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WPVI Action News At 4PM December 2, 2016

You can at that point to stop it. Reporter chopper6 shows just how the fire consumed some of the rooftops. Frightened neighbors could only look on and pray their homes would not be next. My main concern was having it spread. Because sparks were flying. Shoes and clothes and crock pots and towels, everything you could think of. Reporter from the flames and destruction came a glimmer of hope. Jessica rivera doesnt even live in this neighborhood but happened to be driving by the fire. She says when she saw those victims she knew she had to help. It had taken over pretty much the row. We were devastated so we were like okay who are the families involved. We wrote down on my phone as many names numbers sizes of clothes i could get and all day today i did a Facebook Live and people have been messaging me their addresses. I have been picking up donations from their porch. My my trunk is filled. Reporter the red cross is helping seven families for that a total of 23 people. The cause of this fire is still intervention the lady you heard from, jessica, in the piece there she says she hopes to fill a uhaul of donations and give it to the victims. Live in allentown, gray hall, channel6 action news. Brian. Nice to see that generosity after an awful ordeal gray thank you. Charges a kensington mother will face in connection with her sons death. Andrea worrell has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child and obstructing justice. Her son was found unresponsive on their home. He died at the hospital early thursday. Officials say the boy had a lacerated liver and bruises on his chest and face. He tested positive for thc the main ingredient in marijuana. In new jersey, detectives are trying to piece together exactly what led up to a deadly shooting in trenton. The crime happened while the victim was using a Ride Sharing Service and apparently it all began as a rob Regional Rail new jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic live for us at the Trenton Police headquarters with the details. Nora. Reporter sharrie, the Prosecutors Office tells me that the victim was one of three people who came to trenton meet a manton pick up some cars. But before that meeting could ever happen, this trip took a tragic turn that ended in the death of a Camden County woman police are looking for a man who shot amber dudley of collingswood. She was in a lyft ride car that traveled from north jersey to trenton. They planned to pick up three vehicles from someone they were meeting. Near the intersection of east trenton avenue and bruin anything police say a gun toting man jumped in the back of the car attempting to rob the trio. Dudley was shot in the torso during the commotion. The lyft driver took off leaving the shooter behind and pulled over in front of the Trenton Police station less than a mile away. Police and emts performed cpr until dudley was taken away by ambulance. She died from the gun shots. I heard that somebody got shot and it was unbelievable cause it was no gun shots. You dont hear nothing. Surprising it was a woman but im not surprised that it happened. One kid 17 years old got shot last sum. Reporter officials are not identifying the lyft driver. The two other occupants and the man they were emg about the car. Dudley had no comment at her nome collingswood. The Ride Share Company released a statement saying our deepest sympathys are with the family and loved ones of the lyft passenger that was tragically killed. Safety is our top priority and lyft has been working closely with Law Enforcement to assist their investigation. Thats scary. Scary to know that you take a ride somewhere you paying a cab or something and you lose your life. Its sad. Reporter was it expand was eight random robbery and shooting . Investigators are looking into that as they search for the shooter who is still on the run. Anyone with information is asked to call police. Live in trenton, im Nora Muchanic channel6 action news. Sharrie. A lot more to figure out. Nora thank you. New Surveillance Video shows a startling climb Northern Liberties. Watch this. A suspect walks up behind two women, pulls a gun and then grabs one of them. He has his arm wrapped around hir neck with the a weapon pointed at her head. This happened around 6 oclock tuesday evening on the 400 block of north third. The suspect took off with the victims bag and he hasnt been caught. Action News Reporter bob brooks will have more in a live report coming up at 5 oclock. A sunny but chilly friday but its friday which means the weekend is upon us as we get our first check of the accuweather forecast. That made me smile. Its friday. Lets head outside to macys macys meteorologist cecily tynan. Well continue that theme with dry but seasonably cool. Temperaturewise were in the upper 40s. The wind chill makes it feel like 42 degrees with those winds out of the west. Feels like 30 in buffalo. That westerly wind also create something instability clouds. The bulk of them north and west of philadelphia and as we head through the evening hours once the sun sets the clouds will be breaking up. That sets the stage for chilly friday night. The evening manner showing if youre heading out, temps generally in the mid to low 40s but well have that breeze really all evening so that means wind chills will be in the 30s so you definitely do want to grab that winter coat as youre stepping out. Whats ahead . Well, it will be sees plea cool this weekend. Should be a dry weekend. Winds will still be with us tomorrow so tomorrow much of the day wind chills only in the low 40s and next week looks like well have to grab the umbrella again. Its going to be damp and dreary and theres the possibility monday morning a few areas see some snowflakes. Ill talk more about that coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Back to you guys. It will put you in the christmas spirit. We like that. Were in favor of. That cecily thanks. Thank you cecily. President elect donald trump is convening a group of Corporate Executives he says will help him create jobs and speed economic growth. Mr. Trump announced the creation of Advisory Group today made up of more than app dozen ceos and business leaders. The president s strategic and policy forum will hold its first meeting a week after the inauguration. Trump has vowed to keep manufacturing jobs from leaving company and has set a goal of growing the economy at 4 percent a year thats about twice the he recent average. Meanwhile election recounts are now happening in three states where president elect donald trump narrowly declared victory over hillary clinton. First to michigan where despite president elect trumps request to prevent a recount the states elections board has deadlocked so that means that recount will start next week unless the courts intervene. This recounts comes at the request of Green Party Candidate jill stein who believes hacking and tamper rigged the vote. In wisconsin a recount is under way but Trump Supporters have filed a federal lawsuit trying to stop it saying that the recount also requested by stein threatens the Due Process Rights of people who voted for trump. Here in pennsylvania, stein also fighting for a Court Ordered statewide recount. This as philadelphia Elections Officials are granting a request to recount president ial Election Results in 75 precincts. Well be working with the parties that are represented here. The republican partly cloudy skies the Democratic Party and the green party to walk through this process in front of them and then to compare the results of the machine with the results extracted on Election Night once again. But the city is rejecting a separate green Party Request to inspect philadelphia Election Software for malware they claim could have manipulated the votes. Again, respect counts happening now in three different states. Brian and sharrie. A lot of layers to it. Of course well keep following it. All right alicia. Time for the action news traffic report this friday. Matt pelman standing by in the action News Traffic Center to get us home this afternoon. Hey, matt. And were counting the minutes until the weekend. Weve also been counting crashes brian and sharrie on 42 southbound. So far two of them this afternoon but the good news is all lanes are opened here on 42. Bad news is it is an extra slow go as you come across the walt whitman bridge into new jersey as you head home or maybe head down to cape may for Christmas Parade weekend this weekend. You can see the slow speeds on the walt whitman bridge just 13 Miles Per Hour getting into the garden state. And right now just 10 Miles Per Hour on the roosevelt boulevard extension coming southbound. We had a broken down bus at fox street that got us off to a slow start. Slow zone headed towards the platt bridge. There was an accident upside westbound headed toward 95 and the airport. Crash is gone but as you can see the westbound traffic is still extra heavy. Watching an overturned vehicle accident out in radnor township this afternoon along king of prussia road near gulph creek road. Thats a good spot to avoid. West vincent no longer a need to avoid 401. They reopened it this afternoon that Saint Matthews road. The bridge over pickerring creek finally finished the repairs there. Had been closed since late october but it is reopened for you this afternoon. Lets grab the ipad do the computer report on this friday finally afternoon. Newt blue route near conshohocken no thanks 215 says watch out theres a minor crash out there. We say no thanks to the crash but its there. Watch out for it as you travel towards the midcounty toll. Well check it again in the next half hour. Thank you a. Big weekend for College Football. Conference championship games are tomorrow and the temple owls are vying to take the top spot in the aac. The action cam was there as the team hopped on the buses bound for annapolis, maryland. Temple will take on navy. The owls are hoping to redeem themselves after last years championship loss to houston. Our Ducis Rodgers will be in annapolis for the big game. His live reports begin tonight at 5 oclock and theyll last through game day come saturday. You can watch the templenavy game right here on 6abc saturday at noon. Penn state plays for the big 10 championship saturday night. The number seven Nittany Lions take on number six wisconsin. That game will be in indianapolis. If penn state wins the Nittany Lions could have a shot to be one of the four teams playing for a National Championship in College Football playoffs. We shall see. Yup. Turns out come saturday. I know what ill be doing all saturday. Its a football day. Up next here on action news today, Camden Police recover a basement filled with stolen loot. And now theyre hoping to return almost 100 bicycles to their rightful owners. Find out how to claim them if one is yours coming up. Plus, an unexpected turnout. Thousands of people pack a local Community College hoping to land the perfect job. Adam joseph live in west chester an annual tradition kicking offer the christmas season. Hey, adam. Reporter yeah, the streets are shutting down here in west chester for the 37th annual west chester Christmas Parade. Its my tenth year cohosting this tremendous parade and you can see we have some of the action of the parade to give you a preview during that accuweather forecast and you can eat as many candy canes as your heart desires on the streets here when action news returns. Well be right back. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. While his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Cable cant offer that. Only fios can. There are 91 stolen bikes waiting to be claimed by their rightful owners in new jersey. The Camden County Police Department rounded up all of the stolen bicycles in the basement of this local bodega in camden if you live in the area and your bike has been stolen this could be your chance to get it back. Officers in camden discovered the stash of bikes in the basement of that Small Grocery store. On the 600 block of broadway during an investigation that started back in october. All of those bikes were being put up for resale. If yours has gone missing Camden Police have posted all of the recovered merchandise on their web site. Now, you will need to provide proof of ownership like a serial number a receipt a photograph or some other documentation. 91 individual pictures. If people can provide any type of documentation or maybe some pictures of them with identifying markers on the bicycles we would return the bikes to their rightful owners. Now police have also recovered some ipads and iphones other electronics from the very same investigation. Those they say have been easier pair up with owners because well people tend to know the serial numbers on those types of devices and not so much with the bikes. So, as for who was running this stolen bike ring no arrests have been made and this investigation is very much ongoing. In the meantime they want to get these bikes back to their owners. Brian. And the owners eager to get them. Alicia thank you. National Unemployment Rate has dropped to a nine year low now showing what analysts call as proof of a steady here. The rate is sitting at 4. 6 percent now and employs added 178,000 jobs in november. The pace of hiring is keeping the Federal Reserve on track to raise short term interest rates. Thats expected to come in less than two weeks. Now a look at the closing numbers on wall street. And here we go. The dow falling about 21 and a half points today but still above that 19,000 mark. Nasdaq rising four an half points, the s p 500 also up just less than one point on the day. Well, people lined up in droves to learn about job openings across philadelphia. Chopper6 was over the Community College of philadelphia as the line stretched around the building. They were all there will to attend the citys hire me career fair. Organizers say 5,000 people showed up proving that there is a need in the community. They were expecting about 1500. At least 30 departments from the city were on campus today with about 100 total jobs available. Of course that lots lott will be hiring additional jobs for the Holiday Season. Tonight is west chesters popular Christmas Parade. Where the accident thats where we find adam getting in the holiday spirit. The parade going on for about a decade and with a decade for if you adam. Reporter bigger year after year. In fact, this is a big parade in a small town. 35,000 spectators line the streets in west chester to watch this parade. And look at that iwalk and they cue the music. All right. Im not the star of the show here tonight, this is one part of the parade that youll see here tonight. Take a look at them. This is the on Edge Movement directed by cara tester. Its their seventh year of being a part of the parade and what gets me every single year is that they are not wearing many layers so they have to move to stay warm and also they were in our 6abc Dunkin Donuts thanksgiving day parade just last week. You know what, temperatures arent too bad right now. It is 49 in philadelphia. The same for trenton. Reading 45 degrees and millville the temperature at 48. Winds, though, theyre pretty breezy. 30 miles an hour right now gusting in philadelphia, 35 miles an hour wilmington and in reading. 24 miles an hour. As we look at the satellite and radar, High Pressure really is dominating from the Northern Plains to alabama with some rain developing in texas and thats a weak little wave thats going to pass through here as we get into the beginning of next week but for tonight youre coming out here this evening youre going need a couple of layers but for the rest of the overnight its partly cloudy. Brisk and chilly. Winds stay up 10 to 20 miles an hour. In allentown and millville 34. 38 degrees in philadelphia and 36 for wilmington and trenton. As we look at wind chills at 10 oclock tonight, in philadelphia right around the Freezing Point just below in it reading at 29. By 8 oclock tomorrow morning 31 degrees in philadelphia, ninety eight allentown, 28 in millville and just 16 up in the poconos. By 3 oclock in the afternoon tomorrow 42, philadelphia wilmington, 37 in allentown and feeling like 39 degrees in reading. As you look at your four day at 4 00 forecast, 49 degrees for your high tomorrow with that chilly wind under partly cloudy skies. Winds again gusting to near 30 miles an h

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