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WPVI Action News 5PM November 16, 2015

Fight a state that is attacking another state. Thats not whats going on here. These are killers. This one was so sophisticated and so well planned out and coordinated in advance i think thats what concerns us the most. Reporter authorities are still trying to piece together who was involved in this series of attacks. More than a half dozen suspects have been killed but the manhunt for 26yearold Salah Abdeslam continues. The suspected belgian born Islamic Radical allegedly rented a vehicle used in the attack. Authorities say his brother was a suicide bomber and another brother was taken into custody. And french authorities reportedly stopped abdeslam shortly after the attacks but he was let go. Im live in the satellite center, chad pradelli channel6 action news. Thank you chad. Lets switch live to vernon odom with reaction from our local Muslim Community tonight. Vernon many of them are condemning these attacks. Reporter monica, all of them are. They call isis a legion of psychpsychopaths and murderous criminals. People who are psychopaths, they have nothing to do with islam. Reporter the local leader of a National Muslim organization in no Uncertain Terms condemns the isis slaughter in paris. He says Muslim Leaders worldwide do not get enough Media Coverage of their views on terrorism. Muslims around the world, thousands of them have denounced this act of carnage and american muslims here represented by my organization care accounts on americanislamic relations condemn this unequivocally. Reporter as for calls to shut down immigration of refugees from syria to the u. S. Out of fear isis will sneak into the long lines pennsylvanias Governor Tom Wolf says hell continue to welcome refugees who have been properly screened as does pennsylvania senior senator who says he has confidence in our vetting process. When it comes to the issue of refugees, we have to insist on a thorough vetting system. Fortunately the United States has the most thorough vetting system on the planet earth right now. That doesnt mean there are there arent alterations or additions or improvements we can pavement as philadelphia tries to become a world class city can our town stay safe from isis. The mayor elect says no drastic measures are in the works. So far so good. We have Homeland Security security here in philadelphia, you have an office leer that collaborates with our police, with our state police, with our local police and we will do everything we can to do to keep people safe. Reporter the head of the local Arab American Organization condemns isis just as he condemned bin ladens alqaeda back on 9 11. They have taken religion which like any religion has good and bad points and can be interpreted various ways and theyve perverted the religion of islam and a lot of it will have to be the Muslim Community with the world communities getting together. You dont solve this by denigrating islam. Reporter monica, all those with whom we spoke today say the issues are far too complicated over there to be solved by some of the slogans by mouthed by politicians see seeking higher office. Live on ben franklin parkway vernon odom channel6 action news. Thank you. For the very latest on the attacks and investigation log onto 6abc. Com. There youll find updates throughout the day as well as photos from the scene and tributes now from all around the world. Now were following a developing story here. Police arrested a Delaware County mother and son for allegedly dealing drugs to their neighbors. Radnor police Just Announced the arrest about an hour ago. 53yearold Joanne Beatty and 24yearold George Beatty were arrested at their house on friday. Police searched the home and found pound of marijuana 800 in cash and several items of drug paraphernalia. Dann cuellar was there for todays announcement and hell have more on how police busted this drug operation coming up on action news at 6 oclock. Officials in south jersey have confirmed two people found dead inside a vineland apartment was the result of a murdersuicide. 48yearold rosa cancela and 48yearold jose perez were found inside of an apartment at the berkshires apartment complex last friday afternoon. According to police, perez killed cancela before killing himself. The relationship between the two is still unknown. Medical marijuana use is legal in new jersey. One legislator is pushing for it to be legal for all uses including recreational. Experts spoke about that at the statehouse today. Many say its time to bring the drug out from the underground economy. New jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic live in our new jersey news room now with that story. Nora. Reporter hi there, monica. Senator nick scat terry is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee and he wants to legalize marijuana for, nnew jersey for everyone over the age of 21. He says it will be safer, it will make the state money and it will free up Law Enforcement to worry about more important matters. By legalizing it its your way to control it. Reporter a coalition of advocates from Law Enforcement medicine and civil rights organizations told the Senate Committee its time to legalize marijuana in new jersey. The status quo has failed. And its time for our common sense a and project and its time the tax regulate and legalize marijuana for adults. Reporter advocates say over 21,000 otherwise law abiding citizens are arrested on pot charges each year in new jersey. Blacks are nearly three times more likely to face charges. The state spends over 127 million to prosecute these cases. The time, the expense involved in bringing in all these police officers, Lab Technicians to testify over a marijuana joint simply not worth. Treat it more like alcohol, tobacco. Reporter the Senate Judiciary chairman says marijuana could become a billion dollar industry and legalizing pot is long overdue. We talk about how much money were losing, how much of a blackmarket were allowing to exist, how many criminal records well lang on people. I think the time has already passed. Caught with just a joint it could take your drivers license imprison you for months. Reporter governor christie has made it clear he does not favor legalizing marijuana. I feel the people in oregon washington and if im president of the United States get high now. [laughter] cause when i win, its going to be over. Reporter some Panel Members objected that only those in favor of legalizing pot were invited to testify. The chairman said opponents will get their chance, too. I think its sending the wrong message to our youth. Were saying that theres nothing wrong with marijuana but i think there is a lot wrong with marijuana. Its a gateway drug. Reporter now polls showed 58 percent of New Jerseyans support legalizing marijuana but this hearing today its just the the first what will be a very long legislative process. Live in our new jersey news room, im Nora Muchanic, channel6 action news. Nora, thank you. Philadelphia police are trying to identify two men who robbed a Dunkin Donuts at gun point. Surveillance cameras captured the crime back on november 12th at the store on the 800 block of north broad street in cobbs creek. The suspects came in through the front entrance showed their guns and demanded cash. One of the men jumped over the counter and tried to get into a back office area. They ran out the back door with an unknown amount of cash. Anyone with information is asked to call police. Time right now for a check of our action news traffic report monday night. Matt pelman in the action news traffic center. How is the weekend, matt. Weekend was nice. Spent a little time down the shore. Nice. You guys enjoy yours. Very much. Okay. Now i guess we have to do this things again so lets talk about all the accidents and delays were dealing with on this monday afternoon rick and monica. One of them right here in northeast philadelphia on 95 southbound side approaching the academy road exit. You can see the crash, emergency crews still on the scene. Mostly off to the side. But it is attracting attention and really showing things down south of woodhaven road to this point approaching academy. We have a crash over on the roosevelt boulevard southbound at masher. Partially blocking the inner drive and watch out for one in pennsauken along browning road at forest avenue. Still have the crash in bridgeport by the elks lodge along depot street at ford street. Theres the one in whitemarsh, along Germantown Pike at center avenue and in horsham watch out for the wreck close to penelopes frozen yogurt. Dealing with there has mat spill along gershal avenue at almond road and speaking of being down the shore i realized couple bridges blocked that you need to be aware of. The margate bridge and cause way closed today for the rest of the week for construction and the towns sends inlet bridge closed today for three months. More repairs after hurricane sandy. Rick and monica well check it again in the next half hour. See you then. Thank you, sir. Much more ahead on action news at 5 00. A mississippi firefighter who was severely burned on his face receives the most extensive facial transplant in history. Ali gorman will have details in health check. Cecily. It was a sunny and warm monday. Made it up to 70 degrees but now im tracking cooler air tomorrow and a late week soaker on the way. Ill have the details in the accuweather forecast. Rick. All right, cecily. A mural inspired by president barack obama is unveiled in West Philadelphia. We will show you when action news at 5 00 continues tonight. This Holiday Season, my good friend gave to me 7 powerball tickets 6 match 6 chances 5 cash 5s 4 cash4lifes 3 pick 3s 2 Mega Millions joe happy holidays, rita. rita thanks, joe man what a great gift announcer Pennsylvania Lottery tickets make great gifts, like the new holiday millionaire. joe happy holidays and best wishes from the lottery recently asked patients to rate the quality of over 3,500 hospitals. Fewer than 10 received 5 stars. Among them was Cancer Treatment centers of america in philadelphia. Cancercenter. Com eastern. Pennsylvania state senator Anthony Hardy williams wants one of the states top judges to stepdown. Today williams showed emails sent and received by state Supreme Court Justice Michael eakin on his government account. Williams criticized the emails as racist and misogynistic and said theyre an example of bias on the states highest court. We have Common Pleas Court jump on the email chain. We have assistants u. S. Attorneys on the email chain. We have public defenders on the email chain. That means when you go o court in dauphin county, if you have a public defender, im not sure that you will ever see justice. Williams also called for a special prosecutor to dig into eakins im mails as part of an independent investigation. Action news has reached tout Justice Eakins office for a response. They said they have no comment. In trenton, Law Enforcement officers held a mock funeral to protest against new jersey governor chris christie. Christie signed a bill back in 2011 requiring new jersey residents to pay more for their pension and healthcare benefits. Well today protesters wore christie masks and carried empty caskets to the statehouse claiming the governor has killed new jerseys spirit. After the protest the Governors Office called the Current System fundamentally broken and unaffordable adding the only solution is to embrace reform. Tonights health check a volunteer firefighter who was burned 14 years ago has now received an amazing gift, the most extension siev extensive fs ever done. Alley. Patrick hard disson received the transplant in off. He just recently got to take his first look because hard disson will be able to go home for thanksgiving. Some of these images are graphic. Lard disson who is now 41 was burned over his face and accident happen fighting a mobile home fire 14 years ago. He had 70 reconstructive operations but he still wasnt able to blink. So in the 26 hour operation this summer he received the face of a 26yearold new york artist and cyclist who died in a bicycle accident. Hard disson received all of the skin from the donors skull down to the collarbone. He says it is a gift he never thought he would receive. The food and Drug Administration issued the First Federal standards on how Fresh Produce is grown harvested packed and stored for example farmers must test water for crops to look for potentially harmful bacteria and farmworkers must be trained on safe handling and hygiene. The rollingy regulations follow a wave of deadly outbreaks tied to tainted spinach cantaloupe and other fresh food. About one in six americans gets sick each year from a food born illness. The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm about the growing problem of super bugs. Officials say it stems from misuse and overuse of antibiotics. Many bacteria are becoming resistant to the antibiotics there we have to treat infections. Antibiotics should only be used to treat bacterial infections and not viruses and if youre prescribed a treatment dont stop taking the drugs as soon as you start to feel better. And coming up tonight at 11 00 we take a closer look at sweat testing. It used to only be done for professional sports players but now every day athletes can get the same test. We try it out on two people. Find out how it works and how it can give you a competitive edge. Thats tonight on action news at 11 00. Rick and monica, rick, you would have been a good test subject for this. You should have asked me. Youd be embarrassed by the results. Uhoh. Ali nice talking to you. In other news tonight. Camden mayor dana redd loved hearing an announcement. A Task Force Found that the socalls and ms Community Brings in more than 2 billion a year for camden. More than 2,000 new jobs came with them. Cooper University Healthcare Md Anderson Cancer Center and Rutgers Camden are some of the education and medical anchor sites. Congressman Donald Norcross took part in todays announcement. Its the holidays. Which means a house full of people who all want to get online. So its the perfect time for verizon fios. It has the Fastest Internet and wifi available. With speeds from 50 to 500 megs. And right now, youll get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for your first year. And with a 2 year agreement, well give you all the premium movie channels for a year. Plus, 400 dollars back. So go online or call now. Get out of the past. Get fios. American love for the automobile doesnt come cheap. U. S. Car buyers now owe more money on their wheels than ever. Sales tracker auto data says the loans total more than 1 trillion. Analysts attribute that to low Interest Rates and strong car sales despite rising prices. New car sales are up 6 percent so far this year and the average payment hasnt changed much over the last five years. It stands at just under 400 a month. Philadelphia native and celebrity chef mark vetri agreed to sell his restaurants to clothing retailer urban outfitters. The deal includes pizzeria vetri as well as all of vetris other restaurants in the area. The only exception will be vetri. Urban outfitters will continue to run the Vetri Foundation for children. A stunning new mural was unveiled in West Philadelphia today to inspire men of color. Officials came out to show the my brothers keeper inspired mural here at 4,008 chestnut street. It highlights the tough circumstances that many black and latino men face, poor schools, longer end prison. S and grim job outlooks but it also shows that working together they can be resilient and try to do better. Well, as the Holiday Season approaches we here at 6abc are again teaming up to help feed our neighbors in need. You can join us this wednesday for a live telethon to benefit philadbundance. Volunteers and some special guests will be on the phone taking your donations from 4 00 to 6 30 p. M. Sarah bloomquist will host. For more information log onto our web site at 6abc. Com. Time for accuweather at the action news big board meteorologist cecily tynan here. A bright and sunny start to the week. Gorgeous. I could take a whole month of days like today. What a warmuply we went from chilling on saturday to thrilling today. Saturdays high 51 degrees and it felt a lot cooler when you factored in those wind gusts. Yesterday 61. Today bumped it up to 70 degrees. That is 14 degrees above normal and really across the region it was a mild day. Allentowns high made it up to 68 degrees. Trenton the same. Wilmington and millville 69. Litt

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