wednesday night, police now say that the fire at the home where a local hospital ceo died, was not an accident. and there are new details tonight about the root an ebola patient took to get to the united states and who is being monitored because of possible contact. but the big story on "action news" tonight is death of the seven year-old child, in tioga nicetown. >> boy's family is distraught over tragic loss and so is driver accused of hitting him. that driver, spoke to "action news", reporter kenneth moton who is live in north philadelphia with the big story tonight, kenneth. >> reporter: shirleen and

brian, five two-year old daughter walked out of a id here a few hours ago, he and others on that street say they did what he they could to try to save that little boy. the sound of anguish rippled through this tioga nicetown neighborhood. family of the seven year-old boy watched investigators examine the car that struck and killed him. >> i heard tires screech and little girl scream. no. >> reporter: philadelphia police say around 4:00 p.m. wednesday boy was with his mother and sisters walking home from school on the 3600 block of north 15th street near erie avenue. when he walk between two parked cars into the street. this buick le saber ran over him, the driver stopped, but witnesses say because he was unsure of what he hit man started to backup and injure the child even more this neighbor who does not the want to be identified said he and the the driver used a carjack to lift the vehicle off of the boy. >> i knew it was bad. i didn't know whether he would be responsive or not but at

the same time someone was on the phone with 911. >> reporter: distraught 52 year-old driver was taken to accident investigation for questioning spoke with "action news" off camera. he says he just didn't see the boy and he didn't want to say anymore out of respect to the young victim's family. >> car wasn't speeding. it was very unfortunate that the child wandered in the street. that is a bad situation all the way around. >> reporter: neighbor sidney richberg ran out to console the boy's sisters. >> i think no one could describe what i just experienced. i never experienced anything like that and i really feel sorry for the family. >> reporter: police say this fatal accident is still under investigation. they have not released names of the driver, or the boy who was killed, shirleen. reporting live from north philadelphia tonight, kenneth moton for "action news" at ten on phl17. >> kenneth, thank you. fire that killed a ceo of cooper health systems and his wife was in the an accident. today officials announced that

someone intentionally set the fire of john and joyce sheridan's home. "action news" reporter sharrie williams is following this arson investigation live from the satellite center, sharrie. >> reporter: shirleen, there are a number of agencies involved at this point because they want to get the the information right. one official actually calling it quote an exhaustive investigation. but this confirms today that this major development that this fire was intentionally set by someone, the lingering question is who. set the on purpose, that is the ruling on the fire that erupted at the home of cooper health ceo john sheridan and his wife joyce. somerset county prosecutor's office made the announcement today, fire fighters, responded to a 911 fire call sunday morning, at their home on meadow run drive-in montgomery township. the blaze was contained to their upstairs master bedroom but authorities haven't said whether the fire caused their death. and how the fire started, has yet to be answeredded.

but "action news" sources say that there is no evidence of an intruder, 27 year-old john sheridan died at the scene while his 69 year-old wife died at the hospital. before taking over cooper, john sheridan served as state transportation commissioner in the cain administration and credited with helping revive camden. his wife was a retired schoolteacher. the the arson ruling was released to day and so was this statement by their four boys. it reads in part, the death of our parents has left a hole in our hearts and family that can never be filled. we cannot fathom much less explain the circumstances of their passing. so the the couple leaves behind those four boys, long with several grandchildren. we will likely learn more about how the sheridans died when the information from their autopsy is released. live from the satellite center, sharrie williams for "action news" at ten on phl17. >> sharrie, thanks very much. we now know identity of the man diagnosed with ebola in texas.

his name is thomas duncan, he was visiting the u.s. from liberia and health officials now say he left have africa on a brussels airlines jet and caught two united airlines flight to dallas fort worth international airport. duncan is being treated at a texas hospital tonight but there are new questions now about why he was sent home the first time he went there seeking help. duncan told a nurse that he traveled from west africa but nurse apparently did not pass that information on. three days later he was admitted and fighting for his life, investigators are monitoring 18 people with whom he came in contact, including several children. secret service director, julia pierson is out of a job tonight, she resigned, amid intense scrutiny over security lapses, involving the president and the white house. the latest incident involves an armed man who made it into the interior of the executive mansion. that suspect omar jay gonzales

pleaded not guilty in court today. pierson will be replaced on a interim basis by joseph clancy, currently director of security at comcast here in philadelphia. clancy retired in 2011 as head of the secret service's presidential protective division. it is now official, lighting up or possessing a small amount of marijuana will not get you arrested now in philadelphia. today mayor michael nutter signed a bill that decriminalizes the offense. it states carrying less than 30 grams of marijuana will get violators a $25 fine. smoking it in public will carry a 100-dollar fine and or community services. new rule initial to effect october 20th. meanwhile as of tonight smoking cigarettes now cost more in philadelphia. city's new cigarette tax went in effect which adds $2 of each pack of smokes. revenues will benefit the cash strapped philadelphia public school district. a canadian firm could

breathe new life into what was once the revel casino hotel. brookfield asset management has the winning bid in today's bankruptcy auction for the failed gambling hall. at 110 million-dollar, it acquired the two $.4 billion property for pennies on the dollars. union workers are looking at the deal as fingers crossed with hopes that the sale will bring jobs back to a struggling atlantic city. brookfield owns hard rock casino in los angeles and atlantis paradise island casino in the bohamas. we have had a nice start to october but we've got some rain moving in for the weekend. meteorologist adam joseph has the accu weather details at the big board. >> it comes in over beginning of the weekend but a couple days before that horizon. satellite radar will show we had cloud cover through most of the day especially philadelphia to the north and east, more sunshine in the western and southwestern suburbs, and at the present time you can see that low lying, cloud deck again is

basically from philadelphia, allentown, around millville, all points to the north and east with some breaks in the clouds especially heading toward wilmington, dover and out toward lancaster and reading. the as we wake up early tomorrow morning depending on your location it will be brighter, west of philadelphia, cloudy, east of philadelphia, 58 at 6:00 o'clock in the morning and at 8:00 o'clock temperature right around 59. satellite and radar low pressure right now is off the coast of boston and that is spinning those clouds back to those northeastern areas and we're tracking a cold front with severe weather in the the nation's heart land near st. louis and chicago. that is front that will progress to the east at end of the week and upcoming weekend. for friday around here it is sunny, it is warm but that front progresses through and by saturday seven or 8:00 o'clock in the morning, that is when rain starts to push in and shirleen, we will let you know just how long that rain will last over weekend and chill down that is following the rain coming up in accu weather.

>> thanks, adam. two state troopers suffered minor injuries searching for suspected cop killer eric frein. frein has been on the run since being accused of killing a state trooper on september 12th. meantime life is slowly returning to normal in the poconos, business owners say they are concerned that the search is hurting tourism and in addition hunting has been banned in search areas. meanwhile we are learning more tonight about yesterday's accidentallal shooting of a pennsylvania state trooper at a training facility in conshohocken. trooper david kedra was killed during firearms training. sources tell "action news" that the instructor's gun miss fire. it hid kedra in the chest and flown to temple university hospital where he died a short time later. twenty-six year-old kedra had been stationed at skippack barracks for just two years. things got rather testy this morning as two men vying for pennsylvania's governor ship went face-to-face in their second debate.

tom corbett squared off against tom wolf as this breakfast with the candidates, broadcast on all news radio. and two spared quite a bit over taxes and school funding. >> property taxes have gone through the roof under your administration. i mean class sizes have increased. >> i'm not sure how you can look at is what happened in public education in pennsylvania and say you have been a friend to education and that things are better, they are not. >> ignore the pension crisis which is the the driving force, it is the class driver for every school district in pennsylvania. everyone. tom wolf has led in poles but there is more than a month and one more debate to go. the election is november 4th. still ahead on this full hour of "action news" at ten, gas under three bucks, why gas prices are lower, then they have been in many years. and recent alleged hate crimes, why people are brought together in bucks county tonight where they pledged to choose love over hate. is what wrong with shady? eagles star talks about his

lackluster running game in sports. i've lived hewith my mother, forty--four who is ninety--nine. people who do not live in delaware county need to know that tom mcgarrigle raised our taxes five times. five times in seven years. meanwhile tom mcgarrigle gave a million dollar subsidy to an energy company. tom mcgarrigle is not looking out for regular families or seniors at all. we need john kane in the senate. he gets regular families.

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argument over loud music. michael dunn, who is white, fired ten shots into an suv park outside a jacksonville convenient store in november 2012. seventeen year-old jordan davis who was african-american, was killed. dunn testified that he thought his life was in danger. dozens turnout in doylestown to shine light on the silver lining, of what has been a very dark cloud. they have gathered in a show of solidarity with the gay couple beaten in center city philadelphia three charged with attacking the men are all from bucks county and as walter perez tells us tonight the message here was love over hate. >> reporter: more than a hundred people gathered in the name of peace, in the front lawn of the bucks county courthouse. >> ♪ >> reporter: but they came with a stern message as well, a message that attacking anyone because of their sexuality or gender identity is socially and morally reprehensible. karen, a close friend of the gay couple brutally beaten in

philadelphia last in month read a statement from one of the victims, part of which directly addressed at alleged attackers. >> you butchered my boyfriend's beautiful face, you violated our rights. you jeopardized our health and safety. >> reporter: people attending this rally will tell you the primary reason is the push for passage of senate bill 42 and house bill 177, which would expand pennsylvania's hate crime laws to include the lgbt community. bucks county state senator chuck mchillhenie believes that the 2002 hate crime law when covered the lgbt community was struck down on a technicality. >> the tragedy highlights the fact that we need to he reauthorize, act 143 of 2002, back here in pennsylvania. >> reporter: he also says that he is hopeful that lawmakers in harrisburg will be able to get a bill to expand the hate crime law on the governor's desk by the end of the year. meantime while three people have been arrested in connection with the attack in

center city, karen says that the victim's remain on liquid diet due to the severity of the beatings they took to the faces and jaws. despite that though they are in good spirits. >> they have just been overwhelmed by the response of the community, they are so encourage. they are just really enthusiastic to see legislators stepping in and making these changes. it is huge. >> reporter: reporting from doylestown walter perez for "action news" at ten on phl17. time for the accu weather forecast. >> yeah, temperatures on the way down feeling like fall out there adam joseph live at the big board now. >> it is, it will feel like the depths of fall by the even of the weekend. looking at the april mack almanac is sunrise at 6:57. sunsetting at 6:43. so now we have more darkness then daylight during the the 24 hour period , so we're kind of going in that late fall and winter kind of pattern here as the the low this morning is 63, and the high temperature is

73 degrees. so today's 73 is pretty typical for this time of the year as we get into the first months and first day of october i should say, 72 is average high. pretty on par but as we head towards end of the month on halloween the average high drops to 62 degrees, so as that darkness gets longer and longer, it is harder to try to warm up those daytime temperatures. also, for october, our average rainfall in philadelphia is just over 3 inches. so hopefully we will get more than what we saw during the month of september. right now 62 in allentown. sixty-four in wilmington. sixty-one in millville. right along the shore temperatures in the lower 60's. satellite and radar low pressure right now is off the southern coast of cape cod, that is win coming in wrapping around that low, it is not that strong but it is light enough that it is trying to pin opinion wheel some of the clouds around that lowest specially in the state of new jersey and then also closer toward the poconos and the lehigh valley. but for the morning rush it is a mixture of sun and clouds,

more sun west of philadelphia, more clouds east, patchy fog with temperatures climbing slowly into the upper 50's and as we look at forecast region by region tomorrow partly sunny, patchy morning fog north and west, 74 in reading. allentown seven 36789 pottstown also at seven 36789 clouds in the morning giving way to sun, a warm afternoon from philadelphia, 74, to trenton 72, berlin at 74. and right along the shore numbers are cut back just a little bit because of that northerly wind coming in at 12 to 20 miles an hour, toms river is 70 and cape may to atlantic city about 71 to 72 degrees. shirleen when i come back we will look at that seven day forecast where those numbers will go way down by sunday in that seven day. >> boy are we even ready for this. >> come on put a few layers on. >> bring it on. >> thank you adam. centers for disease control confirmed four additional cases of entero virus d68 in new jersey children. two patients infect with the respiratory illness are from burlington county.

one from camden county and the fourth from morris county. that brings the total cases in new jersey to seven. all have been released from the hospital and all are recovering. the the virus has sickened 472 people in 41 states since mid-august. on health check at ten tonight a new study shows giving teens free birth control cuts the chances they will get pregnant or have an abortion. doctors say results show when money is not a factor, teens will choose the more reliable methods of iud's and harmone implants rather than condoms or birth control pills. study involved 1400 teenage girls at what they call high risk of pregnancy. all right. time for sports in the first half tonight, lesean mccoy spoke today about the frustrations he shares with fans about his performance. >> jeff skversky is in for ducis rodgers live from the "action news" sports center with more, jeff. >> hi guys, everyone wants to know when will the real mccoy show up. eagles running back lesean

mccoy has not been himself. leading rusher last year just 39 total yards over the last two games, jamie apody has more as the eagles are fighting to get the the run game going. >> mike tyson says everybody has a fan until you get hit in the face. we got hit in the face and we have to respond. >> reporter: coach quoting one of the great philosophers but where eagles are getting hit is their running game. shady mccoy, the rushing leader last year is averaging 2.7-yard per carry n2013 he averaged more than double that. >> just not getting it done. >> i don't know what to tell you what he can is struggling like this isn't fun. >> it is definitely frustrating. you know what type of player you are and you want to put the the numbers up. teams do come into stop you, and successful with you, that is frustrating. >> rams allowed a owe pope don't rush for over a hundred yards so will this be the game

that shady breaks out of his shell. >> we will find out. i got my boy lane back and, todd back to the original position. we will find out and see what happens. >> reporter: if it doesn't don't expect mccoy to mentally check out. >> i know what i can do. it doesn't bother me that much. we are winning games, we are three-one. it can be frustrating but at the end of the day i know who i am. >> reporter: with the eagles i'm jamie apody for "action news" at ten on phl17. mccoy coming up in the next half an hour plus an update on one of the big injured eagles we will tell but that and much more when injured eagles we will tell but that and much more when brian and guess what? the money we need to fund our schools lies right underneath your feet. that's right. down in the ground, pennsylvania has deep deposits of natural gas. but because of governor corbett, we're the only state in the country that doesn't make oil and gas companies pay an extraction tax. as governor, i'll make the gas companies pay up to help fund our schools for a change.

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if you are just joining us at 10:30 here are big stories we are covering on "action news" at ten on phl17. >> a seven year-old boy is dead and man who hit him distraught tonight. it happened in the tioga nicetown after school to day the boy was walking in between two cars when he was hit. the driver told "action news" that he never saw him. the fire that killed ceo of cooper health system and his wife was not an accident. today officials announce that had someone intentionally set the fire at john and joyce sheridan's home over the weekend. tonight we have learn the man diagnosed with ebola in texas went to the emergency room last week but was sent home, that is despite telling a nurse he traveled in west africa. that decision could put others at risk of exposure to the deadly illness. he return to the hospital a few days later when his condition worsen. a man is dead tonight after an attack involving a hammer. around 4:00 o'clock cops got a call about a man assaulting a woman with the hammer. when they showed up to this

home in the 2,000 block of east cambria in kensington they found the the 60 year-old man lying on the ground. he was rush to the hospital, and then died. a 26 year-old woman is at temple hospital tonight with the fractured skull, a neighbor tells us they were father and daughter and that they for the often. tonight police are looking for the man who robbed an overbrook park pay less. around 8:00 o'clock a man walk into the store on city avenue,'s approach a counter with a pair of shoes and made small talk, small talk, that is with the clerk before pulling out a gun and demanding money. right now police are trying to figure out if this is the same man who held up another area store within the past couple of weeks. a person was hit by a train in sharon hill this evening. chopper 6hd flew over the scene, at septa's wilmington newark line was shut down while police investigated. they have not told us the condition of the victim. a construction project

designed to make life more convenient has been anything but for one family living smack in the middle of the work zone. that is how it sound at all hours of the day outside the home, as work continues on new jersey's second largest road project, ever. the 900 million-dollar effort to connect routes 295, 42 and 76 has been underway since last year. now some pounding -- compounding their frustration is the fact that their 21 year-old son codey had just come home from the hospital with terminal cancer and needs peaceful rest. family is asking for an overnight grace period. >> between that and you need proper sleep or medicines don't work. i would like to see him up and about if possible but it puts him down a little bit more. >> nj dot says it has been in contact with that family and given them a schedule. he say bulk of the work takes place during daylight hours. a berks county teachers aid has been suspended now,

without pay after she allegedly turned her schools parking lot in the personal race track. police say 48 year-old patricia castle willit o it was driving drunk when she went on a joy ride on monday. she hit several curves and a backhoe before he she crashed in the park car and then fell asleep there. she already faces separate charges of public intoxication and disorderly conduct from a separate incident over the summer. today was the first day drivers in abington actually received ticket for blowing through red light cameras. cameras were installed in august and for the race two months drivers just received warnings. not anymore. running one will cost you a hundred dollars. the goal, is to make the streets safer. philadelphia's every day heroes were honored tonight in center city. the national liberty museum held its annual award of valor ceremony. hundreds of people were in attendance and more than 40 of the cities finest and bravees

received recognition for their extraordinary acts of courage, and empathy. their compelling stories will be memorialized in a exhibit for all museum visitors to see. well, you might have noticed a whole lot of pink today, october marks breast cancer awareness month and so tonight a happy hour benefiting breast cancer.org took place at lucky strike at center city. it turns out one in eight women will experience breast cancer at sometime in their lives and that, of course, is why all of us are wearing pink tonight just a small way to show solidarity with and standing alongside those of you who are suffering or know someone in your life who is. >> absolutely. >> meteorologist adam joseph joining us. >> kind of clouds to the east, stars to the west, it is a 50/50 split overnight tonight but overall it is quiet. >> not bad. >> as we look at the action cam which is down in center city at the new dilworth plaza you can see the the the water

feature there that the kids have fun with during the summer but during the winter months i'm told it will be an ice skating rink so a the lot of fun to be had down there near city hall. looking at accu weather live line up we will look at double scan live radar those temperatures and satellite and radar, and we will also show that there is a system just to the north and east. as we look at double scan right now not much going on trying to show a little green near lancaster but no showers coming out of the sky, at the present time. sixty-one in quakertown. sixty-three warrington. where we have lack of clouds temperatures dropped back in the 50's around kenneth square, fleetwood, slatington and tannersville. heading to the south and east, cooler numbers, ewing and browns mills at 63. sixty-one in vineland. dover right now coming in at 60 degrees. pretty uniform overall with the separation of only 4 degrees. as we look at satellite and radar rain to in southern new england. system is not moving. it is a very slow moving if

not stalled low just to our east and then again some clouds are pin wheeling on the western fringes on that low in the state of new jersey, and that is the case, tomorrow, we will have some clouds in the morning especially east of philadelphia, and giving way to some sunshine as that low begins to pull away, seasonal temperatures at 74. southerly win takes over on friday, partly sunny and eventually rain will push in with this front friday night. mainly during first half of saturday. beyond the rain on saturday morning in the early afternoon hours the chill will really set in as we have a trough, big low pressure coming and giving us a brief blast of fall for second half of the weekend but because the pattern is so progressive it moves in, it moves out and temperatures jump back to normal here the first of next week. allentown's forecast in the lehigh valley partly sunny after patchy morning fog up 37 degrees. at the shore tomorrow just a little bit cooler because of the win coming from the north at 12 to 20 miles an hour and your high temperature is at

71. the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast clouds to sun tomorrow, pretty nice day overall at 74. even better come friday, and partly sunny at 75. it is late friday night, into the first half of saturday that it is a wet start to your weekend, maybe half an inch of rain, any sun comes very late on saturday from west to east at 69 degrees and even cooler, despite the sun returning on sunday in full force but with the strong wind out of the northwest. only 64. and then monday into tuesday a lot of cloud, some sun, a couple showers possible but not a wash out around 70 to 72. and dryer on wednesday and very comfortable, also at 72 degrees. >> all right, decent numbers. >> thank you. philadelphia's mayor michael nutter kick off a new festival that will take place right through the the in of october, it is called cia o philadelphia celebration of italian and italian american culture. month long celebration will feature 30 events all throughout philadelphia, first

event took place tonight, opera philadelphia presented the barber of sayville. girl who disappeared 12 years ago has been found alive. tonight the wife of a california marries waiting to find out if she will be facing charges. she admits to shooting and killing her husband during a fight. more disturbing details about emerging about jesse matthews past, man suspect in the disappearance office missing uv a student. theredelaware just like us. fire companies in the state of something went wrong with the new health care law that threatened to shut us all down, and then chris coons got involved. chris did one heck of a job. he got senators in both parties to see that there was a problem. they fixed it, so now volunteer fire companies can stay in service. most guys in washington just want to argue. but our chris coons got results. i'm chris coons and i approve this message. it's not easy to get things done in washington, but i'm working hard to find common ground.

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tonight we are learning more disturbing facts about jesse matthew the man suspect in the disappearance of uv a student hanna graham. police has said he has been licked to morgan harring tan who disappeared in 2009, and 2005 rape outside washington d.c. matthews left his first college amid rape allegations but tonight we are learning he was investigated for an alleged sexual assault at the second college he attended. tomorrow he will be in court to face reckless driving charges, and he racked up speed ago way from police. police in california, say a mayor was shot to death by his wife. tonight authorities are deciding whether or not she will face charges. forty-five year-old danielle

crisp o was gunned down in his home outside l.a. yesterday. according to authorities the couple was arguing over money when their 19 year-old son intervened. there was a struggle between the two and police say that is when his wife got a gun and shot her husband, several times. she was questioned, and has been released. a young girl in missing since 2002 has been found alive, in mexico. sabrina allen is now 17, she was brought back to the u.s. with her mother who is accused of abducting her during an unsupervised visit. investigators say she didn't go to school and rarely left the small apartment where they lived. allen's dad says he never gave up hope, that she would be found. birthday wishes to former president jimmy carter, today, he turned 90. carter is our 39th president, he what's electric in 1976. since the end of his term he had has work for peace, civil rights around the world.

in 2002 carter was awarded the noble peace prize for his humanitarian work. another birthday here nasa is turning 56 today. it began operations october 1st, 1958 under president eisenhower, and since its creation, nasa has landed 12 astronauts on the moon and four rovers, on mars. a teenager ditches school and her mom not too pleased about that, the confrontation between the the 22nd that has now gone viral. plus your eyes are not playing tricks on you, that sign really says $2.99 a gallon, we will show you gas station where people are taking advantage of that. don't forget to wake up with the "action news" team get morning's top news headlines weather and traffic get morning's top news headlines weather and traffic at 4:30 a.m. only

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great. >> reporter: that is reaction of drivers pulling up to this sunoco on route 130 in burlington where you can fill up with regular cash for $2.99 a gallon if you pay cash. >> i stopped. i saw that $2.99 i said that makes a difference. >> i moved to philadelphia and it is 3.60. i dropped my son off earlier and said it is 2.99 i am getting it before it goes home. >> thirty or 40 cents a gallon cheaper over here. big difference. the it makes a difference in your wallet. >> reporter: around route 130 in burlington there are several stations pumping for 29 9a gallon but you can find that price elsewhere too. triple a says lower prices are the result of the combination of factors. >> we've got the switch over to winter blend fools, we have crude oil prices falling and that results to gas prices at lows we have not seen in several years. >> reporter: whatever the reason the the idea of buying gas for under $3 a gallon makes drivers feel like they are getting a bargain. been a long time since gas was this low. >> i'm not like my fat her who

will drive 20 miles to go save 3 cents on gas but do i shop. >> always talk about how things are going up, it is nice to see things are going down some giving us a break. >> that will work for me. >> reporter: kerry thomas says cheaper fuel prices means more profit for him because he can save on gassing up his equipment. >> i have two tanks on this truck, plus the fuel for machines. >> reporter: owner of the sunoco says business has jumped since that sign went up several days ago. >> everybody is happy for low prices. it is good for the economy too. >> reporter: in burlington i'm nora muchanic for "action news" at ten on phl17. clear objection is disclose something secrets, it is going to list all of the fragrance allergens in each of products. companies have traditionally protect that information, considering it is a trade secret but clear objection hopes that the trains parentcy will keep customers loyal. 11 percent of the consumers had has sensitivity to

fragrance allergens. time once again for sports tonight and weaver talking shady mccoy. >> jeff skversky has more on that at the big board. >> he is frustrated and rightfully so. eagles running back lesean mccoy averaging 2.7 yards per carry the worst mark of his career but he is not blaming the offensive line, he is putting it on himself. maybe new cleats will get mccoy going. shady sporting new pink spikes in honor of breast cancer awareness movement he plans to wear them sunday in st. louis. he is coming off the worst game ever as a starter. look at these numbers compared to this time yesterday, only 192 on the ground, less than half of the amount he had last year when he went on to win the rushing title. >> i'm still confident in my game. i mean i know who i am, the teams that we play they know what type of player i am. that doesn't bother me. i can answer why we can't get the running game going. i will not fight that battle.

it is what it is. hopefully it changes. i still prepare the same way. >> jeremy maclin returns to practice after sitting out yesterday, obsession how about center jason kelce. he remains out as he works his way back from hernia surgery. it has been painful to miss this time. he have is expect to be out two months. he is hoping to be back for that monday night game against carolina november 10th. >> would i like to be back, and you don't want to be back when you good are enough to be helping the team, and there is no risk of reinjury or anything like that. there aren't many guys on sunday that are playing on hundred percent. the that is the nature of the game. we will see, we're just going to see as soon as it is safe and i'm ready to come back and help the team out i will get out there. >> darren sproles is first place in nfl history to win both offensive and special teams player of the week in the first month of the season. the that is right, sproles honored this week for that

82-yard punt return in san francisco, sproles already has 200 punt return yard, that is more than the eagles had all of last year. phillies pitcher cliff lee can begin throwing, next month, mri on his ailing elbow checks out okay. by the way center fielder ben reveer had surgery to remove two screws in his right ankle. and carlos ruiz went under the knife too, he had minor arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulders. he had fewest rbi's since 2008, lee, reveer and ruiz are expect to be ready by spring training. no post season baseball in philadelphia but on the other side of the state pittsburgh playing that one game playoff tonight for the wild card, up for grabs against hunter pence and san francisco. the right the now the giants with the big seven to nothing lead, in the the eighth. nerlens noel and sixers back at stockton college for training camp. joe he will embiid restrict to a chair as he recovers from his foot injury. kj mcdaniels join the team

after a contract dispute kept him out of camp yesterday. thirty-second pick in june's nba draft is now on board, only on a one year deal. >> they asked me bit. we go over it. it took a long time to get it taken care of. we came to an agreement. i hope to be here longer. i'm just looking forward to everything. >> this is a very, very, young roster. these kids should get playing time. >> a lot of upside. >> oh, yeah. >> a wyoming mom was sick and tired of her daughter ditching class so she decided to visit her at school. the the video has gone viral. >> we're going to hold hand but we will get to class and sit together, isn't that great. mommy and daughter, yeah, we're going to class together. >> oh, boy. >> jeanin is sending a bold message in room for ditching

in her house. she said last minute she decided to visit her daughter, confront her and record the whole thing as if showing up in school and embarrassing her daughter she then posted it on facebook and yes, it has been viewed nearly 30,000 times, ricky says her mommies crazy but. >> it just goes to show my mom cares. my friend ruby she is there and she said that she wish her mom would have dop that for her. >> here's the good news since video was posted on line, she has not cut class a single time and her attitude has gotten better. she did not mind mom hanging gotten better. she did not mind mom hanging out with her at school

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throughout the day 64 degrees at 10:00 o'clock and jumping above normal to 74 in the afternoon as we see more in the way of sunshine. thanks adam. thank you for joining us for "action news" at ten modern family is next followed by friend. >> for shirleen allicot, adam joseph and ducis rodgers and jeff skversky i'm brian taff. we hope to see you back here tomorrow night.

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