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WPVI Action News At 4PM February 26, 2018

It was shocking. Reporter police say the gun was brought in by a 15yearold student a freshman. It was in fact a. 40 caliber smith and wesson with load. Reporter . He did admit to stealing it from the car. We are certainly bite fact that it was in his possession and his statement he stole the gun from the neighbors car. Reporter its policy Students Walk in through scanners every day. This leads detectives to think the student must have known the gun was in the bag. Given they and scan every day and they scanned it repositioned the bag and saw it again presumably they would have done that yesterday, today the you before, the day before. I can only know for certain they took the gun in the bag today. Reporter now, this teen is going to face some serious charges. They include possession of a weapon on school property. He will also face charges for stealing this gun. Now, at this point its too early to tell how hell be tried. If hes to be tried as an adult thats a decision that will be made by the d. A. Reporting live at fels high, bob brooks channel6 action news. Brian thank you. Just in here at 4 oclock. One of bill cosbys daughters has passed away. Less than an hour ago a spokesman confirmed 44yearold ensa cosby died on friday from renal disease. Now the condition gravely impairs kidney function. The spokesman andrew wyeth is asking people to keep the could be bee family in their prayers. Bill cosby is set to be in a Montgomery County courtroom next week ahead of his retrial on sexual assault. A killer remains at lamp after a deadly double shooting. Two men were shot to death inside of a blue car on the 700 block of chain street. There are dozens of homes surrounding the crime scene but investigators have not been able to locate any witnesses. I was in there watching a movie. I heard two quick bangs. Came out. Nobody was out here but a car in the middle of the street with the headlights on. And when i looked outside nobody else was looking outside and i didnt thinking nothing of it much. Police have not yet identified the victims or a possible suspect. They are now reaching out to neighbors with surveillance cameras in hopes of recovering helpful video. Officials in massachusetts are hoping new composite sketches help someone recognize a murder victim who could be from philadelphia. The girls body was found back in 2000 but these pictures were released today. A suspect arrested for killing her says the victim might have been involved in sex trafficking and that she said her name was lisa and she was from philadelphia. Now, anyone with any information about this should contact massachusetts state police. Time now for a check of the accuweather forecast. All right. We have been told that some nicer weather is on the way. Weve been told and i would like to confirm. Yes, confirm it. Meteorologist adam Joseph Standing by outside with the confirmation. Hi, adam. There is confirmation and were moving in the right direction. At least we dont have rain today. Yes, the clouds still dominating but starting to see a little bit of blue above as we look at the number right now in philadelphia, 51 degrees. 51 in richmond. 50 in detroit. No cold air to the west. In fact saint louis 60 degrees, 63 in nashville. This large High Pressure right now working into the ohio and the tennessee valley. That High Pressure is our friend. The high meaning happy as were moving as you can see right on the edge of the clouds, the rain down to the south so everything sliding for some improvement in our direction. As we look at the temperatures for this evening, not a big fall in temperature. 48 degrees at 7 oclock, turning clear as we get towards, nine, 10, 11 oclock, temperatures then sliding to around 44 and 10 oclock 43. At 11 oclock with the overnight low sitting at 34 degrees. Wall to wall sunshine. The sun will dominate tomorrow and for the next several days, temperatures will average close to 10 degrees above normal but then at the end of the week, were watching a coastal storm. Ill let you know what that means for where you are coming up in that full accuweather forecast sharrie in just a little bit. All right. A few cheers here in the studio. Good. Adam thanks. Yeah. Philadelphia Police Believe the driver of this pickup truck stole 30,000 worth of power tools from a work van in east falls. They say the ford f150 is silver with black air vents on the hood and after market fog lights on the front grille. The tools were stolen friday february 16th. They want anyone who recognizes this truck to give detectives a call. New at 4 oclock today, a chance for freedom. Slowly but surely inmates sentenced to life without parole for crimes they committed as juveniles are getting a second shot. Its all because of a Supreme Court ruling that is having a big impact right here in our area. Action News Reporter vernon odom live for us now in center city with one familys personal story on this. Vernon. Sharrie, good afternoon. For years philadelphias had the highest number of teenagers minors those under the the age of 18 sentenced to life in prison without parole. Now that number is steadily dropping because of u. S. Supreme court rulings, a classic case played out here at the criminal Justice Center today. This is mark robbins at age 17 not long before he wound up in prison for life without parole. He and four others staged an Armed Robbery at this 12th street store. The owner was shot and killed. Robinson was not the triggerman but he like the other four wound up getting sentences of life without parole. But the u. S. Supreme court ruled two years ago that it is unconstitutional for mandatory life without parole sentences for minors. Robinson is now 54. Today he was brought to court for resentencing. The law is the law and so any juvenile convicted of murder or sentenced to a mandatory sentence of life without parole over precede well, at any time has to be resentenced. Reporter over the years philadelphia has sentenced more teenagers lifeers to life in prison with no chance of parole than any other jurisdiction in the world. So far philadelphia courts have resentenced nearly 130 lifers robinson the latest. Accomplices have already been released including the one who fired the deadly shots. He expressed his remorse and hes doing the best he can to look forward with hope now to the day that hes going to be reunited with his family. Reporter the judge today resentenced robinson to 35 years to life. It will be up to the state parole board to decide how much more time hell have to serve. Im just thankful to god that they he gave us one more chance to be a family. You know, to be able to hold thats my baby boy. To be able to put my arms around him means so much to me today. Reporter brian, robinsons mother did go on to express her remorse and her regrets to the victims family for their decades of suffering without a woman who is a mother an wife. No date has been set so far for robinsons first date before the state parole board. Im vernon odom channel6 action news at the criminal Justice Center in center city. Yeah, a lot of suffering on every side of this thing vernon. Thank you so much. Four days after a major fire at a School Bus Garage in South Whitehall township students went back to school. Mechanics spent the weekend working overtime to make repairs to the buses so that they could be salvaged the fire forced the school to be shut down. The cause of this fire is still under investigation. Time now for action news traffic report this monday. All right, matt pelman standing by with the first check this afternoon. How we looking matt. First afternoon commute of the work week, brian and sharrie, and were starting with a big backup in barrington camden county. A crash along 295 southbound side just south of route 30, the white horse pike as you head towards the black horse pike, two lanes out of commission and it looks like at the moment they may have all southbound traffic halted here at the emergency crews arriving on the scene. You can see the fire truck there. Police officers also just getting to this accident scene. So, coming south of 70, south of cherry hill, you dont want to be on 295 this afternoon. Maybe use kings highway, use the new jersey turnpike southbound but 295 southbound is a mess and of course well keep you posted. In willingboro theres a downed pole thats blocking a lane along 130 southbound near bridgeboro south of the rancocas creek. We had a crash across the river here on the vine street expressway westbound side approaching the schuylkill. Its gone. Still backed up here. The bigger delay though is on the eastbound side of the vine street expressway from the schuylkill out to 95. Speaking of the schuylkill, this is the westbound side approaching the boulevard extension. Have a crash here now pushed off to the side but still heavy delays coming out of town and on the eastbound side of 76, there was a crash approaching gulph mills now also off to the side but speeds like 12 Miles Per Hour coming away from 202. Lets grab the ipad check your ways home with the waze app. If youre coming off the schuylkill in south philadelphia along 26th street southbound, a long line of red traffic flow there because of a crash right by penrose avenue as you head towards the platt bridge. Already a number of accidents. Well keep tabs of them brian and sharrie in the next half hour. Matt thank you. Next on action news at 4 00 a busy day in washington as leaders discuss gun control. In florida a display of courage and hope as one of the students who survived the Deadly School shooting thanks those who ran to her rescue. Plus, going above and beyond to help a choking teenager. Find out how Emergency Responders helped a mom who was 800 miles away thanks to social media. President donald trump and governors from states across the country spent the day addressing school shootings. The leaders hashed out different ways to prevent the tragedy in parkland florida from ever happening again, everything from increasing School Safety funding to tightening gun restrictions on those with Mental Health issues. Washington governor directly questioned his call to arm teachers. The president says he doesnt want all teachers to carry guns, rather, a select skilled few. There has to be some form of major retaliation if that able to enter a school and if that happens, youre not going to have any problems anymore cause theyre never going to the school. Youre never going to have a problem. It will just be a very small group of people that are very gun adept. Also in washington today, a group of democratic attorneys general from across the country gathered for a separate meeting on gun violence prevention. Pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro says while he respects and defends Second Amendment rights, he also feels theres a bigger issue at hand. I also respect the right of pennsylvanians to feel safe in their communities. To not get shot in their schools or shot on their street corners. And i fight to defend them each day as well. All of this as the president says he had lunch over the weekend with key leaders of the nra and says they want to do something and that they are on our side but the president also added that we have to fight them once in awhile saying he does believe thirst a need to boost background checks and raise the minimum age to purchase assault style weapons. A lot of conversations happening today in washington. Yeah, and ongoing conversation. Alicia thank you. A student who was shot several times in that florida massacre was released from the hospital today. 17yearold mattie will ford has undergone three surgeries so far and still has bullet fragments inside her. Now, First Responders say they thought she was dead when they entered Stoneman Douglas high school. She was pale, unresponsive and bleeding heavily from gunshots to her chest abdomen and arm. Today mattie held back tears as she spoke publically for the first time. Im so grateful to be here and it wouldnt be possible without those officers and First Responders and these amazing doctors and especially all the love that everyone has sent. Well, about those doctors, they say that given the extent of her injuries mattie is extremely lucky to walk away today and get this, she is expected to make a complete recovery. The Supreme Court today rejected a request from the trump administration. The justices have declined to take up the deferred action for childhood arrivals, that case also known as daca. Now daca shields hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. President trump set a deadline of march fifth to terminate the program leaving congress the task of finding a solution for the socalled dreamers. But todays announcement from the Supreme Court means the daca program will continue as various immigration cases move through the lower courts. Time now for a look at todays closing numbers from wall street an rally on this monday. The dow closing up nearly 400 points today to close at 25,709. The nasdaq and s p 500 also up to start the week. Flood waters are still raging in the nations heartland with the ohio river cresting today in kentucky and indiana. Pumping stations are working in overdrive but this is what it looks like in several towns along the river. Already local leaders believe theres nearly 3 million in damage at that time flood waters should recede over the next coming days as the area finally gets a break from all that rain. European vacation isnt looking so good for some people. A serious blast of winter heavy snow has hit rome. That beautiful city is not used to stuff like this. Some flights are grounded. Roads are blocked off. And at the vatican a crowd that chose to take it all in stride and had a snowball fight n london snow and the coldest february in years is making getting around rather difficult. Well, quick thinking firefighters helped save a 16yearolds life even though he was some 800 miles away from them. The call for help came from a mom who used facebook to message the Fire Department in what she thought was wayland michigan. She told them she didnt have access to a phone and was able to quickly give her address. The only problem, these emergency workers were in wayland, massachusetts. Once we got the ambulance dispatched to her, we got back on, i got back on the messenger app and tried to communicate with her try to walk her through some instructions and give her prearrival instructions before the ambulance got there. We had to do what we could with what we had. Seconds do count. It really worked out. Of course while this story did work out, Firefighters Want to remind all of us that facebook is not the best way to contact them during an emergency. You should always use 911. Yeah. I could see it happening though, people go to google right away and try to find out and boy theres a lot of towns with the same names. Meteorologist adam joseph we kicking off the week still under clouds but you say sun is coming. Breaking up. Clouds are moving on out and the sun is going to dominate here for one day tomorrow. Yeah. One day out of five. Lets take a look at the Weather Center. This is to confirm that yes, the sun is returning first in the Northern Areas here, live in easton at the nurture Nature Center and you can see some of that blue sky you see the sunshine splashing off of the buildings there, so again get the sunglasses ready especially for tomorrow. Right now its warmer up towards the Lehigh Valley, 52 in allentown with that sunshine returning first. 51 in philadelphia, cooler down to the south by a degree or two. Not a lot. But 49 in cape may. 50 in millville and 50 degrees in dover where those clouds are still dominating the sky. As we press forward, temperatures dont drop a whole lot overnight tonight. Yes, were he go from the 50s, 40s, down into the 30s early tomorrow morning but were staying above freezing in philadelphia and then temperatures will quickly warm with that sun late tomorrow morning into the afternoon. Storm tracker6 live double scan, it is dry despite south of philadelphia it does look threatening with some of the darker clouds. Maybe a couple of showers near Sussex County and southern kent county in delaware but that is about it. And its about time that we shut off the faucet cause it has been a rainy month. If you take a look at philadelphia, over 6inches of rain which also includes the melted snowfall, it is the fifth wettest in philadelphias history for the month of february. The second wettest in Atlantic City, near six and a half inches and the fourth wettest for allentown wilmington and trenton, about five and a half inches of rain marking the sixth wettest february on record for you. Satellite and radar, you can see that edge of the clout just coming in from the north and westampton. Everything pushing away and beautiful setup late tonight and tomorrow. In fact the clouds will clear, 29 in allentown, mid 30s at the shore. This is a pretty sight. When you take a look hour by hour tomorrow with just sun and no clouds, wall to wall sunshine, get out for lunch tomorrow you can with temperatures going from the 30s to the 40s to the 50s pretty quickly. By 3 oclock in the afternoon 56 degrees. We start with sun on wednesday morning, temps in the 30s and then high clouds quickly come in wednesday afternoon but its dry with filtered sun and temperatures also in the mid50s. Your four day at 4 00 forecast, tomorrow temperatures topping off at 56 degrees with that sun. Increasing high clouds on wednesday but dry of 58. Clouds quickly taking over thursday, rain arrives in the afternoon thursday at 54 degrees and its growing to set up for a coastal storm, windy and rainy on friday with temperatures of 45 degrees. Well let you know if we can have a weekend without rain. Well let you know coming up in the next half hour in the sevenday. But then that word coastal storm,. Its on friday. I cant handle it, i cant. All right. All right, adam thank you. More action news at 4 00 coming up right after this. No, please, please,

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