when a man opens fire killing more than two dozen people inside the youngest victim was just five years old the 26-year-old gunman was shot and killed and tonight investigators are trying to figure out why he would have committed such an heinous act and the big story on action news is still developing from texas for a small town coming to grips with a terrible loss. >> at this hour the death toll stands at 26 and those victims losing their lives at the hands of a young man in tactical gear and bulletproof vests and motives unknown. >> during morning services at the baptist church in the town of sutherland springs about 30 miles southeast of san antonio. action news reporter annie mccormick is following developments all day and is live from the satellite center with the very latest annie. >> the death toll now does remain at 26 victims, 30 people are wounded. the shooter is among the dead. now members of the small community are waiting to find out the names of all of the people who were killed, those victims ranging in age from five years old to 72 years old. a candlelight vigil outside the first baptist church in sutherland springs texas just hours after the bloody massacre. the death toll a number of wounded continues to rise. the shooting began around 11:30 central time in the middle of sunday morning service. >> he was dressed in all black, the suspect crossed the street to the church, exited the vehicle and began firing at the church. announcer: witnesses say the suspect shot people inside and outside of the church. authorities say a neighbor engaged in gunfire with him then the suspect fled and was found dead after a brief pursuit, local, state and federal officials are investigating. >> we have multiple multiple crime scenes and the church outside the church and where the suspect vehicle was located, we have following up on the suspect and where he is from, his residence. >> reporter: state and federal law enforcement sourceses are identifying the suspect as 26-year-old devin kelley of texas the airforce confirms kelley served in logistics readiness at the airforce base in new mexico from 2010 until his discharge. sutherland is outside of san antonio with population of hundreds to a thousand people today shortly after the carnage as they rushed the injured to local hospitals residents turned to prayer many of the first responders left their own church services and arrived recognizing the victims. no one appears to know the suspect. a local pastor from another church in town offered words of comfort. >> devastating for us and for our community but the god is still in control. he is still in control and no matter what happen to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord so if there is anyone in that church that died we know they are in the presence of our lord jesus christ right now. >> reporter: the governor of texas saying this tonight. >> as governor i ask for every mom and dad at home tonight put your arm around your kid and give your kid a big hug and let them know how much you love them. >> reporter: authorities do not have a clear motive yet this is still very early in the investigation and late details tonights we are learning and abc news confirmed that kelley was court marshalled in 2012 for assaulting his spouse and child and also received a bad conduct discharge and confinement for 12 months and authorities continue to scour his media accounts and search his home and speak to those closer to him and live in the satellite center ann arb an mccormick. the first named victim is 14-year-old annabelle pomeroy her father is the pastor of that church but he was out of state this weekend. he wants the world to know his daughter was quote one very special beautiful child annabelle's mother says having fun by the pool was her favorite thing to do. >> a short time ago we heard from president trump in japan as p part of a 13 day asian tour and administration will provide full support to texas. and we will continue following this developing story throughout the night for the very latest be sure to join the action news team starting at 4:30 a.m. only on 6abc. we have a developing story in our area tonight police have now identified the woman found dead in cobbs creek on friday she is a 21-year-old art student investigators say she was strangled and action reporter christie ileto is live from police headquarters with details christie. >> reporter: they identified her as 21-year-old kiera johnson and reported her missing on thursday, her body was then discovered 24 hours later action news was there as homicide detectives combed through cobbs creek after 21-year-old johnson's body was discovered face down on a creek bed and police say the cause of death is literature strangulation as of now there are no witnesses. johnson is a student at hudson art school in spring garden according to an essay she penned interning at mass parks student intake program she is passionate about the arts and land conservation a motive for her murder though is not immediately clear. again police say right now there are no witnesses to this crime so anyone with information about her killer is asked to contact homicide detectives live at police headquarters christie ileto. >> a motorcycle officer is recovering after he was hit by a car in center city it happened near broad and chestnut street a group of protesters was marching down chestnut to broad street and officers were blocking traffic along the route and the injured officer's motorcycle was hit by another vehicle who suffered minor injuries. philadelphia police are searching for the gunman who shot and killed a 20-year-old man tonight here in south philadelphia. it happened just before 8:00 a.m. on broad near katerine. the victim was rushed to jefferson hospital where he was pronounced dead. philadelphia police are searching for the gunman who opened fire on a group of people on a porch overnight killing a 16-year-old and injuring a 12-year-old. it happened on the 2700 block of north 19th street in north philadelphia. 16-year-old marquese houston was struck and the 12-year-old struck in the leg and houston died a short time late ore. a woman had smoke inhalation in delaware county and police and firefighters were on king avenue after 5:00 by neighbors who saw smoke rising from the scene and it wasn't until they went to the back alley though when they saw the flames. >> they put the fire out and after they put the fire out and made entrance is when they found the victim. >> reporter: taken to chester medical center no word on age or identity and an arson sniffing dog checked out the scene and no word on how the fire started. in north philadelphia firefighters made quick work of a fire behind a school there and a call from potter thomas elementary in 3800 north 6th street came in at 6:30 p.m. and turned out to be a dumpster fire and the fire was put out and the school was not damaged. the eagles are amazing 8-1 after an electrifying win today at lincoln financial field. >> birds on a role and jeff is here with highlights they are playing fantastic. >> lane johnson said it best today won seven in a row and fr dominated like we have not scene in a long time and eagles score so many times today they actually run out of fireworks at the lynx but carson wentz providing all the fireworks he needs and eegs 8-1 the best team in football and the other times they started 8-1 they scored a spot in superbowl or nfl championship game and not surprised how hard they work and the eagles make it look easy against denver and score 7 touchdowns and wentz four scores and the rookie has his hands on three touchdowns and wentz without his top target and zach ertz no big deal and trey burton what a catch and touchdown in the second end to the half and jay ajayi breaks loose how about this for an eagles debut 46 yards his first touchdown in his first game with the eagles, the eagles go nuts. the final score eagles celebrating 51-23 win it's the most points they have scored in four years and are 8-1 on top of the nfl. they are the best team in football. >> this is a special group and you know we've 8-1 for a reason and don't need to go backwards now so enjoy the time. we need to get healthy. this is a good week for us to get healthy and make a push and get ready for the second half of the season. >> feels good especially coming off a big win like this at home, you know, against a great defense offensively to put up what we did today and you know obviously we feel like we have some momentum and enjoy this and relax and get away and come back ready to go. >> ready to go how about this ready to go to the playoffs nearly every single team 8-1 in history made the playoffs. >> sounds good to me thank you jeff turning to accuweather weather the day started out a little cloudy out there and mild and stayed mostly overcast. >> so what can we expect for the workweek ahead metrologist melissa magee is here now for a first check of the accuweather forecast melissa. >> walter and sarah it does not feel like november temperatures once again today mild and above average 68 was our high and 60 is where we are currently sitting in philadelphia. 55 in the poconos 62 cape may 62 degrees out to the west in lancaster. storm tracker six live double scan radar 3d tracking changes with a cold front stretched out across eastern great lakes and ohio and packing a lot of punch and will continue to work its way eastward throughout the day on monday and start to fizzle out as it works its way in the delaware and lehigh values and mild at the city 60 and 37 green bay 48 in chicago and 50 in detroit that cooler air is headed our way so we are tracking the fog overnight tonight and it's mild but wet as we get into tomorrow afternoon and a cool down later this week details coming up, with the accuweather forecast we will sends it back your way guys. >> thank you melissa. still to come tonight on action news 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walking into the church wearing all black firing an assault-type rifle in the middle of sunday service when he left they say a local resident grabbed kelley's gun and he got in his car and took off the resident and another man followed him. kelley was found shot dead in his truck, investigators are unsure whether the resident killed kelley or kelley killed himself. the victims range from ages 5-72 years old among the dead 14-year-old annabelle pomeroy according to her father who is the church pastor, he was in oklahoma when the shooting happened. investigators say it's still too early to talk about a motive though they are searching kelley's home and looking at his facebook page, his social media pages for any clues. i'm courtney fisher for channel six action news in sutherland springs texas back to you. >> courtney thank you. happening tomorrow former congressman annie weiner reports to a federal prison in massachusetts facing 21 months in prison for sending obscene texts to a 15-year-old girl a previous case of sexting in 2011 forced the once up and coming democrat to resign his seat and also required to register as a sex offender. turns out friday's attack on kentucky senator rand paul left him more seriously injured than first thought with five broken ribs and lungs bruised and uncertain when he will return to washington because he is in pain and having problems getting around and he was attacked by his neighbor when he was mowing his lawn and no positive motive in the case. rain in the forecast for the start of your week. looking here from the sky six live over center city it's a clear and mild night out there metrologist melissa magee has the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast when action news comes right back. before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesn't have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesn't get us all killed, ben talking about you, ben. i know, zoe. what's so good about fios anyway? uh. what's so great about a 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times while our economy continues to struggle. south jersey is a mess, and it's time to take out the trash. on november 7th, make a change. dump sweeney. indiana and ohio late today when severe storms rolled through. a confirmed tornado touched down in jay county indiana and a train spotter reported a funnel cloud south of selina ohio flooding also reported in the area some larger cities including toleto indianapolis and columbus predicted to see some rough weather. >> time for a check of the accuweather forecast with metrologist melissa magee and some rain moving our way as well. >> we are actually tracking that same front moving through ohio valley and great lakes coming in a much weaker section and tracking the rain by days end and the picture outside sky six live and hd looking at the ben franklin bridge on this sunday night loads of clouds around and areas of patchy fog and shot from the commodore berry bridge picture and you can see a nice reflection of the lights in the water the clouds are a factor throughout the overnight hours and tracking some precipitation so the rain chance this week it's high tomorrow at 70% chance of finding some precipitation. on tuesday just 20% chance of finding an instability shower as we get into the afternoon hours but then we are dry wednesday, thursday and friday and for the middle half of our workweek temperatures will be cooling down as well. we were above average today, did not feel like the month of november with temperatures in the upper 60s, right now it's 60 degrees in philadelphia, 55 in the poconos, 59 down in dover at the coast and beach haven we are coming at 61. satellite six with action radar and dry across the mid-atlantic region and widen out the picture and tracking the cold front that is moving across portions of the great lakes and the ohio valley so this front it is certainly producing some tornado watch boxes of this hour and will work its way eastward throughout the overnight hours and by monday afternoon it works its way in the region in a much weaker fashion as it travels east of the appalachians so 6:00 in the morning lots of clouds rounds areas of patchy fog ahead of the front and 2:00 tomorrow afternoon pockets of wet weather across the region and because it's so mild in advance of the cold front moving through a rumble of thunder cannot be ruled out 6:00 tomorrow evening the moisture hangs along coastal sections of new jersey and also in delaware but in the wake of that cooler air arrives as we get into tuesday. so as we look at the call from accuweather tomorrow loads of clouds afternoon rain in the i-95 area 7:00 a.m. the temperature in at 63 numbers holding steady in the upper 06s lower 70s across the region. now check out the numbers as we get in tuesday morning in the wake of the front moving on through a chilly start on i-95 corridor tuesday at 6:00 a.m. temperature of 41 in the city, north and west even colder 35 in reading, 34 lancaster and down in millville a temperature of 42. here is exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast it's a warm day tomorrow, still above average for november a high temperature of 72 then we are tracking the afternoon rain and the wake of that much cooler on tuesday a high temperature of 58. wednesday sunshine and clouds a high temperature of 55. sunny on thursday in at 55 for a high, seasonable on friday then remaining cool as we get into saturday and a high temperature of just 48 and next sunday too. >> temperatures are going to dip. a local tra fraternity of kappa-alpha-si and are leaders in their fields including education nursing business and public service, they are dedicated to community service and developing leaders. ♪ it's like making mini sandwiches. they're no different than anyone else. they just want a job. they want respect and they want dignity. this is a nice place. yeah. he plays basketball with lauren. steve called, fairly frantic. you know, he had a premature baby and i think he had just been 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years 51-23 the final eagles are 8-1. they are the best team in football and jamie apody has more. >> reporter: jeff with a second year quarterback and a second year head coach coming off a 7 win season few could predict 8-1 start and wentz sideline against the top defense in the league even fewer could have predicted eagles offense would put up more than 50 points rush for almost 200 yards and each week we are left with something new to be in awe about. >> it was awesome to watch. you know i've never been around an offense last year and this one can go tow to tow with that type of offense. >> a ton of unselfish guys and every week it's someone different and no one cares who it is as long as we are winning games and making plays. >> jay ajayi did not disappoint. >> my first touchdown of the season and i've been in philly and my first game with the eagles i don't think it could have been ran any better than that. >> reporter: so here they sit 8-1 heading in the bye week nine games in more than last year and 16 and humble and hungry until they reconceive. >> it's hard this week it really is and every single one of them you get excited about and you cherish but with everyone of the back up you know the opponent you are getting ready to play the next week will come even harder. >> not to get you too excited eagles started 8-1 five times and the previous four they reached the superbowl or nfl championship every single time let that sit for two weeks jamie apody with channel six news. >> 97% of team 8-1 made the playoffs and more coming up, in a few minutes and brian westbrook will be in studio talking about an eagles story no one is talking about tonight and hoping they do not slip like penn states and the lions dropped from second in the country down to 16th in the ap poll and in a matter of just two weeks and going to soccer and women's soccer as hot as the eagles junior madison bower sets up her sister macy bower and lasalle is going to the ncaa for only the fifth time in school history. >> how cool is that. >> cool and what a day everyone wins. >> everyone is winning thank you jeff quick break more action news when we come back. we've paid a big price for chris christie and kim guadagno. they gave out billions in corporate tax breaks. millions to whitewash the bridgegate scandal. millions more wasted on empty office space. we got stuck with the bill. property taxes up. train and bus fares up. college tuition up. women's healthcare funding eliminated with christie and guadagno we're paying more and falling behind. four more years of kim guadagno is unaffordable. of the broncos in the lync and partners with toyota for hire the heros to help people transition in the workforce and plug skills in the app for ahead of the resumes and it's a small way to show vets they are appreciated and action news sports sunday is next on channel six and action news returns at 4:30 with tamala edwards and karen rogers and dave murphy. >> for walter perez and 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