Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 11 20170224

Reporter nearly 150 people filled the Limestone Presbyterian Church as police dollared out real live Crime Prevention tips. Bottom line is, you want us to do whatever it takes to find this guy thats what we are doing. Im just worried about her in the dark. Report roar Leslie Bucklew and her 17yearold daughter live a few blocks away from the arundel apartments where a woman was forced into her apartment, sexually assaulted and robbed. Its about a mile from where Police Believe a man forced another woman into a car and made her drive to an atm for money. Police think the attacks were random targets. Shes a teen out a lot driving, and just wanted to, upping, give her the information that she needed. Reporter new Castle Police say theyve stepped up patrols and any reports of suspicious activity will be elevated to a priority call. In the meantime, residents are trying to learn anything, everything to keep them safe. I also really feel for the people that are so scared. I didnt realize there were so much fear but its understandable. Reporter New Castle County Police Believe the same man is responsible for both kidnappings. They say they want to get him off the street before he strikes again. In New Castle County, Chris Oconnell fox 29 news. A man is fighting for his life tonight after a hitandrun driver crashed into him in kensington. About 7 30 near the 2,000 block of clearfield street. Heres what police have to go on at this point. The driver was behind the wheel of a silver four door with sun roof investigators say theyre combing through surveillance video. Victim is in critical condition. Hes at hahnemann hospital. In upper darby someone found a body under the Marshall Road bridge and called 911. Officers are right there right now. Investigating what happened. Were working to get pour more information about who discover the person and how that person might have died. Sky fox over a massive fire this evening. Gloucester county is the place. Man just intense flames shooting through the roof of this warehouse in logan township. People could see plumes of smoke for miles around. So if you were looking at the horizon this evening, thats what you sue. You saw big plumes of smoke. It broke out right around 6 00. It took firefighters three hours to get it under control. Dispatchers say the building was under construction had a whole lot of fuel to burn. Despite the fires intensity no one is hurt. On your radar tonight, speaking of intensity, hmm, its going to be hot. We can break more records tomorrow. Live look at reading gorgeous day. Tomorrow looks like it will be repeat. Meteorologist kathy orr is here with your forecast at 11 00. This isnt february and its not winter. Sunday we talk about back to back possibilities for records. Right. In some locations that is going to happen tomorrow. Were looking at a mild night tonight. Temperatures still in the 50s and the 60s at this late hour. The high today 73. Not a record in philadelphia. But many records were broken and heres one for the record books. We are on track to be the warmest february ever records have been kept since 1872 in philadelphia. 22 of the past 23 months above normal. Thats almost two years of above normal temperatures, and this one obviously takes the cake. You can see a few showers moving through with a few thunderstorms in this warm and moist atmosphere which is very unlike february which is typically dry and cold. Those showers moving to the north so no issues there. Warm airlifting up for friday. Thats the peak of the heat. Saturday still nice and then a cold front moves through between about 4 00 p. M. And 6 00 p. M. Through our suburbs in philadelphia. It exits the shore by about 7 00. And we could have thunderstorms for your afternoon on saturday. That breaks the heat. Cant believe were talking about this in february then it turns much colder. We go from spring to winter in a snap friday is hot. Saturday is warm. The cold front moves through. West winds will be blowing much cooler air with morning lows in the 30s by your sunday morning and thats going to be a shock relatively speaking. Overnight 54 in the city. Mostly cloudy and patchy fog overnight. So tomorrow well start off much like today. Youll wake up say, what, 75. Well, were looking at morning fog and once that burns off, afternoon sun will boost those temperatures to record levels in philadelphia. Were going to are a high of 75. The record is 74. Trenton 74. Wilmington, ac reading some higher numbers to beat allentown your record is 76. On the seven day forecast from your weather authority, warm and afternoon storm for your saturday. 73. The morning low sunday in philadelphia 40, theirs in the suburbs. A dramatic drop and then monday, 56. Tuesday 62. And we welcome march on wednesday, 64 degrees. 51 on thursday. Lucy, wednesday march comes in like a fluff tee lamb. [ laughter ] i like it. Im going to use it. Fluff tee sunburned lamb. Perhaps. Thank you very much kathy. Less than 100 days and the president Trumps Administration and trying to figure out how to handle immigration. Meeting with Business Leader todays the president described the moves to deport undo you meaned immigrants as a quote military operation. But this afternoon his press secretary clarified that mr. Trump used the term to describe how precisely his plans would be carried out. Meanwhile during a trip to mexico Homeland Security secretary john kelly said enforcing Immigration Law will not lead human rights violatio violations. Kelly joined secretary of state Rex Tillerson in mexico today. The pair is attempting to smooth over the rocky relations with mexico. Many philadelphians made it very clear tonight theyre not stopping any time soon and rallying against president tru trump. In a meet organized by a Philadelphia City council person, a large crowd showed up in center city to map out strategy for continued resistance. Bruce gordon is life in center city. Bruce . Reporter about those massive anti trump protests and demonstrations that have grid locked center city streets over the past number of weeks, dont expect them to wind down any time soon. They packed the arch Street United Methodist Church to plot strategy for ongoing resistant to the Trump Administration and just about everything it stands for. These liberal activists have seen their world shaken to its core. Chaos. Utter chaos. Um, we didnt come out and vote and this is what happened. Reporter City Council Woman helen gym organize the meeting. I think it was john stewart who actually said a presidency is supposed to age the president not the american people. [ laughter ] reporter part of the strategy is obvious. Constant protests and demonstrations against Trump Administration policies on immigration, education, health care and more. Speakers at the meeting had harsh words for the new president. We are facing i think the moral dilemma of our times. We are facing a dictator, a white supremacist and his cronies have taken over our white house. Reporter beyond the marchers organizers want to engage protests and channel their anger. If we can harness that energy well see the difference in the polls in 2018 and 2020 rather than just waiting until these Elections Come around and trying to get people to vote. Reporter many in this crowd were older. Some were marching against political leaders half a century ago. I cant believe we have to do this again. But its time. Were back out on the streets. Yup. Reporter its worth noting that for all of this local anx donald trump won the state of pennsylvania. His supporters would like critics to give the new president a chance. Not likely based on what we saw tonight, lucy. Indeed, thank you much, bru bruce. One school on the mainline two Staff Members arrested win weeks of each other and parents want to know what is happening at that school. Prosecutors say 35yearold maya johnson showed lewd videos and photos of herself to students at the Village School in radnor. School officials fired the teachers aid few weeks ago. Prosecutors charged a teacher with having sex with a student. Police have also responded to a handful of fights at the school. Prosecutors have charged johnson with three counts of corruption of minors. Tonight in Chestnut Hill a celebration to honor and remember a beloved man murdered late last year. Terrell bruce worked at Iron Hill Brewery and now that restaurant and his family are paying tribute to his life by paying it forward. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson joins us live from Chestnut Hill. Shawnette. Reporter lucy Terrell Bruce actually work as a server 44 different locations of this restaurant ton night they held a fundraiser to help his family continue the work that he did in the community. Tonight is the celebration of terrell. Want to make sure we couldnt his legacy and everything he stood for. Reporter Brandon Bruce at the fraternal twin of Terrell Bruce killed last december. Making sure the Community Notice what a great man he was and not just a tabloid. Reporter tonight his family and friends came out to Iron Hill Brewery in Chestnut Hill for the unveiling of a beer called le bruce in his memory and honor he work at a server at the restaurant for seven years from 2007 to 2015. One dollar from every le Bruce Purchase to do night will benefit the Terrell Bruce Memorial Foundation his brother started to continue terrells mission. All going towards the scholarships like i said community out reach. Terrell was shot to death in december. Police say by his girlfriend martina wescott. Terrells family remembers him as a person who helped everyone. Hely work in real estate doing credit counseling and helping first time homeowners. Reporter if youd like more information on the Terrell Bruce Memorial Foundation and what it does in the community, we put a link on our website. Just go to fox29. Com. Lucy . Thank you shawnette. Folks in philadelphia want is a a soda are they really leaving town to avoid the testing. Ment. Testing. Testing. Testing. I got established auto racers telling me our suvs are not fast enough to win races. I say they are. Watch me prove it. Hanks take coming up. Oh, no. So every day Police Officers put their lives on the line to protect us and tonight they are in the spotlight honored. The fop awarded officers who go above and beyond the normal call mayor jim kenney was there thanking the men and women for the results are in after the first month of collecting philadelphias new soda tax. It brought in almost 6 million in revenue in january. That is more than expected but if you do the math, its short of the 91 million city leaders were hoping for this year to fund pre k it appears shoppers are actually now going out of their way to buy soda tata cheaper price outside of the city and businesses say they are taking a big hit. Its huge. Its really huge. You think of the scope of my business is soda and beer, and this was big part of my business, and its literally its gone now. City officials are betting people will eventually get tired of going outside the city for drinks. Theyre predicting increase in the money the soda tax brings in we shall see. The daytona 500 air this sunday here on fox 29ton nights hangs take it looks like someone has got cabin fever for our hank flynn and his need for speed. That green flag cannot come soon enough. Reporter i tell you right now fox 29 dragging its feet getting into this whole auto racing business. That ends now. Reporter whoo wow [ laughter ] reporter i love races. I always have with the daytona 500 going off sunday afternoon on fox, i thought id get out and spread the word talk some smack, even if my head does look like a canned ham in a helmet. Roll the window down. Hey, im a faster driver than you are. Yeah yeah. Yeah. Simple as that. Reporter im faster than you are. [ laughter ] reporter thats right. As long as they know who the boss is. In the News Business we need to go places fast, fast drivers, fast vehicles. So i drove down by the airport to visit a friend of mine whose an expert to see how were looking. I can tell youre a rookie theres no racing stripes. No bumper mark. Theres no nothing. If you aint rubbing youre not racing. Reporter williams is good. He dont look. Liquid lou can be very direct. Veteran race drivers run everything from micro midgets to super modified. Whether youre racer like he is a dork in truck or running daytona the necessary skill set is the same. You need to have good car control, you have to have a feel for what the car needs to make it go faster and you have to have good endurance and make good decisions. Thats what sets a lot of people off from everyone else. Reporter lou knows facts former speedway lap record holder planning on running the full dirt modified schedule in new egypt 2017 and some other dates in other places. Conversely lou also knows what is slow. My fox 29 honda pilot. We said a world speed 738 miles with this car. We dropped it out of airplane. Not fair. Lou lives and breathes rac racie was born night how did i miss the boat. Did you say am i jealous . Of course im jealous. Are you kidding me . [ laughter ] thats why we get along. Thats why ive got to get out there and get after it in the street. Daytona 500 is on fox this weekend. You know that, right. I didnt know. Well now you know. Ill check it out. Theyre not watching fox. I will be. You can join me nascar says green flag flys around 2 00 oclock this sunday afternoon at the world center of speed the Daytona International raceway. Youll see it where else, right here on fox. Im good. Whoo im hank and thats my take. Im amazed one of our fresco users didnt see hang with that thing on his head and shoot it you do see it all the time and you do shoot it all the time and our fresco users are indeed helping show whats going on in your neighborhood. Including folks like hank. Racing down the street. Exactly. In wilmington delaware tonight jogger shaken after a man tackles her to the ground trying to sexually assault it happened last night on south park drive near the swinging bridge. The Victim Told Police she was able to fend him off but he took off with of her personal stuff. Officers did conduct an extensive search in that area but they never found the man. In center city, four dozen people were pedaling for good cause. Military Assistance Project Adventure Team spent an our Indoor Cycling to raise money and awareness for local vets and their families the Team Includes ten veterans and 38 cigna employees. Cigna assists military members in transition to civilian life. Rittenhouse square was transformed into casino gets came out for fundraiser to benefits action wellness the Organization Helps People Living with hiv and aids and other chronic illnesses. Guests enjoyed a large selection of food and drinks and raffles with prices from local businesses. When you see news happening take out your phone and shoot it and then use that fresco app to send it to our newsroom. Lucy . Thank you very much, iain. Tom srendenschek what you got lined up . Lucy, good evening. All along we expected it would be Jahlil Okafor gone by tonights d d d tom srendenschek taking on the mass whos want 76ers president Brian Coangelos header. His commentary in 15 seconds. Up front i dont like the process never did like the process and im still not fully sure what the heck a hinkie is. But over the last two days 76ers president Brian Coangelo traded nerlens noel and ilyasova for a pair of what will be second round draft picks used players an bucket of range balls. And im okay with it. The 76ers arent going to make the playoffs this year can we run that breaking news open. These moves werent tanking though. They were Business Decisions based on the future and the hazmat job coangelo is left with after sam hinkies mess. Nerlens noel was one of three hinkie players drafted he was about to become a restricted free agent and would have commanded big buck. Inner loop nerlens noel was go gone. Ilyasova was unrestricted. Take the left left on knife after you leave the wells fargo seven the 76ers got something for two guys who when this team is good in a couple of years werent even going to be here. Good moves. Did Brian Coangelo botch the joel embiid process. Its well do you meaned he screwed it up but dont blame it on these deals. He still has his hazmat suit on but at least he got something for his troubles. Lucy . All right, thank you much, tom. Fiftfifth graders spreading sprn south philadelphia. The students donated more than a thousand jars of peanut butter. They collect the for the philabundance spread the love campaign. The jars will help feed nearly a quarter million hungry children in the delaware valley. Peanut butter is a good thing here, because so many people love it, experts say its high in protein and high in demand but too expensive for low income families. If youre heading to the coachella music beyonce festival to beyonce. Doctors orders are keeping her off the stage and she has to cancel her performance. Doctors dont think its a good idea for beyonce whos pregnant to perform two months from now. She will be back at the festival next year. So another holler for the simpsons. See what we did another homer for the simpsons. Tremendous segue. Baseball hall of fame will honor one of the episodes. Cooperstown will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the shows homer at the bat episode in that show it featured hall of famers ken griffey, jr. , wade bogs and ozzie flint. I can see it now. Youve got ruth, derek, schmidt and homer simpson. Does marsh get in there. But her hair should. Right through the roof. Another hall of fame. Taller the hair the closer to god. More Entertainment News straight ahead on fox 29 with tmz and dish nation pick that that one up in texas. Stay tuned for chasing news followed by the simpsons. Were back for your fox 29 morning news and good day philadelphia. Will it be hot hot hot. It will be hot breaking news right now on good day philadelphia Fire Fighters battling will a massive hotel fire, in new jersey, steve keeley is live on this one. Also another murder, rocks the city of chester as police there are trying to figure out who is responsible, and why. And, pack it in your pouch where you will no longer be able to carry your cell phone in philadelphia and why the security they are taking, and sixers arent only ones raising the cat why local an hall shelters are getting in on the act, love it. Good day, everybody it is a try. Yeah. Tgif. We have made it through another one. It seemed like one weeks, this week. Traffic issue, major traffic every day