Personnel. About a dozen americans including chief of Mission Personnel that in that dozen were rescued. I have no u. S. Injuries or deaths to report at this time. Were working to verify the safety and security of u. S. Citizens there in bamako. Reporter this incident follows the paris attack, twin suicide bombings in beirut and the downing of a Russian Airliner all happening within a month. Mali is no stranger to islamic extremist activity. This is the Second Attack on a hotel this year n2012 france was forced to send in troops after islamic fighters linked to alqaeda gained grounds. The u. S. Embassy is asking any u. S. Citizens in that area to continue to remain vigilant of their surrounding. In washington, megan hughes channel6 action news. Thanks very much. It has been one full week since attacks in paris and french authorities announced today that another wounded victim has now died. That brings the death toll to 130 from that coordinated siege last friday. Police are still looking for two suspected attackers. Meanwhile a third body was discovered in the apartment where ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud and his female cousin were killed during a raid on wednesday. Prosecutors have not yet announced that third persons name. Police are working with School Officials in plymouth whitemarsh to get to the bottom of a sexting scandal. This was more than just a few students sending pictures to one another. This one involved a file sharing service. Trish hartman is working this story for us. Shes live at Pw High School with the latest on the investigation. Trish. Reporter sharrie, students and parents say theyre disgusted by the sexting allegations here at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School. School Officials Say theyre cooperating with police to find out who is behind it. Definitely something her mother would definitely talk about cause her mother is constantly on her phone checking her phone. I think she even tracks her phone. Reporter that kind of parental involvement is exactly how police say this sexting scheme at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School was uncovered. A mother saw inappropriate pictures on her daughters phone and called police. A drop box account containing nude photos and videos of current and former students was being shared among students and has since been shut down. Junior anthony vega says the principal addressed the situation in school. They were telling us about the investigation and that they were narrowing down the people and they wanted us to continue like we would normally document the Montgomery CountyDistrict Attorney was already scheduled to hold educational seminars next month in the district about the dangers of sexting but some parents say theyre not sure that will have much impact. You can constantly bring the up but kids are going to do what they want to do. They dont worry about the consequences until after it happens. Reporter we spoke with the schools ice hockey coach who says the issue needs to addressed at home too. More time with your siblings and your parents and your family. Reporter now, an email was sent home to parents from the principal addressing rumors about a threat to the school. That email said that rumors about a threat were unfounded. That email was not in regards to the sexting investigation. That investigation is still active and ongoing. Live at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast. What a difference a day makes. Beautiful out there this afternoon. Meteorologist adam joseph out there enjoying it albeit way jacket on today. Its a little on the cool side today compared toes high to yesterdays high of 67 degrees. As we look at the numbers right now it is 53 in philadelphia but our high for today came at midnight when it was 63 degrees so weve been falling through much of the day with those westnorthwesterly winds. Pittsburgh 47, binghamton in the lower 40s and what a change in the midlantic and northeast with that cold front that passed through with the rain last night were anywhere between nine and as much as 16 degrees below where we were this time yesterday anywhere from buffalo binghamton here in philadelphia and right down to richmond, virginia. As we look at satellite and radar were sunny now but notice to the west we have some clouds, some rain and snow. This storm is going to work to our north and west and well get clipped by a couple of showers here late saturday night early sunday morning but ahead in that accuweather forecast that will bring temperatures further down into the weekend and were tracking the coldest air so far this fall season although its going stay pretty bright and dry through your saturday and sunday. Well chat about all those numbers coming up alicia in the full accuweather forecast. Adam thank you. Loving this story today. It was a day filled with life changing moments for students at crystal ray philadelphia high school. Many of them found out they got accepted to college and some could not contain their excitement. Im going to go home and im going to run in there and go like i got accepted to college. Admissions representatives interviewed the students and offered them acceptance letters on the spot. The schools were also granting scholarships to make college affordable. Yeah, i got accepted actually. Yay when i first came here i thought, man, im just going community college. I have options now. I think a lot of our students maybe didnt see college as a reality so that is our way of showing them they can do it, they can achieve it. We love those smiles there. By the way crystal ray is a Catholic School serving low income highly motivated students. These students are part of the first grafting seen sore class make dag even more memorable. How fantastic is that sharrie. Thats what its all about. Alicia thank you. Race weekend for the philadelphia marathon and thats exciting news for runners and their families but its also a tense time for city leaders in charge of security for the thousands of people who will be out on the streets. Eva pilgrim live on the Art Museum Steps which will be at the center of all the action this weekend, eva. Reporter thats right, sharrie, race weekend is officially under way and were standing right here where the startfinish line will be for the philadelphia marathon. You can expect thousands of people and a lot of extra security. We are so excited about the goretex philadelphia marathon weekend kickoff. applause . Im running the half marathon. My first. Im doing the full marathon. Like christmas eve, you know, its like Christmas Day running this marathon and its our city, our race. We love it. Reporter the city of brotherly love is well coming 60,000 spectators to clear them on. Our great city. Take in the beautiful city along the schuylkill river. Reporter the ben franklin parkway will close for the week and starting at 6 30 tonight the Marathon Race course will be closed starting at 2 00 a. M. On sunday because of increased security all cars along the route have to be moved by that time or they will be towed. Those roads will reopen as runners pass by and the streets are cleaned. Spectators please remember if you choose to carry a bag of your own for personal items, those bags must be searched by security prior to entering the startfinish zone. Reporter runners will be given a clear plastic bag for the things they want to bring to the race. The focus now, getting to the finish line. I want to prove to myself that i can do it. It definitely helps having long legs but these legs are heavy so have i work extra hard. What are you doing after. Were goin going to drink be. [laughter] reporter just a little more than two hours left until the parkway here closes. We have a full list of the closures and the roads where the course will be. You can look at it on our web site at 6abc. Com. The race kicks off, the marathon, at 7 00 a. M. On sunday. Live here at the art museum, eva pilgrim channel6 action news. All right, eva, and good luck to all the runners. Of course there will be some traffic implications given that this weekend but there are some issues out there to deal with right now. Absolutely. Lets check in with matt pelman in the action News Traffic Center with a look at how things are going this friday. Hey, matt. Yeah, sometimes the week feels like marathon, doesnt it brian and sharrie and were finally at the finish line which were happy about on this friday afternoon. Lets look at that marathon route. This is the ben franklin parkway where you can see preparations are under way. Tents set up and as eva said the inner drives of the parkway will close again at 6 30 tonight. They were closed throughout the day. They are opened for this afternoons rush. Outer drives will close throughout the day tomorrow and again on sunday. Theyll stay opened during the overnight hours so thats the situation on the ben franklin parkway. Down below on the vine street expressway plenty of westbound traffic headed towards the schuylkill as you can see. Over on 95 this isnt the way you want to spend your friday afternoon. Poor guy broke down here on the northbound lanes close to the exit for the betsy ross bridge. Police helping him out now but the left lane is out of commission so things are extra heavy as you come out of center city from penns landing where the speeds are just in the teens on up to that disabled vehicle near the betsy ross bridge. On the southbound side approaching academy there was a crash. Thats been pushed off to the side and if youre using the boulevard instead of 95, watch out for a northbound accident by rising sun in the outer drive there closed to the dunkin donuts. In bordentown Burlington County debris on the jersey turnpike southbound approaching exit seven blocking the two left lanes of the outer drive in berlin a crash along franklin avenue at egg harbor road. Lets grab the ipad do the commuter report on this friday afternoon. Newport delaware pothole alert along 295 south. Plenty of volume along 95 as well. Well check it again brian and sharrie coming up in the next half hour. Never a shorter taj out there. Matt, thank you. Still ahead, the United States government decides to release a man convicted of spying on america. Plus, see philadelphia from an entirely new vantage point. We take you to the new Observation Deck in one of center citys tallest buildings. And youve probably heard of eel on the shelf. Well introduce you to the creator of mensch on a bench coming up. With the card most accepted by top doctors and specialists, you have the strength to drive forward. Independence blue cross. Live fearless. The government of nigeria says a group of suicide bombings that killed at least 49 people this week was definitely work of boko haram. One person blew up a crowded marketplace killing 34 people. There were a pair of suicide bombings in a different city later that day. Those attacks claimed 15 lives. According to the global terrorism index boko haram has killed more people in the last year than isis has. Though boko haram pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State back in march. A plan convicted of spying on the United States was released from prison today after 30 years lined bars. Jonathan pollard was freed on parole today. Hell wear gps ankle bracelet and the government will monitor any computer he uses though his lawyers are already challenging those terms. Pollard was a former u. S. Navy intelligence analyst. He was arrested almost 30 years ago to the day for providing classified information to israel. He pleaded guilty in 1986. Heres a look at todays closing numbers. All three in positive territory, the dow up 91 the nasdaq up 31 and the s p 500 up eight points. Philadelphias towering tourist attraction is getting ready to open its doors. The Observation Deck atop one Liberty Place is 57 floors above street level with floor to ceiling windows and check it out, 360degree views of the city. On a clear day like this one you can see all the way to the cooling towers in limerick Montgomery County. The Observation Deck opens up november 28th. Katherine scott will have a look at what else it has to offer coming up tonight at 5 00. Abcs shark tank has really jump started some incredible Small Businesses making peoples dreams louse hold names. You may have heard of the christmas elf on a shelf. Well hanukkah competitor mensch on a bench is one of shark tanks bestsellers. The creator stopped by our studios to give us a sneak peek at tonights update show. I say weve produced the first jewish character since old testament. The mensch yiddish for a good person has become a viral hanukkah must have and it all started when creator neal hoffman was walking through a department store. He asked for a elf on a shelf. I said dude you cant youre jewish you can have a mensch on a bench. The idea was born. I wrote the book that night. Once hoffman brought the mensch on a bench to shark tank a star was born but not where his investor lori grenier made a few tweaks. I kuehl her the best product person of our time owner steve jobs. Laurie helped him look month are friendly and to date more than 100,000 have been sold. I think well double our sales this year just because hes cute. And the mensch line is expanding. Theres a singing menorah that teaches kids hanukkah prayers. Mensch munch chocolate bars and hoffman has even teamed up with elf yourself. You can now turn you and your family into mensches youre dancing around sing a hanukkah song. But with all the kitsch he says the real goal is to celebrate jewish tradition. The new soft dreidel teaches little ones their letters. Give it a spin and a throw youve run. Have more meaningful jewish interactions as a family. Now to date almost a Million Dollars worth of mensches have been sold. Hoffman says he just sold the rights to the book for an animated tv special and on tonights shark tank find out how hes in the process of adding a female hanukkah hero. Thats tonight at 9 00 on 6ab 6abc. The funaka in hanukkah. Its all there apparently. Alicia thank you. I love that show. Makes you feel like youre one idea away. Were so close but here we are still at work. Time for the accuweather forecast. Lets go to meteorologist adam joseph with details on what the weather holds for us. [inaudible] can we hear you . Is your mic on. Hello. Uhoh. Uhoh. No microphone . No microphone. Darn. Get this man a mensch on a bench, will you . When we come back hopefully well have adam with the forecast. Still ahead a group of eighth graders spend a day on an ivy league campus. Find out whats behind the unique program at penn. The terror attacks in france and elsewhere are having an impact right here at home. Vernon odom looks at the trend involving guns over the last week in pennsylvania. And its a heartwarming melting actually update to a story we first brought you on big talkers. Meet the little guy now known as baby ones and find out how this little preemie is doing coming up in big talkers. Time to get a check of the accuweather forecast. Lets do it. Adam Joseph Standing by. Its all good stuff as we go into the weekend despite a little chill pulling in saturday and sunday, we look live on cape mays sky6. A few folks there kind of looking out over the open waters. A lot of blue but also a little chill in the air today compared to yesterday. It is 53 in philadelphia, 52 in cape may, 50 degrees in reading. Weve got a northwesterly wind so its equally as cool or warm depending on how you look at this from the northwest through philadelphia down at the shore so no sea breeze for anyone from cape may up to long beach island. Winds though you felt them today anywhere between 10 to 12 miles an hour at the present time. Those are sustained winds. Gusts anywhere near 20 or so miles an hour. Winds ease as we go into the overnight hours. In willow grove thats where the 6abc High School Huddle game of the week is. Its the fighting tigers and bears oh my but what about the lions . Whoever wins can roar like a lion. Clear and chilly northwesterly wind five to 10 miles an hour at 7 oclock 45 degrees and typical football weather in the fall at 10 oclock 42. As we look at satellite and radar High Pressure is in control so lots of sunshine here but as we look to the west there is a storm right now near omaha and were watching this rain and snow push toward chicago and the great lakes. Its a little clipper system but its going to work well to our north and west so it really misses us with its precipitation but just west of chicago des moines iowa were looking at a stripe of six to 12inches of snow there and most of the great lakes picking up a few inches as we did get into the weekend but for us it is dry saturday and sunday. Saturday as we look at your wind chills not too bad. 50 south and east, 40s to the north and west but for that philadelphia marathon while youre running it sunday morning if you are at 8 30 were looking at wind chills in the 30s so a very cold start to your sunday morning and then for the eagles game in the afternoon at 1 oclock, 40 degrees in allentown, feeling like 43 in philadelphia and just 30s to the west of city and low 40s to the south and east. So, a big chill coming in this weekend especially with that wind. Your four day at 4 00 forecast sun way light wind tomorrow at 54 degrees and then well kick those winds back up here on sunday very chilly a high of just 50 but you saw those wind chills. 30s to the west during the afternoon and only 40s for the city south and east. And then air temperatures are only stuck in the 40s on monday but well lose the wind at least, so monday may actually feel warmer than sunday with temperatures only at 46 and then sunny but still chilly on tuesday, 50 degrees, so a dry stretch over the next four days and notice the temperatures bump up on tuesday. Well let you know what that means for the travel day and thanksgiving in the next half hour. Adam thank you. Dozens of Philadelphia Business executives s