Picked them up. A dark green 14 passenger van. The same as my daughter described. And that the man loaded the dogs in the van and he claimed to be a dog tripper and there were crates inside of the van. Her daughter said a man got out and banged violently on their door. If he gently knocked orange the door bell, but he banged on the door like he was angry. Did appears that that man drove away with their dogs. Sounds like someone took the dogs. And took them out of the area. It just so happens that ruths neighbors had their three dogs disappear on new years day and her neighbors are amish and live on the property and their dogs were last seen by the amish school house and then vanished. Okay again if the words of the police chief here, he believes they have a dog thief in town tonight. You are being advised to keep a close eye on your pets. Philadelphia da Seth Williams received an unprecedented fine for ethics violations. The board of ethics ordered williams to pay a 62,000 penalty. Saying he took gifts and failed to disclose five different sources of income on the statement of interest. The penalty is the largest imposed by the board in its tenyear history. Williams released a statement that says in parts, these mistakes were my own and i accept responsible. He apologized to the people of philadelphia. The owner of the Marine Club Condominiums at broad and washington said today that one of its security guards was threatened at gun point. The same location where two robbers drove into the buildings parking garage early sunday morning and robbed and assaulted a woman. Due to the recent violence the buildings owner is telling residents there will be increased security. I have ordered a guard to be there until im satisfied that its repaired and safe. Both locations are under camera and they go to our live 24 7 security. Today crews fix aid broken door at the marine club one day after action news showed you it could be open without an lick tron icky. And a suspicious device on the Temple University campus. They found it near the loading dock and called police. The philadelphia bomb squad detonated the device as a precaution. The belt had orange and red wire as matched. The students of the college of engineering were evacuated for about an hour. And philadelphia Officials Say people can once again sit on the walls in rittenhouse square, signs banning wall sitting were removed. Including a tweet from jim kenney saying sit where you want. The Parks Department put up the signs allegedly to protect the limestone walls. The dreary weather continues in the tristate area, scattered showers and drizzle have blanketed the area and they are likely to continue into the night. Temperatures have stayed just warm enough to avoid snow. Lets get the latest from meteorologist cecily tynan at the big board. The steadiest rain is over us right now. If you look to the west there are a few more showers, it will take a while for the atmosphere to completely dry out and another problem is the fog. Visinterest down to a mile in reading and 2 in allentown and 2. 5 in pots down and the poconos down to less than a mile so well be dealing with low clouds and fog in the overnight hours and temperatures well above freezing you have to go to elevations up to 1,000 feet in the poconos to get freezing rain. Philadelphia 44 and temperatures essentially Holding Steady overnight but if you look down to the south. Temperatures are in the 50s. That is the air mass that is rolling in during the day tomorrow. And its going to stick around for a while. In fact the next seven days temperatures philadelphia up in the 50s running 10 to 15 degrees above normal. Extremely rare to get a long run of mild weather like that. Ill let you know when things cool down and also track another round of rain on the way coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Thank you cecily. As the rain continues, you should check back often with the stormtracker 6 live double scan and 6abc. Com weather weather for the real time views and hourly forecast and follow our expert meteorologists on twitter and facebook for updates as well. New regulations went into effect today that make its easier for customers and retailers to buy and sell beer in pennsylvania. Action News Reporter john rawlins is live at a beer discontributorship in philadelphia. How has this changed the landscape . A couple of things, you hear from a man that says it levels the Playing Field when dealing with supermarkets and as for this store here it will help change and reinforce the idea, this is the place and best place to sample the best brews. Things like fly fox. 12 pack and now 6 pack you can pull it right out of the case. Day one of sixpack sales allowed for beer distributors. Chriss family is in the business for swren rations. The first time in 97 years we are selling a sixpack. In havertown, manager gene weaver is up beat. Without this new law we would be out of business. For years they can only sell cases and then 12 packs as well. But making it difficult to compete with Convenience Stores and Grocery Stores licensed to sell sixpacks of beer. They have taken at least 400 cases from our store a week. And now it will level up the Playing Field and help us out. Under the new law distributors are allowed to sell small containers of draft beer. This fills a crou letter, a draft that is seal bid this machine. Take it home and put it in the fresh two months from now its as fresh as today. And he has a wall of high end beers with deep pocket zbrz s. Am i reading this right . You are. That is imperial stout. Pricey but not the most expensive on the wall this one goes for 30. So if you do the math you can figure out you have case prices on the high end beers that could be 200 to 300 per case that is where the change in the law can help. You can buy a single bottle and sample it and see if you want to buy more. John rawlins, channel 6 action news. Some expensive suds. Thank you. Immaculate university has announced plans to reduce tuition by 34,000 to 26,000 for the next academic year. But students out of pocket costs will not change all that much and that is because the University Says they are also scaling back financial aid. Scholarships and grants. And a new partnership is making it easier for students to earn a nursing degree. Today in trenton, Mercer County Community College signed an agreement with Thomas Edison State University for a dual program. Now students can transfer and apply up to 90 credits to the State University. The partnership will allow students to earn a bachelor of science degree in nursing in four years. Coming up on action news tonight. Pennsylvania has a new attorney general. Tonight a legal expert weighs in on Josh Shapiros plan to restore integrity to the office. And volunteers in buck county are volunteering their time and House Building skills to help a local family. And wet runways and clouds at Philadelphia International airport and im tracking the return of sunshine ill let you know when in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. And ducis rogers checks in with the red hot sixers when action news continues tonight. Z254jz zi0z y254jy yi0y the commonwealth of pennsylvania has a new attorney general tonight because josh shapiro took the oath of office today. Vernon odom has the story. I will discharge the duties of my Office Congratulations general. Josh shapiro is now the commonwealth chief officer after all the scandals of kathleen kane. Shapiro a state lawmaker and chair of the Montgomery County commissioners is promising a new code of conduct. Ensuring that every voice is heard is a critical component of integrity. He appears to be on the right track with his hires and policies. Shrewd moods for a public official that has no area in the criminal law. There is more to being attorney general than just being a prosecutor, they handle civil cases on behalf of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. The Attorney Generals Office is a plum position for an ambitious young politician on the rise. A politically potent position and does open up doors higher up the ladder. Josh shapiro got the attorney general post based on his skill as a politician not as a prosecutor. He has higher aspirations, he has his eye on the governors office. Delawares new governor took the oath of office in dover. Democrat john carnie was sworn in during the rain soak the saer moany making him the governor of the state. He plans to work with the state and local officials to address delawares problems and gun violence and. Habitat for humanity for buck county broke ground on the 103rd home this morning respect the home along woodland avenue is being built for a family of eight including a child in a wheelchair. The new four bedroom two bathroom house is handicapped accessible. Right now the family is cramped into a three bedroom apartment. Its more than a dream come true. Thank you. Thank you for giving us a chance and believing in us. As habitat home buyers the family will contribe out of 200 hours of help during construction. The movein date is set for july. The sixers are winning at home and on the road. Joel embiid is something to see. Joel embiid is trending perhaps on his way to the nba all start game in new orleans. Jaime apody reports that the success of the two go hand in hand. At sixers practice these days, everyone has extra pep in their step. Wins will do that for a team especially a team that has grown accustomed to losing for so long. You feel it, getting validated for the things we have been doing. You know i cant say it enough. We dont do anything differently, we are just starting to get rewarded and im pleased. Like the spurt of our guys, just to see them in the gym, its at all alltime high. Much of that spirit and success could be attributed to joel embiid. Brett brown says he is a lock for rookie of the year but should be for the allstar game too. How can he not . Really how can he not be a legitimate consideration for the allstar game . You know you go look around the leak and look at his skill set embiid did not practice today it was routine maintenance and the voting on twitter closed last night and the starter set to be announced on thursday, among the notable names that took to social media to give a push is one we know well. You know jim gardner tweeted out for joel embiid. Jim will bring him over the line. I have confidence in jims profile and public following. Jaime apody, channel 6 action news. Got to hear from jim right. Over 2,000 votes by the way. Well over that. Dont want to shell you short. A new rink on the ice. They had a week off and last played on sunday and wont play until saturday against new jersey, the break cant her them. They lost 11 of their last 1 game, blown out 50 against the capital, the coach says they have to get back to the basics and this break could be a blessing. Its part of the schedule whether you like them or dont like them. Sometimes you never know how things will turn out. You may not think its an ideal time for a break but in all honesty this break is the best thing for us for everyone to get away for a couple of days. And finally a High School Player on the other side of the country is getting attention from across the country. Peter fuller, three quarters court you betcha that beat the Third Quarter buzzer and they went on to win the game by 3 points. He didnt even use the backboa backboard. Didnt need it. Some Strange Weather actually for the next few days. Seasonably warm temperatures. I was looking at the records the last time we had a full week of temperatures in the 50s we have to go back to 2008. And go back to 2008 to get two straight gay days of sun. That was last week but clever though. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that we have got . Rain out there. This is really the steadiest rain falling over us now. Philadelphia a pocket of some of that steadier in the yellow, just rolling up i95 and another one crossing route 3 and south jersey dealing with some rain in Sea Isle City and tuckahoe. Things gradually taper off over the overnight hours but you will want to take your umbrella it will take a while for everything to dry out. Temperaturewise not that cold, 44 degrees in philadelphia now. Allentown 37 and wilmington 44, and cape may 44 and the other area really that you could get freeze range in the poconos, 31 degrees but even there temperatures will be rising through the overnight hours. Fog is a problem though, not widespread but the Atlantic City airport. The visibility down to a half mile and one mile in reading and a third mile in the poconos and winds are light overnight so we could have fog lingering for your morning commute before the winds continue to kick up satellite 6 along with action radar shows the cold front sweeping through tomorrow is west of pittsburgh, once that does it kicks up the winds and begins to dry things out. 11 00 tonight still scattered showers around and nothing really widespread. The morning commute, the steady rain is out of here however, a lot of low clouds and damp and some areas of drizzle and fog and as we head into the afternoon the winds kick up and that could bring us a few breaks of sunshine and generally clouds are hanging tough and temperatures up to 52 degrees that is 12 degrees above normal and it looks like the pick of the week will be on thursday. Kind of a slice of nice with High Pressure over us. Good amount of sunshine and 54 degrees and that low pressure to the southwest could bring us a touch of rain late in the day on friday. Right now the models are really backing off on how much rain well get. Looks like a light event if anything. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast still gray tomorrow morning, drizzle and low clouds and fog and a few breaks of sunshine later in the day and a high of 52 degrees, thursday should be beautiful, mostly sunny and temperatures running 14 degrees above normal. 54 on friday and we start the day with sunshine and a chance of late day rain, 51 degrees and heading into the weekend, the weekend looks dry and an easterly flow brings us clouds on saturday morning with breaks of sunshine and 55 degrees and sunday we cloud up mostly cloudy and not as warm and 50. And monday could be a real soaking, 1 to 2 inches of rain. Heavy rain and high winds, 50 degrees and tuesday early rain and clouds with a high of 52 degrees. It looks like relatively mild weather should be hanging in for the next seven days before cold air comes in. Thank you. Finally tonight action news was at a Milestone Celebration today in wilmington. Friends and family helped sara kinsy celebrate her 103rd birthday, kinsy received a lot of gifts and was presented of a certificate of achievement during her sell brings today. Abc world news is next on channel 6. Action news continues at 10 00 on phl 17 with brian taff and sharrie williams, and ducis rogers and please join us for action news at 11 00 here on channel 6. For cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire Action News Team im jim gardner, we hope youll join us for action news at 11 00. Z254jz zi0z y254jy yi0y new year, time to get rid of stuff. Simplify, declutter, unplug, purge, or even quit cold turkey. I raise turkeys without growthpromoting antibiotics, hormones, or steroids. If youre looking for little ways to simplify life, feeling good about what your family eats is a Pretty Simple place to start. My name is tammy plumlee, and i raise honest, simple turkey for shady brook farms. Tonight, breaking news. President obama commutes Chelsea Mannings sentence. The army private serving 35 years convicted after being accused of leaking classified military secrets. Manning,s a transgender woman behind bars. The outrain on capitol hill. The countdown tonight. Three days until the inauguration, and this evening, Vladimir Putin in his own words defending president elect donald trump. And at home, the boycott of the inauguration growing. Also tonight, mr. Trumps pick for health and Human Services under fire. Tom price and his controversial stock buy, and the new report. 18 million americans could Lose Health Insurance in the first year after the appeal
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