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>> todd: fuel on the fire. love you, sean. the only reason i bring that up. connor said nothing about the nfl. but so many people after the first few weeks and how he played, talking about him as a first rounder and he's going to be ready after this year. it's not the case. he can be a very good player at the next level if he comes back and continues to improve his additi decision-make and the footwork that we talked a lot about tonight. >> chris: i love the fact that michigan state, their job to stop michigan state. >> sean: langford. he's going to get to the goal line and in the end zone. and the crowd that remains goes crazy. yep. i was just going to say that mark dantonio says it's
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personal. there was clear lay statement behind that last touchdown. >> chris: it's not his job to stop michigan state. it's michigan's job to stop michigan state. you can add anything you want to it. but he's sending a message to his team. and that's his penalty. and he grabs on to that personality. >> sean: the extra point good by michael geiger. and the skirmish after the extra poi point. and now flags are being thrown. i don't think anything serious. just some pushing and shoving. >> chris: makes for an interesting handshake after the game. >> sean: michigan state did not throw a pass on that drive. >> referee: after the play was over, unsportsman like conduct. michigan, number 99. the penalty will be enforced on the kickoff. >> sean: matthew godin, backup defensive tackle. seven plays on that touchdown
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drive. all of them rushes by jeremy langford. he's up to 35 carries, a career-high. and he is also involved in today's good hands play brought to you by allstate. >> chris: right there. the stiff arm, vision.explosive. and what makes him stand up, a lot of other players, above them, the running back position in college football, his ability to break tackles and make people miss. take a two-yard gain and turn it into an eight-yard gain. >> sean: there was a 24-point margin. >> chris: do you think he'll smile? soil not yet. this year, 29-3.
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29-6 was the most lopsided win since 1967. this one's going to be one-point worse unless michigan scores again. and out of the back of the end zone to kevin cronin. well, michigan state, with the advantage of a favorable schedule here. they have a week off before they host ohio state. this place will be crazy on november 8th on abc. prime time game. who do you like in that one? >> chris: the edge to michigan state. a tremendous crowd, great fan base. and they will add to the energy and help michigan state compete against ohio state. offensively, both balanced, both very solid on defense. it's going to be a great game. and a big ten matchup that will be, in my opinion, just wonderful to watch. i wish we could do that game. >> sean: maybe we can. we have a lot of juice in the company. >> chris: okay. >> sean: see what you can do.
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drake johnson, the running back. r.j. williamson, the tackle. and on the michigan side, chris, many believe that brady hoke's future really is no longer in doubt. that it's a foregone conclusion that this will be his last season. a lot of the speculation was that if he won tonight, have a chance to survive. needed a win today. they are not going to win. and it's not a good football team right now. they're 4-10 in the last 14 games. >> chris: he's a good man. he's a good football coach. the problem is he understands that the bottom line business. you're at michigan, you have to win. and they're not winning. it's that simple. >> sean: he won in remarkable fashion at ball state and san diego state. but it's not happening at the school he loves so much. michigan drops to 3-5 overall.
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three of the last four, needed that just to become bowl eligible. and they still have a game with ohio state on their schedule. here's todd with mark dantonio. the winner in this rivalry for the sixth time in the last seven years. >> todd: coach, obviously this is a team win. jeremy langford, 35 carries, 177 yards, how about his performance? >> big run at the end, obviously. but able to run the ball as the game went on. that's part of it for us. >> todd: now won six of seven against michigan. how big is this win for this program? >> big win. obviously huge win for us. you can't understate it for us. very proud of our football team in terms of how hard we played. >> todd: how are you feeling, coach? >> good. i feel real good. >> sean: that qualifies as a smile from coach dantonio.
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they get the paul bunyon trophy. a tradition that dates back to 1953. the statue of paul bun i don't know, state of michigan, under his feet. and, again, the team with the rushing edge wins again for the 42nd time in the last 45 years. 35-11, the final score. sparty victorious. tune into abc tonight. more great action. ohio state, in state college to take on penn state. f for chris, todd, and the crew, sean mcdonough. so long from east lansing.
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saturday night, former sixers president pat croce auctions off his main line mansion but the selling price was way below the asking.
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plus fire investigators searched for the the cause of a fire that forced more than a dozen people from their home. but the the big story on "action news" is a brutal attack against a man in queen village. it happened earlier this morning and now hunt is on foreman and woman who did it. a "action news" reporter chad pradelli is live at the scene with the very latest, chad? >> reporter: walter, philadelphia police tell me the victim was beaten right here on carpenter and tried to run off on to second street here and he was shot. now he is in the hospital and, according to neighbors, the attackers may be a couple of vigilantes. philadelphia police say the shooting victim was confronted by a maryland will aged woman and man at second and carpenter. they yelled at the victim you know what you did. then the woman began striking the victim in the hupper body with a baseball bat. second later as victim tried to run off the male suspect fired two shots, hitting the victim once in the leg. >> i heard two bangs and i thought it would have gone because it didn't sound like
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anything that i know of, you know. >> reporter: did you come outside. >> no, no. >> my wife and i were sleeping. about 2:30 to 2:45 in the morning and we heard two shots and we heard just a scream and he was in agony. >> reporter: residents of the trendy queen village neighborhood don't know what to make of the attack. >> it is worrisome, and i don't think anybody knows what to do about it. >> reporter: one home owner who does not want to be identified said the entire attack was caught on video. police retrieved it as evidence. residents say there has been a string of car break ins recently and investigators told them that the shooting may have been connected. >> i came out this morning about 6:15 and i spoke to an inspector and he told me that there was somebody that was breaking into the cars and this person was believed to be one of those people. >> reporter: police have not
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yet confirmed that this attack is connect to those car break ins, that victim remains at thomas jefferson hospital. i'm live from queen village, chad pradelli for channel six a "action news". >> thanks, chad. twenty people were left homeless this afternoon after their apartment building caught fire. it happened on the 3800 block of north 15th street, in the city's tioga nicetown section. when fire fight's arrived smoke was billowing from second and third floor windows. it took fire fighters to minutes to bring this one under control. nobody was injured. investigators are still working to figure out how it startedded. a health care worker who treated ebola patientness west after rick case quarantined at a hospital in new jersey even though she tested negative for the virus. it is a function of new protocols in several states for travelers who had contact with anybody infected with ebola. meantime an american journalist who is recovered from ebola said he felt like his body was at war. he says that being diagnosed with the virus made him understand the terror and isolation, so many west
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africans are experiencing. grief and continuing search for answers lingers in washington state after a popular high school freshman shot five classmates before turning the gun on himself. today of those students are in critical condition, but gunshot wounds to the head. jaylee fryberg was a football player and home coming prince at his school. friend say he had been involved in a fight over a girl. two of the fryberg's victim were related to him. the close family is devastated. >> we're all going to pray together because we're all one big family at home. that was there. that was sitting around the table. one big fryberg fallly that is one that got shot. >> meantime officials say that a first year teacher intervene in the attack, essentially subduing fryberg, possibly as he tried to reload. she's now being hailed as a hero. anti violence fair was held in the cities logan section in honor of the promising high school student from philadelphia who lost her life during a senseless shooting last month. fifteen year-old iisha abdul
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rockman died after a stray bullet hit her in the back as she walk home from delaware county charter school. student took part in games and were given a place to feel safe. >> it creates a safe place for people, supportive environment, positive peer group. they know they can go, hang out and do good work in the community but also have people that will support them when they are going through tough times. >> there were several organizations, represented here, one is dedicated to teaching kids alternative ways of dealing with conflict. many of the young people here agreed to sign a peace pledge, vowing to help stop the violence. the ride chairing service uber is expanding in philadelphia despite a threat from the parking authority. last night uber began offering rides to the low cost option known as uber x far cheaper then original black car service but parking authority considering uber x a quote illegal taxi operation. in fact, p pa is threatening
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to i am pound uber x vehicle and levee $1,000 fines against the drivers. they launched the cheaper service here after the largest taxi insurance inner a pennsylvania went bankrupt. coming up on "action news" former sixers owner pat croce sells his mansion far below the original asking price. we will tell you how much it went for, melissa. a mild stretch to our weekend with high today in philadelphia climbing up to 70 degrees. we are tracking wind of change however for second half of the weekend. those details coming up with the a accu weather forecast. plus jeff skversky has sports when "action news" comes right back.
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and pushing equal pay for equal work. donald norcross. a congressman for us. house majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. preparing for the worst, that is what they were doing today at philadelphia international airport,
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emergency responders conduct a drill to make sure that the airport and people that work there are ready if disaster strikes. "action news" reporter annie mccormack was there. >> reporter: more than 150 emergency personnel joined philadelphia e ms and fire fighters based at international airport in a training drill meant for the worst type of situation. >> we are considered an alert three, which is highest level for the airport. >> we are simulating our scenario in an aircraft was departing one of our runways and had to reject the take off and ended upcoming down, and having an accident, and needing us and in this location. >> reporter: two area hospital helicopters joined the drill, bodies strewn around the tarmac are volunteers acting as patient was a variety of injuries. they are made to look as close to a deeply injured victim as possible. >> it is very important to simulate as much real cyst many as we can to help the emergency responders, e ms coming in. >> we use the term it is just a drill but for them it is an
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actual incident. >> reporter: why is this happening now? every three years federal government mandates that commercial airport like the philadelphia international must perform full scale exercises like this one. evaluators on the scene will give feeds back in several weeks to see what changes need to be made. organizers say current health concerns are also taken into consideration. >> they are taken precautions that they would do on any incident whether it be ebola or anything. they have victims there they are doing what they need to do to triage and transport those victims in south philadelphia. >> reporter: in south philadelphia, annie mccormack action a news. main line mansion belong to go former sixers president pat croce was auctioned off today and went for a bit more than two million-dollar. "action news" took you inside the home earlier this month. we're told there were eight bids for six bedroom, eight bathroom mansion right there in villanova. originally home was listed for 6.25 million-dollar. no word tonight who bought .
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♪ >> oh, yeah, the beat was booming today, at the outlet store in south street, the store hosted the first of its kind zoomba-a-thon. they spent part of their saturday morning getting in great exercise while having fun. time for a check of
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sports. jeff skversky is here and you know, cardinals surprisingly good this year. >> they are very good offensively as well as defensively. eagles defense has their work cut out for them, in the desert tomorrow, receiver larry fitzgerald has burned them time and time again. is there nick foles and the eagles just arriving in arizona tonight where they are preparing for tomorrow's 4:00 o'clock game with the cardinals. this d who shut out giants in the last game has to find a way to now shut down the cardinals explosive offense. >> it is a really good arizona team. it is a challenge. we are five and one. they are five and one. great game. >> i feel like we're ready to go. we have no excuse. we came to arizona to win. i feel like we will do everything we can to do that. >> we are going up against a good team. that is something we have respect for. they're a good team. we know we had to go in there and execute as players and we want to win this ballgame.
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>> more about this ballgame on eagles game day kick off live from arizona tomorrow morning at 11:30. then we will recap the game on eagles game day final after "action news" at 11:00 sunday night. beaver stadium will be rocking tonight, penn state plays ohio state at the top of the hour, and head coach james franklin not only needs his players to step up but he is counting on the 107,000 fans in white to be the x factor. >> we would love to have a huge home field advantage which i anticipate us having. i do think coming on the road in this type of an environment is going to be difficult and it will be challenging for them so i would love to see how many times our fans can get them to get a delay of game or jump off sides or whatever it may be. >> you can see penn state play ohio state only here on six abc at the top of the hour. temple visiting central florida, what is going on here, is it spring break already? ucf students running in the
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lake in the middle of the campus. central florida running away with this game in the first half. temple trying to turn it around. samuel benjamin blocks the punt, takes it in for the touchdown. temple down 27-14 early third quarter. villanova, in quite the run since losing their first game today hosting morgan state quarterback john robert son accounts for five touchdowns including this in the third. how about the wildcats they run for 364 yards, they win 48-28, they have won seven straight games, delaware and penn lose as well. flyers just underway. >> thanks, jeff. >> time for a final check of the forecast. >> walter, we had a nice day, jeff as well. mild conditions across the delaware and lehigh valley. storm tracker six live double scan radar showing you quiet, no issues with precipitation. high today in philadelphia climb up to 70 degrees. that is 6 degrees above where we normally should be this time of the year. for second half of the weekend we are tracking a cooler change. as we look at the the numbers
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outside this evening in philadelphia 66. poconos 59. trenton, 62 degrees. beach haven 61 along the coast in sea isle city also in the lower 60's. the here's satellite six with action radar it is quiet across mid-atlantic region but we are tracking this area of low pressure moving across canada, taking with it a trailing cold front as we get throughout the day thomas this cold front swings on through, you do not have to worry about any precipitation on the way but with the passage of that frontal boundary for second half of the weekend the winds are definitely going to pick up. high today for our saturday we will climb up to about 70 degrees here in philadelphia. as we get in the day on sunday, we have sunshine a few clouds, high pressure works its way east, and we have depart ago area of low pressure. we have a wind tunnel effect meaning wind tomorrow, up to 30 miles an hour here in philadelphia and with that wind overhead it will be a cooler day with a high temperature of 65 degrees. here's the call from accu weather for rest of tonight.
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it is partly cloudy, quiet night. forty-six in allentown. fifty in wilmington. dropping down to 55 degrees in cape may, 51 in toms river. here's the exclusive seven day forecast wind gusting up to 30 miles an hour by sunday afternoon. high temperature 65. definitely a cooler day by sunday, monday nice mixture of sunshine and clouds and 63 degrees. by tuesday these temperatures jump up fairly quickly up to 75 degrees on tuesday. wednesday we will stay in the 70's with a high temperature of 72. late wednesday into thursday we are tracking a threat of the couple showers, on thursday, it does turn cooler. on friday it is halloween with the high temperature of 61. models have changed from yesterday, definitely have to watch the forecast for trick or treaters, get ready for wind by sunday, walter. >> today was a perfect day for football. >> the team i coach buxmont saints were undefeated clinched the division today.
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that was for free. finally tonight another new addition to the "action news" family. member of the engineering staff is celebrating birth of the baby boy. broadcast engineer rick turner and his wife maggie welcomed their new arrival yesterday, michael bernard turner weighs 7-pound, 3 ounces. we are told his older brother richard is excited to have a brand new best friend. >> so cute. >> all right. eagles game plan is next on channel six, please don't miss "action news" at ten on phl17 tonight. we are back here on six abc at 11:00 o'clock. now for melissa magee, jeff skversky and the "action news" team i'm walter perez. we will see you back here at 11:00 o'clock. >> ♪
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welcome to eagles game plan presented by verizon wireless. bye week in the book. we are ready to kick off 2,042nd half campaign. on today's show we will debate which players need to take the next step in the final ten games of the season. we will also look a head to sunday's big match up in arizona and break down cardinals on both sides of the ball. but first we will take one final look at the week six shut out victory over the giant with head coach chip kelly. don't even think about going anywhere, because eagles game plan starts right now. >> ♪ >> welcome to eagles game plan presented by verizon wireless. i'm rob ellis along with mike quick and ike reese. the