Family, and homeless and for charity and anybody who needs it believe me because i could use it. My family could use it. Reporter of course you can watch the powerball drawing tonight at 11 00 oclock right here on fox 29. But you have to buy your tickets by 9 59 tonight so if you dont have one, make sure you get out. They say the next few hours are the busiest times for lottery retailers and, guys, guys, heres the thing. Yes. Reporter if we dont have a winner tonight, guess what it rolls over to . Like billion something, right . Reporter thanks. You just, a billion dollars. You asked the question. A billion dollars. Guess what, guys . Thats not even the largest jackpot ever which was 1. 6 billion but you know what, i only jump in when it gets big like billion dolla dollars. Of course. Thats enough for me. I got my ticket. All right. Man, youre in it to win it. Cross your fingers. See you at 11 00. Policely 700 million Chris Oconnell is n. I need a billion. Thanks chris. Tonight is the night, iain. Fox 29 is your power fall station. You can watch the live drawing right here on fox 29 at 11 00. Another preventible tragedy thats how the legal team of one victim describes the septa train crash that injured more than 40 riders early tuesday morning. That legal team they are filing a lawsuit on behalf of their client durell robinson. He suffered head injuries on the train that crashed into a parked train car on the norristown high speed line. 91 of the injuries are life threatening according to officials. Ntsb is still investigating the incident. And we know that the public has been very interested and clamoring for information. There are many others who like mr. Robinson sustained injuries, and we expect that their stories might come forward shortly. We believe its important to begin litigation so that we can begin our own investigation. One of the attorneys called the incident a diminishing of trust and confidence in the Public Transportation system. Something just didnt look right. So hazmat crews raced to Chester County justice zen. Someone spotted white powder on the seventh floor of the building on Market Street in west chester. They evacuated the floor check it out realized it was nothing hazardous. Win about an hour let everyone back in. So what exactly was the powder . Good question. And theyre not saying. In new jersey, this. A driver lot of control and ended up right there in a house this morning near the intersection of ferry avenue and cedar avenue in woodland. Its unclear why the driver lot of control but we dont have any reports of any injuries. Fox 29 Weather Authority right now. Today, just beautiful. Fantastic day to take in the sites along the ben franklin parkway last night whole different scenario did you find yourself wide awake, say, around 11 00 last 90 hopefully you were watching fox 29 news at 11 00. There were severe storms packing a punch. Brought down trees in our area including that one right there. That is south 11th street in south philly. So lets check in with kathy o orr. You know kathy it was so loud, wasnt it. I wasnt up at 2 00 a. M. I couldnt go to sleep. Too loud. I was at the station until 12 30 waiting for the severe storms to lose their punch and when i got to the parking garage, i had never heard anything like it. It was crazy. This is what ultimate doppler looked like last night when the storms rolled through. It ends about 2 30 in the morning. When they made it down the shore we had so much lightning, thousands of lightning strikes and where you see the yellow, that was at least 3inches of rain from Burlington County all the way west into pa into the western part of Chester County. So a lot of heavy rain some and severe flooding in the area of chester, nearly 3inches of rain. You can see in woodland 3. 7. Rid toll. 3. Essington 2. 4 and that was just with those storms rolling through. Outside today, we have that refreshing canadian air mass. Temperatures will be falling from a high of 83 into the 70s this evening. 78 with that northwesterly wind and that will bring in those deep blue skies tomorrow. By 11 00 oclock, 75. Get ready, its going to feel like fall in a snap. Well take look at the seven day in just a few minutes. No more storms. Wont keep up to tonight, iain. Thanks, kathy. Breaking tonight. Bombshell news out of Camden County, new jersey. David creato the man prosecutors charged with killing his threeyearold pleaded guilty to manslaughter months after mistrial for the crime. Prosecutors had promised to trite case again. So this is what happened today. 23yearold dj creato plead guilty this morning to killing his little boy brandon almost two years ago. So he was slated for the retrial on first degree murder charges in just a master weeks. Camden county jury iain told you had deadlocked in may. He now faces ten years in pris prison. When a judge sentences him on september29th. So basically this is a plea de deal. He pleads, they dont go to trial. He gets ten years out in, what, eight and a half years, right . Possibly. So hell be required to serve at least those eight and a half years. Then he could be eligible for parole. 39yearold man is in jail facing several charges right now after a shooting involving a Philadelphia Police officer. This happened saturday night around 11 00 on alder street and authorities are telling fox 29 that a Police Sergeant on bike patrol saw Anthony Middleton with a gun in his hand. Middleton then took off down an alley and when Police Caught up with him they say he point add gun toward the sergeant the sergeant fired four shots hitting middleton. Police found a loaded gun in the alley that was previously reported stolen. A man taken to the hospital after being shot multiple times. Police say it happened just before midnight last night on 16th street nor wharton the man shot in the chest and stomach is now at Jefferson Hospital in critical condition. Philadelphia police are looking for two men in this shooting. Last night President Trump was in his element delivering off the cuff speech at a Campaign Style rally in phoenix. Went after one from the media to prominent members of the congress. Today white house Officials Say hes prepared to put some of the bad blood behind him to try to bring the nation together. Heres foxs joe waldman. Reporter after what so many described as a divisive and polarizing speech in phoenix last night, today in reno the president is planning to spread a message of unity. We are one people with one home and one great flag. Calling for what he describes as new unity President Trump addressing veterans at the American Legion National Convention in reno, nevada. The commander in chief looking to ease the countrys tension after the deadly conflict in charlottesville one that triggered protests across the nation. It is time to heal the wounds that divide us and to seek a new unity based on the common values that unite us. Unity that some argue will now be tough to find with a nation still very much divided. Last night, demonstrators protesting President Trumps speech in phoenix. Many still furious over his reaction to Heather Heyers death in charlottesville at the hands of an alleged nazi sympathizer. The president deflecting any blame. Instead pointing his finger at the media. Its time to expose the crook media deceptions and to challenge the media for their role in for meaning divisions. President trump is heading back to washington now already warning lawmakers that when they get back to work september 5th the talk must stop and legislative agenda must become reality. In washington, joel waldman, fox news. We reported to you about a week and a half ago about a man who fell in a sink hole and in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood. Local government officials had been working on it they were making progress but ten days later a Community Still reeling and looking for answers. Fox 29s joyce evans has more tonight from Strawberry Mansion. Joyce . Reporter well, iain, several entities city and more told us all of the work that has been done here. They explained it to us. Its all underground, though. You cant see it. But what you can see here on top of the ground is what has neighbors and one familiar until particular who still does not have water fuming. Right after the rain, thats what happened right there. Reporter its like a recurring nightmare on norris street for eugene clark still getting around using a walker. Youre not going near it. No. Reporter not after the ground gave way ten days ago and mr. Clark ended up about 10 feet below. I had debris falling on me, and water deep and it was i just drank mud and ate a lot of stuff last night. It was uncomfortable situation. Reporter he told fire rescue he was trying to cordoned off the first small hole in the same spot. Its not one, two, three places that is actually getting ready to sing back in again. Why is it singing in . I have no idea. Thats why i called you guys. Reporter well, its still seems a lot like the old abbott and costello routine. Whose on first . Between the Water Department, the owners, a private contractor and maybe even the philadelphia housing authority. It aint coming from us. Reporter alicia jordan and her two youth children are caught in the middle of the me mess. Water is stilly still off since the last time the water people was here. Reporter what are you doing for water . Well, my neighbors are allowing me to, you know, borough water and wash my hands at my friends house. Reporter thats how youre living . Yes. Reporter what theyre waiting for now is the newly installed private water supply line from the house to be hooked up to the public water main under the street. Then, a permanent patching and blacktopping will be put in place. I just want it fixed. Reporter okay. Now what were told now a Water Department inspector was just here moments ago. We didnt even have time to shoot him, and were told that just within minutes, sometime tonight for sure, that there will be a crew out here who will come and sure up this temporary patch. Again, it will be temporary until were told the work is finished here on the line coming from the house heading over to the main in the street. We will keep you posted on what happens here on norris street. Iain . All right, joyce, thank you. Lets hope it happens soon. Espn pulse one of their play by play announcers because of his name. Yeah, it happened. Ahead at 6 00 no one likes a parking ticket. Now, a way to help make sure your meter is paid up will be back in the palm of your hand. Skyfox over a scene new castle county. Someone found a stick of dynamite in their garage around 9 45 this morning on the 1100 block of woodlawn avenue in wilmington. Crews were able to determine it was actually an m80 firecracker and thankfully nobody was hurt. Jobs pennsylvania and one company doing big things so says Governor Wolf who dropped by the Chester Company today. He commended the new Power Home Remodeling Group Headquarters for doing incredible things for pennsylvania economy its 18 states has added more than 150 jobs in pennsylvania and just the past three years. The company has been around since 1992 and specializes in windows, roofing, siding and doors. They have located their headquarters in an area that has been left behind by time and is now resurrecting revitalizing itself thanks to companies and ideas people like this. Just a couple of years back Fortune Magazine named the company the best place to work for millennials in the country. Pennsylvania state owned forgive 30 million in loans to chaney university. Chaney is a historically black college financially struggling in recent years. Chairwoman of the systems board of governors says the approved plan gives chaney a path forward as it tries to close a 7 million budget gap and preserve its accreditation. The school in glenn mills Delaware County has until september 1st to submit a plan addressing financial did he fish cease. Just how tense are racial sensitivities these days . Well, theyre this tense. Espn says it has switched broadcast segments for one of its into the ball announcer because that announcer shares coincidentally the same name of a controversial confederate general during the civil war. Our bruce gordon joins us now in studio for what bats whats become a big and bizarre controversy, bruce. Reporter the otherwise who cares september 2nd Football Game between the university of virginia and the college of william and mary has everyone talking. Not because of any star players on the field or impact on the national rang, no, we apparently care because of the fellow who will not be broadcasting the game. Folks we may have jump the shark. Here the context. Deadly violence at rally in which supreme mists came to scharr lotsville, virginia to protest the removal of a statue of couldnt federal general robert e. Lee. Now enter parttime broadcaster robert lee. For the record, and as you can see, he is not the 19th century virginia slave holder. But espn asked lee the broadcaster if he was okay giving up announcing the university of Virginia Home game september 2nd and instead handling a different contest that day. In an email espn executive says this wasnt about offending anyone. It was about the residential possibility that because of his name he would be subjected to memes and jokes and who notice what else . Dilworth park at Philadelphia City hall, be meath statue that is ignored than fought over we asked folks about this brad casting brew haha. Changing announcing assignment because you have the same name as a controversial historical figure . Wow, thats really senseless. Reporter little too sensitive. I would think so. Yeah. I think it was the right call. Tensions are high, and does he have the same name. Um, yeah. Reporter better to avoid the aggravation. Yeah, just kind of he seemed okay with it. I think its ridiculous much the man should be allowed to perform his job, and a little bit too much Political Correctness going on unfortunately. Reporter this debate comes on a day that saw the lee statue in charlottesville covered up while a legal challenge ovary moving it plays out. In the context of these serious issues, the argument over a football broadcasters assigment seems awfully petty but asked one man outside city hall, who gets to decide that . At the end of the day, theres no such thing as something being too petty or too pervasive because of the fact that i have to deal with it along with many others over the course of my entire life. Reporter now, espn has been under fire in some quarters for the perception that it injects liberal politics into Sports Coverage this incident would seem to play into that theme and critics are pouncing. But in that email we referenced, the company exec insists they were simply trying to help a young broadcaster avoid a lot of grief and badgers. It is not playing out that way. Iain. Bruce. Thank you. A fire broke out at a home in deptford, new jersey, overnight. Fire crews rushed to the 400 block of bucknell road just after 1 00 a. M. Within an hour the fire was under control, and there were no reported. Are you afraid of robots taking your job, perhaps . It is a real in Many Industries but some experts say humans have big opportunities as well. Hes a judge from rhode island getting a lot of attention for being kind. Hes brought some people in his court to tears. There you go. You know would you tear up if you won 700 million. Yeah, i would. This is a man of few emotions i must say. It is the second largest ever in 2016 it ballooned to 1. 6 billion. Tonights jackpot has been growing since june 20th. Money for nothing, my friends. And get this. In pennsylvania today, 8300 ticks have been sold every minute. You know what . Chris oconnell said thats actually been up this evening its gone to its gone to 10,000. Yeah, you can watch the live drawing live at 11 00 p. M. Right here on fox 29. All right. Dire straits, take us out. Its time for the biggest sale of the year with the new sleep number 360 smart bed. It senses your every move and automatically adjusts on both sides to keep you effortlessly comfortable. And snoring. Does your bed do that . The new 360 smart bed is part of our biggest sale of the year where all beds are on sale. And right now save 50 on the labor Day Limited Edition bed. Plus free home delivery. Ends saturday so what do you see here behind me . Picture of a baby on a sonogram, right . Well, pennsylvania couple see and that something else. After seeing that picture, they believe a higher power is on their side. Foxs ali bradley has that story from Franklin County about hour southwest of harrisburg. When they gave it to us, um, to me its jesus. It looks like jesus. Distinctly theres another face looking at my daughter. Zac and alicia wept into ultrasound ahead of birth of their baby girl. What they saw in the sonogram. I blink add lot to make sure i was really seeing it. Expecting parents living in Chambers Burg Franklin County say while they arent very religious, they see a man dressed in a robe with a crown of thorns looking on at their baby. When i seen it, kind of brought stories to my eyes. Speechless. I couldnt believe it. I really didnt believe what i was seeing. Reporter that image is putting them at ease after alicia experienced a number of complications with her first two children. Her daughter was born with, she has two thumbs on one hand. Her second child gave quite the scare making zac a meet wreck in anticipation for their daughter. The second one nearly took her life. Hearing that i could lose both of them during, you know,. It wasnt just the complica complicated labor alicias son had birth defects. My son had clef lip and palate. Is everything there . The news they received next offered them sense of relief as the ultrasound technician told them baby brie ella looked happy and happy. When she said everything was good and we look at the picture. Look, babe, we have nothing to worry about. Now theyre saying like its going to be like our perfect baby. The couple posted the photo facebook to find out what people see in the sonogram. Regardless of the response, the couple says the photo is a sign from above. The angel or god or jesus however you want to propose it i look at it as my blessing. You know what, and if thats how they look at it that is fantastic. Giving them ease. Good for them. Exactly. Wow. Interesting. Love that. Your mom is charged with pa parking on a sidewalk. Okay . Umhmm. And that fine is 100. So you have that you have not that breakfast today. Pancakes. Well, suppose i make deal with your mom. Okay . She buys you breakfast when you leave ill dismiss it. Is that a good deal . [ laughter ] that is 80yearold Providence Municipal Court judge caprio. Watch this guy online with these clips. He somehow combines serving justice and going viral. Hes the feature judge on a local show call caught in providence. Millions watched his judgments online the reason could be because maybe its a foreign concept for a lot of folks, that compassion thing. In one instance a woman pleade d with caprio to give her break on unpaid parking ticket actually a few of them because her son had just died. She cried and ex claimed she was going through a hard time. Caprio replied no one should ever experience losing a child and, well, proceeded to dismiss the case. Why have we gone viral . I think its about people are so accustomed and conditioned to the government coming down, you know, hard on them without regard for any personal situations. You know, life is difficult at best. Right. Right . Caprio added that hes particularly sensitive when youngsters are involvd because he doesnt want to hurt their opinions of the judicial institution. All right. Big buzz on the streets. Everyone it seems buying powerball tickets for tonights jackpot. I dont even know how to describe it because huge doesnt do it. Its 700 million. 700 million. It has people like kathy orr sighing. Crazy. It is crazy. I put in the office pool. Did you . By the way, there are certain numbers that are luckier than others. Well talk about that. I cant wait. Last night storms out of here. The shore still seeing damp dreary weather. Have no fear the sun is back tomorrow. Well have the seven day coming up. Breaking news right now. Some bombshell news out of Camden County, new jersey. David creato the map prosecutors have charged with killing his threeyearold son has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. This comes just months after a mistrial for the crime. Prosecutors have promised to try the case again. Our dawn timmeney has been on top of all of this. Live now in Haddon Township in the park where police found little brendans body nearly two years ago. Dawn . Reporter well, lucy and iain, it certainly was a bombshell. But many in this community are not surprised by what happened today. As you said the little boy was found in a creek in the woods right here behind me. Finally closure for this community, but heartbreak probably best describes the mood here today. Its a really, really sad conclusion to a really, really sad thing. Reporter lots of heavy hearts in Haddon Township today. After news began to spread that 23yearold dj creato pleaded guilty this morning to killing his little boy brendon almost two years ago. Creato was scheduled to be retried on first degree murder charges in a matter of weeks after a Camden County jury was hopelessly deadlocked in may. Many in this tight Community Showing their continued support for the threeyearold boy with blue ribbons outside their hom homes. Those we spoke to today were not surprised cotto struck a deal. It happened in a legal syst system. It didnt happen in the moral system. Im sure he look forward and his lawyer said, this is the best thing you can do. Its appalling. Its shocking. Its scary. It doesnt really surprise me. Reporter under the plea agreement he admitted under oath that he deprived his little boy of objection jenn on october 13th, 2015. He agreed to be sentenced to ten years in prison required to serve eight and a half years. I think its kind of sad that he can your son and end up being sentence totter 8. 5 years. But you have to have evidence to convict somebody. So without evidence, it makes it very difficult. Reporter there were no eyewitnesses to the crime. Not even a specific cause of death. Creato telling police he didnt know what happened. Making this 911 call to police the morning in question. I just woke up and he wasnt in my apartment. I dont know what he what happened out or what happened. I dont know where he is. Three hours later, about 9 0s found in a wooded area in a creek about three quarters of a mile from creatos apartment. His father dj the last person to see him alive and now finally another mitting he ended his life. Who knows what goes on inside an individual like that . You cant even i cant even fathom what prompted anything like that to begin with. Ten years is enough . Absolutely not. No. Absolutely not. Reporter do you think thats light sentence for definitely. Yeah. Its a child. Its a person. Its a being. Reporter now creato will be officially sentenced on september29th to 10 years in prison. He will get credit for time served so he could actually be a free man, lucy, by the age of 30. Which is amazing to think about. Dawn timmeney, thank you much. Youll get breaking news as it happens with out fox 29 app. You can download it free just make sure you turn on our brea breaking news notifications. Lets get back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Last nights showers left our area drenched heres what it looked like this morning on route 130 in brooklawn, new jersey. Torrential rain led to flooding there. But the sun came out and it turn out to be gorgeous day. Kathy orr is tracking how things are playing out for the rest of the week forecast 15 seconds away. Its a nice day in the poconos how about surbs down the shore we have some wind. We do have some sun. Little bit farther to the south farther than ocean city we actually have few spotty showers. But looking good. We have a land breeze. Lots of people on the boards this afternoon. In philadelphia we made it to 83. Atlantic city 83 at the airport. Dover 82. Trenton, allentown and reading right around 80 degrees which is below average for this time of year. We have a cold front that moved through last night and most of us heard it i think pretty much everyone heard it, and you can see a few lingering showers especially moving offshore and through our delaware beaches late this afternoon as that front is slowly moving toward the south taking its sweet old time moving out to the north and west much drier air but still some clouds especially in Cape May County through avalon and heading down toward places like wildwood and in cape may. Right now its 69 in the pocon poconos. Thats refreshing air. 82 in philadelphia. 83 in millville. Atlantic city 82 at the airport but 79 in ocean city. 81 on the boards and North Wildwood with that westerly flow it is 79 degrees. The ocean water temperature cooling down a little bit right now at 74. The dew point temperature that the true amount of moisture in the atmosphere yesterday it was in the 70s oppressive really helped to fuel those storms last night. Look at it today. 52 in the poconos. 55 in pottstown. 53 in philadelphia. So that is the cool dry air moving in. The comfort zone along the i95 Corridor North and west. The to the south and east dupont temperatures in the 60s still little bit sticky that canadian air mass will really take control of our region overnight. 63 the low temperature overnight in the city. Mainly clear with cooler temperatures in our suburbs. During the day tomorrow, looking for that deep blue sky with low humidity. The high 83. Mostly sunny beautiful day. Down the shore looking good tomorrow. Sea isle 76. North wildwood 78. Beach haven 75 and our delaware beaches looking good in the upper 70s. The water off of lewes 79. Your seven day forecast shows only good things. You got to love this. Friday 80. Saturday 78a super sunday. Another beauty monday. Tuesday and wednesday little bit cooler the next chance of a shower wont be until next week. Get the car washed, lucy. Get some sun. Getting ready to pick some pumpkins in the near future with these cool temperature much thats what it feels like. Personally i think it will be a wonderful weekend. Thank you much kathy. You bet. It sounds bad. Someone chasing the Police Commissioner around police headquarters. What is going on . Oh, you see that. Its all in good fun. Plus video is adorable. And im jeff cole philadelphia woman says her elderly mother with dementia was abused in a local nursing home and she says shes got the pictures. I think somebody pushed her then stepped on her. Push her and stepped on her . Yup. Reporter why would someone push and step on your mother. I have no idea. Your 75 year old mother with did he schenn is a. Why would they do that . I dont know. Reporter fox 29 reports coming up at 6 00 oclock. 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. Breaking news. Skyfox going go to abington a driver hit 14yearold girl on highland avenue. Witnesses say the girl was face timing on her phone of course stepped right into the street. Right into the path of the car. Shes at abington memorial hospital. We do not know how shes doing. The driver who hit her stopped immediately to try to help. Well tell you more as it comes in. Caught on camera. Cape may lifeguards and rescue officials saved the day this week and through the rough waters a group of them were able to rescue an unidentified person from the water the woman who posted this video to facebook called it the most terrifying thing but was grateful to the response team. Incredible stuff there. Someone looking to run Police Commissioner ross out of town. What acute kid he is threeyearold officer rider ride ago toy police car around headquarters today. Chasing after commissioner ross and rolling with quite the entourage behind him. Rider was sworn in to protect and serve. Look out bad guys. Officer rider is on the case. There you go. Good job, officer rider. Exactly. Good job bite Police Department to play along. Nice. Are you afraid robots will take your job . Its a real issue for Many Industries but some experts say theres opportunity for humans as well. Hes a courageous local sixyearold recovering from a very tough surgery. How you can help braylon and warriors who have his back. Sean . Lucy eagles running back pumpfrey supposed to be the neck Darrin Sproles hes been little bit disappointing so far. Hear pumpfrey talk about how he needs to step his game up in the next free preseason game. Thats coming up later in sports. We just moved in about four months ago, but the living rooms pretty blank. Its really nice when clients come in and have done some of their own research. Working with a bassett designer was really easy. Just kind of ties in very well. We love it head of the federal trade Commission Says the agency wants to take a closer look at eight official intelligence as many experts say theres a possibility robots could eventually take a big number of jobs from humans. But as foxs Jonathan Serrie tells us the automation issue has another side and that may present a real opportunity. Reporter as President Trump seeks tore inn zig vick rate u. S. Manufacturing, robots may be the most efficient way for american factories to compete with cheap labor overseas. But what does that mean for workers here . We think robotics has had a positive impact on u. S. Manufacturing by creating better, safer and higherpaying jobs for american workers. Reporter citing Government Data the trade group a3 says by adding over 100 thick thousand robots to factory floors u. S. Companies created 894,000 new manufacturing jobs over the last seven years. Among the Companies Hiring people alongside robots, cummings making of epp gins and generators. Automation for us has been first and for most it helps flow safety. Generates quality product. It creates more job. If your employs are safe thats the order of the game. Reporter experts note robots need human assistance. Instead of doing away with a job, we still have to have someone to be able to operate that robot. We have to have someone to be able to program that robot. And someone to be able to work on it. Reporter rick maroney runs the Robotic Technology park in alabama a tech school that trains workers for free. Our job is to make sure Alabama Companies have the best skilled work force possible. Reporter in georgia scott blank founded start code which teaches kids how to program computer. I grew up in blue collar family. Reporter blank cease coding as a basic skill. Like a blue collar job its something that you learn overtime. You start with it but you get better at your craft as you go happ along. According to a3, 80 of manufacturers say theyre having a hard time finding qualified applicants for skilled production positions Industry Experts say Technical Training in schools and cross training for existing workers are going to be key because American Manufacturing is becoming increasingly high skilled and high tech. Incredible. Artificial intel yen the robots are coming. Thats how you deal with them. Little scary for me. I have to say. Developing to night, before you pack your bags warning from the state department. It says it is not safe to travel to some of the most popular spots in mexico, cancun, las cab bows, cozumel are in the middle of crime waves. Kidnapping, carjacking and murder ate hitting the tourist destinations. Many vacationers say they know the risk of violence and will be cautious while others say theyre now thinking twice about visiting the country. This is a pretty important line that i think is being crossed. You think about cancun and mat sat land and creeping into places its surprising i think to most of us. A record 35 Million People visited mexico last year pouring 20 billion into its tourism industry. Award winning film with a tough subject. The animated movie taking on depression and suicide. The director animator says the movie comes from his own personal struggles. Fox 29 photojournalist bill rohrer reports he now hopes his movie will help epp spyer others dealing with the same demons. Art to me is the ability to communicate to someone. Reporter they say art often imitates live. For nick that art imitates a 24 frames per second. I think for this it was generic character design. I mean the person inside that is me. Reporter as 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 eighth 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. Draw from your personal experiences the best way, you know, you can make art. Um, you know, i feel like its true and honest. Reporter his film is called hanking a hand drawn look inside nicks mind during his darkest moment. After years of being bullied, nick decided to take his own life. This was without a doubt the hardest scene i had to animate. This idea of this menacing fog kind of drawing the character in. Reporter representing a mental tug of war between depression and his mothers love. Especially in that moment i was thinking about, um, my mom, and i had a memory, um, of my mom singing 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 at that point. Reporter the thought of not every seeing his mother again pulled nick out of the darkness. His film ends with two words hang on. It was just something went perfect. You can 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. Leak it usually does not happen and all of a sudden its being played in beijing and its saving someones life. [ applause ] reporter after nick completed his film and immediately caught on at various film festivals. Winning numerous awards. With his mother right by his side. I get great response, um, people are really moved a. Lot of people come up to me and say ive had past issues with suicide at 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, you know, wonderful life but you know youll have your ups and your downs and as long as you expect them and you can handle them, you know, youll be get through. Reporter live for nick now is lookin looking up his film hg will be screened at Mental Health conferences this fall much hes teaching 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. He talks about those valleys that you get and the vast majority people who try to kill themselves say theyre so happy they didnt succeed. Its true. Hes inspiring story. Yup. Best of luck to him and that film. Coming up at 6 00 no one likes a parking ticket. Theres a way to help make sure your meter is paid up. And back in the pal much your hand. 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A Bombshell Development out of south jersey. He said he had no part in his threeyearolds death but today david creato pleaded guilty. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6 00. Right now at 6 00, guilty. A Camden County man admits his connection to the death of his threeyearold son brendon. David creato went to trial earlier this year for first degree murder but that ended in a mistrial. Thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. Now before new trial could even begin creato plead guilty to manslaughter. Our dawn timmeney is live in Haddon Township, not far from where k9 officers found brendons body nearly two years ago. Dawn . Reporter well, lucy a lot of people who i talked to today felt that dj creato was guilty so they are not surprised by todays developments. But they still remain hopelessly heart broken. Its a really, really sad conclusion to a really, really sad thing. Reporter lots of heavy hearts in Haddon Township today. After news began to spread that 23yearold dj creato pleaded guilty this morning to killing his little boy brendon almost two years ago. Creato was scheduled to be retried on first degree murder charges in a matter of weeks after a Camden County jury was hopelessly deadlocked in may. Many in this tight Community Showing their continued support for the threeyearold boy with blue ribbons outside their homes. Those we spoke to today were not surprised creato struck deal
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