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Celebrations in send city. The taney dragons have done it. Theyre making history and heading to the Little League world series. Wahoo well, good evening everybody. Im joyce evans. Im karen hepp with huge crowd cheering them on the dragons beat a team from newark, delaware torque night. Chris oconnell live in center city. Its really exciting, chris. Reporter yeah, it is, guys. Really philadelphia may have its biggest sports story of the year. No, we aint talking about the phillies. The taney dragons who were talking about. Punching their ticket to the Little League world series. This is a scrappy group of kids coming from various backgrounds. Well torque night they are one team making history. Nail biting Nervous Energy as friends, family and former players packed center tee milk boy bar to watch philly sports history. Seems like a team of destiny right now. Reporter history is what was made with a game ending double play. The taney dragons well and under Baseball Team from center city is going to the Little League world series. They beat the team from delaware eight to nothing. First for a team from philly, and for this team, improbable. Its only been two years weve had Little League team. This is new to us. Putting this together in this short a period of time is astonishing. If you dont know her name yet, you will. Monet davis the toughest nails pitcher with a scorching 70 miles an hour fast ball. Shell only be the 17th female to play in a Little League world series. She symbolizes the makeup of this scrappy team with kids from rittenhouse to grays ferry. So great to see kids from philadelphia from the city all walks of life black, white, asian, male, female, just really come together and play as one and really represent the city so well. Now the real work begins. The team who doesnt even have a home field will play next weekend on an International Stage and have an entire city routeing them on. Like group of kids like dance together like they all love to playing baseball. Theyre having a great time right now. Its phenomenal. Reporter and groups of fans already making arrangements to get to williamsport. The team leaves from connecticut right to william port tomorrow morning. Opening round game friday afternoon. Guys, back to you. Thanks, chris. Great story. Also high drama for people on that maryland roller coaster today. 24 of them had to be rescued because the ride got stuck at the six flags american upper marlboro. Fire Officials Say it took about five hours to rescue the people from the jokers jigs roller coaster. The ride suddenly stopped the about 2 30 this afternoon. Police say some people had a couple back cramps and some pain but oh overall no major injuries. Its still not clear what caused that ride to stop. To developing story an arrest in the murder of a woman found dead in pennypack park. Police say her husband admitted to strangling his wife. 48 year old Christopher Murray is behind bars tonight. Police say murray confessed after he failed a lie detector test. He was charged with murder this morning. Fox 29s drew dickman has the full story. Im in shock. I mean, you know, i was just over there telling him how sorry i was about everything and to found out that it was him is a big shock. Neighbors say they were saddened to learn 48 year old Christopher Murray was charged with the murder of his wife connie. Then when we watched them take the car last night, after i had a gut feeling im like why are they taking his car. Reporter investigators say Surveillance Video showed a brief conversation at christopher silver tear as as connie went for a walk monday night. Argument paired with on going relationship problems set him off later that night leading him to strangle her. A passenger by walking his dog discover the lifeless body on the edge aft park near the chris penn Gardens Rec Center much police told us earlier this week he filed a missing persons report and went looking for this wife with one of his daughter. There were certain parts of his story that just didnt add up. Didnt seem his story about his wife was missing but contacted nobody. No friends. No family. To find out if she was with them. Immediately went to hospitals and went to the Police Station it seemed almost a show. Reporter the couple has two girls ages 15 and 12. Now one of their parents is dead. And another could spend the rest of his live behind bars. I cant imagine, yeah, the hurt theyre feeling. Its unbelievable really. Reporter drew dickman, fox 29 news. And Connie Murray will be buried tomorrow. Well, theres a woman who on boardwalk in ocean county she got stuck in the boardwalk. This is a woman from pennsylvania trapped for more than an hour. Her leg got pinned right near the pier at berkeley Island County park. Authorities say the 30 year old womans leg was stuck up to heroinism. There was a kneeed her league. Her leg started to swell made it for difficult to get her leg out. She was taken to the hospital much shes on the mend. Officials are not sure how she got trapped. Philadelphia police are investigating a double murder in south philadelphia. Cops say two people were shot inside a home on the 2400 block of hutchinson street. No word on their identities. It happened around 9 30 this morning. Police say witnesses saw two men running from the home right after the shooting. So far no arrests have been ma made. And four people are recovering after shooting in the feltonville section of philadelphia. It happened on the 4800 block of tampa street. Around 11 30 last night. Cops say it started when two people got into an argument one person started shooting and stray bullets went flying all over the place. The victims are expected to be okay. Cops say theyve been talking with two people. Now to the latest on the crisis in the mideast. Theres another cease fire in effect in gaza. Both israel and hamas have agreed to another egyptian brokered cease fire. Nearly 2,000 palestinians and about 500 of them are children. Have been killed in this latest fighting between israel and hamas. Thousands of children are among the injured. Hamas broke an original three day cease fire on friday night firing rockets into israel hours before the truce was to expire forcing israel to ban don the negotiations in coor row. Hamas says it does want to resume the talks. And the u. S. Launched yet another day of air strikes in iraq. Attacks by u. S. Fighter jets and drones destroyed three armed vehicles belonging to the islamic state. President obama ordered these strikes to protect u. S. Personnel and religious minori minorities facing possible genocide in the northern part of that country. Todays strikes followed four that took place yesterday. Also military helicopters dropping off aid to tens of thousands of people who could use it. Occurreds specifically that have been cut off by is forces. Stream mists captured hundreds of curdish women and thousands of civilians are running in fear. Militants consider Shiite Muslims as defectors and theyre demanding christians convert to islam or pay a special tax. Missionaries working with patients infected with ebola in liberia are about to return to the United States and theyll be put into warranty and monitored. Health Officials Say the warranty will last about three weeks. The missionaries are with a group based in north carolina. Theyll arrive at Charlotte Airport away from the public but officials are not saying exactly when theyll be coming back to the United States. A nigerian man being tested for ebola in hong kong. He entered china on thursday and was immediately sent to the hospital. Officials say he was vomiting. The 31 year old man is being warn teed at Princess Margaret hospital. And a Beautiful Day at a new Jersey Farmers mark turned tragic a pickup truck plows into a crowd sending vendors and shoppers running for cover. Witnesses described the scene. Thats coming up next. Plus, the crash that leaves the racing world reeling. The accident on the sprint car track that take a drivers life and forces a nascar champ out of todays race. Whats next for stoney stuart. A 10 Year Old Girl attacked by a shark in sal low witnesses. Witnesses describe the terrifying scene that they watched unfold on a florida beach. Thats coming up. Caitlin. The difference between a beautiful unbearable summer weekend is the humidity. Thankfully this weekend we were on the Positive Side of that. The return of rain is coming and ill well have your first look at the monday forecast coming up next in your wake up weather. Come have fun at sesame place with everyones favorite furry friends. Enjoy rides where you can splash. And whirl. And, play in the allnew cookies monster land. With 5 exciting rides, a monster clubhouse and more buy your 2015 season pass and get the rest of this year free. Meet me at sesame place welcome back. Group of people attacked a driver in lakewood new Jersey Police say after he struck and killed a woman in front of her horrified brother. This all happened last evening along wrought 88. 41 year old martin was crossing the street when a 26 year old man driving an suv slammed into her. Investigators say the womans brother saw the whole thing happen. They say then he and some other witnesses attacked the driver so badly he is now in serious condition at a local trauma center. No arrests have been made. 10 year old little girl from florida just got quite the story a tell after a day at the beach. While she was wading in knee deep water a shark bit the little girls leg. It happened near Laurie Wilson park in cocoa beach. Now witnesses say they saw the girl struggling to get out of that water. Seen a girl popping up out of the water limping works people came to carry her, and she couldnt walk. She walk maybe 3 feet and she dropped. Wow medics rushed the girl to the hospital. She had few bites on her right foot but shes expected to be just fine. The beach remained closed for about an hour. Three time nascar champion tony stewart says there are no words to describe his sadness over the crash that killed a young sprint car driver. Stewart pulled out of todays nascar race after last nights accident. It happened during a race in upstate new york. Foxs legal land vittert has details on what happened. Reporter at first stewarts team said he would be racing today and just a couple of hours before race team reversed their decision and now the nascar star is sitting out. The crash occurred on dirt track in upstate new york. This is amateur video of the event which we cannot independently confirm. However, it shows what appears to be stewarts car colliding with a car driven by kevin ward, jr. Wards car spins out. Then ward gets out of his car and starts walking on the track. When stewarts car comes around again for another lap and appears ward tries to confront stewart whose hurdling towards him. Thats when stewarts car collides with ward throw him along the track. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. Its a shock. Traffic officials keep everything safe but accidents do anything. As in any Death Investigation we are going to sit down with diss track attorney and his staff and lee have you when the investigation is complete. People that witnessed it were horrified. They were extremely shocked by what they saw. Reporter the rest of the race was canceled. Nascar issued a statement saying in part our thoughts and prayers go out at the family, friends and fellow competitors as kevin ward, jr. We support tone know stewartss decision to miss todays officials. Stewart cooperated with the investigation last night but so far there have been any final reports issue. The Associated Press reports the investigation so far is not a criminal one. In new york, leland vittert, fox news. Charles keating known or his work television and film died. Representative says he had been fighting cancer he work on daytime traumas like all my charles but it was his role on Carl Hutchins on another world that won him an emmy. He work in the thomas crown affair and bodyguard. He was also in many 98ed for a tony for best actor in the revival of joe are a tons loot. Charles debting 72 years old. One person is dead and even more people are hurt after a truck plows through a crowded new Jersey Farmers mark. Foxs lydia sorano is and she has what happened. Reporter this is a scene here behind me. You can see firefighters have arrived to clean up this horrific scene. That spans about eight blocks. Why eight blocks . Because thats how far the woman was dragged. Beautiful day at the Farmers Market turns into a scene small town of hawthorn, new jersey, wont soon forget. A woman was killed here when this truck came barrel link through. Bailey held did he brand and another person suffered minor injuries. I was talking to her. We were kind of just difference the between beef steak tomatoes and heirloom. She was working at their familiars farm stand when it crashed into her stand around 2 00 sunday afternoon. I had got knocked over by the tables that he had. I remember seeing tomatoes flying up in the air and that was pretty much it. I cant really recall what happened around me. Despite screams from eyewitness the driver dragged the woman a half mile even making two turns before police finally stopped him. I turned around for to look this way and he broke through the barrie barriers andr as i know he kept going. Reporter police have not release the the identity of the driver or the woman who was killed. Sources tell me the driver is a man believed to be in his 50s and was very upset once realized what happened. People we spoke who witnessed the aftermath are still in sho shock. Oh, my god it was tore horrible. It was a horrible scene. Anything that happens like at a horrible scene especially in this close it in fall town. The street will reopen in few hours as for the suspect the driver of the pickup truck right now hes being treated at a local hospital. Its still unclear whether or not he suffered some sort of medical emergency during the accident. High diving competition takes Place Company soave vo for the very first time in 15 years when the country was back at war. The competition has been around for 60 years. Hundreds of people came out to check it out today. Spectators sat along the banks of the river to watch 27 divers compete for the first prize. Each competitor dove from the edge of the bridge the drop is 72 feet. Wow all right. Lets get a check of your fox 29 Weather Authority forecast. Meteorologist caitlin roth is over there. Another beauty today. It really was. Thank you joyce. Great evening. Great weekend we enjoyed lot of sunshine, low humidity, pleasa s temperatures. As good as it gets. Ultimate doppler showing clear skies overhead. Clouds Late Afternoon they have died down. Clouds and showers and thunderstorms stayed well towards our south this week and not a good weekend for the southeast. Many places dealing with flash flooding thanks to the training thunderstorms but not here. We benefited from great weather. It is currently 79 degrees outside here in philadelphia. On a mild night. Yes, thats the super moon behind me this is from our tower cam from fourth and mark studios in old city. You can even see it just on this fuzzy monitor right now beaming into our studios that is the biggest and brightest the moon gets all year long. Weve been talking a lot about that. All night and we got a lot of good pictures coming through on social media. All seeing that big bright moon right now which reached its peak tonight and well start to wane as we get into tomorrow night. But that has caused some high tides along the shore lines. Coastal flood advisory about to expire but it will cause minor flooding per happen in the back bays through tomorrow morning. Right now back to temperatures. 79 here in philadelphia. 73 in pats town. As well as reading. 70 in allentown. 71 in millville. 68 in wildwood and 74 in atlantic city. So still nice into tomorrow. Your wack up Weather Forecast lot of sunshine. Temperatures comfortable 70 degrees in the city. Warm and a lot like today. 87 the High Temperature. Sun and clouds and one last nice day before the rain comes in. Doesnt even look look it will be that humidity tomorrow. End . Monday but end then tracking the return of rain that should arrive by tuesday. Karen and joyce. Thanks, caitlin. Very tense situation tonight near st. Louis. Protesters are demanding answers after wasnt eight year old man is shot by police. What police say that got this angry people upset and they just dope believe it. Thats next. Coming up theres a pill thats next. Coming up theres a pill protec we build spiralmate. And prorail. Were number one in north america. Here at ductmate industries, pennsylvania workers are proud to make toprated parts for ventilation systems. And theyre proving theres a future for manufacturing in pennsylvania. Ive got a plan to rebuild our manufacturing economy. And well do it by connecting companies with Vocational Education to ensure that our workforce is trained for the jobs of today. Im tom wolf. And together, we can build an economy that works for the middleclass. Welcome back everybody. Tour bus crash noose two vehicles before it falls off a 30foot cliff. 44 people are dead. It happened saturday in tibet about 60 miles from its capitol city. 11 people from the bus were hurt. Theres no word on the conditions of the people in the other two vehicles. Officials say the roads are treacherous in that mountainous region but conditions are extremely dangerous now after mudslide or landslide happened in that area earlier this week. So many passionate cries of injustice in the city outside of st. Louis. Theres many in the community that are outraged. They say a Police Officer shot an unmanned teenager. Civil rights organizations for calling for the fbi to investigate the shooting death of michael brown. He assaulted the officer before he was shot on saturday. Hundreds of people have been demonstrating in the streets. Police and witnesses are telling two different stories of what they think happened. As he was trying to choke my friend and he was trying to get away an officer reached out and grabbed his arm to pull him into the today. It is our understanding at this point in the investigation that within the police car there was a struggle over the officers weapon. Police say the officer involved in the shooting is a sixyear veteran of that force and is not been involved in any other incidents like this. He has been put on at stiff leave. Mew details tonight in the horrible death of a Lancaster County teenager who was trapped inside a manure pitt. Police say 15 year old joans in king died when a piece of Farm Equipment he was driving flipped over into the manure pitt and he was strapped in and couldnt escape. It happened yesterday morning at his familys farm on the 300 block of centreville road in lee cock township. Police say it took more than an hour to retrieve kings body. Investigators say they are still trying to figure out exactl exaw that accident happened. The pill thats protecting people from hiv. Its called its changing lives. Who is taking it and where you can get it next. Caitlin . Joyce, another great weekend but we do have changes on the horizon. Clouds and showers increasing as we go through the forecast day by day. Thats in another curl summer air pass making its way towards us. Well have all of that ahead in the seven d spokesperson get a 1,000 turbocharged reward card with a new volkswagen turbo. Why are we so obsessed with turbo . Because we like giving you power, but we also like giving you fuel efficiency. Like the sporty jetta. And the turbocharged passat tdi® clean diesel. Okay. And the iconic beetle. And the powerful tiguan. Okay you cant forget the cc. Guys, this is going to take a while. Avo hurry in and you can get a 1,000 turbocharged reward card when you purchase or lease a new 2014 turbo model. Welcome barks everybody. A few week ago we told you about a huge break through in the fight against hiv aids. Researchers at Temple University coming up with a way to permanently rid human cells of hiv one in a lab setting. The stage has been set for the development of a potential cure for patients with aids. But until that becomes availab available, those want to go avoid the disease are using something else. Our iain page explains. Viral anybody can get it. Reporter thats why miles hunt is taking every precaution. I took the initiative to take the pill to better my life. Reporter and possibly even save it. Miles, 21 years old, and openly gay, is one of a growing number of people taking prep to safeguard themselves against hiv. Taken every day, prep is about nine 9 effective. So thats better than any vaccine we have as far as preventing a disease. Reporter hiv currently affects 1. 1 Million People according to the cdc. Sadly, nearly one in five americans dont even know theyre infected. Hiv has you know is a disease that you have for life since theres no cure preventing hiv is a big deal. Reporter experts say gay and by sexual men remain most at risk for contracting the virus. Even more so africa american and latino communities. Were logging at this particular population men of color in philadelphia mostly from neighborhoods where theres a lot of poverty and violence. Reporter noel ramirez Program Coordinator at Youth Health Empowerment project its one of several programs offered by philadelphia fight which is committed to providing state of the art out Reach Services to People Living with the virus or at risk. Young people under the age of 24 can come to yhep access clothing closet, showers, hot meals and different support groups around different topics that folks find themselves struggling with report roar miles found out about prep why a yhep counselor he decided to take the medication while in high risk relationship. Theyre no different than anybody glimpse miles is glad hes acting to be responsible about all of his Overall Health taking a blue pill once day. Hes not allowed. Prep fda approved is now being offered to everyone. True vada the medication we use for prep was actually available for years in the setting of treating hiv. But since july 2012 its been approved specifically for hiv prevention. Reporter dr. Helen, says prep is covered by most insurance plans and for the uninsured, the pills manufacturer is willing to give it to patients through a patient assist tans program. When i see somebody newly diagnosed with hiv i asked them do you know about prep . Did anybody tell you about prep . Did you know there was a way to prevent this from happening to you . Dr. Company anything says there are side effects but theyre generally mild. Maybe a little headache for the first few days that could last up two to two weeks. I had aqueousing feeling. I got dizzy. Reporter minor inconveniences given what prep can do. People should take this bill because its a precaution. Anybody can get hiv. Hiv is not just something that is in the gay community. Reporter iain page, fox 29 news. Its a break from the grid iron today for a group of varsity football players. Members of the High School Football team serving up breakfast this morning at the Ronald Mcdonald house in center city. The players helped give out food to people bringing a few smiles at the same time. By the way, when the team isnt doing good throughout the city theyre vying to become the first Philadelphia Public School to win the state football title. Now to your fox 29 Weather Authority. Check out the super moon. Gorgeous. Makes you want to howl. It does. Caitlin was talking about this just a few minutes ago. The moon is reaching its closest position to the earth sin the start of this year. Now researchers say it should be the most visible moon siting in all of 2014. Weve gotten a lot of people tweeting us pictures in their neck of woods. Keep those coming. Great photos. We have an awesome view tonight. Clear skies and you can see it everywhere. Were getting great pictures benefiting from that. It is the biggest and brightest it gets all year long. Caitlin, thats a lot of moon. That really was. There it is again. Look how big it is on my graphic i used for the super moon. To recap, we have had a super moon in july, this is a super moon in august. Theres one in september but this is the most super of all the super moon. The biggest one it appears 47 larger and 30 brighter as it is the closest to earth on axis tonight also the persied meteor showers going on tonight through the 13th but the thing about the meteor showers tough to see no matter here in the city even tougher because actually the glare of the super moon out shines any of those shooting stars so if you do happen to is he some of the meteor showers definitely let us know about it. Send it to us. Thats the super moon at the top of your screen right there outside our fourth and mark studios. 79 degrees is the reading under clear skies much there it is shining down on us. Also as a result of the super moon Coastal Flood Advisory in effect for our new jersey counties facing the atlantic as well as delaware into the raritan and delaware bays this is all astronomical related but it is the effect of the high tide which earlier occurred this evening could cause minor flood wrack it usually does along the back bays and typical spots down the shore where you see it. Anything should be minor and that advisory goes until 2 00 a. M. Tonight. Clear skies overhead. Clouds and showers till churning about the southeast. Storm system was suppressed to the south of us didnt not spin up any moisture and kept us from having anything to spoil the weekend a lot of sunshine, low humidity and it was warm. But comfortably so. 88 degrees here was the High Temperature in philadelphia. The normal 86. The record high for today 98 degrees set back in 2001. And we have not hit that i dont think at least yet this year. Weve had some 90degree days, 14 of them in fact but thats pretty low for the philadelphia area for this summer. Right now 70 in lee height ton. 67 in mount pocono. 68 in bethlehem. 70 in allentown. Mild here in the city. 79 in philadelphia. 77 in bensalem. 73 in doylestown and 72 in chester. Down in south jersey still a nice arent and warm 76 in ocean city. Someone in millville and 74 in atlantic city. Clear skies tonight. Start off with sunshine tomorrow and monday still look really nice. Some clouds may roll in late in the day thats out ahead of our next system which will bring clouds and eventually some showers arrival time looks to be somewhere late morning to mid afternoon tuesday. It will be on and off and then looks like a second round could bring heavy rain tuesday night into wednesday morning. So ill say basically 24 hour period from tuesday into wednesday well have on and off rain some thunderstorms and that rain could be heavy at time. But weve had nice stretch without the rain so well get it tuesday into wednesday. 68 in the city tonight. 59 in the suburbs. 87 that High Temperature tomorrow. One last nice day. Sunshine and clouds then the seven day forecast reflecting that change with the rain and the thunderstorms moving in at times on tuesday. That will keep temperatures in the 70s. We start off with heavy rain wednesday but i think we clear out by late in the day. 80 degrees. And then cooler. 77 there on thursday. But were already shaping up to see beautiful weekend next weekend. Well do it again next saturday and sunday. Thanks, caitlin. That will do it tonight on the fox 29 news at 10 00. Dont go anywhere because howard eskin has sports sunday. Tonight on sports sunday the eagles held a practice at the place where the team won their last championship and that history was cool to the players and the head coach. And joining us here in the studio will be former eagles dee finance seive back Quinton Mikell on his perspective of the

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