Have shot and captured prison escapee david sweat. It happened around 3 20 near constable, new york just a few miles from canada. Authorities say that he was trying to make a break to the border. This is a photograph of the sweat from cnn just after he was captured. He was wearing camouflage. Sweat was wounded but the extent of his gun shot wounds is not yet clear. He is being treated at a area hospital. State police sergeant, spotted sweat walking down a road and ordered him to stop. When sweat started to run the sergeant opened fire, no Law Enforcement personnel were injured during the capture. Law enforcement and the governor of new york plan to hold a News Conference at 6 45 this evening and we will, of course, bring you latest during this newscast and updates anytime at six abc. Com. There will be much more on the capture and how the manhunt came to a conclusion coming upright after action news on world news tonight. Back here at our area frustration is growing for the thousands Office People who are now in their fifth full day without any power. In Gloucester County, one towns mayor held a News Conference this evening to ask for help from the state. Action News Reporter Wendy Saltsman is live in gibbstown with more, wendy . Reporter you cane some of the damage here that we have been witnessing across Gloucester County and now this is the reason that Chris Christie is in the hot seat. They are estimating it is about 7. 5 milliondollar of damage here, with thousands of people still without power and leaders here are pressing the governor to declare this a disaster area. Chris christie was quickly on his feet when super storm sandy devastated the eastern coast but this week after tornado strength wind hit the western side of the state leaders say the new jersey governor was no where to be seen. As a fellow republican i have been good to him from day one. As a community this township has been good to him. The governor repaid us forgetting us in our time of need. Reporter power was knocked out for hundreds of thousands of customers after tuesday nights storm and last nights weather caused an estimated 16,000 new outages megan crown and her neighbors in gloucester township just got power to two hours ago after being without it for five days. It is just been extremely frustrating. We lost, i cant tell you about how many hundreds of dollars worth of food and we felt like we were forgotten. Reporter it is estimate 5. 000 customers still do not have electricity. Im not under estimating what sandy was at all but for us, this was worse than sandy. Reporter now Greenwich Township mayor george shyvrey is saying to come to his states aid. I have not seen anyone from feel, members of the council i have not seen anyone from fema, communication has been terrible, during this crisis and it is unacceptable. Reporter the federal designation would make disaster aid available to residents, businesses and municipalities. Christie is expected to announce his president ial bid on tuesday and in a press release he said about 99 percent of the power has been restored and he is monitoring the situation but that is not enough of a response for those who are hit, hardest by the storm. 25 percent of Greenwich Township is still in the dark. Reporter that federal aid would help people like the residents of this home, which has been damaged by a tree here from this storm now Atlantic City electric says that they expect any of those customers who are without power now hopefully to be up and running by tomorrow. The mayor says that while five years ago he would have been standing by Chris Christie as he made that announcement for president , he says now he will be standing right here in this community, helping his residents rebuild their lives. Live from gibbstown im Wendy Saltsman for channel six action news. Wendy, thank you. Across our area nearly a half Million People were without power right after the storm, but all of these days later heres what remains now. Peco is making progress with 1,385 customers left still to restore. Less than a tenth of what it had remaining last night. But Atlantic City electric still has the worst of it the worst of the outages with 15,321 customers affect, most of them, in Gloucester County. Del marva has fewer than 300 people to reconnect tonight. Last nights heavy rain prompted at least one rescue in delaware. Here in stanton, several people had to be rescued from high waters from when the Red Clay Creek flooded. Rescuers responded at about 10 00 oclock last night. Neighbors heard cries for help and called police. Two men and one woman were found clinging to trees trying to stay above the water. They were taken to christiana hospital and they are expect to be okay. The storms have finally moved out leaving us with a dry, sunny day with a nice weather sticking around for a little will while. Meteorologist Melissa Magee has a first check of your accu weather forecast, melissa. Yes czar, we have had a nice finish to our weekend and dryer as you mentioned as well after that torrential rain for our saturday. Temperatures are definitely responding to the sunshine we had out earlier today and we have wind coming from the west southwest making a difference. It is 77 in the city at this hour. Seventytwo in reading. Seventynine there in beach haven. This 24 hour temperature change is 12 degrees warmer in philadelphia then it was this same time yesterday. 14 degrees warmer in reading then we were just 24 hours ago. We will talk about what is ahead, it gets comfortable for us back to work on monday, but we are tracking storms on tuesday and believe it or not fourth of july, is next saturday. Weve got the early call from accu weather and what you can expect. Ill have those details with the full, exclusive accu weather forecast. Melissa, thank you. For the very latest on the forecast as you start your workweek, check out six abc to the come weather. Our live Storm Tracker six radar images will let you know exactly is what coming and when. The Action News Weather Team keeps you up to date with all of the latest information. Todays sunshine gave people a chance to finally check out the tall ships festival along the delaware river. Taking a live look now from sky six in hd over penns landing, visitors finally got to see those ships up close on this the last day of the festival. Action News Reporter Trish Hartman has more. Reporter thousands of people turned out for the final day of the tall ships festival here at penns landing featuring more than a dozen historic vessels like this one and folks say after yesterdays rain they are ready to soak up the sun. The fair weather sailors who stayed home saturday were out in full force to check out the ships before they set sail. Were decided to come out because of the rain. It was terrible. Reporter nancy and her four yearold son gabe waited patiently to make their trip across the delaware. Momma duck had a rough couple of days, but first the pontoon that she ride on ripped prompting emergency repairs. Then organizers say saturdays wet gusty weather sent her inside after only about 45 minutes. On sunday even with the sunshine the wind was just too strong and 61 tall duck sat deflated. Yesterday it was not inflated. Duckies sleeping. Reporter ship stood tall thousands Office People climbed aboard, as crew members say in saturdays rain about 3500 people toured the ships. We are very proud of it. It is a National Symbol of portugal and that is portuguese military we are very proud of her. Reporter myers family came up from cape may courthouse to sail on the delaware as a belated fathers day celebration. I just love the the ships themselves, the history of them, and this is going to be an opportunity my first time, actually sailing on one later this afternoon. Reporter festival wraps up at 7 00 and fire works postponed for last night are set for tonight at 9 30. At penns landing, trish heart man for channel six action news. Woman is dead after being hit by a septa train this morning in montgomery county. It happened in ambler, near oaks street around 11 30. Investigators say woman was walking near the track area when she was struck by a Lansdale Doylestown train. Nobody else was injured. Shuttle buses were brought into transport passengers, no word on why exactly would the man was on the track. One person was killed in the collision on island avenue in southwest philadelphia early this morning. It happened just before 3 00 a. M. Near lindberg boulevard, the driver of this car drove on to the trolley tracks and slammed into a pole. The passenger in the back seat was killed n word on any charges. If you are in the market for a condo at the shore Atlantic City was the place to be today. That is where an auction took place with units once priced at half milliondollar going for much, much less. Action News Reporter general cherokee live in the sat center with the details. Reporter beach home unaffordable for many of us but Atlantic City has new homeowners, after scoring deals that they say were simply too good to pass up. Eager buyers pack the auction hoping to snag their own piece of the new jersey shore, the bella a high rise near the ocean on pacific avenue knew puts 39 condos on the Auction Block at Bargain Basement prices. The bella is very close to the boardwalk. It has wonderful amenities indoor pool, you know, a gym units are very nice, and the views for most of the units are dramatic. We are trying to look for a deal. We are investors. If you dont come out you cannot swing the bat and hit the ball. Reporter luxury condo sold for close to half million in 2008 but recession hit and casinos closed forcing sale prices to plumet. Well this resident of glenside bid 155,000 and walked away with what will be her weekend home. Im very excited yes i cannot wait to bring my girls down and daughters can have a good time. It is kind of nice getaway. Reporter avid gamblers the goldsmiths fred son hope it will be a bet of the lifetime. We hope it comes back. Were poker players. We love it. Were here every weekend. If you buy one of these it is cheaper then staying in the hotel. Reporter but with the fate of closed casinos like revel hanging in the balance these bidders admit they are not just buying a condo they are betting on Atlantic Citys future. It is a risk, it is a gamble but it is better than gambling. Reporter bidders paid as much as 220,000 and as little a as 140,000. Live from the Satellite Center jeff cherokee, channel six action news. He we want to welcome jeff to the action news family. Jeff a native of the levittown. Comes toys from atlanta and happy to be home. We are happy to have him here. Jeff welcome to our team. Is there much more to come tonight on action news nationally known activist speaks at a celebration for a local church, but what reverend al sharpton had to say. But first a severe blow to nasa as ship bound for the International Space station, explodes, after lift off. Jeff skversky returns with sports when action news comes right back. Right now verizon is offering unlimited talk and text. Plus 10 gigs of shareable data. yeah, 10 gigantic gigs. for 80 a month. And 15 per line. More data than ever. For more of what you want. On the network thats 1 in speed. Call. Data. And reliability. So you never have to settle. Now also get 300 or more when you tradein your smartphone and buy a new one. Stop by or visit us online. And save without settling. Only on verizon. It looks like a textbook launch but two minutes and 20 seconds in the flight, spacex rocket exploded in the skies over Cape Canaveral florida nobody was on board. Rocket was carrying supplies to the International Space station. The astronauts dwindling resources are of some concern but nasa says they have enough on board to last until october. The week long wawa welcome america festival added a new event this year. Community day. Volunteers gathered at the samuel rec center in the Port Richmond section of philadelphia donating their time and some elbow grease from youngsters to those with physical challenges, nothing could hold back these volunteers. For fun there was Face Painting food and some giant games. Fun and celebration this sunday to commemorate 175th anniversary of ebonieser Methodist Church in norristown. So many people were expected to mark the anniversary they moved the event to Eisenhower Middle School due in part to reverend al sharpton who delivered a short surmon and also spoke of his time at charlestons mothers manual ame church. Im Whoopi Goldberg and new york is my home. Theres no place like it in the world and no better place to lean about the people who shaped who we are today. Hear about the lives of slaves in colonial new york and about the fight to abolish slavery. Pick a stop on the underground railroad and visit the home and grave of one of new yorks most controversial citizens. A journey in new york is a journey through history. Plan you next trip at iloveny. Com summer. Theres something for everyone. Jeff is here now with sports. Phillies in the second of two today. Lots of baseball, you ever like baseball especially the way this team is playing to stomach this. He has been on the job for a few days but phillies interim manager Pete Mackanin is not afraid to call it like he sees it. Mackanin takes a shot at his players today for their mental approach on the field during a long day at the yard. Game one of the double head tore day interim manager Pete Mackanin not a happy camper. First, the good news. Second inning Jeff Francoeur off a steven strasburg, out of here, one to nothing phillies. But francoeur gives it right back. To the fifth span in the right to kevin carera. Francoeur bobbles it, and then some. Watch this. It leads to a run, two errors the phillies make today prompting mackanin to call their poor mental mistakes unacceptable. Mackanin taking a shot at jake diekman says he is not comfortable. Passed ball scores a run with the bases loaded. Phil was their head down. This could pick up in the eighth down one but ryan howard strikes out for the third time. Phils lose game 13two. Does this team, they have their issues, all right. Game two phillies, they scored four times in the second. Mackanin says dom brown does not have numbers to justified playing him against right y or left y. Brown batting clean up with two hits including that rbi singles. In the fourth nationals get two back. East an desmond way out off gonzales. It leaves the yard. Phillies are up though right now fourthree in the fourth. Former flyers captain mike richard is out of his job. Kings put the two time stanley cup champion on wafers but he is by no means a peasant. He will still collect nearly 15 milliondollar, over the next ten years. Now the flyers may do the same with their new center, sam gagne whom they acquired from arizona. Gm ron hextall was looking for more salaries cap relief and gagnes former boss says he doesnt think he is an nhl caliber center. Stay tuned for that. As far as this weekend hextall scored young talent in the draft including two players in the first round. We like our draft. Was it perfect . Terms of, you know, what you want to come out with in terms of like i said, we figured we would come out with two goalies and a couple of defenseman and a few forwards, but, it didnt exactly fall that way and were happy with what we came out with. Lebron james will opt out of his contract in cleveland. This is according to espn. Before you go here we go again, lebron does not plan to take his talent to any other team. James will opt out and eventually resign, so to maximize his earning potential and help cavilers resign others and draw free agents. Lebron nearly led calves to the nba title all by himself in his first season back in cleveland. King james, about to cash in, once again. All right jeff, thank you. The rain is finally moved out, the sunnies making a welcome return. Meteorologist Melissa Magee has your exclusive accu weather seven day forecast when action news comes right back. Melissa is here now with your accu weather forecast. That rain moved out, gave us a chance to dry out a little bit today. It sure did. The wind did help and good news wind are coming from the westerly direction which means it is warmer today then it was yesterday, too sarah we will show you Storm Tracker six live double scan radar taking a break today. It is dry after torrential rain we had across the delaware and lehigh valleys just yesterday. We will show you the picture outside. Action campaign skies six live in hd down the shore, and in Atlantic City look at those folks on the boardwalk beach sand. Definitely salvaging the second half of their weekend. Check out some of the rainfall totals we have pick up with the storm that moved through on saturday. Chatsworth, in Burlington County 4. 46 inches of rainfall. Close to 4 inches in Atlantic City. Wilmington 2. 26. Cedarville in berks county, 1. 80 inches. More than a inch and a half of rainfall in philadelphia there were exceptionness our western suburbs in pennsylvania but the bulk of that heavy moisture moved across areas of south jersey and delaware. It is also 12 degrees warmer at this hour then it was just 24 hours ago, because we are tapping into that westerly wind. So 77 in philadelphia at this hour. Sixtythree in the poconos a long the coast in sea isle city, 78. Lower 70s in trenton. Heres Satellite Six with action radar. We are tracking a upper level low spin ago cross upstate new york. Is there our moisture autopsy cross northern sections of new england and southern sections of canada High Pressure will continue to come out of the ohio valley and that is going to be our fair weather friend for start of the workweek on monday. Heres the setup for us tomorrow. Nice summer day High Pressure situated to the south. We will tap in those westerly wind, nice mixture of sunshine and cloud in the afternoon. High of 81 degrees. Average this time of the year is 86. Touch below average. Humidity low. Good looking day. We will track this area have low pressure that will move through as we get into tuesday. Future tracker six showing you by tuesday in the morning there could be a a couple showers around but with the showers and storms firing up by tuesday afternoon some could be on the strong to severe side. We will track that closely for you. Near term call for rest of the tonight partly cloudy, comfortable, 58 in the suburbs. Sixtytwo in philadelphia. So heres the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast, good looking day tomorrow. Sunny and pleasant. High of 81. On tuesday getting unsettled turning humid as well, high of 87 with showers and storms. Mid week still humid with the thunderstorm overhead and 87. Not as warm on thursday. 83 degrees. Friday, cloud and some sun in at 84 and is there a late day shot of finding a thunderstorm on friday night and saturday for the fourth of july, a high of 86. I dont think the weekend been a wash out but humidity will return and threat of the pop up shower or thunderstorm will be out there otherwise tomorrow sarah we are looking nice. That is great thanks, melissa. Finally tonight it was a perfect setting for a perfect proposal. When you fine the one it is a good idea to run right toward it right. That is what 29 yearold christopher read as his girlfriend jacqueline, stood beneath the love statue in center city. Christopher got down on one knee and presented jacqueline, she looked stunned with roses, and a ring and he popped the question. Were happy to report that jacqueline said yes. I think you can tell by the response. Congratulations to the happy couple. Beautiful ring. Nicely done. Abc world news sunday next on channel six dont miss action news at ten on phl17 tonight. We are right back here again on six abc at 11 00. For walter perez Melissa Magee, Jeff Skversky and the entire Action News Team im sarah bloomquist. We will see you right back here at 11 00 oclock. Welcome to world news tonight. Breaking news. The second escaped killer, shot, wounded, but alive and in custody tonight. Hunted down near the spot where the other inmate was killed. Fire in the sky. The rocket bound for the International Space station, exploding after launch. Its cargo of food and supplies for the crew onboard. All of it gone. Extreme weather. The flooding rains. Rescues from the surging water. Tornadoes and high winds, plus the dust storms and record heat. Airport alert. The baggage thieves, caught on camera. Disguised as travelers, going home with your luggage. And, amazing grace. The Church Organist who heard the president sing, moved by the spirit. Joining in
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