Action news, delaware valleys leading news program. With jim gardner. The attack was savage. A transgender woman assaulted by five or six men along the 1300 lock of wingohocking and logan in philadelphia. Beaten and shot in the back of the tonight lawmen are asking the question was this a random robbery or a hate crime . It is tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is the latest in the probe into an executionstyle murder. The latest from action News Reporter chad pradelli at Police Headquarters tonight. Chad . Truly a disturbing crime. At this point investigators are still trying to piece together the clues. They have no suspects and are asking for the publics help. Investigators say that Kiesha Jenkins was dropped off at this park in wingohocking around 2 30 a. M. A group of males followed her into the park and began beating her. Was assaulted by five or six unidentified males. During that assault, one of the males pulled out a gun, and while the victim was on the grou
And Philadelphia Police honor the sergeant that gave his life to save others during an armed robbery. And the big story on action news this noon is Second School scare in as many days in philadelphia. And this morning, Martin Luther King High School was put on lockdown after Police Received a tip that a student may have a gun. The student was taken into custody and no weapon was actually found. The Community College of philadelphia also reopened today after a 17yearold boy allegedly threatened someone with a gun yesterday. Action News Reporter john john rawlins is live on the ccp campus with more on both incidents that left thousands of students on edge. John. Sarah, its interesting. Educators, parents, even place will tell you, theyll volunteer in fact theyre anxious about what is going on in society as well as what happened here with the ccp yesterday. And what happened in germantown this morning at Martin Luther king. The 1100 student mlk high school was locked down 8 52. Students i
Settling in. We had clear temperatures overnight. And the saints march into town to play the eagles this afternoon. Both teams are on the brink of 14. Meteorologist chris sowers has the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, nice out there. It is a little chilly right now, but were expecting a nice day, im sure you enjoyed yesterday yesterday was a beaut. We had mostly sunny skies yesterday, by afternoon it warmed up nicely. We had High Temperatures around 65, 66 degrees. Today were four better than that, we should top out around 70. As we flip over to the numbers, you can see we have work to do. 39 in allentown. Thats the coldest temperature in 6 months in the Lehigh Valley. 38 in millville. Pine barrens in southern new jersey, in the 30s. Lancaster, 389. Philadelphia ten better at 49 degrees. Satellite and radar, just like yesterday well keep it clear from start to finish. No weather issues out there today, it will be another nice one. 9 00 a. M. , 52 degrees, mostly sunny skies, l
Philadelphia classes resumed following the lockdown. At the town hall meeting the president announced the former students detailed for police for allege allegedly having a gun was released. Its my understanding the prosecutor decided to not to press charges there was not enough evidence to press charges against him. Beginning monday students will have to not just show but swipe ids to enter buildings and the system would flag those not currently enrolled. While other Security Issues were also discussed both in practice and theory up to and including the possible use of metal detectors sometime down the road that was debated and talked about today. I have more on that when were back at 6 00. Live in center city, john rawlins, channel 6 action news, ryan. John, thanks very much. From the delaware newsroom today a fire forced everyone out of legislative hall today in dover. It started before 2 30 this afternoon. Firefighters say they saw smoke coming from the top floor of that building. A
Wow crest 3d White Whitestrips whiten your smile by safely working below the enamel surface to remove 14 years of stains. Karen . I knew i recognized that smile. Crest 3d White Whitestrips the way to whiten. Action news, delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. This is the way it looked tonight as flames attacked a warehouse on cobbs creek parkway. It is wednesday night and the big story on action news tonight is a threealarm fire in southwest philadelphia. And this is now a live picture from chopper 6. The blaze has just been declared under control. Firefighters have finished the job of extinguishing this fire. Lets go live to the scene and action News Reporter Annie Mccormick. Annie, whats the situation right now . Jim, getting this fire under control as quick as possible as they did, no easy feat. Look behind me, they are still on the ground and also in the air. Pouring water on the roof, thats where the bulk of the fire was. Lock at this video from the air that was s