Kensington section of philadelphia. Where police are responding to a shooting there. Chopper 6 hd is live over the active scene right now. Police confirm at least one person was shot here along the 2600 block of lehigh avenue. This happened at 11 30 this morning. This follows a violence night in philadelphia where at least four people were killed in shootings yesterday in the city. Well gather more information on this latest bout of violence. Our other big story this noon is a highway crash that kill aid 5yearold boy, five other people were rushed to the hospital. The deadly collision happened near i78 and the heller town interchange. Other drivers became stuck in a several mile backup all morning. Walter perez joins us live from the highway overpass with the latest. Reporter rick, well give you a live look at the scene, the accident has been cleared out and the accident took place by the guardrail down there. Eastbound 78 just reopened 10 minutes ago. Sources tell me that penndot need
[inaudible] its to protect our National Security. There is not been an attempt at any point to downplay the significance of the operation their undertaking. That is true if youre talking about our military pilots flying combat operations through ten or 11000 airstrikes now been taken against isil targets in iraq and syria. Its true of special operators been informed and station throughout iraq to carry out raids when an opportunity presents itself to try to take out a senior isil figure were to capitalize on a treasure trove of intelligence that may be there for the taking. Its also true when you talk about our military Service Members are engaged in training efforts. In some cases, particularly earlier in our efforts you had u. S. Military members who are in dangerous parts of iraq who are working to try to train several iraqis to make them more effective on the battlefield against isil. We had not not at all tried to downplay the significance of those operations, of of the risk of th
Precious life is. The school is suffering and it will be closed for two days, its very, very sad. Grief counselors were brought in to speak to staff and students. Seeing him around he was always such a nice, loving man. Ironically the mayor texted mayer this morning. After hearing there was an accident near the high school he didnt know it was the superintendant at the time. A vigil will be held here on washington road tonight and the public is invited to attend. Im nora muchanic, channel 6 action news. All right nora well have coverage of that vigil tonight. Thank you. A woman is in the hospital after someone slashed her throat in Port Richmond and police are trying to find out who did it. It happened on the 2900 block of frafrpg frankford avenue. A witness called 911 and tried to help. They put a cloth around her neck and that is when she collapsed on the highway and that is when Police Arrived on the scene. Officers drove her to the hospital and she is in her 40s but have not yet to
Attackers still alive. One of his brothers died detonating a suicide vest. Another brother mohammad said the the family new nothing of abdeslam salahs intentions. We are thinking of the victims he said but you must understand we have a family and he is still our son. President fran is some holland made a rare speech to both houses, calling for stronger Anti Terrorism measures. He said he will meet with president owe bam and russian president putin in the coming days to urge the united front. President obama says that the battle against isis will take time. The strategy that we are putting forward is the strategy that ultimately is going to work. Three days after the attack parises doing their best to return to normal life. Schools, businesses, and monuments have reopened, including the eiffel tower, lit up in french colors. Claire francis says that she is not afraid. We will continue to do what we are doing, and smoking cigarettes, drinking wine. Im enjoying life. Reporter despite that
Overall he stood up for american , values. One of the nice things about that is we had one of the most peaceful times in modern American History. To get to that, i would go back to rebuilding the Defense Budget to levels proposed by former madetary of defense gates the case that we need to get back to a stronger military. Thank you very much for the question. The next one is coming from judy elliott. The u. S. Still has almost 5000 Nuclear Weapons in its military stockpile and many are on hairtrigger alert. And now, the Obama Administration and the pentagon plan to spend one trillion more dollars on Nuclear Weapons and delivery vehicles. It is going to be very profitable for the private weapons labs and for the pentagon contractors. Do you support this plan . Gov. Walker i think overall, we have to have the capacity to defend ourselves. Unlike when i came of age during the cold war when we thought it was the old soviet union, today, it is not just places like russia and china, but a mi