Hitters one a perfect game in the playoffs. He will be eligible for the halloffame next year. Phillies offered this statement. No word to describe the sadness that the entire phillies family is feeling of the loss of one of the most respected human beings to ever play the game. Dann cuellar is live at Citizens Bank park getting reaction from phillies fans. That is right and the phillies are holding a News Conference here at Citizens Bank park at 6 30 cole hamels and David Montgomery is speaking but the fans are shocked and some are numb to hear the tragic news to hear about the legend roy halladay. You never know. At chickie and pieces in south philadelphia today the news hit hard about roy halladay. He was a great ballplayer but a great human being and it was a shock to hear it today. Y mostounts he was filled with humility. And what people didnt know was about his passion for flying airplanes and particularly proud of his icon a 5, it rbljet fighter and posted on twitter last week keeps his dad that flying the icon low of florida, it was like flying a jet fighter. A shame and i worked at the ballpark when he was playing and it was exciting any time he was here. Electrifying to watch him pitch. I am a pilot and aircraft owner and hits me on both sides a good guy for the city. They loved him and his pitching was great. No hitters. He fit right in. Generated positive feelings in the city and taken tragically 40 years old its sad. Roy was a great guy, a great pitcher as far as i was able to see. I send my condoleances to his family and the phillies organization. They are remembering roy halladay and will have more on action news at 10 00 and 11 00. Im dann cuellar, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Well have continuing coverage of this breaking story and sports director ducis rogers will have a look back at Roy Halladays career in moments. And we are learning more about the shooting of a Pennsylvania State trooper on route 33 in northampton county. It happened during a traffic stop when the situation careened out of control and the trooper was shot three times and it now at Saint Lukes Hospital in bethlehem and at the hospital is bob brooks bringing us up to date this is no doubt a horrible series of events this is suppose to be a routine traffic stop and now a state trooper is clinging to life. Our guy is up there fighting for his life. He is a warrior and like i said he went through a heck of a fight out there along the side of the road and he has the will to live and god willing he will pull through this. That was Pennsylvania State police at a brief update confirming one of their troopers, a corporal from troop m in belfast was shot three times and is in extremely Critical Condition but a slight improvement during the day after surgery surgery. We are hoping that the progress he made will continue. This happened at 10 30 this morning the corporal pulled over the blue pontiac for speeding along route 33 and the trooper wrote the driver a ticket and told him he was free to go. And the driver got oust his car and appeared to be under some type of influence and another trooper was called and a fight broke out. The troopers were in a knock down drag out fight. I saw the video already and it was a violent site. The suspect broke free and grabbed a gun from his car and shot the trooper and he was airlifted to saint lukes for emergency surgery. Reporter and tonight everyone watching and everyone around here is asked to continue the thoughts and prayers for the trooper. At this point his identity is not released and tomorrow there will be a news update on his latest condition. Bob brooks, channel 6 action news. Thank you. You can find extended coverage of the troopers shooting at 6abc. Com including videos from the scene and social media updates. The latest on the investigation into there is word tonight that texas church shooter, Devin Patrick kelley was committed to a Mental Institution in the air force in 2012 and was found by police in downtown El Paso Texas and the residents of southerland springs continue to support one another after kelley killed 26 church goers on sunday morning. Action news anchor shack is in souther land springs with the update. Jim in speaking with the people that live here and call this townhome. They are upset. Learning the details about the shooters troubled past. They say surely there were warning signs but one thing for sure after speaking with those that live here they dont plan to change their way of life. For people here in southerland springs their final is their way of life. Hugs could be every corner of the home town rocked in the most extreme way. Those that lost their loved ones are hurting and for no reason. It was a senseless slaughter. Women and children the babies. Not far from the sight of the horrific shootings this remarkable symbol. 26 crosses representing the 26 lives taken and brenda came here to pray and admits like so many that live here she feels helpless but determined not to live in fear. I am not afraid and not let this individual put me in the position of being afraid to go places and not do things because of him. Sharrie williams channel 6 action news. World news tonight with david muir will have more on the investigation in texas next at 6 30 right after action news. This of course is election day and new jersey is one of only do states that is elected a new governor Democrat Murphy and republican kim guadagno is vying to replace chris chrthe Governors Mansion and live in trenton is mccormick. Reporter hi jim, that is right, new jersey and virginia have the gubernatorial races tonight and closely watched by people across the country many are waiting to see what impact President Trumps time in office may have on the republicans vying for the seat. This is video of lieutenant governor, kim guadagno the republican in the race she is voting in Monmouth County. The 58yearold is speaking to voters about her goals to cut property taxes, a major issue in new jersey. Ad criticize her ties to governor Chris Christie and served for eight years togethee Current Governor has an alltime low Approval Rating and this is phil murphyocrat in the r Monmouth County today and wants to give the garden state a boost and served as ambassador to germany under President Trump. And for new jersey there is a question for Library Funding and a question for polluter fines going. Was elected into office thereess than 40 of voter turnout. Annie mccormick channel 6 action news. The rain is not helping turnout today. Voters in philadelphia are district attorney, and democrat Larry Krasner and republican Beth Grossman are vying for the s se mt. Airy and rallied supporters in german town. Well have Election Results one the polls close and urge youostith actionews 6abc. Com forupdates, the cleayd a fire in wilmingthat left one persond er investigation and firefighters arrived at this home at nature way avenue before 9 00 this morning and found flames shooting out the and they pulled t peopl0 to get are started. The damage estimat at 200,000. Halladays ducis rogers has highlights of the former phillies pitcher and his career. And the woman makes a decision to escape the blaze in german town. Well hear heriesterdays high 70 and today 49 on top of that we have aeady rain and ill have details on wr and windy weathern the way in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Those stories and more when actinues tones. This holiday season, my good friend gave to me. 7 powerball tickets 6 match 6 chances, 5 cash 5s 4 cash4lifes, 3 pick 3s 2 mega millions. Happy holidays, rita thanks, joe what a great gift Pennsylvania Lottery tickets make great gifts. Like the new merry millions. Happy holidays and best wishes from the lottery. Other news tonight fire attacked a dwelling in the only town section of philadelphia and the flames cost residents nearly everything they owned. Vernon odom has the story. I am not going to jump from this window or this window. To jump out which second life or death decision for jasmine. To escape the inferno where they lives and next door. Final the back one. It was terrifying 3 00 this morning. This is all jasmine could sal salvage salvage, the rest of her belongings are gone. Same for the other fire victims in this dwelling and a father and son managed to escape without injury. And six other people were taken to the hospital for treatment for smoke inhalation. So too one firefighter. Several neighbors tell me they were awakened sometime after 3 00 for what sounded to gunshots. It sounded like gunshots but it w glass breaking. And i went to the window and saw a bright light and the house was fully engulfed. She got the first radio call hen she arrived six were out on the sidewalk suffering from apparent smoke inhalation. I heard peoplecreaming and houses a grandfather that conre wa m the back of the house to the front. So far the fire marshall did not release a cause for thi better news here the rain did not dampen the festivities at Independence Mall today a Tree Planting ceremony was held to celebrate the daughters of the revolution and the group donated 80,000 to buy 76 trees and they will be planted and matt tour for the nations 250th anniversary. Perts in medica and 5 Million People just like you, phillies family in a state of shock learning that roy holiday was killed in a plane crash. The entire worldeball shocked. One pitchers in baseball died in a plane crash in the gulf of mexico off thest of florida. No word if the parachuteloyed. He spent 16 seasons in the big league four memorable ones tossed the perfect game with the marlins in miami in 2010 and picked up his secondg award and also threw a nohitter one ofhe al the since nat reds andished career as an e time allstar with a record of 203105. And the phillies released this we are numb by th news of roy halladayuntimely death. There is no word to describe the words that the phillies family is feeling. Its with heaviest ofe pass along condolences to his wife brandy a sons ryan and and carson wentz is throwing a league high 21 touchdown passes and more importantly only threw five interceptions and the coaches love those type of numbers and love something else. His accountable. Some young quarterbacks i been around are the first to point the finger but you will never see that from him a bucks starts here when it comes to playing the position he has the mind set of beingith himself and moving on. I harps on a play for too long it hurts our football team. The sixers visit the utah jazz and joel embiid willot lay citing load management and they are riding a four game win streak. And the temple owls get more National Attention this friday visitsance nate on espn for a game. They beat navy last week and need to win two of their last three games to be bowl eligible. If they have no themselves a hole earlier in the year asier fow. We talked about this not beating ourselves and with a team we had a couple ofosse up beatingurselves than us getting beat and corrections are made on a daily basis. Back to roy halladay the 203 career wins and his name is on the halloffame ballot in 2019. There is no doubt how that will turn out. A miserable day on the weather front and did we need the rain . Nice if it didnt come with the cold air. Folks up to the north i want to show you this video, from hazelton where it was cold enough for snow kind ofunusual to the snow falling on the fall foliage, here. Temperatures in the 40s. Its too warm for snow but ty sky 6 hd taking a look at the Philadelphia International airport where the runways are wet. We have several more hours of rain before we dry things out in the overnight hours. Stormtracker 6 live double scan we have a steady rain across our viewing area and pockets of heavier rain across i 95 as we there, some of that yellow that is the steadier rain, one batch north of wilmington and another one heading to Medford Lakes and trenton over the new jersey turnpike and not a very enjoyable evening commute and areas to the north we have the cold air and lake arm any and jack frost and lake boulder getting the snow and getting the skiers excited about that and the rain is moving outaround midnight. Temperaturewise, what a difference a day makes yesterday we were at 70 degrees and 42 philadelphia and cape may 41 and poconos 32 degrees. Compare that hours ago 9 to 25 coore rideing along yesterdays front and pulls if the moisture and areas north and west and plenty of cloud cover and rain east of i95 east of the poconos by 1 00 in the morning, we clear and still a lot of clouds and tomorrow the clouds break for sunshine it will still be a chilly day but certainly more enjoyable than today. 8 00, 42 and 2 00 51 and 8 00 47 degrees with partly cloudy skies and and the we get into the situation that will bring us the extremely cold air on friday. Low pressure over the hudson bay and High Pressure to the west and what this sets up is a cross polar flow. Arctic air coming straight to us. It moderates a bit by the time it gets here on friday and temperatures 20 degrees below average, and highs in the 30s. And you factor in wind gusts 35 Miles Per Hour and well have windc in the 20s on friday. You have a few days to really find all of your winter layers. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast clouds break for sunshine tomorrow and 53 degretures higher rsday brigh and un es and then the bottom drops out with th temperatures on friday. 39 degrees andlls in the 20s and overnight low in philadelphia 25 and veterans day it stays on the cold side the high only 41 and bounce back to 52 degrees and tuesday clouds and sun with a high of 45 degrees and every time i update the forecast fridays high gets lower and ill have an update on action news at 11 00. Abc world news tonight with david muirnnel 6. Action news continues at 10 00 on phl 17 with brian taff and sharrie williams. And please join us at 11 00 here on channel 6. For cecily tynan and ducis rogers and the entire Action News Team im jim gardner. We hope youll join us for action news at 11 00. Z2e3tz z5yz tonight, breaking news on several fronts. What weve just learned about the Deadly Church shooting in texas. What the gunman did before. And tonight, the stories emerging from inside the church. The suspect shooting into the church, even before he was inside. Bullets coming through the walls. Families, children on the floor, under the also tonight, the stunning number of mis signs. The gunman escaping a mental facileity in the past. He threatened military supervisors. He was convicted o domestic violence. Tonight, President Trump says extreme vetting would not have made a difference. Breaking news as we come on the air involving Harvey Weinstein tonight. What the nypd believes is now coming. Also just in the death of a former baseball star. The plane crash. The state trooper shot the highway today during a traffic stop. The hunt that