held another memorial vigil tonight. >> reporter: thelma brown was released from the hospital earlier this evening, she has not seen this large memorial yet but a large welcome home celebration was weighting for her. >> 69-year-old thelma brown is home and back on her porch, around the corner from allentown and allegheny avenues where she almost lost her life. >> saw a car coming toward her, some say the car had gone that way and you go that way. >> the woman remembers setting up the fruit stand with her neighbors from across the street, keesha williams and her three children and then they saw the suv coming towards them and we know it was fleeing carjackers losing control. >> i screamed help me, help me but i saw those guys jump that fence and ran. >> we reported that the matriarch of hilton street was helping the family. the grandmother of 11 thought of williams's kids as her own. >> she walked them to school and picked them up from school every day. even when she went to the store she had the kids with her. >> she was thankful that the suspected carjackers were caught. and at the memorial motorcycle groups had another large vinl ill for the victims walking to brown's home. it was brown that live aid powerful message. god showed everyone around here what is in store and what you can do to help other people. i thank god i am still here. >> reporter: the mother of those children is still critical in the hospital tonight, brown says she is going to need a lot of help when she is released and she'll be right here to do just that. kenneth moton, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. a delaware county community came out tonight to mourn theresa hunt, the prn killed in the mercy fitzgerald shooting last week. she was killed by richard plotts, and it was a shame she was killed in a job where she tried to help people. >> it's difficult what we face in society and the difficulty that these case workers have every day. >> she was a resident of port richmond but tonight her viewing and funeral were held in havertown, and a stabbing in center city late tonight senone person to the hospital with a knife wound to the chest. police are trying to sort out what led to the violence at 24th and chestnut just 24 hours ago. a man was led away in handcuffs but detectives have not identified that individual. two homes are considered uninhabitable after a car crashed into a retaining wall. it happened on hudson street and vest gatders do not know why the driver lost control. one person died in an accident that closed the pennsylvania turnpike for some six hours, chopper 6 hd was above the scene in wallace township, west of the downingtown exit. the accident sent two others to the hospital and the highway reopened just an hour ago. the authorities have launched their investigation into a criminal suspect by philadelphia police today. live at central detectives is reporter dann cuellar, what is the latest here? >> reporter: jim, detectives from central detectives is conducting infernal affairs investigation. the police were investigating a shooting and got involved in a shooting themselveses. >> "action news" was there when one of the alleged gunmen was taken into custody. it began before 4:00 on the 1100 block of paige at the strawberry mansion section. the man had been shot four times and was rushed to pennsylvania hospital. >> about a half hour later, we received information that the shooter from the job ran into the house two blocks away. they rushed to the 3200 block of paige and surrounded the house in question to prevent anyone from fleeing the scene. that is when one of the alleged gunmen left the house, he pointed the gun at police and police discharged it at this individual striking them one time at the abdominal area. at last report was undergoing surgery. the 22nd district officer involved turned his weapon over to supervisor and they counted the remaining bulletses in the clip and it's unclear if the suspect fired any bullets at officer. >> no motive is known at this time, it's just the beginning of the investigation. >> reporter: and at last word the alleged gunman and victim are reported to be in critical and stable condition. the officer did not wrong, he has been placed on desk duty which is routine when an officer is involved in a shooting this pending the outcome of the investigation. dann cuellar, channel 6 "action news." the father accused of punching a wawa customer store looking at his daughter is free on bail tonight. 45-year-old gary edwards was arrested and charged with assault and disorderly conduct. the 47-year-old victim was treated forehead wounds, at the wawa on paterson avenue. six officers are arrested for shaking down and beating drug suspects over seven years, they say that the six officers used gang land tactics and threats to extort enormous sums of cash and cocaine. they are being held without bail and commissioner ramsey says it's one of the worst corruption scenes he has ever seen and the crimes have a terrible impact. >> words don't describe the degree in which this has brought discredit upon not only the individual officers but their families, the police department, the entire city and the professional of policing. >> most of the officers face at least a seven year mandatory prison distance if they are convicted. a former coatesville cop will have to pay $74,000 in restitution for stealing money from his fellow officers, from the police benevolent league and out of a police locker. he is sentenced up to 23 months in prison and is eligible for release in three, the former detective wrote checks to himself and forged signature while serving as treasurer of the police benevolent fund. they say that israeli artillery shells killed 15 children and wounded 90 others at a u.n. refugee school. a u.n. representative condemned the israeli assault. >> children were killed as they slept next to their parents on the floor of a classroom at a u.n. designated shelter, this is an affront to all of us a source of universal shame, today the world stands disgraced. >> meanwhile wounded civilians were rushed to the hospital at a palestinian market. hamas says that 16 people were killed and this is the second straight day of particularly heavy israeli shelling, and peace effortses in egypt are so far proven to be unsuccessful. it's peace corps is evacuated 33 volunteers because of the ebola outbreaks. >> sharrie williams is live at the big board, they are calling this the largest in history and there is no vaccine? >> no vaccine or any known cure, more than 1200 people have contracted the virus and has claimed nearly 700 lives in west africa, now several americans in africa are battling the disease and one has died. fears are increasing tonight that ebola may spread. two american aide workers are battlinging the disease, and the two missionary workers are showing slight improvement but the missionary group will evacuate all non-essential personnel from liberia. >> he willingly and voluntarily decided to do that. >> now the first american has died from the virus. patrick sawyer of minnesota works for the liberian government and was set to fly back next week. his widow spoke out today. >> we lost patrick and we are losing tons of people there. we don't need that killer to come mere as well. >> the disease season spread through the air like the flu, it requires direct contact with bodily fluid, they say that americans should not panic. >> we are confident that normal isolation protocols in the u.s. or western style medicine would prevent transmission. >> the cdc saying not to panic but it is urging all doctors here in the u.s. to be on the watch for anyone traveling in that region that shows symptoms, fever, vomiting and diarrhea, they are even deciding to close some schools there. >> thank you sharrie. in eastern ukraine, international investigators are denied access to the malaysian plane crash site for a fourth straight day. according to ukrainian officials there, there is another problem, they say that the rebels have planted land mines on access roads to the crash site. they have remembered the lives lost in the shooting down of malaysian flight 17 and they talked of the researchers on the flight heading to an aids conference in australia. still to come on "action news" tonight, the house votes to sue president barack obama and testing their mettle, we'll tell you which cars escaped unscathed if the latest crash tests and small scale terror, a small snake has a jersey shore town on edge tonight. and this front is sitting off the coast and moving toward us this weekend and that means our luck will run out. i'll explain in the accuweather forecast. plus who will be nick foles backup, we get an assessment the republican controlled house of representatives has voted to sue president obama, the vote was 225-201. with five republicans joining all the democrats in opposing the measure. the suit would accuse the president of exceeding his constitutional authority in implementing his health care plan. the democrats called it a political stun and a waste of taxpayers money. crews in california have still not been able to shutd off water to a 30 inch main. 20 million gallons of water flooded the campus of ucla and did damage to the pavilion and dozens of cars in underground garages may be a total loss. reducing crime was a big topic at a meeting in delaware. mayor williams and other officials hosted a town hall session to cutts violence. they called wilmington the most dangerous small city in america. >> police discussed strategies in way that citizens can make their city safer. part of the garden state parkway is about to get wider? >> the extension project will add a lane from galloway township to egg harbor township. they are expected to get to work right after labor day and finish by august of 2017. and this is the only car to get a good rating, the four door mini cooper countrymen. it scored tops in the overlap test, doing 40 miles per hour mimicking clipping a tree or a pole. and the chevy volt say top safety pick because it has a frontal crash provision and scored acceptable in the tests. four vehicles however faired poorly, the nissan leaf and the nissan juke and the mazda 5 wagon. we have a statement from mazda and the full list on our website at 6abc.com. on health collect at 11:00, new jersey health officials are ramping up their watch for the virus, mosquito control teams in some counties are checking for the virus in their check for west nile. 29 americans are diagnosed with the disease, and they are afraid that someone here will pick up the disease from an infected human. and detectives on the jersey shore are on the hunt for a murder suspect. the name is wanted for the death of a seagull and it freaked out the neighborhood. >> screamed and when into the house to get my husband and everybody knows about it. >> i hate snakes. >> i'm not going back until they find it, that is for sure. >> they don't know what species they are dealing with here, reports from witnesses say that the snake ranges from 2 feet to 10 feet, make it even 12 feet but they do warn to keep a close eye on pets until the name is apprehended. >> i feel bad for the snake too, the nights are getting cold. >> and snakes have to eat. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that we have dry conditions here and there is a thin line of showers working near hairs berg and that could bring us an isolated sprinkle in the overnight hours, it's really falling apart and sky 6 taking a look at the sunset time lapse and what a sunset tonight and really another gorgeous day and a few fair weather cumulous clouds and it's past three days we have a slice of nice, temperatures remain below normal and dry weather and sunshine, it will would be nice if it lasted through the week and weekend but that won't happen. philadelphia 73 degrees and millville 63 and allentown 63 and sea isle city 61 degrees, a col and comfortable night but not quite as chilly as last night. satellite 6 along with action radar showing a thin band of showers, the main concern really is a front sitting offshore and that is moving in and that will be retro grading moving westward and that is causing problems. tomorrow is a nice day, 84 and a mixture of sun and clouds, comfortable with low humidity and high pressure close taos. what happens on friday the high pressure moves away and the front moves closer and this brings us clouds and showers and this wave of low pressure develop as long the front and that moves in for the weekend pulling in tropical moisture and this will be the first real rainy weekend we have had in some time. if you are down the shore, the winds pick up in the afternoon and the south, 11:00, 78 degrees, and the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, one more winner tomorrow, 84 degrees and low humidity and a pretty nice day again, not quite as cool as the past couple of days, the clouds roll in in the afternoon and 84 degrees and saturday it gets wet, it's humid with tropical downpours the high only 76 degrees, and future tracker showing around 1:00 on saturday, can you see the ban of heavy rain and that rain will start early in the morning before sunrise, unfortunately, for sunday, it's still unsettled with more showers and thunderstorms with a high of 80 degrees think monday still a chance of a pop-up shower with a high of 86 degrees and tuesday we get back into a warm air mass, 89 degrees and wednesday a mixture of clouds and sun with a high of 86 degrees, if you are planning for your weekend, i would say a great weekend for indoor activities not outdoor activities. >> this is the only really bad weekend of the summer. >> we had a few showers but not that many. go see a movie, clean your close et cetera. >> jimmy kimmel live is coming up at 11:35, here is a preview of tonight's show. >> thanks jim hello philadelphia, here is the magic waiting for you after the news, daredevil, a netflix show, they have not given much information about it, who will you play in that show? >> ha, ha, ha. we showed people a survey that stacked fios up against comcast. what's it like paying for internet rated 6 out of 7 in customer satisfaction? not good, it's not the best. no, it's not fun. look at it this way, you're kind of on top. if i was like this, all day. switch from the bottom to the top and see why millions of satisfied customers have made fios #1. sign up for a verizon fios triple play online with a 2-year agreement and get an amazing $400 back plus a free lg g tablet or up to $200 off any tablet from verizon wireless. but hurry, don't wait - this great offer ends august 10th. just a few years ago he was all the rain in new york and now he is scrambling for a job in philadelphia. >> we are talking about one mark sanchez, last year the quarterback job was up for grabs but not this time around, matt foles has it. mark sanchez spent four years as the jets starter. and he has the backup locked up. >> what you see is he is making quicker decisions than he did in the spling, not that he was slow in the spring but he feels more comfortable in terms of what we are trying to do. >> he making smart decisions and gets to the second receiver and it's great learning from him. jeffrey lurie has owned the team for 20 years and is he more hungry for the elusive super bowl title. >> it's a team approach and everyone is humble about it. nobody is trying to take responsibility for anything. it's strictly to be better than 31 other teams, you better be a very good team. still ahead the union make what they think is a key addition. have you seen tom corbett's negative ad with this actress. it's just not true. and more of the same from corbett. tom wolf's company is headquartered and files taxes right here in pennsylvania. and it's tom wolf who'll be the governor we need. he'll make the gas companies pay up to fund our schools. build a 21st century infrastructure. and restore manufacturing for the jobs we need today. take a look at his plan for yourself. tom wolf. a fresh start for pennsylvania. if any of the phillies players were auditioning today for the rest of the league for tomorrow's trade deadline, they bombed like a gong show reject. fourth inning, forget about the slow trot around the bases, head back to the benches, ben revere robs him and then he loops one to daniel murphy and the result is a three-run homer and the fills are down 7-1 and then jimmy rawlins in as a pinch-hitter, it's now 4-2. and then the only, it's now 9-2, armand is tagged by guda, and the phils lose 11-2. the union acquired the algerian goalie. he when to the knockout round of the world cup. pirated game, jodi mercer cracked a home run but it's no ordinary home run that, ball is thirsty right into a woman's drink. >> oh! >> one more time for good measure. >> she is all wetd, that is sports. kind of reminds you of a bull frog. >> a movie classic came to the screen in a whole new way tonight at the mann center. ♪ philadelphia orchestra performed the oscar winning score to west side story, as the movie played on two screens, it goes on or bit tomorrow, star trek into darkness. jimmy kimmel live next on channel 6 followed by night line and jimmy's guest is jimmy mccormick and rosario dawson. for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner. good night. 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