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But they have a lot of questions about how and why it fired this afternoon striking and killing a fouryearold girl. She was hysterical crying it just saying safe by baby, save my baby, save my baby. Margie is describing a mothers call for help after her fouryearold daughter was shot in the eye inside of a bedroom in home on 1800 block of north 20th street in north philadelphia. The child was transported to Hahnemann Hospital where she died just before 1 00 this afternoon. I told her what happened. The kids were playing upstairs and next thing she she found her baby lying on the floor like that and ran outside. Reporter she ran into a Health Clinic across the street to get help. The nurse came and took her pulse and her heart rate and somebody get get the oxygen thing. She was gasping for air. Reporter police say the circumstances of the shooting are under investigation. They are trying to determine who was home at the time, how the gun went off, and who the gun belongs to. We have a fouryearold little girl thats dead here thats our number one priority fininfining out how this happen. After learning the news neighbor janice code dropped her head into the hands. The little girl called her the neighborhood grandma and said hello to her each morning on her way to school. No child deserves to go out like that. Not like that. No kind of way. Not like that. Reporter and even though police right now are interviewing the childs parents they welcome any Additional Information from any witnesses, anyone who may have seen something or heard something this afternoon that led to the deadly gunfire. Lucy . Thank you very much, just tragic, jenny. Police are looking for the mean shot a man in philadelphias West Oak Lane neighborhood. Skyfox over the scene this afternoon at 75th and briar roads. Someone shot a 23yearold man at least twice. He is in the hospital in critical condition. So far no suspects. Fox 29 Weather Authority track something trouble out there tonight. Ultimate Doppler Radar shows some rain but after tuesdays Severe Weather, things are looking a lot better tonight. Lets check in with meteorologist scott williams. Thats certainly right, iain. Its been warm and muggy stepping outdoors temperatures in the 80s. And also those dew points climbing into the 60s as we look at the march doppler stray Severe Weather to our south. Tornado watches but you can see also in central pennsylvania were keeping an eye to the sky for showers and thunderstorms developing this evening. But once again the greatest risk for that Severe Weather damaging wind, hail and tornadoes to our south. So lets zoom in little closer. Most of us dry and quiet. One cell popping up in sections of bucks county but look toward harrisburg. Keeping tabs on that activity to move into parts of berks also lancaster eventually maybe even chester county. Well take you hour by hour. So once again, spotty showers and thunderstorms. Not out of the question tonight across the area, but it will not be widespread and the likelihood of them being severe is minimal. So spotty evening storms. Coming up kathy will talk about your weekend preview and also more heat ahead. Shes live down at the shore. Back to you. All right, scott, thanks. Stay prepared for any type weather with our fox 29 app. Get the extended forecasts and alerts sent to your phone download it today from i tunes or google play. New tonight, United States representative chaka fattah has resigned from congress effective immediately. The move comes two days after jury convicted him on all 22 counts and racketeering case. Fattah had said initially that he would leave office once a judge sentenced him in october. But today he wrote this letter to speaker of the house paul ryan reading in part upon reflection i here by make official my resignation from the us house of representatives effective immediately. Fattah went on to say he made the move out of respect to the house and to not cause a distraction from its work. Delaware county police are trying to figure out how a man was shot in the chest. Skyfox over naamans creek road in Concord Township last night. Thats where state police found a 62yearold man shot. Doctors are treating him now at Crozer Chester medical center. Police are not sure if the gunshot was self inflicted because they never found a weapon at the scene. Investigators are still trying to piece it altogether. Happening right now another not guilty verdict handed down in the freddie gray case. Gray was the 25yearold man who died in april of last year. One week after his arrest for carrying what police say was an illegal switch blade. Prosecutors charged all Six Police Officers involved in grays arrest and transport. Foxs joel waldman has todays developments. Reporter officer Caesar Goodson was the driver of the transport van carrying freddie gray when he sustained a fatal injury last april. 46yearold goodson the third officer to be tried faced the most serious charges. Including Second Degree murder, Second Degree assault and involuntary manslaughter. The 16 year veteran of the force elected for a bench trial leaving his fate in the hands of circuit judge Barry Williams instead of a jury. Prosecutions case hinging on the allegation gray died from what the state describes as a rough ride. It is one thing to say that he was careless and even reckless in his driving, but when we start using a term like rough ride, were talking about a deliberate intent to injuria passenger and im not sure you can derive that just from that one turn. Reporter gray was handcuffed and shackled in the back of a police van but not seat belted in according to prosecutors when his neck was broken. The 25yearold died a week later. His death setting off days of rioting and looting. Today out of abundance of caution, a Baltimore Police Spokesman Says the entire department is on stand by why the National Guard is on hand and ready to assist in the event of more protests. Got governor calls us we need to make sure were ready. The first case ended in mistrial. A judge found the second officer not guilty last month, and the same judge handed down todays verdict. The next trial is set for jul july 5th. The Supreme Court has rejected an important part of president obamas immigration plan that was seeking to shield millions living in the u. S. Illegally from deportation. The Supreme Court announcing a deadlocked vote fourfour on president obamas immigration reform. Today the president repeated there needs to be a solution to making it easier for people to become citizens of america. He says this also highlights why its important to have a full bench on the Supreme Court and urging congress to approve his nominee merit garland. If you keep on blocking judges, from getting on the bench, then courts cant issue decisions. And what that means is then youre going to have the status quo frozen and were not going to be able to make progress on some very important issues. Over 100,000 immigrants have been given residency as part of new program. Before the Court Injunction with todays ruling those people will now be identified and their residency permits revoked. Speaker house paul ryan supports the courts decision quote Congress Writes the laws not the president. House democrats say their sit in a success. The weary leaders of the protest called an end to the sit in over new gun bills this morning. Theyre hoping to do a number of things barring those on the no fly list from legally buying guns. Some republicans say that would take away peoples Constitutional Rights and deprive them of due process. The house is now on recess until after the fourth of july. Fire crews are getting a handle on a wildfire in browns mills, new jersey. The fire off juliustown road is now 80 contained. Pemberton nixle township Officials Say the crews are working hard to protect homes in that area. Theres no Evacuation Order in place but residents are told to still shelter in place and anyone with respiratory problems should keep their house completely closed. Kathy orr is back down the shore tonight shes in Sea Isle City she made it down there. How is the weather down there, kathy . Looks pretty nice. Look at you all summery. Oh, my gosh, it is balmy. How is the weather . Everybody wants to know . Good. Great are you guys on vacation . Yes and were happy that those thunderstorms went south. Arent we . Yes. Yes. This morning i put on facebook and twitter we are in the clear. Were live on the promenade in Sea Isle City. Is this the best shore town . Yes of course. Third say that. Weve got a lot to talk about here an lot of sea isle. I want to tell you about the weather. If you plan oncoming down this weekend. Philadelphia were in the 80s. 84 degrees in the city. 81 in millville. Lets take you down the shore where temperatures are in the 70s and in the 80s. It is very comfortable indeed. If youre coming down this weekend, just know that we are looking at fine weather right now were looking at 79 degrees at ocean city and wildwood it is 79 and avalon it is 78 degrees. Coming down the shore this weekend were talking about 75 tomorrow. 78 degrees for your saturday. With nothing but sunshine. And by sunday, still warm. Near 80 degrees ocean water temperatures, guys, around 65 to 67. How does that sound . Perfect. Surf weather. Surf weather. I want to you meet our good friends judy and danielle they are from kathys boutique. Hello ladies. Hi. Hi. Tell us whats hot this summer from your boutique in sea isle. Well, besides all of our wonderful bathing suits, we have awesome bracelets ribbon and bow ties are gig this year and wind and fire personalized sea isle bracelets as the girls are trying on over there. We have two different ones, sic1 and beach badge one. Thank you very much. And this is a must have. What do you think, ladies . Beautiful. Id buy those. Theyre cute. Theyre amazing. Theyre maze. All right. Thats one thing you have to buy when you come down to sea isle this weekend. I do need one, of course, because we visit all the time. Thank you ill share it with lucy back at the station. Well send it back to you. Well back from the city to the shore coming up later in the broadcast. I agree its very cute. Thank you kathy. Contaminated dirt Illegal Dumping with big bucks attached. Now a local town is fighting to make sure they dont get stuck paying the cleanup the dangerous site. It sickens me that somebody would do that to our community and to our residents. Im just heart broken overeat. Fox 29 investigates who is tied to this mess. First, though, he was just trying to find shelter from the rain. Instead a local homeless man found a brutal assault from two young people. The camera caught it all go down. What police are now doing to find the attackers. And coming up at 6 00 Camden County unveils a mosquito lab, their fight against zika. What Officials Say is the good news they have about reported cases of the virus. Look at you will malt Doppler Radar we are tracking rain and possibly some Severe Weather tonight. Fox 29 Weather Authority will have update on whats happening right now in just few minutes. To developing story out of south philadelphia now. Caught on camera an assault against a homeless man who was just trying to stay dry in the rain. Cops say he became a target and was tormented by two young men. Investigators need your help tracking down the pair. Our karen hepp live in south philly right now. Karen . Reporter so this an incident that has investigators so upset because these two they look like very young teenagers. Just attacked this guy ruthlessly. Very good pictures they just put this video out today. They want to you take a good look at them. So here they are. Take good look. They want to get them off the streets. Police just release leased this video of two kids throwing rocks at a homeless man trying to take shelter from a storm. Take a good look at the suspec suspects. Baby faces, ruthless hearts. Smiling and laughing as they continuing to back again and again hurling rocks at a defenseless victim. They come back in a second time pushing this mails cart hes homeless individual. His belongings are inside of this cart. Theyre tacking him with his own cart and then coming back in and assaulting him more with huge rocks. I mean these are large rocks that could have caused very Severe Damage to this man and potentially could have even killed him. Reporter as the victim cowers in the corner bleeding be Wounded Police say they come back yet again and continue their torment. Theyre punks. Terrible. People are incentive today. Their perspective isnt informed by any kind of empathy for less privileged person. Reporter john oh gregory mill licenses it gives him the shivers and he lives in fear. Very much so. Even right now. I got mine on me and im scared to death sometimes. Reporter this all happened at the td bang down at fifth and oregon in south philly memorial day weekend at 10 00 oclock at night. When police say these kids should have been home. Were looking to get them in custody because they would assault an individual like this thats homeless defenseless and think its a joke, laugh about it, thats disturbing. Reporter so thats why they do want to get these guys off the street. If you have any information about who they might be, please call the Philadelphia Police theyve got their tip line if you want to take another good look at the suspects in this case, just come to our website fox29. Com. Thats the latest from south philly. Iain, back to you. All right, karen, thank you. A Philadelphia Police officer is expected to be okay after he was involved in a crash this morning in west philadelphia. Fox 29 cameras near the intersection of 63rd and haverford avenue around 5 00 this morning. Authorities say the patrol car had its lights and sigh sirens on when it collide width a septa bus. The officer went to penn for some minor injuries and no one on the bus was hurt. The Philadelphia Museum of art unveiled a new exhibit this morning one thats worth millions of dollars. Keith and catherine sacks began their collection 40 years ago and today donated nearly 100 major works of contemporary art to the museum. The collection a massed by penn grads spans american, german and British Culture that include paintings, outdoor sculptures and multi media projects. Sixers fan lets get the party started. The doors just open at the draft party at eakins oval. Allen iverson and dr. Jay on hand taking part in the festivities in a few hours the draft gets underway. The sixers have been on the clock for several weeks now holding the first pick. Seems like the choice is obvious but you never know until it becomes official. Sean bell live in brooklyn with more on the draft. Sean . Reporter thats right, iain. Im in brooklyn at the nba draft, and the sixers seem like theyve been waiting on this since 96. You said it mate not be obvious. Its obvious its a done deal. Its a lock. Ben simmons will be a sixer and everybody saying he might be the savor of the franchise. I say slow down, okay. The kid is young much hes 19. Let him grow. Let him be great but still hes going to be great this whole franchise is being turned arou around. Simmons knows that theres a lot to be done, okay . Hes going to come in and has to deal with a lot of the major guy that have been here this whole time, dominated this league. So he talks about going through this whole process and finally getting it over with and becoming a an nba star. A big relief. I finally got to this pone but now, you know, small fish in a big pond. Back at it again. You know youre not playing against rookies youre playing against lebron, george, guys like that. You go back to the bottom. Reporter of course, its not just ben simmons that will be drafted tonight for the 76e 76ers. They had the 24th pick and the 26th pick. But who knows. There have been rumors they might move up in the top five to get one of those top guards in the draft. Who knows whats going on . It will be crazy. Already a lot of trades in the nba. Something else happens ill let you know later in the sports cast. But hopefully, hopefully we get another pick to go along with ben but we already know, ben, we love you youre great, lets go. The sixers are about to be back. Back to you guys. Iain . Sean, thank you. Several Big Decisions coming from the Supreme Court today. Another grapple with whether your race should play a role in the college i was tend. What todays vote means for affirmative action. A missouri mom is in trouble for giving booze to trouble. Things went from bad to worse after that none too bright decision. Are you having trouble seeing . Is your phone to blame what you could be doing with your phone thats damaging your eye site. Police in germany shot and killed a masked man today who entered Movie Theater with gun and took hostages. It happened in a town about 45 miles south of frankford. Authorities say the man did fire the weapon but no one else was hurt and the hostages were all escorted out of the theater safely. The gunmans identity has not yet been released. The world is watching as votes get tallied up in the united kingdom. The question should they stay or go as in break away from the european union. Polls just closed minutes ago. And some are very worried about financial mayhem in the World Markets if brits choose to leave. Those who want the uk to exit say the it has too many rules doesnt not want to open its borders to more migrants. Those who want to stay say the eu makes britain stronger. U. S. Supreme court just hasnted down a major victory for a advocates of affirmative action up holding the use of race in admissions at the university of texas. And so the university can continue to base its admissions on race among other things. Todays ruling ended a case brought in 2013 when a white woman sued the university claiming the school affirmative action efforts amounted to unconstitutional racial discrimination. More than a hundred people are in town to learn about philadelphias bike sharing program. Three Day Conference giving other cities and Community Leader as chance to Work Together to improve their own bike sharing program. Philadelphia has been using the inn did he go by sharing program for more than year now and mayor kenney says the city is already looking to expand. This year based on feedback from our residents new stations will be located at recreation centers, grocery stores, libraries and transit stations providing greater connections to community resources. Currently philadelphia has 28indego bike stations throughout the city. Inde go is a sponsor of fox 29. Baltimore officials are urging calm after another not guilty verdict in the freddie gray case. Well take to you the city to what could be the start of a rough night. Lets hope not. Contaminated dirt, Illegal Dumping, big bucks attached. Now local town is fighting to make sure they do not get stuck paying to clean up the dangerous site. Fox 29 investigates whose linked to this mess. Kathy is live in Sea Isle City. We sure are. We have a beautiful sea breeze, right, guys . Yeah. Madison will tell us whats new this year. The dunes they were never here before but theyre real b big. Theyre real big out to protect you from the storms. Yeah. Well have the city to the shore forecast for the next seven days if youre coming down. Coming up after this. Happening right now another not guilty verdict handed down in the freddie gray case. Baltimore judge has found Police Officer involved in the murder case not guilty on all counts. Gray was passenger in that officers detainee transport van before he died. This is now the third of six officers charged in connection with grays arrest to go to trial. The first case ended in mistrial and second officer was found not guilty last month. Foxs marina morocco joins us from baltimore now. Marina, whats the reaction there in baltimore to the verdict today . Reporter lucy and iain its been mixed. Everyone you speak to has kind of torn in between because they dont really know how to feel but the general consensus is simply disappointment. They feel like if the officer who trial officer goodson who was the driver who was charged with severe rest of the charges Second Degree murder he was the one who was driving the van, the one who opened the door so that freddie gray could be placed in the back of the van, if he was acquitted of his charges, then the other three officers that are still awaiting trial they too will be acquitted. So right now, people here asking, did the States Attorneys Office really over charge in these cases again two acquittals and one mistrial . Still three officers to go and right now the police unit here in baltimore asking the States Office to simply drop those charges for the three remaining officers because so far the community here has not seen the results if they wanted to see. Theyre disappointed, however, i have to say out here the sentiment is a peaceful one theyve come out here, theyre protesting. But peacefully so. Theyre not doing it in a contentious manner. What we saw last year after freddie grays death. The demonstrators are peaceful. What about the Police Presence right now . Is there a strong Police Presence, marina . Reporter theres an extremely strong Police Presence here, lucy. Pretty much saturated with Baltimore City Police Officers and ill show you i dont know if you can see them back there. Thats the cvs that was loot the during the riots you can see the sign there saying now open. Police officers including Baltimore City Police Chaplains out here in the event things do get violent someone that can mediate with the crowd, someone that can reason with them because we saw back in april last year following freddie grays arrest and subsequent death we saw the violence and there was no mediating there was no stopping it. Basically we have to see the city go up in flames for it to now be the way it is and you can see here theres some protesters in the background but for the most part here west baltimore and freddie grays neighborhood its calm although the sentiment is they would have liked to have seen a different out come. All right. Fox marina morocco is baltimore for us tonight. Thank you marina. Kathy orr is back down the shore. Thats right. Tonight shes in Sea Isle City, and looks like shes got some friends with her. Kathy. Lots of friends. Friends. We said free food and look what happened. Hey, everybody. Whoo yes. Hey youre here again. Yeah. Do you like seafood. Yeah. Well be eating seafood. We want to thank anthony and david from mikes seafood. Mike is always so good to us and well try this Delicious Food don a little weather but i want to talk to evan. Evan was here on tuesday when they had the tornado warning. Was that scary . Uhhuh. There was rain pouring in everywhere. Today much better day . Uhhuh, much sunnier and nicer. Good. Were happy that youre safe. Were happy youre all safe. Lets talk about a little weather and you guys go ahead dig in. What do we have, got to find out what we have. Of course we have our world famous crab balls and this is our newest addition the lobster mac and cheese balls. David make sure they save a few for me. For sure. I got you. Okay. Hes got my back. Well do little weather now. Lets talk about where we are. We are in Cape May County Sea Isle City. One of our favorite places. We have a nice sea breeze temperatures are in the 70s. And its just a great day to be down the shore isnt it guys. Absolutely. Yeah few spotty showers out there but im really not too concerned for this evening temperatures in the the yeses that Severe Weather threat is well to the south in virginia. So we are in the clear. That means were pretty much in the clear for the weekend. 83 in philadelphia. Little bit cooler in the mountains down the shore we are mainly in the 70s. But it feels quite warm. Another glorious weekend High Pressure anchored off the coast we get into whats called a return flow so its going to be on the mild side with temperatures in the 80s. Even down the shore. To night 65 in the city. 61 in the suburbs. A spotty thunderstorm possible but now its becoming more like an isolated event possible. 84 degrees tomorrow. Sun and clouds a great day ahe ahead. On your seven day forecast from your fox Weather Authority, 86 saturday. 89 sunday at home. 88 monday. Into 90 tuesday. 86 wednesday. 83 85 rather next thursday and look at those shore temperatures. Flirting with 80 most days. How does that sound everybody . Awesome yeah n sounds awesome. Okay. Everybody dig in here. Well try some mac and cheese bites and well try some lobster bites and we want to know this is on fox 29 right now. Yeah. Are you going to try some seafood . Sure. Sure. All right. Well see if you guys like it. Well continue the party here and i did bring a little bit of a doggie bag so i could bring a little bit of this home. We want to thank mike from mikes seafood. Great. Great friend for over 13 years. You can see all these little yummy things. How is it buddy. As he tries this im not getting anything. It must be good. Hes eating. Because hes eating. Kathy, you said a little doggie bag. Iain and i would like to medium size to large one if possible. Hoping. Let me tell you something you got it. The way those kids are eating there will be nothing left in about five minutes. They cant talk right now their mouths are full. All right. Kathy. Bye guys. Are you feeling a little disconnected from your loved ones . Your genes could be to blame. My genes . Not those kind of jeans. What scientists just discovered about the love hormone. What do my jeans have to do with anything. What about my shirt. Missouri mom in trouble for giving booze to her children are chirp and other children. Police say things went from bad to worse after that dangerous decision. And new at 6 00 democrats mascot is getting ready to overrun the city once the convention gets into town. How local artists are benefiting from these painted donkeys. vo we went to hollywood to ask if americas favorites burgers, tacos and chili could taste just as great made with turkey. Thousands stepped into the jennieo tasting booth to find out. With just one bite, they knew. Now its your turn to make the switch. Crews are cleaning up ravine in Ventura County california after crude oil spilled out of pipeline. Fire Officials Say more than 29,000 gallons gushed out. Officials from Crimson Pipeline say the leak occurred near a valve and that yesterday workers were replacing valves on that line. The company is investigating the cause of the leak. Well a mom in missouri is in jail tonight and facing serious charges. Police say that she actually gave alcohol to her daughter and friends and one of them nearly died from alcohol poisoning. Prosecutors have charged Melissa Bardwell with providing alcohol and cigarettes to the group of 14 and 15yearolds. The man says he saw a car pull up outside his home and dump out a 15yearold girl who had a blood alcohol couldnt at the present time of more than three times the legal limit. Bardwells daughter is sticking up for her mom, though. That girl got drunk by herself. My mom didnt get her drunk. Melissa bardwells own mother was also there that night. She says she did not see the teens drinking but she thinks her daughter is an alcoholic who might filially get the help she needs in jail. The girl ended up at the hospital and has recovered. Contaminated dirt, Illegal Dumping with big money attached. A local wants to make sure theyre not stuck paying to clean up this dangerous site. Fox 29 investigates whose tied to this mess. Whoa [ explosion ] nothing should get in the way of the things you love. Get americas fastest internet. Only from xfinity. I love that. So nice. Makes you happy. Kathy orr back down the shore right now. She is in Sea Isle City tonight and got more friends. You still on the promenade, kathy . You know what were having so much fun, we just had a crowd come in. They had all their food and now were shopping. This is liz and she has one of the coolest shops in sea isle. I was turned on to his last year, liz i came in and did a lot of damage. I dont know how happy my husband was but i was very hap happy. Good. You look beautiful all thats matter. Liz is from sensations and tell us about some of these clothes because it seems like everything is very vibrant and colorful. Well, summer is all about being bright and happy, and our clothes are definitely that way. Were like a onestop shop e we have pressing swim wear to dresses for weddings, as you can see we have a great swim wear selection here in bright colors. Wow well get that for lucy. That will look good for lucy we also do a little catch wal Cold Shoulder is a huge trend this season. A little off the shoulder. Because a womans shouter and doesnt get old or fat always good. Its always good. Two young ladies shopping over here. Girls, what are you looking for what how old are you . Im 16. 16. And what . Pick out one. We were looking at this romper over here. Really cute. The romper. Yes. Liz. Thats a big trend for this season. Definitely the romper. Its cute. Its a justable in the back. You can wear it kind of casual with your little gladiator sandals. Its a great look for the summ summer. Okay. Definitely tell your family. Yes. What about you honey, did you find anything. Yeah. What did you pick. I like this tank top with the lace on it. Ooh, thats another big trend, isnt it liz . It is little lace embellishments very big this season you cant go wrong with skinny jeans. You have to be skinny. I have to stay away from the ice cream shop. laughter . Maybe we wont eat as many crab balls and eat more and more swimsuits. Girls, thank you i hope your parents are watching. Sensations we had mikes seafood and coming up well talk about many more great places down the shore if youre coming to sea isle a few more surprises, lucy, this would look awful cute this would look cute as well. Let me see it. I love can i say i want what liz is wearing. Is that for sale and i mean it . I need. I love what shes wearing. Ask her later. Fabulous. Thank you. Kathy. Iain can we switch over. Im sorry. Contaminated dirt big bucks and alleged ties to the mob. Caught the attention of investigators in new jersey. Now, a south jersey town has been left with a huge mess and is suing to get it all cleaned up. Our Dave Schratwieser has tonights fox 29 investigates report. Reporter they say the bore rove palmyra is a great place to grow. Broad street downtown still looks like a real piece of americana. Reporter less than mile away behind these locked gates, Officials Say lies a big mess and potentially a big problem. It sickens me that somebody would do that to our community and to our residents. Im just heart broken over it. Absolutely the borough and our taxpayers are victims in this entire scheme. Reporter it all unfolded here on the banks of the Pennsauken Creek not far from the Delaware River on a piece of ground the borough wanted to see redeveloped. Its right off busy route 73 next to the palmyra cove nature park. That all changed borough and state Officials Say when Bradley Sirkin and his Company Jersey recycling services came to town in 2013. We saw significant environmental degradation. We saw cancercausing agents left behind. Outrageous what theyve done not only to the residents of the borough but to the residents of the state of new jersey. Reporter sirkin leased over a Hundred Acres of property from a called named fill it. State and borough Officials Say he agreed to bring in no more than 20,000 cubic yards of brush, dirt and leaves to the site. Mix it and recycle it. Instead they say, he brought a lot more. They were accepting dirt, concrete, brick, rebar, anything you can think of that is the product of demolition or construction operations. Reporter the state commission of investigation borough and state Officials Say sirkin illegally brought in more than 380,000 cubic yards of material over 20,000 truck loads. That raised the site by 10 to 15 feet. Theyre one bill bulldozer that would shake my entire building. John, operates cos auto repair right next to the jersey recycling site. He remembers all those trucks. They were seven days a week around the clock. At least a hundred trucks during the working hours. Id see just coming in. Hundreds of trucks that were coming into the site from all over the south jersey, philadelphia and even into Central Jersey areas. Reporter the sci borough officials and say the environmental Officials Say the debris that was dumped at Jersey Recycling Services was accepted without the proper environmental permits. The dirt hauled here by truckers came from three sites. Including the site of the Camden Community Charter School on ninth street in camden when it was being built three years ago. Dirt also came from a site in new brunswick. The sci says that dirt from those two sites was contaminat contaminated. Soils that were contaminated with a known car nine so jenn. I hope it would have an effect on me and my property. Were hopeful the very toxic influx hasnt gotten into the streams and the waterways. Reporter sci also says hundreds of truck loads of dirt from the massive 400 milliondollar i95 expansion project in the philadelphia area were taken to the pell myra site. I95 project is being funded by state and federal taxpayer mon money. We spoke with the person who was reported to be the guy in charge of accepting and mulching and mixing. He toll us he never handled construction debris before. The level of contamination that has occurred here is very very disheartening. Reporter the sci and borough Officials Say when they alerted the new Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to what was going on at jersey recycling site in palmyra, the dep stepped in and issued a notice of violation. They told sirkin to make changes. Thats when the sci says, sirkin skipped town and went back to boca rah ton, florida. Should he be held responsible . Yes. And maybe some of those ill gotten gains should be used to clean up his mess. Reporter sci investigators say sirkin is a convicted racketeer who spent time in federal prison. He has they say some ties to members of the the new york and philadelphia mob. Called organized crime for a reason frankly. 380,000 cubic yards illegally dumped on property within the borough. Reporter investigators say sirkins fatherinlaw is a made guy with the lou casey crime familiar until north jersey. Hes also Close Friends with philadelphia mob boss joey merlino. Merlinos federal parole was revoked in 2014 because he was seen associating with sirkin and philadelphia mob captain and convicted felon john changlini in florida. Per lean know was sent back to jail for three months. These are things that have come out of the investigation that i certainly wasnt aware of prior. Reporter as it turns out brad sirkin was subpoenaed to testify at an sci hearing a few weeks ago about the dumping here in palmyra. His attorney sent the sci a letter saying his client would assert his fifth amendment right not to incriminate himself. Sirkin did not appear at the hearing but he wasnt the only witness who refused to testify. How did you decide to allow this material to end up there. I invoke my fifth amendment right. Reporter the sci says Frank Gillette ran similar operation to the one sirkin set up in palmyra. Gillette they say sent hundreds of truck loads every construction debris to this beach at the jersey shore in Cliff Wood Beach, monmouth county. These are sci pictures of the beach after Hurricane Sandy and these are pictures of the beach after gillette finish having truck loads of debris dumped here within a hundred yards of these waterfront homes. Old bridge, new jersey, is looking at a 300,000 or so remediation project for Cliff Wood Beach thats going to come directly out of taxpayers pockets. Reporter the sci says gillette also has a criminal record and like sirkin has ties to organized crime. We know that he has connections to the same bonanno cap poe that paid Jersey Recycling Services. Reporter sci investigators produced this check that was sent to sirkins Company Jersey recycling Services Back in 2013. The name of the company who sent it and the person who signed it have been blocked out by the sci. Jersey recycling received 50,000 shareholder loan from a known bonanno cap poe. Reporter the mayor in palmyra officials now claim sirkin and the Property Owner fill it, ink, have left them with a big mess and potentially a big price tag to clean up the site. Now, filed suit against fill it, a trial is scheduled for octob october. The lawsuit is really to put the people who are responsible on the hot seat so to speak. I have to get cleaned up and i dont think that the taxpayers in this town should have to foot the bill for it. The little guys always get screwed. It shouldnt fall on the taxpayers. Reporter we went to fill its address in lumberton, inform, to ask some questions. All we found was some old Construction Equipment and two empty buildings. The gate was locked and the sign on the fence said no trespassi trespassing. Certain fill it ink who the company that owns the property have acted very irresponsiblely at the end of the day theyre ultimately responsible. That Company Needs to take responsibility for what theyve done. That area will be cleaned up and it will be part of our redevelopment plan in the future. Reporter Dave Schratwieser fox 29 news. Sirkins Attorney Says the scis information about Jersey Recycling Services and the talk of his clients ties to organized crime are quote mirror allegations, nothing more. A lawyer for the company that owns the site didnt return our phone calls. So are you having trouble seeing . Is your phone to blame what you could be doing with your phone that is damaging your eyesight. At 6 00 oclock investigators say this Business Owner pulled a fast one over dozens of homeowners and local counties. How detectives say he bilked customers out of to us satisfied dollars. Homeless man tormented at the hands of some local kids. What police say they used to go after him as he tried to seek shelter in the rain. T cc1 t cc1 whoa [ explosion ] nothing should get in the way of the things you love. Get americas fastest internet. Only from xfinity. Grand canyon and glacierger than National Parks combined. And thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. You can find it all only in new york. New york. Its all here. Its only here. Plan your Summer Vacation at iloveny. Com turning to your health now, could your phone make you go blind . Well not exactly. But a certain way of using it could make it difficult to see. A case just publish in the new england journal of medicine described two women who told doctors theyd be experiencing periods of temporary vision loss after an investigation doctors figured out the women had been looking at your phones in bed at night with just one eye. The other eye was covered by a pillow. So the moral of the story i guess if youre going to look at your fenn in bed, i dont know why youd do that but use both eyes. I dont understand any of it. Exactly. Meanwhile something in your genes could affect your ability to form healthy relationships. Its interesting new study focused on gene involved in the production of what is commonly called the love hormone. University of georgia researc researchers found people with lower activity of that gene had a harder time recognizing emotional facial expressions and tend to be more anxious about relationships of people whom they love. The team believe this research to lead to new and better treatment for people who suffer with social disorders. Tragedy strikes at a north philadelphia home where a fouryearold girl was shot and killed. Crying saying save my baby, save my baby, save my baby what investigators are trying to figure out about who shot that child. A homeless man becomes the target of some youngsters armed with rocks. Police are now looking for them. The trouble they could face for going after a defenseless vict victim. Front of from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6 00. Right now at 6 00 police are trying to figure out who shot a girl at a north philadelphia home. The victim just four years old later died at the hospital. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. A lot of Unanswered Questions for police to solve tonight. Jennifer joyce is live at the scene following the investigation. Just so heartbreaking jennifer. Reporter good evening and homicide detectives are currently conducting interviews specifically with the parents of the little girl to find out why a fouryearold lost her life today. Philadelphia police executed a search warrant at 1854 north 20 and street after a fouryearold girl at the home took a bullet to the eye and later died at the hospital. There was nobody out here but me and i ran to her. She was screaming her lungs out and knocking on doors and nobody would come out. Reporter margie ran over to help the mother pacing and panicked as her little girl was struggling to stay alive. I told her what happened . She goes she got. The kids were playing upstairs. And next thing she says she found her baby laying on the floor like that and ran outside. Reporter she sprint to do

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