent, heart attack, stroke, and even death. Brilinta may cause bruising or bleeding more easily or serious, sometimes fatal bleeding. 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A tipped ball handled in hands of jarvis landry. That gave the dolphins a 2016 lead. Sanchez weve soon this before, he threw an interception in the end zone. The eagles lost 2019 and fall to four and five. With teams like the Little Things cost this team every week. Its its details and the team there does a better job ends up victorious and i think right now 80 out of a hundred 45 games in this league are decided by a touchdown or less with 55 percent of the games and it will literally come down to one play. And they make one more play than we do you end up on the wrong sides of it. We didnt do what we needed to do to win the game and what were capable of doing and what we should do. We didnt execute. There were miss takes that were made. And thats not how we played the last month so, yeah, its a tough one. If you could ignore that interception sanchez did show he can run the offense he kept the tempo going. Sanchezs teammates say they have confidence in him and he vows to correct those mistakes. Unfortunately we had hurt ourselves with some of those penalties and the turnover there. So, well assess it and just come back and play smarter and play better next week and we got a big one next week at the linc so it will be fun for us. He always has good energy, wants to make plays. Gives guys opportunities. He maids a couple place out there. Now with a full week of preparation with the ones, i know hes going to come out here and giver a us a great game against the bucs. The eagles are in third place in the nfc east. They currently lose the tie breaker with washington because 33 lost to them earlier in the season. Still plenty of games left. Seven games to go. Sunday the birds are home to the tampa bay bucs. Moving on to basketball 10 names theyve taken the court this season 10 times they walked out as losers. Not in terms of their character rather the scores of the games. The sixers try again at home against the mavs. Theyll get Robert Covington back. Hes been out two weeks with a sprained knee. Going back to last season this team has lost 20 games in a row. They think theyre close. Yeah, were definitely very hungry. I think were likely coach is emphasizing how close we are getting and how we continue to throw a lot of good days together and theyre going to add up. These next few games especially on this road trip well continue to put ourselves in a great position so i think its only a matter of time. Hone fully sooner than later. Brandon graham didnt let yesterdays loss preventer him from putting on a smile today. Graham was at Ben Franklin High School this afternoon in the Spring Garden section of philadelphia. He spoke to the juniors and seniors there about the importance of education and hard work. Graham also stressed to them about making the most of their opportunities. Something the eagles need to start doing rather soon. You know, i have some bias because i really like mark sanchez i like the way hes always doing communities service. Having had a chance to see that pass that was intercepted in the ends zone three or four times, thanks to you miles austin never made a move for the ball. Im not sure he knew the ball was coming. Well, hes a receiver. His job to catch passes. A couple times they werent on the same page. All right v to take a look again. Party helps seniors in West Philadelphia kick offer the holiday season. More than 600 people enjoyed the annual senior holiday affair and health expo in West Philadelphia. There was live music food and prizes also a chance for seniors to meet with health and wellness professionals today in West Philadelphia. For the girl scout meeting. Okay. For the soccer team. For the girl scout meeting. How many meetings are you having . giant just dropped prices on thousands more items. Which makes the checkout lane, victory lane. My giant. I notice one thing on your sevenday forecast. What did you notice. Theres one day where it doesnt get out of the 40s. Yes, sunday. Philadelphia marathonly great for runners. Kind of tough for the spectators. Today was pretty nice. Today was warm. Storm tracker6 live double scan showing no rain out there. In fact, looking up, this is what you saw. I took our weather shot for today. I just how about that, photographer. Took my iphone and pointed it up and seeing all that of blue skies and not seeing too many leaves still left on the trees. Thats kind of a sign of the times. But the accuweather highlights will show that you today was nearly 20 degrees warmer than saturday and thursday we got some heavy rain on the way but look at these temperatures. Saturday 51, felt cooler with the winds. Yesterday 61. Today philadelphia 70 degrees. Thats 14 degrees above normal. Were going to cool things off tomorrow and thursday a cold front moves through and this will bring us a pretty good soaking. Future tracker showing generally about an inch of rain. Could even have a rumble of thunder on thursday. Tonight though its a quiet night. Partly cloudy skies moving in from the west. 61 degrees in philadelphia, millville dropped down to 49. Allentown 60. Trenton 61 and cape may 56 degrees. Satellite6 along with action radar showing that theres a back door cold front that will sneak through tonight. This could bring us a few clouds but really the big weather maker is out to the west. A storm system bringing tornado watches to the plains, some heavy snow to the rockies but tonight here just a quiet night. Lots of stars, some clouds streaming in late tonight, 45 degrees in philadelphia, the low average low for this time of the year is 39 so still relatively mild. Allentown 36. Cape may 48. And wilmington 42 degrees. Tomorrow behind this back door cold front weve got canadian High Pressure so that means a lot of sunshine but with winds generally out of the eastnortheast it will be seasonably cool with a high of 56 degrees so you didnt need a jacket today but youll need one tomorrow. As we head into wednesday, ahead of the front we get the winds out of the south so it does warm up, 61 degrees, more clouds rolling in and then that cold front will bring us that soaking rain on thursday. So, the exclusive accuweather 7day forecast, tomorrow plenty of sunshine again, much cooler than today, though, with a high of 56 degrees which is the average high for this time of the year. On wednesday, the clouds that you can ken as we head through the day, temperatures back up to 61 degrees and thursday ahead of that front, its mild, 67 degrees but that soaking, the heaviest rain in the afternoon tapers off late thursday night and friday behind that system the sunshine is back, its cooler way high of 58 degrees and you can see those temperatures really stepping down on saturday brisk and cool, 54 degrees for the temple game. For the rothman 8k saturday morning ill be running that and sunday for the eagles and for the philadelphia marathon, it will be very chilly. 49 degrees the high but monday temperatures rebound back up to 52 degrees under partly sunny skies and ill have an update on the thursday rain on action news tonight at 11 00. Thank you cecily. Abcs world news tonight with david muir is next on channel six. Action news continues at 10 00 on phl17 with brian taff, sharrie williams, adam joseph and Ducis Rodgers. Then please join us for a special health check report at 11 00 here on channel6. A simple test can help get athletes a competitive edge. Here is Health Reporter and registered nurse ali gorman with a preview. Reporter its something professional athletes have been doing for several years sweat testing. We got an inside look at how the flyers use it and now its going mainstream. A small sweat patch can reveal how much you sweat and the concentration. We try it out on two local athletes. Its going to be interesting to find out if i should be doing something els else. Reporter ill show you how it can help everyone who exercises and how you can test your sweat tonight on action news at 11 00. And for cecily tynan Ducis Rodgers and the entire action news team, im jim gardner. We hope youll join us for action news at 11 00. This is black friday. Oh my god. Does anybody want to be part of this . Nooooo. Well, chevy has a better way, with black friday deals all month long. Thats a great idea. 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The head of the cia saying, it should be a wakeup call. Pierre thomas tonight with the video. And coming to america, or not. The refugee backlash in the u. S. Did one of