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ray rice to prove a point about internet speeds, we slowed down an up escalator. this is crazy i don't get it, this one is working ladies, shouldn't up be as fast as down? yeah. shouldn't internet speeds match as well? yes. do your socks match? my socks match. do your eyeballs match? yes. cable does not match the speeds. makes you want to go mad. erggggh. only verizon fios comes with speedmatch - upload speeds as fast as your download speeds join now at fiosspeedmatch.com verizon. >> it was ray rice who punched his fiancee in the head and knocked her unconscious. but tonight it's nfl commissioner roger guidele feeling the heat because of new
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revelations bringing into question whether gadell is telling the truth. it's thursday night an big story tonight is the latest on football fire storm. four different sources are insisting tonight that ray rice told gidell last june he punched his fiancee inside a casino elevator. he said he did not know what happened until he saw the elevator tape this monday. "action news" reporter dann cuellar is following this latest development and dap you've got the details. >> reporter: that's right, jim, and you know for football fans these new revelations by espn add a whole new chapter to unseemly saga for some they want the nfl commissioner fired and gone and others say let's not jump the gun. >> if he did know he should resign you. >> think so. >> most definitely. >> football fans watching the game react together latest developments according to espn four sources now say that
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contrary to what nfl commissioner roger gadell said yesterday he has known since june what happened in the elevator and on june 16 ray rice told nfl commissioner he had punched his wife and knocked her unconscious inside a revel casino elevator yesterday, gadell said in television interview when he met with rice it was ambiguous as to what happened and it was not until he saw the video on monday he knew precisely what happened and four sources tell espn it was made clear to the commissioner exactly what happened and that rice said he was sorry and would never do it again. and ft. revelations turn out to be true some feel gadell should go. >> he messed up pretty bad. >> yeah he should probably lose his job. if we made a mistake like that and it affected our company we would be fired. >> he should be fired it's inappropriate if anybody knew that and if their sources say he
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did know about it he should be fired. >> others disagree. >> i don't believe he should be resigned or terminated i think that there should be i guess a meeting of theeners so see what punishment should be levied on the commissioner. >> he'll sit there and say he messed up hopefully and get it right after he messed up really bad. >> now the league announced yesterday former fbi director robert muller has been hired to lead an independent inquiry of the rice matter and that is being over seen by new york giants owner john mature aand pittsburgh steelers owner rob rooney. live at the sports complex in philadelphia i'm dann cuellar "channel 6 action news." >> new jersey law makesers put forward bills involving domestic violence. full assembly will vote on measures including requiring counseling for certain offenders
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and allowing alleged victims to testify via closed circuit television and allowing victims of domestic violence to plea -- he was allowed to ept air pretrial intervention froom avoid a criminal record and possible jail time despite criticism of that decision both atlantic county prosecutor and atlantic city criminal division manager defend how the case was handled. we have breaking news out of ohio a teen aimer that murdered three students in a high school cafeteria escaped from prison. 19-year-old t. j. lane broke out of prison in lima, ohio tonight along with two other inmates one of whom has been recap toured. lane was serving three life sentences after pleading last year to shooting three students east of cleveland.
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police in forth east philadelphia are looking for the individual who scrawled red swastikas on the window of a butcher shop simon kosher meats bustleton avenue and they were easily removed but hurt on intended target is more difficult to erase ♪ >> this is a live picture in new york city of the two beams of light out lining where the twin towers stood until 13 years ago today. americans today marked somber anniversary both publicly and privately. "action news" reporter sharee williams is live at the big board and sharee another somber anniversary of that feat full day. >> it is, jim, those taken liver in open our heart and memories and tonight the passengers and
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crew members of flight 93 were remembered and honored. loved ones gathered in shankville in the fields where the plane crashed carrying beacons of light and thousands who died are us manyed and ref eerd as heroes. >> jeffery churn-off 35 years old from lower makefield. >> standing on one accord a huge gathering at the garden of reflection in lower makefield tonight marked by bright lights they gathered to remember loved ones killed in the terror attacks of september 11, 2001. >> we get busy with our lives and go on and think these things won't happen to us you know? but the us was there. >> it's been a day of reflection and remembrance all around the nation flags waving, tears
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falling. >> i miss you and you are never forgotten. >> all the people that lost their loves that infamous day. >> 13 years alleging still feels like yesterday. >> where the twin towers once toad one world trade centers stands as a beacon among the memorial and museum. it's the first time it's been open on annie mccormick versusy. bells leading to silence marking when the planes struck the twin towers, crashed in shankville pennsylvania and hit the pentagon. >> 13 years after small and hateful mind conspired to break us america stands tall and america stands proud. >> trib newt light beaming for the world to see tonight lighting up the new york sky line a message that this nation is standing together. thank you, sharee. first responders honored tonight during a mass in blue bell, montgomery county. special attention was given to
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those who tried to save victims on september 11 in new york and in washington and shankville and ultimately lost their loves. a slide show continuing heart wrenching imannuals that day was also shown. you can visit 6abc.com for more on the september 11 anniversary and read about local and national commemeration ceremonies and view a slide show of tweetsw from "action news" viewers recalling exactlyly why they were and what they were doing 13 years ago. >> i newly released videotape is showing a different side of fight that put a park ranger in the hospital and witnesses claim that three skateboarders unleeshdz an unprovoked ta tack when they tried to release the no skating policy. video was turned to police. philadelphia's district attorney is revisiting the case today because a second video this one
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appears to show the rangeren gaenling the skateboarders and even putting up fists and throwing punches and skateboarders were arrested and charged in the assault. >> authorities is new castle county delaware say the suspects in these sketches are two juveniles that attacked a 12-year-old in his wheelchair the victim laquan mackey told "action news" the suspects pushed his wheelchair in a storm drain. punched him, choked him and stole his keys. it happened on the unit block of buchanan circumstance until newark on monday. the attack rerz believed to be between 12 and 14 years old. >> the woman who was behind the wheel of this car is in the hospital tonight and will be charged with drunk driving. this is the scream after 3:30 in palmyra, new jersey the woman lost control of her car on cinnaminson avenue and plowed into a house. as we saw later today the damage inside was substantial.
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fortunately nobody inside the house was hurt. pennsylvania governor tom corbett offered an explanation for what has to be a very discouraging poll result for him. today's release of quinnipiac university poll shows democrat trailing tom wolff among leakly voters 59-39 on the issue of trust 54% say they believe wol service honest and trustworthy and 33% said the same for corbett. corbett says the campaign has struggled because he took on pension reform and other politically difficult issues in his first term. a military veteran received a huge surprise tonight that will inevitably change his life. augustine bruno is given a mortgage free home during the 2014 faces of valor fundraiser and ceremony in camden. and operation home front hosted the evening and the non-profit organization supports the troops
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by providing emergency assistance and moral support to military families and to the returning wounded. and bruno is medically retired from the army and is currently living with his parents. >> i feel excited and i have -- i have no idea who to tell fist or call. i can't call niblet. probably mom. >> air gas incorporated made a $300,000 donation to operation home front and the money will be given out in 100,000 increments over 3 years. >> still to come open "action news" tonight growing threat the cia says number of isis fighters has tripled since beginning of summer and plus mystery illness sick nz a dozen children and now tests are being done to see ft. worry some virus spread to this area and the story everybody is checking out tonight on 6abc.com we'll hear from two local sisters who gave birth just hours apart. cecily.
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>> today's warm, humid air is pushed out. i have fall like temperatures and weekend showers in the accuweather forecast. >> and we'll see the fear some beast being call the largest predator ever on earth and it's one of the only dinosaurs known to swim and ducis rodgers hears from chip kelly about the offensive line shakeup that and more when "action news" continues tonight. (vo) ours is a world of passengers.
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adults with asthma. symptoms describe as startsing off as severe coldment test results for the local cases should take 7 to 10 days. and meanwhile the montgomery county health department confirmed today a case of whooping cough at wissahickon high school and they sent a letter home to parents warping that other children may have been exposed to the pertussis bacteria as well as anybody that came into close contact with the infected student. symptoms may develop over the next two weeks. oscar pistorius will not be convicted of murder but his trial is not over. a judge in south africa said today prosecutesers have not proved premeditates murder in shooting death of reeva steenkamp however the judge did say the double amputee track star aktd hastily and with excessive force. he could be convicted of culpable homicide. cia says the islamic state now
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has up to 31500 fighters and that's triple previous number from june. secretary of state john kery met with counterparts from ten arab states in saudi arabia today and won their promise to do their in fighting the islamic state. >> john boehner is taking the unfamiliar position of supporting president obama and boehner said today that " we ought to give the president what he's asking forsh the authority toy fight isis.". an coordinate fairy sight in iceland today latest eruption of a volcano that began shooting lava two weeks ago the only impact is the smell of sulfur. they've been asked to close doors and windows and stay inside. a solar storm is hurdling towards early tonight at 2 1/2
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million miles an hour. it is expected to arrive home and scientists are on alert for the braingt of radiation that could affect gps and electric systems it's rated most intense and fortunately the worst of it is predicted to just skim by the planet earth. one week ago today a philadelphia pailen tologist show upped what may have been the most massive dinosaur ever discovered and other dine or hunters are displaying biggest prehist toreic predator of all time the swimming shark eating monster with 7 foot sail on back is called spineious sauer us. those bones were destroyed during warld war ii. they're revealing details about the beast. the unexpected is how much time
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the creature spent in the watter. >> you can imagine the animal paddling like a duck with long neck like a bird but like a crocodile powering it's way with a significant tail and head that looked look a croc dale dial. it's a combination of bird and crocodile. >> spineioussaurus is on display in washington. >> we're lucky there's nothing like that alive today. >> accuweather forecast, cecily tynan. >> big changes temperature-wise headed our wayment stormtracker 6 live double scan showing rain free conditions out there despite the fact a cold front is pressing through really lost all the moisture. but, we were lapsing in sky6 right around sunset and the sun now setting at 7:17 and our days are getting shorter yes as we head towards fall and really a beautiful sunset and just enough cloud cover to make things interesting.
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temperature-wise warm in philadelphia, 78. dover at 78. but poconos already dropping down to 59 degrees and this is really where the cooler drier air is moving down from and dew points tell the story. south of philadelphia, it's still very humid and millville and dover dew points in the 70s. philadelphia somewhat humid 6 and allentown and poconos dew points in the 50s this air will really be taking over tomorrow. tomorrow will be a beautiful day. satellite 6 and action radar showing begun you can see clouds cover with that front all thunderstorms well down to the south and this front will clear the coast tomorrow but stall. it will be coming back. 7 6 tomorrow nice day mix tush of sun and clouds winds ow out of the north and low humidity. comfortable day. prob nreem does along the front low pressure develops and rides up and this brings us periods of rain on and off through the day could got a half inch of rain
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and cloudy dreary day high of 70. fortunately the whole weekend will not be a washout. sunday is looking better. yesterday, was the statistical peak of hurricane season and today we have a new tropical storm eduard off the coast of cape v era e heading into the atlantic and no threat to land and tropical storm -- fortunately a quiet hurricane season. >> it's looking nice. a lot of sunshine. less humid 6:00, 62 degrows and by 8:00, 64. so the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast tomorrow beautiful day loads of sunshine mixing with clouds especially in the afternoon and comfortable, 76 degrees. saturday, periods of rain moving in around mid-morning continuing into the afternoon, 70 degrees future tracker showing rain could be heavy around 5:00 on saturday nightch the good news is sunday, sunshine is back. low humidity, 73.
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monday we warm up to 77. tuesday a fast-moving system will bring us showers in the morning and afternoon sunshine and we keep that sunshine and temperatures little on the cool side lower to mid 70s and say good-bye to the 80s and feeling like fall and saturday on the wet side. >> two sisters that got pregnant at the same time ended up delivering babies within 24 hours of each other. bridget binge of conshohocken and emily whitaker of east falls in philadelphia had the same due date but neither expected to go into labor at almost the same time. yesterday at 7:3 a.m. bridgeit gave birth to jack 7 pounds 6 ounces 20 1/2" and family's first grand child anticipated sister emily went to visit the new family abington memorial hospital and when she got back home he went into labor. this morning 5:39 a.m. owen came into the world at 8 pounds 9
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ounces 21" and just 2 hours after his cousin. >> it's still so sure real the whole things i can't believe i'm a mom and my little sister is a mom. >> the sister's husband's have big plans for the boys as you can see. they claim well actually they claim they'll be starting short stop and second base combination for the phillies in 2034 but it looks like they have perhaps for the eagles as well. and tonight was the third and final night of preliminary competition in the miss america pageant another round of young women showcased their tall epts and took part in a swimsuit competition and we do need to say miss pennsylvania amanda smith won the talent portion by singing wishing you were somehow here again from phantom of the opera. of course, 6abc is source for all things miss america. our pageant coverage sunday kicks off 7 p.m. and we ask you to join matt o'donnell and karen rogers and melissa magee and to join matt o'donnell and karen rogers and melissa magee and so brian at citizens saiden
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to prove a point about internet speeds, we slowed down an up escalator. this is crazy i don't get it, this one is working
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ladies, shouldn't up be as fast as down? yeah. shouldn't internet speeds match as well? yes. do your socks match? my socks match. do your eyeballs match? yes. cable does not match the speeds. makes you want to go mad. erggggh. only verizon fios comes with speedmatch - upload speeds as fast as your download speeds join now at fiosspeedmatch.com verizon. >> i think we all remember when george w. bush appeared at yankee stadium after the 9/11 attacks it was emotional moment not as emotional tonight but still trib fruits sglaibl everybody remembers that day baseball was one of the first diverses following 9/11 attack and naturally when a game is played on the day the sport
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remembers. that's the case tonight for phillies and pirates play and the crowd at citizens bank park expressing thoughts as well and restoppeders from the fire and police department on hand as well and sixth inning russel martin givers it a ride. nice catch out there in left. goes for sacrifice fly. martin 6 rbis in the series. the phillies make francisco look look lefty grove. twelve strikeouts in 8 innings, phillies lose 4-1. >> chip kelly sounds confident his bako ten receive linemen will be fine with is asked of them. two fifths of the offensive line will be new and andrew gardner seems likely choice at right tackle kelly if he thinks up tempo offense will be slowed down due to new byes. >> depends if anybody else gets hurt obviously the guys plugged in are the guys that have been
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here a while and they can affect it it doesn't affect us second half jacksonville and everybody that surprise and active has a chance to get in the game and if they get in the game they have to perform. >> luck was at stanford while kelly was coaching oregon. chip calls him one of the smartest guys the eagles face. admiration is mutual. >> a lot of respect for coach kelly. we lived it firsthand and in the pac 12 and so many inventive things we did in football and there's a lot of respect for him our mind is wore by about billy davis and trent cole you know? >> we'll broadcast the came on phl17 along with eagles' pregame special count down to kickoff everything begins 8:00
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>> nfl owners john maura and rooney overseeing the investigation on how ray rice incident was handled say their goal is to get to the truth and findings will be made public. thursday night football quite a few fans rocking the ray rice jersey you i'mer have it or don't. joe flacco says -- and finally tonight lesean mccoy is not shy ago way from sturdy cause when he left a 20 cent tip on $61 dollar bill in fact he said he did so because he fell the staff was disrespectful and would do it againch the owner of pyt posted it on-line and in a weird twist actor charlie sheen offered to give the serve are a
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thousand and dollar tip of his own. >> he's doing something positive that's cool. 20 cent tip was more just kind of a statement. you cannot be disrespectful. if you check on that restaurant everybody was talking about it at that place. but good food, good food. >> and as my mom says three sides to every story. >> "jimmy kimmel live" on channel 6 followed by "nightline". jimmy's gift morgan freeman and julianne hough and ingrid michaelson. "action news" continues at 4:30 with tamala edwards, matt o'donnell, meteorologist david murphy and karen rogers with traffic. for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" for cecily tynan, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner, good
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play the lead. >> you wrote it with me in mind? >> jimmy: yeah, i wrote it with you in mind. >> jimmy, i'm honored. i mean -- i'm bowled over.