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WPVI Action News At 4PM October 23, 2017

Happening here. I just seen lines of people in the morning waiting for the office to open. Reporter thats a woman who only gave us her first name its mary. She says its because of those long lines shes not surprised it was raided today. My concern was that they were selling drugs out of the facility because typically you wont see a Doctors Office have lines of people before theyre opening. Reporter now, again we know this isnt the first time advanced urgent care has been raided. Two years ago back in 2015 federal agents came back in here, they had suspected they were illegally selling prescriptions. For now reporting live in willow grove bob brooks channel6 action news. Brian. Monica, thank you, bob. Action news will continue to follow this story on 6abc. Com and well alert you to any updates as they continue to unfold. You can also see our report on those earlier raids from the summer of 2015. It is all online right now at 6abc. Com. Just in this afternoon, radnor township commissioner phil has resigned as board president but hell continue to serve as commissioner. Ahr sent out a Resignation Letter were unhour ago citing personal reasons for vacating the position as president. The commission was planning to replace ahr as president during tonights regularly scheduled meeting. By law he cannot be kicked off the board unless hes convicted. The man accused of shooting five coworkers in maryland and driving into delaware to shoot someone else will be tried in delaware first. Authorities say last wednesday radee prince shot five coworkers at a Granite Company in Hartford County maryland. Three of them were killed. Hes accused of then driving to a used car lot in wilmington and shooting someone he knew in the head. Well, coming off of a pretty violent weekend in chester delaware county. Five separate shootings in less than 72 hours are now under investigation. Action News Reporter vernon odom is live now for us at the Police Station in chester and vern, you just spoke with the chief. Reporter indeed i did, alicia and police tonight are on the hunt for multiple gunmen who shot this town up over the weekend, all that gunfire is believed to be connected to events from last weekend. Chesters top police brass walked through the bennett Public Housing Development Today in the wake of a quadruple shooting here saturday night, one of five separate shooting cases in the city of 40,000 over the weekend. Police believe they are all related. We understand there was a fight of some nature between several individuals and somebody got hurt and this is a retaliation. Reporter a total of eight people were wounded in the incidents that were spread out all over town where as many as eight separate neighborhood gangs are known to operate within a file mile radius. Clashing at times in a virtual round robin fashion. No one died in this weekend from their wounds. Most of the victims. Were shot in the lower part of their body. All this Police Believe stems from a series of brawls at chester high homecoming after parties last weekend. There were some after parties in which and they were in different locations throughout the county so some of these after parties there were a few fights and we believe there was some bad blood left over from that and most of these shooting incidents we believe stemmed from that. Reporter chesters Police Department is recruiting and training cadets after last years requirements by more than 20 police veterans. Again, brian, no fatalities from this weekend, no arrest yet either. Police can use any tips the public can provide them. Live at Police Headquarters in chester, im vernon odom, channel6 action news. Vernon, thank you. Investigators are looking for a robber who targeted a Camden County bank. Pennsauken Township Police released surveillance photos of the woman they say is still on the run today. It was friday evening when she allegedly passed a note to teller at the bb t bank on the 7300 block of maple avenue. The worker handed over cash and the suspect was last seen getting into the passenger side of a dark green fourdoor vehicle. Youre asked to Contact Police if you recognize this woman. Philadelphia police are trying to piece together what led up to a shooting in strawberry mansion. Multiple bullets struck a man as he left a chinese takeout restaurant near 29th and dauphin about midnight. When police first arrived the victim got in the car and drove off. They stopped him a block or two away. The victim is in stable condition at Temple University hospital. No one has been arrested. A fire caused concern. Residents were evacuated at 3 30 this morning. Flames were seen in the basement where firefighters quickly got the situation under control. Fortunately no one was injured. Folks were allowed to return to their rooms when the smoke cleared. Well, it is a huge night ahead as monday night football comes to south philadelphia. Thats right. The eagles of course taking on the redskins in an nfc east showdown. Jaime apody and Ducis Rodgers with an exclusive interview with carson wentz. Hi, guys. Reporter hey, there, monica and brian. What a big game tonight, National Tv Audience watching the game between the eagles and the redskins tonight at 8 30. The birds with the best record in the division, in fact the best record in all of football and tonight will be a rematch of the week one matchup. That week one matchup went into the eagles favor. Lets talk about the quarterback shall we. Carson wentz is playing some Pretty Amazing football for being a second year player, for being a player of any year in fact. And you know what, hes actually the favorite odds on to win the nfl m. V. P. Hes got seven touchdown passes and one interception over his past two games. Of course were, well, win for the eagles. Thats right, theyre trying to go to six and one. The question is how good can this team be . Our Jeff Skversky about to catch up oneonone exclusively with the eagles quarterback. Reporter how great can this team be in your mind. I think we have the potential to be something special, be dynamic but thats something that you cant take for granted any day. You cant ever settle like you said and thats something that every day is being focused on, you know, were sitting at five and one. It would be easy to fall asleep with that but at the end of the day we got to keep our routine, we got to keep Getting Better cause everybody else in the league is going to keep Getting Better so we cant get too hung up on where were at. We have to try and go one and o every week. Do you get a sense of how hungry this team is this year, this go round. I do. I think you can see it in the way we go out and there practice, the way we are in the weight room, in the film room. I think ever one recognizes the potential that we have and everyone is just hungry out there. We will have much more with jeffs oneonone interview with carson wentz coming up tonight on our pregame special countdown to kickoff at 8 oclock. The game at 8 30. Both coming up over on phl17. Once again 8 oclock tune in to phl17. The big game for a lot of reasons but the chance to bury the redskins, those two up on them in the division when theyre the team thats chasing you you cant get any better than that. Pretty sweet. Well be back here lincoln financial field. Eaglesredskins for Ducis Rodgers, aim jaime apody back to you. You guys got pretty good seat yourselves. Thank you guys. After days of incredible sunshine unseasonable warmth were in for a bit of a reality check. Nothing too dramatic but it will feel a little different. Lets go outside to meteorologist Melissa Magee in for adam joseph. Hi, brian and monica. More in the way of cloud cover but despite the clouds temperatures still managed to climb well above average so that october warmth continued today. On friday we had a High Temperature of 74, saturday we maxed out at 79. Yesterdays High Temperature 76 and so far today in philadelphia, coming in at 75. Were back down to 74 in the city but 73 for allentown and reading. 63 up in the poconos. At the coast in cape may, 70. Beach haven in the upper 60s. Heres satellite6 along with action radar. You can see weve got a milky sky and a fair amount of cloud cover overhead. It is all because of a frontal boundary off to the west. That will be working its way eastward but everybody will be headed to the linc tonight and weve got you covered. The eagles at home taking on the redskins. Its mostly cloudy for that game. Kickoff around 8 30 and weve got a temperature of 71. As we get into the Fourth Quarter well dip down to 69 degrees but heres the change thats headed our way. Heres storm tracker6 live double scan radar 3d. You can see the rain through the ohio valley. That heads our way as we get into tuesday bringing us rain that will be heavy at times. Well take a closer look as to how much is on the way with the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. Well send it back inside to you both. Thank you so much. Time for a check of that action news traffic report monday night. Matt pelman standing by in the action News Traffic Center with the first look this afternoon. Hey, matt. Hi, guys. Thankfully were start wind gust mostly dry roads as we try and head home or maybe try to head to that birds game this evening. This is 95 southbound side. This is the way you would go to head down to south philadelphia and the linc were right underneath the walt whitman bridge here and theres a disabled vehicle but its off in the gore point. All the lanes are opened. Just a little bit sluggish here but before you get here, its slow on 95 southbound already from Bridge Street on into the work zone at girard. Northbound side is also backing up with 32 Miles Per Hour at the girard point double decker bridge and i just checked out the linc parking lot a few minutes ago and it is mostly full with tailgaters already out there in south philadelphia. Meanwhile we had a situation overnight with an overturned truck in havertown and we still have restrictions this afternoon along route three west chester pike between manoa road and darby road. Maybe stay up on route 30 instead of route three, i think thats going to be kind of crowded. Abington township a crash this afternoon along 611, thats old york at cloverly avenue and already starting to see some delays in the first state in delaware along 95 northbound heading toward that work zone weve been getting used to at talley road. Lets grab the ipad do the commuter report on this monday afternoon. Out and about in Spring Garden watching a crash major accident along ridge avenue close to the Parkway Center City High School by green street. Thanks to generic profile name for that one. Well check it again, brian and monica, coming up in the next half hour. Points for creativity. I like that. An bc news exclusive. The widow of Sergeant La David Johnson talks about her husband, one of the soldiers killed in niger. Hear what she has to say about the controversial conversation she had with president trump. Plus terror plot foiled. Details about the man who allegedly planned to blow up a mall in florida. Every day, Technology Becomes much more personalized. Like this. And this. ai device welcome home, gary, how was your day. And like this. Introducing specifi, our digital investing platform thats built around you. Just answer a few questions, and specifi will provide a tailored investment portfolio. It continually manages it, so if the market changes, it adjusts accordingly. Ask us how specifi can help you reach your potential. This is Myesha Johnson the widow of the american soldier killed in an ambush in the african nation of niger. This weekend she buried her husband Sergeant La David Johnson with a final kiss and a goodbye. Today she spoke exclusively about her hero on Good Morning America. The question she still has about his death and that phone call with President Donald Trump that created a political firestorm. The president said that he knew what he signed up for but it hurts anyway. And i was it made me cry because i was very angry at the tone in his voice. That comment of course launched a fiery he said, she said with congresswoman Frederica Wilson who challenged the president s empathy and demanded a apology. Myesha confirms that is how the conversation went down, thats what she said today on Good Morning America but she said what hurt even more is the fact that she says the president couldnt remember her husbands name. And thats what hurt me the most because if my husband is out here fighting for our country, and he risks his life for our country, why cant you remember his name . And thats what made me upset and cry even more cause my husband was an awesome soldier. President trump now has disputed that on twitter writing i had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sergeant La David Johnson and spoke his name from the beginning without hesitation. Myesha says she still also has questions about las death including why it took them 48 hours to find him and why she has still not been allowed to view this remains. Shes expecting their little girl in january and says she cannot wait to tell her about their hero. Brian. All right, alicia, thank you. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson made two surprise trips abroad today. He went to afghanistan landing in kabul. Tillerson flew to talked to senior and officials there about iran in an effort to rebuild towns destroyed by isis. Attorney general Jeff Sessions was in philadelphia today speaking to Police Leaders from across the country. Sessions officially designated the street gang known as ms13 a federal priority. And urged local Law Enforcement to step up its efforts against that brutal Central American gang. He made the remarks in front of the International Association of chiefs of Police Annual conference. And not too far from the attorney general was speaking this antitrump protest was creating quite a stir outside the Municipal Services building. Now people paused to nap photos of the large inflatable rat in the image of president trump. New york art dealer john post says he came up with this idea shortly after the election. A florida man is accused of planning to bomb a miami area mall. Court documents filed today say 53yearold Vicente Solano sympathized with isis. He allegedly tried to use a weapon of mass destruction at the dolphin mall. The bomb was a fake provided by undercover fbi agents. They launched their investigation into him in late september when a confidential informant tipped agents off about solano. Hes being held without bail. In Florida Police say a killer is terrorizing a tampa neighborhood. Theyre telling folks not to walk outside alone at night after these three people were killed within 11 days, each of the victims was shot within 10 blocks of the other. Detectives say the nature of the crimes make them believe theyre related but they have not explained further. Police say the killings do appear to be random. This weekend officers increased patrols and handed out lightbulbs for neighbors front porches trying to increase light in the area. Now to a look at the closing numbers on wall street today and red arrows acrosstheboard, the dow snapping a six day winning streak to end up down 54 and a half points, nasdaq off 42 points and change and the s p 500 down 10 and a quarter on the day. Target is hoping Free Shipping will lure in more shoppers this holiday season. The promotion starts in november as target rolls out some new merchandise. Customers will see more than 1700 new products. Most of them costing less than 15. There are even some Stocking Stuffers available for one dollar. Most of the new products will be in eight different exclusive brands that are also being launched just in time for the holidays. Time right now to check that accuweather forecast for your week ahead. Meteorologist Melissa Magee is here and were about to have a seasonal sort of aboutface. Yeah, thats right. Mother nature is saying wait a minute, a little too warm. Back to reality later this week. Lots of clouds around right now, guys. Well show you the picture outside. The action cam was outside earlier and its outside right now as we look at this live picture from the linc, a lot of folks getting ready for the eagles at home taking on the redskins, maybe some tailgating going on. Well show you the picture outside live. Sky6 live in hd looking at the ben franklin bridge. Weve got a mostly cloudy sky overhead but despite the clouds, temperatures still above average. Its 74 degrees in philadelphia right now. 73 in allentown, same thing for reading and lancaster. At the coast in beach haven 69. Down in dover, 71. Cape may in at 72. So, as

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