Fox 29 news in hd sponsored by x1 from xfinity changing the way you experience tv. Live from center city in philadelphia, this is fox 29 news at 10 00. Its been 24 hours since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in texas, and even though its been downgrade to do a Tropical Storm, the heavy rains are expected to linger for several days as residents try to keep damage to minimum. Harvey was the first category four hurricane to make landfall in the u. S. Since 2,004, and that is where we begin tonight at 10 00. Good evening everybody. Im joyce evans. Im dawn timmeney. While the strong damaging winds may be dying down the concerns over flooding in the coming days are still front and center. Foxs Lauren Blanchard joining us live now from galveston witness very latest. Lauren . Reporter hi, joyce and dawn. Yeah really windy here galvest galveston. Although harvey has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm, its that flooding that has so many people concerned here in texas. Officials warning theres potential for catastrophic flooding as harvey spins deeper into texas unloading huge amounts of rain. Even triggering more Severe Weather inland. Cell phone video and a pierce to show a tornado forming in cyprus, texas, aerials and siena plantations showing destruction from another tornado. Please do not come back into these affected areas until youve got all clear from your county or city uoc. Thats very important. So much Dangerous Things going on out there. We want to make sure everyone stays safe. Reporter this storm is expected to continue to drop rain on the region for several days with some areas getting up to 50inches. Harvey made landfall late friday crashing into Southeast Texas as category four hurricane. And weakening to category one by saturday morning. Homes and businesses along the coast between Corpus Christi and houston received the brunt of the storm. With damage ranging from downed trees to collapsed buildings. Many spending the night at storm shelters for displaced residents like this one in austin, texas. Meantime emergency crews are beginning rescue efforts as the storm calms down and flood waters rise. The message to those that may need help or rescue make sure you put that signal out there that you are still there and you still need help. Reporter officials remain on high alert and rescue crews are out in full force tonight as we are watching for some of this flooding. Joyce, dawn . Lauren, were hearing reports of some cruise ships that may have been impact in the gulf. What can you tell us about that . Reporter yeah. What we know there are four different cruise ships who are all supposed to head here to galveston, to galveston port. That port was closed down because of the weather. There are now 20,000 people stuck on the sea. Two of those ships are head to do new orleans. Two of the other ships are not going to come to galveston until they get the all clear. Guys i was talking to a couple little bit earlier who were supposed to be getting on to those cruise ships once they made it to port. At this point theyre just stuck here in galveston until further notice. Wow. Lauren, thank you so much for that report. Stay safe out there. A teacher in the Philadelphia School district is in trouble witness law tonight. All stemming from an incident during a protest at that controversial frank rizzo stat statue. Police say the teacher got into a fight with the police and threatened them. Lets get out to fox 29s joanne phil will he gee live outside the rizzo statue in center city. Joanne . Reporter good evening, dawn and joyce, and everyone. Sharon Public Schoolteacher is charged with making terroristic threats and harassment and police say the incident happened right here at a rally ten days ago. Tear it down reporter this is amateur video on facebook of take down the rizzo statue rally in center city ten days ago. I dont walk around lying about cops. Reporter this is phil and Public Schoolteacher john sheeran joining the activists at the rally calling for miss mantle link of 2,000pound statue of former mayor and Police Commissioner frank rizzo. Racist bleep lying bleep. Sheeran lined by uniform police continued his police about some white police officers. The rizzo statue has recently been a target of protests with calls for its removal and a mural of rizzo was defaced in south philly. Some activists say rizzo oppressed the black community while others say he was a champion for the common man. All of this comes on the heels of the violent demonstrations and clashes between White Nationalist and counter protesters in charlottesville. Over plans to take down a statue of robert e lee. We want that racist bleep statue taken down. Reporter last night sheeran was arrested for his part in the mid august rally. And people on social media called him out because he is a schoolteacher in the city. Reaction this evening, mixed. They think that is the case, that Public School teachers are held to a little bit higher standard when theyre outside but at the same time they should be in some ways because theyre immediate roll models for children. Reporter sheeran teaches at this Elementary School in north philly in his neighborhood those who know him called him a standup guy. I just hope a couple minutes on facebook doesnt define the mans life. Ive known john for 25 years. Hes always been a gentleman. Always conducted himself gentleman like manner. Reporter a district spokesperson saying today that sheeran has been removed from his school pending an investigation. District spokesperson also said sheeran has been under investigation again no comment from sheeran. Dawn, joyce, back to you. All right. Joanne, thank you. Now to your fox 29 weather authority. As we take live look over the ben franklin parkway in philadelphia. Nice night out there. Going to be a cool and quiet night already is across our area. Meteorologist monica cryan joining us now with a first check on your forecast. Harmonica. Guys, its been clear all weekend long through friday night into saturday. Doppler radar has been quiet. Now im going to move down south where the big story has been what was Hurricane Harvey category four when it made landfall. Now a Tropical Storm but still going to cause a lot of problems because it just continues look how slow it is to move anywhere. Its pretty much stationary which means its dropping heavy rain in locations that are already starting to see some flooding. Impacts here 91. Even into the waters theres no impact. Weve got temperatures in the 70s. 77 degrees along the delaware beaches for those water temperatures. Very nice. Now we are looking at a moderate rip current as we head into tomorrow. Just be aware of that some of those rip currents may be strong and catch you off guard. Heres a look at your temperatures down the shore. Sea isle 72 degrees. Ocean city also at 72. North wildwood in the upper 60s dont forget about that breeze down the shore may feel a it will chillier. Inland in 66 degrees in camden across the region upper 60s in philadelphia. In wilmington about 66 degrees. Expecting tonight to be comfortable upper 60s nice sleeping temperatures and sunn sunny i didnt mean sunny, guys i meant clear skies, continuing overnight. Tomorrow weve got nice sunshine ill talk about that coming up in a little bit. Back to you. Monica, thanks so much. A psychic and her son are facing charges to night. They are accused of scamming an elderly man in south jersey out of close to 150,000. Police say the victim had already handed over thousands of dollars visiting sally kim wanda at village psychic in galloway township, atlantic county. This is a shot of the woman and her son frank marco. Shes accused of exploiting information gathered by the victim boise unpleasant childhood and charging him big bucks for her advice. She wanted to get rid of eight evil spirits that edwin him. Thats what she charged him for the. The elderly man ultimate agreed to transfer more than 147,000 from his Checking Account to a car business run by the psychics 24yearold son. Both are face of charges to night. Delaware state police need your help finding a man wandered for attempted burglary. Take a look at this surveillance photo. Police say he tried stealing from als Country Store on hickman road in greenwood. He damaged the door while trying to get inside much police say he ended up running away without getting anything. This all happened back in april. Police are just now releasing the photo. If you have any information at all, give police a call. Elsewhere north korea fired three short range missiles on saturday. All of them were successful despite initial reports from the u. S. Military officials suggesting that they had failed. Foxs ellison barber with more. Reporter less than 24 hours after saying north korea launched three missiles but two failed in night us military Officials Say that report is wrong. The u. S. Pacific command says the first and third missiles actually flew about 155 miles in a northeastern direction. Initially u. S. Officials said north korea launched three short range Ballistic Missiles and hawaii time it was the afternoon of august 25th. Pacific command said one missile blew up almost immediately. And the other two failed in flight. The latter description resulting in todays update. The latest u. S. Assessment appears to now match south koreas assessment. Launches are the first since the United NationsSecurity Council unanimously voted on augus august 5th to impose new sanctions on the regime. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson pointed that out when he spoke about north korea on tuesday. We hope that this is the beginning of this signal weve been looking for. That they are ready to restrain their level of tensions. Ready to restrain provocative acts and perhaps we are seeing our pathway to sometime in the near future having some dialog dialogue. So far this year north kor koreas launched 21 missiles. Thats how many they launched in all of 2016. Us military Officials Say the short range missiles most recently launched did not pose a threat to north america or guam guam. In washington, ellison barber, fox news. Major drug bust in georgia. More than a thousand pounds of pot found inside a home. How much money all that wed would be worth on the streets. From his darkest moments a little film maker drew inspiration. How he hopes movie based on his own experiences will help others struggling with suicidal thoughts. Hundreds of dollars on youmy car insurance. Saved me huh. I should take a closer look at geico. dog panting geico has a 97 Customer Satisfaction rating and fast and friendly claims service. Speaking of service . Oooo, just out. It was in. Out. In out. In what about now . That was our only shuttlecock. Take a closer look at geico. Great savings. And a whole lot more. Many questions still linger about what pennsylvania lawmakers will do about a 2. 2 billion hole in the state budget. House gop leaders have been quiet ever since the Senate Passed a 32 billion budget package july 1st 1 republican congressman says theyre waiting to see if the rank and file members produce a solution. Meanwhile Governor Tom Wolf may need to start freezing cash for state programs in september. Award winning film with a tough subject. The animated movie taking on depression and suicide. The director and animator says the movie comes from his own personal struggles. As fox 29 photojournalist bill rohrer reports, he now hopes his movie will help inspire others dealing with the same demons. Art means the ability to communicate to someone. Reporter they say art often imitates for nick ladon em mates a 24 frames her second. I think for this it was generic character design. The person inside is me. Reporter as a kid nick loved to draw. New early on in life, he was going to be an animator. I just imitated and drew and drew and drew and this is where i got. Probably about an eight ath of the animation drawings. Reporter eventually making his own short animated film. 6,000 sheets of paper. Each with its own story. The drawing really reflects the grittiness of the situation. Reporter deep reminder of his past l draw from your personal experience experiencesy you know you can make art. I feel like its true and hone honest. Reporter this film is called hanging hand drawn look inside his mind during his darkest moment. After years of being bullied, nick decided to take his own live. This was without a doubt the hardest scene i had to animate. This idea this menacing fog kind of drawing the character in. Reporter representing a mental tug of war between depression and his mothers lo love. Especially in that moment i was thinking about, um, my mom, and i had a memory, um, of my mom seeing me sinking me to sleep as a kid. What really pushed me through was just the guilt of losing my mom. It wasnt so much about me. It was about her that point report roar the thought of not ever seeing his mother again pulled nick out of the darkness. This film ends with two words. Hang on. It was just something that perfect. Hang on past those two hours or whatever that situation is, you can move forward and make your life better. Reporter he made this film during his junior year in college. It would be like your math homework kind of Getting International attention like it usually does not happen and all of a sudden, you know, its being played in beijing and saving someones life. Reporter after nick completed his film and immedia immediately caught on at various film festivals winning numerous awards. With his mother right by his side. I give great get great response. People are moved. A lot of people come up to me afterwards and say i had past issues with suicidal thoughts and your film touched me. Reporter nick hopes the film will help others struggling with depression. It doesnt necessarily stop. Its not this perfect, um, wonderful life, but, you know, youll have your ups and your downs and as long as you expect them and you can handle them, youll get through. Reporter live for nick now is looking up. His film hanging will be screened at Mental Health conferences this fall. He also touching character design and story boarding at Rutgers University camden. Im just blessed honestly. Reporter sharing his love of art to a new generation of animators. In camden, bill rohrer fox 29 news. A major drug bust over a Million Dollars worth of marijuana found stashed inside an atlanta home. Investigators say Drug Task Force got a tip to search the home. With help from the feds, the dea raided the home and seize the the drugs. Was found in giant blocks stuffed into a closet and another room. Take a look at that. The total weight of the weed was well over thousand pounds. Police believe the home was a stash house and that the dealers were working on moving it somewhere else. The new jersey lottery is growing again. Theyre bringing back a familiar game of chance. Its a keen know style game called quick draw dropped by the state lottery officials two years ago as part of an agreement to lower the required amount of revenue to be brought in by the lottery. Now, quick draw is coming back and its expected to bring in up to 20 million over the next year. That lottery game is featured mostly at bars and restaurants. In memphis, tennessee a Movie Theater has decided to pull showing of the 1939 classic film gone witness wind. The decision is based on feedback from the community they say. People running the theater feel the movie which is about a plantation and the civil war in the deep south could be incentive to large segment of the city. The historic theater has shown the movie for decades but administrators there say this years event generated numerous comments. The department of Homeland Security is looking to new technology to help better do its job. Small drones like this are expected to play an increasing role. Camp shelby in mississippi will serve as testing ground to evaluate different types of drones. Operators at that military post are using a simulated village to so many for actors and vehicles posing as targets. Officials say these drones will help with a number of operatio operations. Border security is a big part of what the drones are going to play the role they play. Search and rescue also another big area where they play play a role and also disaster recovery. The idea of government drones flying overhead raises privacy issues for some americans. Dhs is working on 45 see and civil liberties. Rampaging mobs left 30 people dead and more than 250 others injured in northern ind india. Comes after a court declared a quasi religion sect leader guilty of raping two of his followers. Mobs set fire to government buildings and attacked police and tv journalists in that town. Smashing the windshield of news vans and breaking broadcast equipment. More than a thousand of the leaders supporters were detained on charges of arson and destruction of public property. Controversy over School Calendar. Why parents in new york say what the school did to holidays was Political Correctness gone way too far. Are you good at guessing games . Well, if you think your skills are on point, it could earn you free pizza for life. Yup. Controversy tonight over a School Calendar in long island, new york. Some Community Members are offensed by a decision of the levittown School District to leave out all references to holidays instead of indicating, say, christmas, veterans day or mlk day. The calendar just marks it no school. The superintendent said the decision was based on the fact that the schools are closed on some holidays and open on othe others. In response to strong criticism administrators say theyre reprinting the kyle calendars with all of those holidays listed. Police in louisiana are looking for a woman who made a boozy heist from shreveport liquor store and the brazen thief was caught on camera. It happened last friday. You know see in Surveillance Video as the woman grabs bottles off the shelf and just stashes them. Well, anywhere she had has room for them. [ laughter ] unfortunately for her the camera got a Crystal Clear view of the entire five tipping discount. Police are offering a 300 reward for anyone with information to help find this woman. Thats just nasty. Good a warning tonight for residents in delaware. Its a scam. Why Officials Say be cautious if you receive a call offering help with your unclaimed money. Finding a job for people with a criminal record can be a really daunting task. How a local entrepreneur is committed to helping them turn their lives around. Monica . With all eyes still on what is now Tropical Storm harvey here things are quite different. Weve got lots of sunshine in store for us as we head into our sunday. Make sure to stick around. Ive got a look at your full forecast coming up. If youd have told me three years ago. That wed be downloading in seconds, what used to take. Minutes. That guests would compliment our wifi. That we could video conference. And do it like that. snaps if youd have told me that i could afford. A gigspeed. A gigspeed network. Its like 20 times faster than what most people have. Id of said. Id of said youre dreaming. Dreaming definitely dreaming. Then again, dreaming is how i got this far. Now more businesses in more places can afford to dream gig. Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. Finding a job can be difficult enough but what if youve battled drugs or you have a criminal record . Our Bill Anderson met some people who thought their past may have destroyed their future. That is until they found an organization and a local entrepreneur committed to turning things around for goodness sake. You have to zen the message to other people that they can do it too. Thats your charge. Reporter graduation day. The day to reflect on all of your hard work to celebrate a turning point in life. To some it means everything. But to others, it means even more than that. I just came home from state prison, um, im an ex heroin addict and im only 20. We all have a career past that a lot of people dont look past. Reporter watching them celebrating the hard to see them as many in society do. As addicts or felons. But thankfully for them a local program looks past what theyve done and into who they are. They just want you here to fix yourself. Like it feels like a family. You got support as soon as you walk in the door. Reporter its partnership between up lift Work Force Solutions and jeff brown supermarkets they graduated on tuesday. No rest because just two days later, they start their guaranteed jobs. Now one not one of them did what they did and give guaranteed job afterwards so it was like it was breath taking that somebody was able to believe if you and give you a Second Chance. I see beaut fuel people here that are smart and have unbelievable, unlimited Human Potential and we put our money where our south was. Reporter jeff brown hires them and up lift program trains them. Why . They told me that environment and circumstance can lead good people who need a chance to feel hopeless. To have Second Chance you have to have a first chance lost these communities the individuals werent afford add first chance. Reporter whatever chance you want to call it it was clear that the graduates plan to take full advantage of this opportunity. The last thing someone like me or any of my any of my teammates does going to do is let them down. Reporter britney agreed with a hell sixs message even expressing it in slightly different way it was less once a voice without sound, royalty without crown, once i was lost and i am finally found and i thank the program. Theyre thankful tour the opportunity to change their lives for goodness sake. Im Bill Anderson. Now to your fox 29 weather authority. Taking a look live down the jersey shore at wildwood. Yeah, nice night. Definitely a cool weekend at the shore. Probably need to grab your sweatshirt is the end of the summer heat on the way . Meteorologist monica cryan joins us with a check of the forecast. A little cool, monica. I think its coming back much its interesting down the shore it even feels cooler were dealing with that breeze. Atlantic city we had a high today of 80 degrees but temperatures quickly dropping. Heres look at your highs across the region. Philadelphia 81. Notice your average 84. So we were below that and allentown 72. Thats pretty low. Trenton just below that 80degree mark at 78 degrees. So heres where were standing right now. Temperatures into the 60s. A lot of us dropping into the 60s. 69 degrees right now. Those dew points also pretty low. You may have stepped outside and said not only is it sunny, temperatures are comfortable but weve got low humidity. Its kind of the best of everywhere out there. Looking at your future cast well get right to it. You can see that those skies stay clear through tonight and into early tomorrow morning. Looking pretty nice. As we head into our sunday morning through the afternoon, maybe a little bit more cloud cover. Otherwise well keep it dry in our sunday. And im pushing this future cast all the way into monday. Monday morning still the same thing expecting dry conditions and temperatures actually through the in the afternoon into the upper 70s. So its going to stay the same here in the delaware valley. Now weve got to talk about what is now Tropical Storm harvey. Look at this movement out of the east northeast at 2 miles per hour. Thats the problem with this storm system. Its not moving very much even when it does its just going to loop back around and bring rain to those areas that are seeing rain right now. So its just an inundation of rain as we head into the new work week well be talking about rain all the way into wednesday not to helping that flooding will continue even after the storm has past. Thats something to be concerned about. Over the next few days and possibly next few weeks. An additional ten to 20inches forecast in some areas have seen 10inches were talking an additional possibly 20inches of rain as this continues to loop around very slowly. 56 in millville. Weve got 53 in pottstown. Mount pocono overnight at 46 degrees. 60 degrees for those of us in wildwood. Now your high tomorrow, 79. Again, below that 80degree mark. But mostly sunny. You can argue that. And weve got lots of sunshine in that seven day forecast through our sunday. Monday. Now too tuesday we are picking up and some rain chances the key word chances. So well keep an eye to the sky as we head into the midweek. Temperatures, guys, mid 70s thats pretty low and about ten grease below the average. Can you believe that . I dont believe it. [ laughter ] but summer will make return. We know it. All right. Thanks, monica. Well, hundreds of children in West Philadelphia today now have backpacks and supplies to start the school year off right. Thats all thanks to the philadelphia out Reach Development councils Second Annual back to school event. They provided more than 300 bookbags and School Supplies to homeless families. This year they also offered free haircuts and community resourc resources. Love it. If your wholefoods shopper listen up you may want to hold off on your Grocery Shopping this weekend and hit the store next week. Ill tell you why. How does free pizza for live sound . The contest that pizza hut is running that could make that dream come true for somebody. A warning tonight from delaware state officials about websites offering help with missing financial assets. Officials say some consumers have been told that theyre unclaimed property can be returned to them by paying a fee. Delaware Authorities Say not true. The state does not charge a fee and web sites such as never claim. Com are not affiliated with the state. Well, pizza hut subtle dig at Dominos Pizza could land you some free pizza for life. All you have to do is guess the number of dominos knocked down when pizza hut recently set a world record for toppling the most dominos in the shape of a pizza. You also have to be a hut rewards member to enter and you can watch the video on pizza huts Facebook Page or youtube channel. Guesses must be submitted via email by thursda august 31s august 31st. You dont have much time. The first person who gets it right gets a free pizza for life. All right. Organic Grocery Shoppers listen up. Amazon plans on slashing prices at wholefoods you might want to wait before you go Grocery Shopping. Online giant which takes control of highend highend Grocery Store chain wholefoods on monday intends to drop prices on that day. Selection of some of the stores best sellers from avocados to organic baby kale will cost less on monday than on sunday. Amazon also plans to lavish most loyal customers by turning prime Membership Program into a wholefoods rewards program. Well, love yoga and sharks. Well the Adventure Aquarium in cam has something that you just may enjoy. Today was its first ever yoga day. The aquarium hosted two sessions this morning in front of the shark exhibit. People got to work out while watching the shark sharks, stine and some other fish swimming around there. The woman who created the class is both a Yoga Instructor an an animal biologist at the aquari aquarium. She says watching fish provides a soothing experience. Ive been working here for 12 years, and i have huge love for sharks, and i found yoga and i also fell in love with that. What i wanted to do is bring our guests my two loves and show that sharks are ex treely peaceful and beautiful that they should be respected. And stay inside the glass. Exactly. Aquarium is hoping to offer more classes really soon. Heres an interesting combo. Two california businesses are teaming up to combine beer and can his bus into one frosty brew. Lag neat at as brewing is developing a new beer brewed its called Super Critical air. They provide the cannabis extract it contains no thc which means you cant actually get high from the beer. It will have the flavor an roma of marijuana the two companies hope to debut the new brew by the end of next month. Our floor director a rowdy already. Back to school is here. How a local mother is making sure that students in the community are ready to hit books. Dude, you were right, these wait. What . The gold fish, man you said i should buy some. No i said you should buy gold fish, the new scratchoff from the pennsylvania lottery. With top prizes of 25,000. Ooohh. Are there really. . 25,000 of them . Yeah. Want more changes to win . Go to palottery. Com and enter your nonwinning tickets for the gold fish secondchance drawing with 10,000 prizes. You know as technology continues to evolve it can be hard on parents to monitor what their kids are doing on the their electronic devices. Yeah. So Security Experts are offering a more direct approach. Foxs evan lambert has more on what theyre calling the tech talk. Reporter have you had the talk with your kids . Not that talk. But Cyber Security expert ren enveloped corbett says the other one about what apps are appropriate for them to use on their phones may be just as important. You have to have that conversation with them its called the tech talk. Its the other talk and so have that conversation with them. Get involved with them. You can even ask them, hey, what would you do to set security settings on my phone to kind of see where their mindset is. Reporter this school year there are some new apps you may not know about. Like sahar an app that laos kids to seek anonymous feedback from people about anything from their looks to personality. Experts worry it could lead to cyber bullying. There are other apps like yellow that sound innocent but reall ry end up being a kind of tinder for teens. They up load pictures and swipe left or right to decide whether or not they should chat. Hot or is not another one just like it. The problem with these networking app your child could think theyre speaking with another kid. In reality she could be talking to an adult. We have an agreement that i can go in if i want to. Good. But i sort of dont. Vicky twin admits she doesnt mounter her 12yearold daughters phone as much as she probably should and part it comes from lack of knowledge. I kind of feel like i know my own kid a little bit so i sort of trust her and the other thing is, i dont really know that much about apps which make it quite dangerous. Reporter but there is a new app allowing parents to take back some control. Its called reapply asap and parents can actually lock their kids phone until they respond to their message. Maybe it would be end up being a bit annoying or so. Especially mom. I cant imagine you doing that, though. Okay. Former university of notre dame Football Player loft his wallet more than 30 years ago and he finally has it back. It was returned to him tony leonard was traveling for his spring break back in 1984 and he lost his wallet at a gas station. His wallet was actually found that same day. The man who found it said he meant to return it but replaced it when he got home. Then 33 years later while going through some old boxes he found the wallet again. So he track tony down and sent him his wallet. Doesnt look like that any more, though. No on this day in 1920 women won the right to vote. Now folks all over the country including right here in philadelphia are celebrating in a big way. Many people hit the Independence Visitors Center for National Womens equality day. They held a toast to honor the suffari gets who courage and actions brought about the 19th amendment a Scavenger Hunt told the story of women who made a difference in our history. So often we spend a lot of time talking about the founding of the nation during focusing on so much of the contributions of men. So today we have an opportunity and every day we have an opportunity to tell that story in a wider richer sense. The Scavenger Hunt was developed Drexel University vision 20 20 program along with Independence National historical park. Local mother is giving back to her community by making sure students are equipped for back to school. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose has more on the organization that mother started in hopes of raising awareness about its cause. Reporter back to school is an exciting time not if youre one of the many kids who cant afford the item on the School Supply list. My daughter School Supply is that so lot of money when i go down the list. Reporter this local mom is stepping up. I can take a load off. Its not a lot. But a load off some of the parents when it comes to buying backpacks. Kimberly lee started her no nonprofit guiding stars. Giving kids like 11yearold joshua a head start. I want to do better in school. Reporter god maam ebony is grateful to get a brief reprieve from all the costs. They go through them so fast, so for the years usually like two, three times we buy them. So theyll be beneficiary. Very beneficiary for the children and we are very great foul to have them. Backpack give away is a Community Event folded into a local celebrity flag Football Game at Finley Rec Center in the northwest second of the city. Right not i got jerk chicken. Ribs top grill report roar theyre grilling. I love giving back. Face painting and above all, happy kids. The kids needs to know that they have support. Theyre motivated. About 100 backpacks stuffed and ready to go. And theyre all packed according to age range from high school down to Elementary School. They represent about 30 in savings for every child who gets one. A lot of families can go out and buy these on their hone. For students like josh it is a stand to commit to brighter future. I want to get better grades. He has to do better. The future is everything. In northwest philly, Sabina Kuriakose fox 29 news. Hundreds of people from our area and across the country in the middle of their 60 day journey to raise money and awareness in the battle against breast cans these folks spent countless months in training for the three day walk. They started at the Willow Grove Park mall yesterday early in the morning 7 00 oclock opening ceremonies. Theyre making their way to the navy yard for losing ceremonies tomorrow afternoon. Nba star returns home to chester to teach kids some skills top get their ready for the school year. Tariq evans no relation, i wish he was. [ laughter ] plays for the memphis grace lose was at Chester High School this week toned host a free basketball camp. He grew up in chester, and attended the American Christian academy right across Delaware County in aston. Now he wants to give back to his hometown and be a role model for the kids. Hes also giving them some School Supplies. Just know the place i came from an lot of kids coming out, you know, where they dont play basketball they coming out here and getting bookbags and back to school thing. Get ready for school but have fun at the camp. Definitely honor for me to come out here and show the kids a good time of the. Giving back. This is the fourth year evans has hosted the camp and he says he doesnt plan on stopping at any time soon. I love it. Hes proof your dream can come true. Yeah. There you go. Very cool. All right. Sean brace here with look whats coming up in sports. Chester needs that, too. Yeah, they do. Really cool there. Lets talk sports. Phillies slugger Reece Hoskins is on fire after setting an mlb record last night he pick up where we left off this evening, yes, did he it together. The philadelphia soul played in arena bowl in south philadelphia. Did the confetti rain down on ron jaworski and company. We roll with the soul next in sports. In case youve been living aunt rock for the last three weeks, well, 16 games to be exact, the phils called up a 24yearold study power hitter by the name of Reece Hoskins. All hoskins has done since that time is hit homeruns. The man they call reece lightning i mean thats grease. He was born in 93 does he really even know what that is . Any ways became the only player in Major League Baseball history to hit nine homes runs in his first 16 games. When you turn on the phils and cubs from the bank this evening you immediately are looking to see hoskins at the plate and hoskins just like last night in his first at bat on a onetwo nasty pitch gets good wood on it and sends it into the stands. This kid is incredible. Ten homeruns in his first 17 games. Unbelievable. Keep it going, reece. Top seven, seventwo cubs al crush this one goes off the roll wall twoone double make it ninetwo. Cubs within severetwo. Eagles get much neede needed lie resume practice tomorrow looking to get ready for their fourth and final week of preseason act. They travel to Metlife Stadium to take on the new york jets this thursday night. Speaking of though jets battle of new york being made in jersey, umhmm, see what i did there are the jets going to use this guy this season. Tough outing for former penn state christian hackenberg. First quarter jets on their own 3yard line. Safety by jpp right there. Later in the quarter giants up five to zero. Hackenberg gets pick off by collins. Giants beat the jets 3231. When you talk arena football and the dynasty to ron gentleman would you score have built with the philadelphia soul its extremely impressive the soul looked to add to their trophy case this evening when they hosted the a ren in a ball in south philadelphia taking on the tampa bay storm. 47seven the souls combined record over the last three seasons. Fourth quarter soul up three and thats dan, hooks up with he is kay in the corner of the end zone puts the soul up ten few minutes later soul looking to put this one on ice in the db of the year mr. Dwayne hollis goes up and gets it. Nice pick right there the. The soul back back to back in their third championship in franchise history 4440. Congratulations, jaws. Finallfinally the philadelpa union with must win tonight at home. Hosting at la at a and things started off great for the union already up one to nothing. With the corner kick and thats the captain alejandro thats if town say me doria with a beauty his first of the year. Union up two but unfortunately that didnt last long. Atlanta they get on the boards. Did he get on the board made it twoone. None is the minute. Andre blake tries to knock it out of the box. Unfortunate whole you have this type of season those type of games go in. Twotwo draw. Tough one there. All right. That is our news for this saturday night. 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