Wednesday night, jims off, im monica malpass. The the big story on action news is bill cosby arrested for an alleged sex crime from more than a decade ago. He is freon milliondollar bail. He is charge that stem from a Sexual Assault that took place on an evening in early 2004 at mr. Cosbys home in cheltenham township, montgomery county. After that announcement to day the 78 yearold cosby arrived in court in elkins park walking with a kane and being helped on the arms of his attorneys. Lets get more from chad pradelli with is what going on and uphill battle will, chad. Reporter well, prosecutors say it was 12 years ago when bill cosby invited the young woman to his home here, he told her over the phone they would talk about her future plans and that she should wear comfortable clothing. When she arrived here, prosecutors say cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her. Tonight accompanied by his attorney, bill cosby drove off from his cheltenham home but not before his attorney declared his innocence. It is, sad for his legal team, for his family, that he would be dragged through this. That this would be a political maneuver, that this would be a fulfillment of a Campaign Promise as opposed to something that is necessary for justice. Reporter visibly weak, partially blind cosby, gingerly made his way to District Court to face charges he drugged and sexually assaulted Andrea Constand in his cheltenham home 12 years ago. Mr. Cosby urged her to take pills, that he provided to her and to drink wind. Reporter former temple basketball employee told investigators that she was frozen, paralyzed, steele says cosby an ad myth todd giving constand what he claimed was over the the counter benadryl but maintained the encounter was consensual. Were 12 years in, 12 years after an alleged assault that was fully investigated. Reporter but prosecutors say it is unclear what cosby gave constand, and recently unsealed Court Document may hold the answer and plays a key role in the reopening of the investigation. During a civil suit deposition, cosby admitted that he obtained seven prescriptions for the powerful sedative, quaalude, and was asked by constands attorney when you got the quaaludes was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young woman that you wanted to have sex with . Cosby responded, yes. Reporter prosecutors believe there are other victims of cosby here locally, and they want those victims to come forward. Live from cheltenham, chad pradelli for channel six action news. Thanks, chad. As conditions of cosbys milliondollar bail today the the judge ordered him to surrender his passport and have no contact with the accuser, Andrea Constand or he could go to jail. Cosby is due back in court on thursday, january the 14th, for a preliminary hearing. New details in the constand kacie merge over this summer when bill cosbys deposition from the civil lawsuit was publicly released. Cosby claims he did give constand three half pills of benadryl and touched her sexually because he said she did not explicit thely stop him. I dont hear her say anything and i dont feel her say anything so i continue and i go in the area that is somewhere between permission and rejection. The question now becomes a legal one. We have more on that. There is of course a civil case between cosby and constand but now this is i criminal case that the district attorney, newly elect one, is bringing. We will have more on that part of the storm friday dann cuellar. It the is very difficult to prosecute a case from that long ago most of the the time. Reporter criminal defense attorney jack mcmahon is a former prosecutor in the philadelphia d. A. s office. He said critical question is whether to allow prior allege bad actor would that be seen as prejudicial to bill cosby. It is not a very good case. The bruce castor decided not prosecute because he did not feel he could get a conviction. Nothing has really changed in ten years other than these multiple allegations. Reporter all along cosby claim the encounter was consensual but the victim has claimed she was drugged with drugs and alcohol. She may have been high, drunk or some influence of drugs that lowered her defenses some but to say that she was totally, noncompetent had no idea what was going on i think that is a problem for anybody, a juror particularly, to accept or believe. Reporter under the law the case has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt and jurys decision must be unanimous. High bar to reach when you are trying to convict an icon like cosby. He doesnt have the same graph has ten to 12 years ago but it is still bill cosby. He is still that icon and that will be a hurdle for the prosecution. Reporter meanwhile womans law project carol tracie says it Business Time cosby has been charged in the case. We have both police and prosecutors, judges and juries, that are frankly polluted with bias in the cultural bias is that they are liars and i think that we are now seeing a significant paradigm shift. Now that was dann cuellar reporting. High profile attorney gloria alred represents 29 women who have accused cosby of assault. She claims a victory of sorts on todays news. Of my 29 clients who alleged that they are victims have of bill cosby, seeing him, criminally charged and having to face a trial is the the best Christmas Present that they have ever received. All but one of her clients are suing, judy, she was 15 when cosby assaulted her at the playboy mansion. That case took cosbys deposition just this past october and that testimony is sealed by the court for now. Alreadies seeking a second deposition in that case next year. More than a dozen colleges and universities rescinded their Honorary Degree they awarded cosby in the wake of the founding scandal. That includes drexel, swarthmore, mule thanberg and franklin and marshall. Penn has call allegations troubling but it is not universitys proper to rescind Honorary Degrees. An institution that cosby is most associated with, Temple University, is also allowing him to keep his Honorary Degree, however, cosby resigned as a Temple University trustee. Our coverage of the cosby case continues for you on six abc. Com. It includes not only live coverage when news conferences happen and latest developments but our history of reporting on the sexual allegation assault topic. Well, same street in West Philadelphia has new been the scene of two murders today. Police say latest victim a man in his 20s was shot at 7 50 in the unit block of north redfield street. He was pronounced dead at penn Presbyterian Hospital later tonight. This deadly gunfire came five hours after another homicide, 11 blocks away, also on redfield. Police have not identified the suspect in either shooting or whether the two cases are related. Three people are nursing injuries tonight after a shooting in middletown, delaware this one broke out in the 300 block of elizabeth street at 8 00 p. M. Someone just opened fire and when it was over three victims were hit and they were rushed to christiana Care Hospital in, word on any arrest or motive. Police are still gathering evidence from the scene. Fired eagles head coach chip kelly is now talking about his sudden ousting tonight. He released a statement apologizing but saying thank you, among other things as sports director Ducis Rodgers is here to tell us what his response was, about being canned before the season was even ever. He express gratitude and thanks to Jeffery Lurie and the eagles organization. Kelly goes on to say i deeply regret that we did not bring this great city and fans the championship they deserve. I was bless todd work with the gifted hard working Coaching Staff every day and they will succeed where ever they go. Finally, my players mean the world to me, i will miss them very much and i will root for them to achieve their dreams. Earlier Jeffery Lurie explained that he did in the like where this team was headed under kelly. It it was a clear and important decision that had to be made and i look forward to watching chip succeed where he goes because i think he really will but i also look forward to a real improvement in where were headed. Hey, he is the head coach. He had has to take the fall. You are the face of the whole team. We understand. That i know he understands it. It was tough transition from college to the nfl, it is different. If you are stuck in your ways or closed minded and not willing to change, you know, it will be difficult. It will be rubbing people the wrong way. Pat shurmur led pratt other day, interim coach for final week against the giants. The search for permanent head coach is already underway, Jeffery Lurie is not opposed to dipping in the College Ranks again but more focused on finding the best leader. Looking for somebody who interact is very well and communicates clearly with everybody that he works with and comes in touch with. He understands the passion of our fans and what it is like to coach the philadelphia eagles. It is a unique, incredibly Passionate Fan base that just wants to win. Lurie feels there is plenty of talent on this roster. He does not anticipate having to revamp the roster. That is ironic because that is last thing chip kelly told us when we saw him in philadelphia a on monday. In other news, we have much more iconic philadelphia name brand that sells for an inflated price a billion dollars. Also, a horrific flooding in the midwest, now blame for more than two dozen deaths. A purse snatcher we have Surveillance Video of the thief who uses a can of macto steel 10,000 merchandise from a high end rittenhouse store, adam. Our latest round of rain will be off the coast and after ten days of cloud we have a brighter change that starts tomorrow in the accu weather seven day. Plus ducis returns with more reaction from the eagles shake up and looking ahead to the giants game when action news continues tonight. Not getting your best sleep . Could be youve got the wrong bed. Enter sleep number. She likes the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. You can both adjust the bed for the best sleep of your life. Find the lowest prices of the season, going on now. Save 600 on the 1 rated i8 bed. Only at a sleep number store. Been killed as a result of catastrophic flooding in the midwest. Officials say that most of the deaths are from folks making dangerous decision to drive through high, fast moving water, and parts of the greater st. Louis are under water, businesses and homes, simply, swallowed whole. The hundreds of roads and bridges are now closed including more than 20 miles of a major interstate and where water has not yet flooded resident are scrambling to get to safety. The kids are gone, pets are gone and we are trying to get rest of the stuff that is important to us. Reporter Mississippi River is still rising. Officials are not expecting to it crest until later tonight or maybe even tomorrow. And abc news has obtained exclusive video of the affluent teen and his mother on the run in mexico. The paris caught at mexico on monday, ethan couch has been granted a three day stay in mexico but his mom has been already headed back to the u. S. Couch pleaded guilty in 2013 to drunk driving and killing four people but he was sentenced to just probation after his lawyers argued that he was too spoiled to know right from wrong. Chicago as mayor says he is now doubling number of tasers available to police. The mayor and Police Department have been heavily criticized since that city released video footage of the white officer shooting a black teenager 16 times in 2014. In an audio recording that night several officers are heard, asking for a taser, before officer Jason Van Dyke shot 17 yearold laquan mcdonald. Police said no officers or vehicles on the scene were equipped with a taser. Army has received 12 claims totaling 300,000 in damage is attributed to the october 28th wayward blimp incident. You may remember this slow moving unmanned surveillance blimp broke loose from its moring in maryland and then floated in to pennsylvania. The blimp as tether hit power lines that caused numerous electric aal outages before it crashed. What caused that blimp to become detached remains under investigation. Pennsylvania state representative julie announced she will not run for a 12th term representing northampton and lehigh county. The 70 yearold republican law maker has been serving the 183 district for 21 years. Investor karl icon has won the weaks long bidding war for pep boys, with a billion dollar cash offer. Philadelphia based auto parts chain was founded in 1921 by four navy buddy, manny, 2mos and a jack and grew one of the most recognizable brand in the business with 800 locations around the country and almost 20,000 employees. He beat out japanese tire company bridge stone for pep boys, saying the the Company Still has quote, Enormous Growth potential. No word what will happen to the philadelphia headquarters, or, to its employees. Well, Philadelphia Police are looking for this man who stole nearly ten grand in merchandise from the Barneys Department store at rittenhouse square. Surveillance video here shows him taking several high end purses off the shelves december 12th. He then used mace to incapacitate the the Stores Security guard and manager and then made his getaway. Detectives are asking anyone who knows who he is to plea give them a call. Septa announced that buses will return to the 69th Street Transportation Centers west terminal starting on monday. Boarding there was relocated since the spring during a 20 milliondollar reconstruction and modernization project. Work is still being completed but enough of it the has been done that it is now safe for passengers again. Mummers are using every last second they can to prepare for this years new years day parade. Tonight the fancy brigades performed for a packed house at Pennsylvania Convention center. This rehearsal is a annual sneak peak and what spectators can see on january 12th. The action cam capture members of the avalon string band hard at work finishing their props. Well, police are not kidding around when it comes to drunk driving this new years. They are setting up random checkpoint and triple will a midatlantic says new years is one of the most deadly days for alcoholrelated traffic fatalities. They urged party go tours think it through right now. You have to have a plan before you decide where you are going. Also the the driving service uber is offering to help with the problem. They are offering free rides to anyone who needs it, at a kiosk like this will be near the parade route in center city. If you have a alcohol level that is too high on their kiosk they will get you home safely for free. It seems to help on their busiest night of the year. Temple University Researchers had a study that show cities that have uber of scenery duesed levels of drunk driving deaths. Experts say many of these crashes are preventable and they are hoping to improve safety in our area this year. In new york city they are getting ready for the big bash in times square on new years eve, a Million People are expected to attend. Security will be extraordinarily tight this year, 6,000 nypd officer, that is american ever before, and tests of confetti drop went as planned today. Meanwhile crews spent the rest of the day doing practice runs for the crystal ball to make sure things go smoothly tomorrow night when it counts. If you cannot make to it new york we have the the best view of that ball drop right from the comfort of your home or at a new years eve party, dick clark new years rocking eve starts tomorrow night at 8 00 only right here on six abc. A lot of folks want to know what the new year will bring with the weather department. Go figure, quiet in, rain. We will take that big changes coming our way in the next 24 hours looking at double scan live radar. Same old, same old, presently right now dealing with some showers across some of the viewing area. We are beginning the drying out process despite the fog and wet ground, west of philadelphia, you can see center city, give it the another 15 or 20 minutes and rain drops will seized and as we head to the north and east you can still see green here, light showers through much of the state of new jersey and extend up into new york city but thankfully this is tonight and not tomorrow night. Visibility is though is pretty low. Working midnight shift, remember when you head out the and there is fog you want to use low beams not high beams, less light being pushed out, less light being refracted back off of that cloud cover, and the low lying water droplets one and a half mile visibility in philadelphia, 2 miles in allentown, two and a half in reading, half mile visibility for dover, wildwood, one and a half at the shore. So everyone really in this thick fog. Is there a dense fog advisory for poconos and northampton counties, parts of the Lehigh Valley where visibility there below a quarter mile but even if you are not under a dense fog advisory it is harsh out there and that will remain the case over the next few hours. Temperatures though are still pretty mild, 45 degrees in allentown, 51 in philadelphia, 56 in millville, 55 in Atlantic City airport. Normal low should be below freezing this time of the year. The as we look at satellite and radar is there area of precipitation working north and east and freezing rain in central and southern parts of the new england. There is thicker cloud but notice it inching in and eventually that cloud cover will break up here tomorrow morning. If you have have to go to work and many wont be within that morning rush tomorrow but if you are, you are good to go, green light, cloud giving way to sunshine, dryer roads, temperatures in the 40s. As we look at day planner for thomas we work through morning hours, temperatures right around 47, 49 degrees. They wont go up. Some sunshine and wind will be picking up to dry atmosphere out. As we get in the a afternoon there is a a mild finish to 2015. Sun takes over, 50 at 1 00 and at 4 00 oclock your temperature at 48 degrees. The and then around 6 00 oclock temperatures at 45, midnight 40 degrees, partly cloud which breeze, wind chills will be in the mid 30s, and then for mummers as they strut down broad street wind chills below freezing to start at 9 00 a. M. Fortys in the afternoon. It will be a bright sunny day but with the wind it will remain in the 30s with those wind chills even in the a afternoon. Exclusive accu weather seven day forecast it is a warm even to the year tomorrow at 50 degrees with that returning sun. Sunny on friday, 46, wind chills in the the 30s and then as we get in the weekend wall to wall sunshine and temperatures a few degrees above normal in mid 40s. Real cold shot come in monday. Thirtynine for the high. Teens to start tuesday morning. Still below average tuesday afternoon and then we will warm it right backup at 48 degrees but constant in that seven day is sunshine, every single day. In snow. That too. Thanks, sir. Meantime mayor Michael Nutter personally honored a Championship Football Team today, these 24 young men make up north west raiders, on december 12th, their team rallied from a 19 to zero deficit, to win, their second back to back Pop Warner National super bowl championship in the midge it division. Final score, 3419. What a come back. vo some call it giving back. We call it share the love. During our share the love event, get a new subaru, and well donate 250 to those in need. Bringing our total donations to over sixtyfive million dollars. And bringing love where its needed most. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. T crying anymore. To help get her mind off of andy, haley and i have been making a quilt out of all her old clothes. And some stuff i need phil to stop wearing. Oh, cool. That square is the same pattern as my kangol hat. Can you believe how gorgeous it is outside . [ its the holidays, which means a house full of people, who all want to get online. So hurry and get verizon fios. Only fios has the Fastest Internet and wifi available, with speeds from 50 to 500 megs. And right now, for only 79. 99 a month online, you get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for your first year. Plus, with a 2year agreement, fios gives you 400 back, and all the premium movie channels for a year. So go online or call now for this great offer. Get out of the past. Get fios. On the way out of town tonight. I mentioned earlier chip taking high road with this. A lot has happened in the past 28 hours, chip kelly was fire. Jeffery lurie held a news conference. Late tonight chip kelly issued a statement. In it it read, partly, quote i deeply regret that we did not bring this great city and its fans the championship they deserve. I was bless todd work with the gifted, hard working Coaching Staff every day and they will succeed where ever they go. Finally my players mean the world to me. I will miss them very much and i will routeing for them to achieve their dreams. Jeffery lurie knew he was rolling dice when he hired chip kelly in the first place. He knew he structure the front office a year ago to give kelly more power was an even bigger gamble. There was a risk involved, in allowing chip to have that kind of say over player transactions, and, however, you know, risk reward. Sometimes risks dont work and in this case it didnt work. Pat shurmur is interim head coach for this weeks final game against the the giants. We will hear from him tomorrow. Today, we heard from the players and it sound as if not all connected with chip. Maybe intimidation factor a little bit. Maybe a hard guy to approach, people didnt feel comfortable doing that especially after some change that he is were made. I dont know what his relationship was with other people but i had a great relationship with chip. You know, he gave meehan opportunity after being injured for two years and ill forever be grateful for that and, you know, tough him not being here good did chip lose the locker room. I dont think so when you lose, if you lose, you will lose some people but overall everybody was still ready for that game. Search for replacement head coach has already begun. Still ahead flyers skate out west, while sixers are, california dreaming as well, dreaming of a third victory on the year. Grover cleveland here. Yes, the handsome gent on the thousanddollar bill. With cash4life, the great game from the pennsylvania lottery, you could win a thousand dollars a day for life you could invest it, or save it for a rainy day. Or you could buy a new car and with drawings every monday and thursday, that means 2 chances to win every week. Cash4life from the pennsylvania lottery. You could win a thousand dollars a day for life. With the eagles the flyers in action tonight, game three of their West Coast Road trip takes them to san help say to face sharks, after a disappointing loss in anaheim on sunday. Steve mason gets the start in net. So far that has been a good thing, nice saves early, but get this, the flyers were out shot in the first period nine 36789 right new there is in score, after one period of play. Sixers and kings, Jahlil Okafor back after missing past two game with the knee injury. Thompson has the hot hand early off the bench this give the sixers a one point lead in the first quarter. Thompson with 121st half points. Moving to the second quarter, ish smith, who seems to be a nice surprise, drives to the hoop, sixers are in this one. Game was tied at 57 at the half. Sixers begun Third Quarter on a 12two run, right now they lead 5959 in the Third Quarter. That is a look at sports. And Jimmy Kimmel Live next here on channel six followed by night line. Action news continues at 4 30 with tamala edward, matt odonnell, and karen rodgers. For ducis, jim gardner, the entire action news team, im monica malpass. You make it a good night. And now, abcs Jimmy Kimmel Live. Dicky from hollywood, its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight ryan seacrest, chef giada de laurentiis, this year in unnecessary censorship, and music from gavin james. With cleto and the cletones. And now, happy holidays heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ]