Cameras were rolling as officers escorted three students out of the school in the Spring Garden section of philadelphia. Hours later two more students were hauled off in cuffs their involve. In the incident is noter. We do know that the shot was confirmed by a Security Officer on location so we are searching this building its a very large building. Nothing going on right now. Everybodys safe. No one was hit. Reporter a student shares this video with action news claiming that it was filmed today before the shot was fired. Reports of a shooting and the school on lockdown put parents in panic mode and scrambling to get in touch with their children. Got them on lockdown in the cafeteria, that someone heard shots or they found the casing in the stairway and they got them in the cafeteria on lockdown. They wont let nobody in or out the building. Reporter investigators are working to figure out exactly what happened inside the school. Were going to do a floor by floor search in hopes of uncovering this weapon. Reporter back out live tonight still no confirmation that a weapon was found inside the school. We also can tell that you police say they are reviewing Surveillance Video in hopes of getting to the bottom of todays lockdown. Live tonight in Spring Garden, gray hall, channel6 action news. Jim, back to you. Thank you, gray. A bus driver for the Penn Ridge School District in bucks county faces Sexual Assault charges tonight. Investigators say 74yearold James Mcintyre inappropriately touched and exposed himself to two female special needs students ages 14 and 22. The alleged incidents happened between 2009 and 2015 while mcintyre drove the students from their homes in bucks county to their school in chester county. The district has suspended mcintyre. Police in New Castle County, delaware, are trying to solve a murder mystery tonight and its turning out to be a very tall order. Action News Reporter Trish Hartman has that story. Reporter New Castle County police are looking for 52yearold Gregory Parker. Hes sixeight, 225 pounds and detectives are calling him a person of interest in the homicide at his home on eider court in the Mallard Point community. Family going through turmoil right now. I just came by here to try to figure out i dont know what my brother doing out here. Reporter Jermaine Johnson says his brother is the one who was killed. While Police Identified the victim as sean spence of new castle his brother says he went by sean johnson. Jermaine says hes never herds of Gregory Parker but is anxious for police to find him. Turn yourself in, man. He wasnt worth it. Aint nobody worth killing but if you out there you need to turn yourself in. Reporter neighbors here in the Mallard Point community in new castle couldnt believe it when they heard about the killing. Im very surprised, yes. cause nothing bad happen around here. And we have been here about nine years. Reporter even more surprising that their neighbor who lives in that house is being sought by police. I didnt expect him to be a person of interest after knowing him for eight years. He seems to be a really nice guy. Reporter police say around 10 00 p. M. Someone called them for a welfare check of the home. Obviously their feeling was correct and it led us to locate a victim. Reporter police say spence was found on the first floor with significant injuries. From there a Homicide Investigation was launched. Detectives worked all night and all day gathering evidence from the home while neighbors are shaken police want them to know they think spence and parker knew each other. New Castle County Police are still looking for parker. No motive has been released. If you have any information youre asked to call 1800tips3333. Reporting in new castle delaware, Trish Hartman channel6 action news. An accident involving a Gloucester Township School bus sent 15 people to the hospital today. Police say a car rearended the bus on sicklerville road at 7 45 this morning. The bus was transporting students to anne mullen middle school. 12 children on the bus along with the driver of the other vehicle and two children in that car were all treated for minor injuries this morning. We are entering the final weekend before the iowa caucuses. The first electoral event in the 2016 president ial campaign. And the eyes of the political world are firmly trained on the state of iowa. Rick williams is live in des moines tonight. Rick, one thing ive always found fascinating there is so much importance given to iowa yet the state in no way is typical of the country as a whole. Reporter well, jim youre absolutely right. Iowa does not represent a Cross Section of the community or of the country both demographically or politically. It is not as diverse as people might think but that doesnt seem to matter to the candidates or to the media. One other thing the doesnt seem to matter as much as many people might think is who will finish first monday night. Hello. Wow. Clear cheer. This is the first time real people are actually going cast real votes. Come on. Reporter and thats villanova professor matt kerbel says what makes iowa so important. Its first. Thank you very much. Reporter we are finally going see what actual voters think. But iowa is not actually a great example of what voters nationwide are thinking. Demographically it doesnt match the entire population and that has shown in past caucuses. Iowa has historically been bad in predicting the eventual nominee. The reason its so important is because of its position on the calendar, it comes first so this is really the first test for these candidates. Reporter in truth, winning is not everything here in iowa. Just ask Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee the last two republican winner. We love this state always have and always will. The key he in iowa isnt necessarily winning unless youre expected to win. The key is to do better than what youre expected to do. Reporter a poor showing here can lead to a loss of support. Its likely that for some of the candidates especially in the larger republican field, this will be the beginning of the end. Want to look to see what happens with the candidates that finish seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth. Its possible those candidates may fall by the way side. Reporter and were back live in des moines the latest polls jim are showing that both races democrat and republican are too tight to call fars as far as the iowa caucus is concerned. The idea is not necessarily to come in first but to surpass expectations. Can coming up at 11 00 well hear from iowans voters who cant wait to finally have their say in this president ial race. Well see you at 11 00. Jim, back to you. Rick williams reporting from des moines. Thank you, rick. The state of delaware has a new Family Court Commissioner tonight. Danielle blount was sworn in today in wilmington. She recently served as governor Jack Markells deputy legal counsel. The governor was on hand today to offer his congratulations. Nine Rowan University students are facing charges tonight after investigators say they scammed a 7eleven to the tune of 35,000. The scheme started with one student who worked at the store. Police say the 21yearold credited fellow Students University sponsored debit cards as refunds for items they never purchased. Because of his alleged actions, eight of his fellow friends are now charged with theft. Coming up on action news tonight, well give you a sneak peek at the philadelphia auto show. It opens this weekend. Well show you thousand plan yon your visit. Plus another eagle gets a contract extension. Jeff skversky will have details. To date 42 degrees, thats 1 degree above normal. But well reverse this trend as we head through the weekend and early next week. Ill have all the details on our taste of spring on the way in our accuweather forecast. Those stories and much more when action news continues. The philadelphia auto show begins this weekend with a black tie preview gala on tap tonight. And live at the Pennsylvania Convention center is action News Reporter john rawlins. John, i wonder have you seen sight of a certain black fiat 500l . Reporter hi, jim. Indeed i can. I am high above a Steel Mountain here at camp jeep and the 500l that youre talking about i can now talk to you outside here, the 500l of course belonged to the pope when he was here. There are two of them. Both low mileage papal transport. One has about 400 some odd miles, the other 371. Theyll be auctioned off or one will be oaked off tonight at the black tie event. The other will be here on the floor for the duration of the show. 700 vehicles, 40 brands from exotics to daily drivers but its possible the first new thing you notice wont have four wheels. Its an auto show app for your phone with something called e key. So, e key is similar to what you might find at disney world its a way you can plan your visibility you see something want more information take your phone to a scanning station. You scan it right in and boom ive just told gmc im interested now. Reporter among whats flew to drive if you have 70,000 alpha romeo has a sedan there can rocket you from zero to 60 in flee. 8 seconds. How about a minivan with optional cameras. The driver can see whats ahead behind and to the sides at the same time. To be able to see all 360 degrees around the car so this is going to be a special useful in parking lots or in driveways. Reporter need something smaller . How about a fiat roadster. Its all about the fun to drive experience, the wind in your hair from the convertible. Reporter models can can park themselves or automatically provide brakes to avoid hitting a slower vehicle. The next step vehicle to Vehicle Technology is coming. In this candidates lack demonstration one car signals a second car to brake hard and steer around a stalled vehicle. Its one step closer to self driving cars but the man who runs the auto show says what works on an uncrowded highway may not be up to dealing with congested narrow urban roads yet. The system says well i cant go to the left, i cant go to the right the lines say i cant. How do they develop that technology to be able to accommodate that and i believe they will some day but were certainly not there yet. Reporter well, it seems that self driving cars are still a work in progress but they are progressing were told though were still many years away from the jet sons. If youre looking for something new to drive and you want to drive it yourself the auto show is a place to did you mean and take a look at things. It opponents tomorro opens tomok and runs through sunday the seventh super bowl sunday. Live at the Convention Center john rawlins channel6 action news. Back to you jim. Looks like a nice jeep that just came down the ramp. Our auto show preview airs tomorrow at 7 00. We ask you to join karen rogers adam Joseph Melissa magee, Ducis Rodgers and Alicia Vitarelli for more on the technology and the trends, 700 cars on display at the Convention Center. Cars also filled Atlantic Citys boardwalk hall today. The facility is hosting the napa know how racing weekend. Drivers from 10 states and canada are vying for a win in three divisions. Racers include twotime event winner liquid lou laconi from Delaware County. Practice rounds are held this afternoon. Competition gets under way at 7 00 p. M. Tomorrow. The 6abc Dunkin Donuts holiday food drive wrapped up way big check presentation. This in south philadelphia. Officials from Dunkin Donuts joined by 6abc president and general manager Bernie Prazenica today presented a check for 155,000 to philadbundance. That is 65,000 more than last year. The donation will help philadbundance provide more than 300,000 meals to feed the hungry. Ive been a turkey farmer my whole life. And i raise turkey for shady brook farms®. We dont use growthpromoting antibiotics, thats just the way things should be done. Thats important to me. My name is glenn, and im an independent turkey farmer. female announcer shady brook farms®. No growthpromoting antibiotics, just honest, simple turkey. Eagles sign another stalwart to a contract extension. Locking up a bunch of guys since Doug Pederson took over. While chip kelly let a bunch of eagles home grown talent just go Doug Pederson is now trying to keep them. Tackle lane johnson the latest eagle to get a new contract today. Its a six year deal worth 63 million. Johnson is now the highest paid right tackle in the nfl. The fourth overall pick in 2013 will eventually replace jason peters on the left side. I was happy when he came along. Obviously i want to be here the rest of my career. I got a lot of guys in this locker room that are like my brothers be like family to me. Its where i want to be. Eagles also locked up tight ends brent celek and zach ertz this week. Celek reuped for three more years wants to retire an eagle. He got the news monday night on his birthday. He broke down in tears. This is one of the greatest days of my life. To be able to say that im going to be a Philadelphia Eagle for life is a dream come true. When i figured it out i couldnt sleep. It was a long day for me but im excited and i love this organization and the only thing i can do is do everything in my power to give it back to them so going to work our butts off and try to bring a championship back to philadelphia. Lets hope so. Theyve become the Gold Standard in the nba. No, not the sixers, the team theyre playing tomorrow night. Golden state, the nba champs are here, the sixers have lost 10 times the amount of games as the warriors this season. Yeah, tougher test up next for your sixers. They havent beaten steph curry and company in nearly three years. Curry the leading scorer in the nba is a handful but who knows that better than sixers guard ish smith. They were on the same aau Team Together as teenagers. Hes the best player in the league right now and hes just playing with so much confidence and so now we have a tall task, i have a tall task, we have a tall task as a team as stopping that movable force. We havent seen a player like him in my lifetime. Yall lived a lot longer than me. Maybe yall have but hes a great player. Speaking of great players, Jahlil Okafor expected to play tomorrow after missing the last two games with an ill heness. Former Phillies First round pick jesse biddles time with the phils could be over. The mount airy native has been removed from the roster to make room for a reliever who they claimed off waivers today from the angels. Final. Did you see this last night at the Arizona State basketball game behind the curtain of distraction, boom, olympic swimmer Michael Phelps jumped out in a speedo with his gold medals. What is he doing . Well, whatever it is it worked. He distracted the oregon state player who missed both free throws. Phillies fans are passionate. Arizona state basketball fans are certainly creative. Hes getting ready for the Olympic Games by heckling. [laughter] thats how you do it. Not a terrible strategy i guess. It was a colorful competition in Delaware County today. Rival middle schools haverford and paxton hollow faced off in the 13th annual potter cup at hanover high school. Teams went led to head in basketball and wrestling and it was all for a very important cause. The money raised during todays game goes to Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation to fight childhood cancer. Weekend accuweather forecast meteorologist cecily tynan. Jim, the weekend is looking very nice. Little bit cool tomorrow but very mild on sunday. Storm tracker6 live double scan showing we are dry out there and ive been getting a lot of beautiful sun sets tweeted to me and posted on my Facebook Page and this is just gorgeous. Claire sent this to me from Sea Isle City. If you look there you can see the rays also known as sun beams. Corpuscular rays. Red skies at night sailors delight. Tomorrow should be a beautiful day. 38 degrees in philadelphia, allentown 35, trenton 37, Sea Isle City 37 and wilmington 35 but it feelings much cooler when you factor in winds gusting about 20 to 25 miles per hour. Feels like 28 in philadelphia, 29 in allentown, 26 in wilmington. Folks skiing in the poconos feels like 11 degrees right now so definitely a chill in the air. Satellite6 along with action radar throwing front that pushed through this afternoon brought us a round of snow and rain showers. That continues to push offer the eastern seaboard. The clouds are beginning to clear and now that the sun has set and High Pressure is building in, the winds will gradually diminish tonight. The clouds clear out but it is going to be a cold night. 22 degrees in philadelphia. 19 in wilmington. 16 in allentown. The boardwalk in Atlantic City down to 25 degrees. So, tomorrow will be seasonably cool with a high of 40 degrees but then heading into saturday, we have kind of a classic heat bump set up. High pressure to the east, low pressure to the west and that funnels up winds out of the south. 50 degrees for the high and that cold front could bring us some showers on monday but theres some bigger storms on the way on wednesday and that will bring us a whole lot of rain and some warm air. Heading to the poconos tomorrow partly sunny breezy and seasonable for your saturday with a high of 34 degrees. On sunday youll see more clouds but it will be milder, 44 degrees so that nice soft snow for almost spring skiing on sunday. So, the exclusive accuweather 7day forecast, a really nice looking weekend. Good amount of sunshine tomorrow, a few clouds late in the day. The high 40 degrees. 41 is the average high for this time of the year so pretty much where we should be for the end of january. On sunday, this is when we get those winds out of the south. So, a lot milder way high of 50 degrees. Some late clouds building during the day and monday is when that cold front will move through. That will bring us mostly cloudy skies, a few showers possible. Best chance will be in the afternoon with a high of 50 degrees. Linebehind that front with slip down. Partly sunny skies on grounds hog day way high of 50 degrees. Wednesday is when a powerful storm system will cut to our west. What that does, it sets us up on the warm sector of the storm. It will be very warm with a high of 60 degrees if the rain holds off i wouldnt be surprised if some areas get up into the mid 60s before the rain moves in. Behind that system temperatures begin to stepdown on thursday, 44 degrees and friday mostly sunny and chilly with a high of 42 degrees. So, the weekend looking pretty good. You like winter, youll like tomorrow. If you like a touch of spring youll like sunday. Sounds good. Thank you cecily. Finally tonight it was a hairy situation for a teacher at Parkside Elementary School in aston today. Fifth grade teacher george had the task of having his head shaved in front of the entire school. And his students had the honor of doing it. First the youngsters gave him a colorful dye job and then they went to town with an electric razor. The makeover was the students reward for raising 1,500 for the Childrens Hospital of philadelphia. Abcs world news tonight with david muir is next on channel6. Action news continues at 10 00 on phl17 with brian taff, sharrie williams, adam joseph and Ducis Rodgers. And please join us for action news at 11 00 here on channel6. For cecily tynan, jeff skversky, Ducis Rodgers and the entire action news team, im ji jim gardner. We hope youll join us for action news at 11 00. At wegmans we believe the best way to help you is to provide choices that offer you the best prices, quality and selection choose wegmans family pack 1,2,3 you can save 30 or more. 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