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He brushed him off not expecting to find the same man in his living room. Caught on tape, this is the minute the suspect made william his prey. The suspect leaves the store at 60th and market and paces on the sidewalk until william exits, before following him home. He asked for a couple of dollars. I said i dont have it. I came in the house. This fellow came in and he knocked me down and punched me. The korean war vet finds himself ambushed in his living room repeatedly bunch. His 83yearold wife evelyn darts up from the basement. He didnt need to use that force and grab the wife and throw her down and use a knife. Its unacceptable. Police believe the man frequents the area and someone has seen him. Those that work nearby say this is the first they have heard of the incident. Rewatching the surveillance video, hes certain this is the man who made him his prey. Im very bitter with him. He has no business being on the street. Now he says other than the pain in his jaw he feels much better. Police believe he comes to the neighborhood a lot. If you recognize the man in the video, you are asked to contact authorities. Christie ileto, channel6 action news. We have breaking news from montgomery county, a two alarm blaze has been burning in the 200 block of east elm, 241 east elm, a Processing Plant there. It was attacked by flames. Two alarm fire, firefighters still on the scene. A ladder extended there. No word on injuries, although there is no reason to believe there has been. Two alarm fire. A 25yearold man shot at 6 30 tonight died at the hospital. Police are searching for his killer. Gunfire broke out on westminster avenue in west philadelphia. The motivate is not known. The ben franklin parkway is closed for business. The business is the nfl draft. That doesnt happen until thursday. The folks building the enormous facility need the area for themselves. Live at the scene action News Reporter dann cuellar. What is the story there . They continue to put the touches on the infrastructure here. For some, its exciting. For others, its a headache. This is as the final prepare for round one of the draft. Its massive. It goes back five blocks. There is a huge workforce with tons of equipment putting together the impressive site on the parkway which stems several blocks. Its exciting. We have the draft. Its cool to see the set up. It looks like there is a lot to do. For some residents, its become a major hassle. It cease so much chaos. A few instances have become so confusing that a woman walking her dog was told her she could not walk across 27th street. A woman told me i was going to get a ticket. Please, go ahead give me a ticket for walking across the street. She and others hoped the city would be better prepared to avoid the confusion. Its not fair to the people that live here. Most are grinning and bearing it. Its hectic. I know the nfl draft is coming up. Its a big deal. We had the pope. We had the dnc. We can handle it. It wont be bad at all. Looking at the humungous stage in front of the art museum, the road closures go into effect 6 00 in the morning, side streets 21st to 24th and others near the area. The city says the closures will remain in place until monday may 1st, live on the parkway, site of the nfl draft. Im dann cuellar. There could be gridlock for the morning commute so join the morning team at 4 30 as they walk you through traffic trouble. Then for the draft itself, turn to action news for complete live coverage. Our sports and news Team Broadcast from the parkway. We have a birds eye view. Another issue that could impact your morning commute is the arrival of rain other than the. Cecily tynan is at the big board from accuweather. Cecily . We have been dealing with light showers on and off throughout the day. The pressure is across South Carolina moving um to the mother east. The steady rain you see moves in throughout the day tomorrow. The morning rush the rain arrives from the south. Good idea to allow extra time. Roads are wet, 6 00, 49. 8 00, 59. Temperatures holding in the 50s tomorrow. The rain will be intensifying as we head into the afternoon and early evening hours. You dont want to be heading out without an umbrella tomorrow. This is what to expect, on and off rain all day long. Generally half inch to inch and a half rain. Gusts up to 35 Miles Per Hour. Coastal gusts, 40 to 45 Miles Per Hour with testimonies in the 50s. Im tracking a sudden taste of summer through the week. Jim . Thank you, cecily. A pike county judge rejected a request for a competency i evaluation for eric frein. He had to be carried out of court. Hes refusing to walk or talk and stares into space in a stiewstupor. Prosecutors call it an act. His father testified today saying he failed his son not pushing him harder to grow up. Frein killed Corporal Bryon Dickson and injured trooper douglas. A 16yearold is in custody for shooting his friend in the face by mistake. He went to wake him up for school like he often does. Today he pointed a gun at the 17 year olds face as a joke. The victim woke upstart willed and smacked the gun away causing it to go off. The bullet went through his eye, lodged in his throat and he is in critical condition. Bomb threats in delaware, cherry hills new jersey and pennsylvania, Michael Kadar holds u. S. And jewish citizenship. He threatened airports and malls, police stations, baltic celtics and ernesto lopez. One of the jccs targeted by bomb threats the Jewish Center in delaware hosted a holocaust memory event today. In addition to remembering the millions that died, they honored everything that the survivors summoned to live. Maybe republican congressional leaders got to him or he had his own epiphany, President Trump is backing off his demand that funding for the border of mexico be included to prevent a government shut down end of the week. Trump told a group of conservative journalists that he would be willing to return to the issue of funding the wall sometime in september. President trumps cabinet is closer to completion. Sunny purdue is agriculture secretary. Senator pat toomey is giving President Trump a mixed review after trumps nearly 100 days in office. Pennsylvania junior senator brock months of media silence speaking to Monica Malpass today. You have the story. Republican senator to toomey gives the president high marks on Foreign Policy but admits there have been stumbles. I think it would be better to do less tweeting and keep an eye on the policies. Toomey gives thumbs up on neil gorsuch but wants more work on the budget. Will trump stage a showdown on funding for the wall against mexico. A new Healthcare Plan is nearly ready but not likely to come this week. Part of what is making it difficult is trying to do much of the replacement all at once. Toomey gives trump an a plus on Foreign Policy agreeing with the strike and sanctions against syria. I dont think it requires a large u. S. Invasionaryforce. Congress should give the president support to execute the plan. He knows progress hasnt come quickly as voters wanted. He had the lowest Approval Rating since 1945. Its tougher for a president to advance his agenda if approval numbers are not high. Tome toomey denies he himsels been unavailable to his constituency. Jim . Monica, thank you. Coming up on action news tonight, former president obama is in the spotlight. And the what you should watch more closely than your weight or bmi. Cecily . You need the umbrellas tomorrow. Rain is headed our way. By the end of the week, you need your air conditioner. I let you know how warm its going to get. Ducis rogers looks at the local football stand outand the best prospects to the draft and the phillies take a hit to their standing rotation. That and more when action news , 8drw we are following a developing story out of arkansas. The state will complete the nations first double execution in 17 years after going back and forth on one inmates fate. Following jack jones execution the state issued a stay for marcel williams. His lawyers claim jones moved his lips and was gulping for air after the first injection. The stay was lifted meaning williams will die tonight. Former president barack obama made his first comments since leaving the white house. He made no comments about his successor and rreferred to him only once. There are all kinds of issues that i care about, and all kinds of issues i intend to work on, the single most important thing i can do is to help in anyway i can prepare the next generation of leadership to take up the baton. Meanwhile the Fox Business Network is reporting that obama will receive 400,000 for a speech to the wall street firm of canter fitzgerald. Authorities say actress erin moran of happy days and joni loves chachi likely died of cancer. Moran died saturday in a rural indiana town near the kentucky border. No illegal narcotics were found inside the home. It may be your pants size not your bmi that you should be working on. Those with wider waistlines die more often than those that carry it elsewhere. Shape matters more than what the scale says. Lets get the accuweather forecast, cecily tynan . Jim, its a wet one for the next 24 hours. Double scan live showing generally light scattered shower. There is a batch of moderate rain between language horn and trenton moving to the northwest. This is filling in as we head through the day tomorrow. Currently, 53 in philadelphia, down from 60, seven degrees below normal. It was a cool, damp day. Allentown 54, wilmington 53 and cape may 52degrees. This is the culprit, slow moving low pressure over South Carolina. What this is going to do is meander up to the northeast as we head through the next two days. That keeps us locked in with the moisture. Future tracker, updated from earlier this evening, this shows the Timing Holding back the steady rain until after 8 00. Could have steady rain across cape may, delaware county, filling in around lunchtime. Areas south of philadelphia, pouring, continuing into the evening hours. This is a gradual process before getting the rain out of here. Pockets of rain around 11 00 tomorrow night. 7 00 in the morning, we wake up with clouds and drizzle. We dry out through the day wednesday. Generally, we are looking at half inch to inch and a half of rain, periods of rain tomorrow. Then we have a surge of warm air. Tomorrow, not just clouds and rain but also the wind. Winds 25 Miles Per Hour gusting to 35 Miles Per Hour. Along the coast where you dont get friction of land, its blustery, 40 to 45 Miles Per Hour. With the winds pushing the water inland, there could be minor coastal flooding high tide tomorrow evening. Its a nasty day. The accuweather forecast, wet, windy, cool tomorrow. 56degrees. Wednesday, we bump it up to 68degrees and gradually climb out of it. Look what happens on thursday. Right in time for the nfl draft, the penn relays, brighter, warm, 80degrees, friday, 84degrees. Could get a late day thunderstorm. The weekend is feeling like summer. Too hot for some people. Temperatures near the record high of 90, calling for 88. Sunday, record high is 91. Expect a record high of 91. Scattered thunderstorms monday afternoon and stays warm with a high of 84. A weather whiplash. Cold and rainy tomorrow. End of week, hot and sunny. Drexel university handed out the woman one award. This years recipient molly shepherd. She was surrounded by people congratulating her at the rittenhouse hotel. The money raised for Drexel University students who plan to serve in underserved communities. The high flying king of prussia celebrated all abilities this evening. They invited people differently abled to enjoy a night of sky diving. It was a huge success tonight. We want to wish a happy 100th birthday to marie salvador the center of attention today for her centennial celebration. The party was held at border town. She was born many the area and lived in the area all her life. In the 1950s, she used to give ballroom dance lessons. Her daughter says amid the fun of hosting the nfl draft and what it means to the city of philadelphia, lets not forget, its the draft, important to the eagles. Important to the eagles and life changing spros suspects. Thursday could be a good night for temple university. The owls are expected to have one player going in the nfl draft. The stock has been steadily rising. Jeff skversky caught up with him this morning. Today the temple prospect is back in his hometown of camden, given a key to the city on battleship new jersey. Im anxious and ready to go, see where ill call home for the next couple of years. The key to his rise, hard work. He was not recruited out of high school, he was a walk on at temple and his mom spent a hundred thousand dollars to put him through college until he got a scholarship as a senior. I wanted to give up and get a job and take testify stress off of her. Her being who she is, well make it work. I get a bit emotional. Like i said, he deserves it. Rettig plans to pay his mom back by buying her a house. What trouble has this given you in your playing days . None. Hes a great athlete. Hes a speed rusher, you know . I was a beast. Hes going to be good. Hes definitely going to be good. These why hes projected as a first round draft pick. On the parkway, jeff skversky, channel6. The peakin the eagles could r and top down quarterback. Eagle safety Malcolm Jenkins also attended state and hes not hiding his loyalty. I need another buckeye on the team, so i would like to take him. We are gearing up for the nfl draft. Our draft Preview Party wednesday night, 7 30. Once again, wednesday night at 7 30. We the phillies have the night off. They begin a three game set with the Martin Luther kingens tomorrow. We wont see aaron nola on the list. He has a lower back sprain. Finally tonight, best nba hall of famer larryburg driving an indie car in manhattan. He delivered indianapolis bid to host the nba all star game to commissioner adam silver. Hes wearing that thing. University of the art students were treat today a home cooked meal from the schools president today. David yeager, his wife stacey and chef larry kessel were busy in the kitchen. They figured the semester was almost over and students could use a break. Jimmy kimmel live live next on action news. Im jim gardner. Goodnight
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