Victim meant everything to the people of this block. He was dedicated to this block. And his family and his home and everything. For someone to go and in literally just kill him like this, i really i dont believe t im in shock. Honestly. Reporter and at this time police have not announced if there are any suspect, this is very early in this investigation, homicide detectives still remain out here at the scene along with the crime scene unit they could be out here for several hours. If anyone has information 215686tips. Thank you. The house of representatives has effectively passed the tax overhaul bill but there say late word that a couple of provisions including the use of 29 savings plans for home schooling will have to be removed because they violate senate rules and the senate will vote later tonight and the house has to vote again tomorrow. But the house had its say today. The vote was basically along party lines with a dozen blue state republicans voting no along with every democrat. The final vote was 227203. Action News Reporter sara bloomquist is live in Plymouth Meeting tonight and has a primer on the new tax structure and what folks are saying about all of this. Jim, we talked to shoppers at the metroplex this afternoon. This bill is known to be widely unpopular and we found that people were flat out against it or confused by it. We asked the local cpa for some perspective. People were thinking about todays vote in congress to overhaul the tax bill. They could have done more for the working people. I am confused and i dont trust, im afraid, what is happening. It does impact a majority of the american population. Cpa jennifer says that americans will see increases in their paychecks come february. The standard deduction is doubled and those that itemize will lose deductions. If we look at taxable income we have less taxes but manipulated things on how you get to your taxable income and that is the other piece of the puzzle that could end up hitting you the wrong way. For example the bill scales back a popular deduction for state and local taxes capping it at 10,000 and doubles the Child Tax Credit for families maybing up to 400,000 and slashes the Corporate Taxes from 35 to 21 . They will pocket that money rather than hire someone. I think from a Global Competitive standpoint well see some benefit from that. Now, its Corporate Tax cut is permanent but the individual cuts expire in 2026 according to a congressional review, more americans would see their taxes go up the very next year in 2027 if these cuts for individuals are not extended. Live in Plymouth Meeting, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Of course world news tonight with david muir has more on the tax vote and what the plan means for taxpayers, at 6 30 right after action news. The coverage of the tax reform vote continues on 6abc. Com. You can read arguments on both sides of the debate and that is passionate on both sides. What the plan will mean for you. An 83yearold man was hit by a car this morning in the West Oak Lane section of philadelphia even though he was on his own property raking leaves, tonight he is in the hospital. Live at ogontz and andrews is action News Reporter, chad pradelli. What are the details . Reporter jim, the victim was doing some plain old yardwork on this very warm late fall day and the vehicle came down andrews and over the curb and into him sending him to the hospital. The impact left the 83yearold victim sprawled on the ground in pain and neighbors pretty shocked and pretty like overwhelmed. What did his condition look like. Horrible. Unconscious, he was like bleeding a little bit i cant say from where. The driver of the suv fled on foot and they interviewed the owner found at his house a few blocks away but the detectives say he is giving conflicting statements and claims to not be behind the wheel and police say that the suv was chasing a white car. We dont know if it was drag racing or road rage or a combination of both. I wanted to tell the guy, the guy jumped out of his car and ran to ogontz. Investigators say that the victim joe williams is expected to survive but with a long recovery. He was simply taking care of his property like he often does. Yes, that is his morning routine. He is always out there taking kay of his property . Oh, yes, almost every day. And police do not have a make or model of that other possible vehicle that white car, they hope to get the Surveillance Video in the area to help lead them to exactly what happened here. Live in West Oak Lane chad pradelli, channel 6 action news. All right thank you. Newly released Surveillance Video shows an Armed Robbery in progress in the kensington section of philadelphia. One suspect was armed with a rifle and the robbery happened at a 7eleven store on the 3900 block of kensington avenue 5 00 a. M. Sunday morning. Police say that the suspect stole 60 from the Cash Register and 1600 worth of cigarettes and police also forced two employees into a back office and took 50 and an iphone from them. Dozens of protesters took a stand in center city philadelphia. Demanding safer protected bike lanes, support ofs lined up on 8th street south of pine. They stood between the cycling and driving lanes to represent where they want the city to install protective barriers. A 24yearold woman riding her bike was killed last month by a private sanitation truck at 11th and spruce. This afternoon Wilmington Police thanked a High School Senior that was on a mission to help k9 officers. Brennan wright attended the high school in middletown, his senior is of project was to raise funds to purchase bulletproof vests for k9s can his initial goal was 2200 to purchase two vests and so far he collected more than 5,000 and wrikt wants to be a veterinarian. Coming up a Community Activist in wilmington who preached peace to at risk youth is now dealing with a personal loss because of gun violence. And the eagles get to work shoring up the defense that has struggled in recent weeks and ducis rogers has reaction ahead in sports. Two days in a row with temperatures in the 50s. Yesterday 50 and today 58 degrees that is 16 degrees above normal. I am tracking cooler weather for the next few days and big changes for your Holiday Weekend. Those stories and more when action news continue tonight. Sorry. I cant make it. Its just my eczema again, but its fine. Yeah, its fine. You ok . Eczema. Its fine. Hey hi arent you hot . Eczema again . Its fine. I saw something the other day. Eczema exposed. Your eczema could be something called atopic dermatitis, which can be caused by inflammation under your skin. Maybe you should ask your doctor . Go to eczemaexposed. Com to learn more. Breaking news gun violence in the city of chester. One person is wounded after being shot in the 900 block of tillman street. This happened 35 minutes ago. A nearby house may have been hit by gun fire but we know of only one person at this point that is wounded and that person is rushed to the hospital. We do not have word that the shooter has been apprehended. Well obviously keep on this for you. This is something that we have been saying with increasing frequency over the past number of years. Gun violence claiming yet another young life in the city of wilmington, delaware and this is fraught with tragic irony. Bob brooks has the story. We were able to speak with allen duffy samuels, is he well known for founding duffys hope a nonprofit to help at risk young people he has done it for years and that is why the topic of conversation was extremely hard. This past saturday was the day he went to the vigil and he didnt make it. Samuels is talking about his nephew Keenan Samuels he returned from college on winner break and was attending the vigil for a friend and keenan falling victim to the violence his uncle has steered so many away from in the past. Young people please hear my voice. Enough is enough put the guns down. Neighbor trish walked through the vigil when it happened. They had the music going and balloons and it was automatic weapons. Keenan was shot in the head and the suspect fired from a nearby alley, and that keenan was an innocent bystanders. He brought people together. He was out going and duffy says he was looking to celebrate milestones with him like the one here his high school graduation. I am pleading for the community to step up. Pray that you step up and help to solve this murder. We can hear there samuels is begging for someone to come forward with information. If you are out there and know something call Wilmington Police department we have their information posted on our website 6abc. Com. Bob brooks, channel 6 action news. A span in the kensington section of philadelphia was the canvas for a new mural. Mural arts philadelphia dedicated the new arts work along the b street bridge part of a larger effort to beautify the tracks and make the environment more colorful and inviting for neighbors. Three job seizures received a boost today. They teamed up with the Andre Richard salon in center city to give the women a makeover and all three completed career wardrobes retail training program. They hope the new looks combined with a new professional suit will help them land fulltime professional jobs. Priority one shore up the defense before the raiders come. The defense is an issue as of late. Lets look at this team. The record says is 122. The giants came in as the nfls 31st ranked offense but they scored on their first three possessio possessions. What got us out of that is urgency and the feeling of giving up three straight touch downs. It shouldnt take that. It shouldnt take giving up three straight touch downs, if we are disappointed in anything lets be disappointed in that. Got to tighten it up before the playoffs. The eagles take on oakland on christmas on 6 abc we start at 8 00 with countdown to kickoff and the game starts at 8 30. And the sixers have gone down the rabbit hole losing six of their last nine games and joel embiid is out once again the team is cautious with his back. Chicago beat them in a game of changes. A dagger with under a minute to go and the sixer his a chance to tie the game late but ben simmons shot was not even close and the sixers lost. And what a scene for the lakers in los angeles. He was one of those rare breeds spending his entire career with a single team. The future halloffamer has a message for his young daughters. A message we can all use. Times you get up early and work hard and you stay up late and work hard and times when you dont wa to work and you do it any way. That is actually the dream. That is the dream. Its not the destination its the journey. And if you guys ask understand that then what youll see happen is that you wont accomplish your dreams your dreams wont come true, something greater will. And if you guys can understand that i am doing my job as a father. We hear at 6 abc are pleased to announce we are continuing our broadcast partnership with the Philadelphia Union and adding phl 17 and between the two stations we air most of the games next season. Temple is just two days away from the bowl game thursday night. They face florida innational. And they are looking for their first bowl victory since 2011. This is sets the foundation for next season. This game shows how well be next year. Well have young guys step up and they will play this game and see where they are at. 76 is a plus for next year. Temple and florida international. And flyers players turned elves to supthe mission of the Salvation Army. They donned orange santa hats to deliver toys. The trucks were stocked thanks to flyers fans that donated at resenhome games parts of the Salvation Army toy drive and all the toys are distributed on thursday to families in need. Michael im thankful that im alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know we are here for you. This holiday season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. Two days until the official start of winter. Felt like spring time. Upper 50s and today is the day. You were asking for it to snow in the studio for months now. So why . Jim today is the day. The action cam lets look outside. Earlier today the action cam along the ben franklin parkway on this mild mostly sunny breezy day. And the snow we got this december 7. 7 inches of snow is all melted and a lot of grass, but do you remember the last time we had snow for christmas . It was a while ago and it was back in 2009 and all of that snow that was falling was actually back in the 19th and 20th. Look at the snow falling and this time back in 2009 we had 23. 2 inches of snow our third biggest snow storm on record. By Christmas Day a lost it melted. But we still had 8 inches of snow on the ground. And there is potential we could see snow on christmas this year but a lot of ingredients have to come together perfectly. Today though no chance of snow. Temperatures very mild. 53 degrees currently in philadelphia down from the high of 58 and 16 degrees above normal and allentown 51 and dover 49 and the poconos very mild. 44 degrees. Satellite and radar showing a few things happening, first of all we have a cold front moving through tonight and coming through with little fanfare and coming through dry and cloud cover that cools us off and if you look across the deep south the area of moisture is moving due east and that misses us and throws clouds our way today. Partly cloudy and not that cold yet and the colder air making it here. And allentown 33 and temperatures will be stuck in the mid40s and the windchill tracker shows you have to bundle up tomorrow instead of temperatures in the upper 50s when you factor in the winds up to 20 miles per hour. The windchills will generally be in the if i had 30s all day long and heading towards the Holiday Weekend we have got some big changes, there is a holiday battle zone brewing. Large area of arctic High Pressure building across the plain states and the midwest driving all the way south to texas. If you head out west, definitely bundle up for the winter because its going be cold out there. In the meantime. There is a boundary set up to the west. And the first wave of low pressure move in on saturday pulls up warm air and its just rain. However there say second low pressure that moves in along the boundary on Christmas Day. The big question is, where does that low pressure track. If it hugs the coast we get rain if its just off the coast we get snow and if its so far to the south the moisture missing us completely. Six days away and a lot can can change. Ill keep you posted. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast tomorrow dry and a chilly breeze and 45 degrees and when winter officially arrives feels like 41 and bump it up to 47 on friday and saturday warm and rainy 62 degrees and dry out for christmas eve. 49. Christmas day watching the coast for the potential of rain or snow. 43 degrees and behind the system no matter what happens on Christmas Day it gets cold with a high of 37 degrees, a lot of back and forth with the models ill have an update on action news at 11 00. Very cool. Dozens of children will have a Merry Christmas thanks to kind hearted first responders, patches the city Wide Association of Italian Police and firefighters came to help children with autism and they were joined by veterans and motorcycle clubs. And collected toys for spin, they are designed to meet the needs of children with autism. World news with david muir is next on channel 6. Action news continues at 11 00 on phl 17 with brian taff, and ducis rogers. 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