Brigantine area, galloway you can see highway 30 here the ac expressway heavy downpours as well as lightning. Then well move up the road here and you can see around Barnegat Light, long beach forked river looking at lightning as well as some very heavy rainfall. That rain has prompted some flood advisories not only for Atlantic County but for sections of Cumberland County as well as a sliver of salem and also Gloucester County until 8 30 respectively and 9 30 there just due to the very heavy rain. Rainfall rates one to 2inches per hour in some of those cells. Getting a break right now in philadelphia. But west goshen some downpours for you also moving toward the norristown area eventually toward Plymouth Meeting as well as the abington area. Watching out for you but you can see a dry break right now around center city. We have that front thats moving through now but tomorrow well have to keep tabs off to the west for a threat of some Severe Weather. So by 7 00 oclock, most of the showers and downpours will still be down the shore. Well get a break tonight but coming up the timing of that Severe Weather threat for tomorrow. Lucy and iain. Well talk to you very soon. Only on fox tonight a strange twist in murder investigation. Did the person who killed 17yearold anita cotton over the Holiday Weekend walk into Police Headquarters, talk then walk out today . That is where we find fox 29s Dave Schratwieser tonight. Dave washington is the next step for investigators here . Reporter the next step, lucy, is to continue this investigation. They will not elaborate today on a decision not to file charges against the 17yearold girl who was questioned here today along with her mother and her sister. Those folks were allowing to home today. We praying for the best roar roar the family of 17yearold anita cotton the search for us . Tis took a turn wednesday. Teenaged girl allegedly response al for the stabbing came to Police Headquarters with her mom and sister but a few hours later she was releaseed. We gathered all the information, all the video. Weve sent everything over to the das Office Recent norite cleaning to clamp but well see where that may lead. Reporter cotton who leaves behind her twoyearold daughter london was stabbed in the neck and killed early sunday morning. After a brawl between two groups of teenaged girls turned deadly in the parking lot of this walgreens at broad and hunting park. Police believe the killings stem from a fight on south street hours earlier. There was bad blood between the two groups. A fight started on south street and then there was a fight in the neighborhood and ultimately led to young lady getting killed. Reporter investigators say the two groups of girls left south street on the train and go into the a second confrontation as they got off the broad street line. Police say anita was locked in a oneonone fight with the 17yearold girl when she was stabbed once in the neck. They were very cooperative. At this point in time, she has been releaseed pending further investigation with the homicide detectives and also district attorneys office. My heart is hurt. Reporter vigil brought more than 200 people to north philadelphia monday night to the spot where cotton was killed. A memorial has now been set up on the front porch at the familys home. Family members are grieving for a teenaged mother gone too soon. She about to go to graduate. Go to prom. Start her life. Like this is crazy. Somebody that got a daughter like twoyearold. Now she got to grow without her mom. It dont matter what the situation was fighting or not no need for a weapon. None at all. Reporter now police would not comment further on the investigation. They would not say if this is being look at as a possible case of selfdefense. The 17yearold by the way is represented by an attorney. Lucy. All right, thank you very much, dave. Bank robbery had one surprise ending especially for the suspect. To Montgomery County where Authorities Say 60yearold city councilman george for chang shot the robber who hit td bank in hatboro today. An exploded dye pack in the stolen cash caught the eye of the man. He told the suspect 30yearold kevin way to get down but the councilman says way instead lunched at him and thats when he opened fire. Way is now at Abington Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to his arm. Hes facing robbery and other related charges. No word on whether the councilman will face any charges charges. A short day at the new York Exchange but it wasnt because of a hold dame technical issue stopped trade dag just after 11 30 this morning after the issue was fixed tradeing resumed at 3 00. Department of Homeland Security says theres no sign of malicious activity. All other exchanges including the nasdaq were not affected. Coming up at 6 15 a life report on exactly what happened today and how the fbi got involved and now that wasnt the only glitch that happened today. Wall street journals website also went down and United Airlines Computer System malfunctioned this morning. United Airlines Says their issue was not the work of hackers and not connected to the glitch at the new York Stock Exchange. Montgomery county Catholic School facing criticism tonight after a controversial decision. A popular teacher wont be returning to her position this fall. School officials havent said why they let her go but some parents are saying what happened was personal. Very personal. Fox 29 weekend anchor karen hepp is at wald drop mercy school tonight. Youre getting an earful. Absolutely. These feelings feel really strongly about this and theyre having a big meeting. There was an email sent by the school circulating over the week andy lot of people Holiday Weekend getting them. They just couldnt believe what theyre reading because this is the school thats run by the sisters of mercy. Wonderful order of nuns who are extremely merciful and these are excellent schools. And the clues in the letter about possibly why this woman was being fired it has the people pretty upset. Wald drop Mercy Academy is a private Catholic School. Many parents were shocked by email saying a popular religion teacher margie winters seen here on her facebook was being let go go. The principal wrote. I see wald drop as community of faith, of tolerance of mercy, of love. Many people have gay and lesbian people in their family and its always been a place where everyone feels septembered. Were just trying to reconcile ourselves this letter and this action with the community that we know. Reporter many say theyre outraged winters may have been fired because shes a married lesbian. To night dozens of parents are meeting privately with her to show support. Theres a law in lower merion that says you cant fire someone for being guy unless youre a religious institution. If youre a religious institution you cant take money and fire people. State senator leach is sponsoring an anti discrimination bill. You can fire someone because of their race, religion state of origin or a handicapped person. You cant fire them for simply being gay. That has to change. This is a tough topic for catholics who had archbishop chaput speak out strongly. It will be discussed three months now when we have the world meeting of families. People about orien teague and specifically on gay marriage. Much more to be continued on this one. The parents will be createing a plan of act in order to take this to the board. Iain back to you. Karen thank you. Train updates may mean crowded cars on septas regional line. The Transit Agency is taking rail cars out of service for up grades today. That means one less car on a lot of lines. Septa says the delay is only for today as it works to upgrade its fleet ahead of a year end deadline to install a new safety system. Trading halted for hours on the new York Stock Exchange. So what happened who or what is behind it . Tonight we head to the street and definitely into those questions along with this one. Todays glitch affect your wallet. Be cool, go to ritas but not for their cuss star. Why the summer staple will not be served up this year. Howard . Weve seen cats and squirrels on the baseball field but i know you have never seen this animal. He was at the cubs he or she was at the cub game last night much thats coming up in sports. New York Stock Exchange frozen for 3. 5 hours because of a technical outage. So far theres no indication what happened today is the result of anything malicious. We dont know what happened. New York Stock Exchange dealt with closures in the pass. Hurricane sandy 9 11 9 11. Scale of todays technical problem has little precedent. Jerry willis joins us live from new york. Gerri, thank you so much for joining us. What happened today certainly didnt help an already rallied financial market. It has been rough. Gosh, no, no new york city it didnt help at all and in fact we saw the dow trade down one point 5 by the close of the day and a lot of that wasnt about this glitch you just described. It was actually about whats going on in china where theres a massive sell off of stocks there. In greece youve seen problems theyre about to pull out of the European Union it did not help that this glitch lasting almost four hours not a single stock on the knock Stock Exchange could be traded a lot of average investors out there not happy. Well gerri you talk about the average investor what does this haul mean today . Well i think that people just mom and pop investors look at the new york stock changes as the citadel of american capitalism. Its really the face of stocks and stocks trading even the broader economy and to see you know the floor of the exchange was virtually shut down people were milling about there werent many people. It was a surprise and it was stunning because as you know the folks at the exchange pride themselves on keeping it open all the time. Absolutely. You know whats interesting and we talk about american capitalism you have United Airlines and wall street journal and new York Stocks Exchange having huge technical problems today. It seems like a weird quins den. Are you hearing anything at all about what might have occurred here. Im not hearing this is connected and i know a lot of people think that it my be and theres a lot of speculation particularly on the web but nothing convincing this is actually connected in any way. Well be watching for it. Thats for sure. But nothing yet to even really opinion it on. Part of the problem the new York Stock Exchange folks folks were up front what was going on them didnt give us a reason for this glitch this technical problem. People are dying for answers. When you got a vacuum other people fill it in. Gerri willis, thank you so much. New jersey lawmakers want to keep your dog save the next time you drop it off in a groomer recent dog death at a new jersey grooming salon has sparked a call for more oversight. Across the country dogs have been killed or injured recently by hot driers, sharp clippers or even own leashes now new jersey lawmakers are working working on legislation that regulates the dog grooming industry and on top of that, the pet Industry Joint Advisory Council is expected to propose new dog grooming guidelines later this month. Whatever is good for the pup. If youre looking to get frozen custard from ritas july to keep on looking. Ritas pulling its Award Winning frozen custard right off the menu. You can blame the avian flu the death of countless chickens basically a lack of eggs and until the company has access to a sustainable supply of eggs ritas will have to go with self serve ice cream instead of the cuss star. Always water ice. Thats right. Hes only in a little trouble actually Halifax Police writing up this ruthless biker this week. That biker is only three. Apparently the kid loves to ride his little red plastic motorcycle and an officer caught him leaving his bike in a no parking zone much his dad approached police and told them to give his son a tick for fun. This picture of the kid and his priceless reaction to getting a ticket has more than 10,000 likes on facebook. Little face palm action oh no what . Love that. Wait until he drives a car. Try to park in philly. Thats true. Have to contend with in your fox 29 weather authority. Atlantic city expressway our fox crew zen this in. Windshield wipers struggling to keep up with all the rain. Scott williams you said this was going to happen. Yeah, thats whats been happening right now especially in south jersey. That heavy rain. Rainfall rates lucy and iain one to 2inches per hour. But thankfully those cells theyre moving on off to the east but right now you can see the heaviest of the rainfall just hitting Atlantic City little egg harbor. Were talking downpours. One to 2inches per hour and also some pretty vivid lightning so this is right now right on the heart of the Atlantic City area on the boardwalk. Well zoom in a little closer right now and just take a look at all of the lightning abase couldnt moving toward bring teen, Atlantic City, ventnor city. Not a good time to be on the beach right now. As we move a little farther up the road you can see around the stafford area Barnegat Light moving toward forked river still looking at downpours and because of that heavy rain, we have some aerial flood advisories for Atlantic County also for sections of Cumberland County. This one here is until 8 30 and then the one for Atlantic County until 9 30. So ponding on the roads due to that heavy rainfall and some of those creeks and streams could be compromised. The heaviest of the rain lifting on to the east and then as we move north and west of philadelphia watching some downpours right now around places like norristown moving toward the conshohocken area. Well zoom in right now. You can see some downpours impacting the conshohocken curve here be on the look out for some heavy rainfall and then tomorrow well have to keep tabs on the system off to the west. So as we time everything out the heaviest of the rainfall over the next couple of hours will be confined down the shore. Then well get a break overnight overnight. But tomorrow, that system in the midwest it will make a run for our area. Dry, another warm day to start but then by 5 00, 6 00 in the afternoon have to watch a line of showers and thunderstorms move through our area. So that could interrupt some of your plans for the evening commute. Well watch the clock eight nine 10 00 oclock still dealing with downpours potentially. Heavy rainfall maybe even some small hail out of tomorrows system. The Storm Prediction Center has placed much of our area in a slight risk for that Severe Weather tomorrow. So tomorrow expect more of the downpours and also that Severe Weather threat mixed in. 83 degrees right now in philadelphia. Humidity still up there as we look at those temperatures area wide rain cooled 74 in Atlantic City. 84 in dover. We have 82 degrees right now in reading and mid 70s currently in the pocono mountains. So take a look at the tropics. We talk about this yesterday. In the western pacific. Not one or two but three typhoons. That are all headed toward places like China Mainland china as well as taiwan over the next several days. So as we take a look at forecast forecast overnight howard eskin, popup showers will be tapering off and then as we move ahead to tomorrow more scattered showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures topping out in the upper 80s. And that seven day forecast is going to show hazy, hot and humid for tomorrow and then we start to potentially see another heat wave, howard, as we move into next week. Your type of weather right. Howard is i was flying to china. Im not going there. He liked your china forecast. Theyre about to have thats right. Actually very accurate statement statement. There is weather everywhere. All right. They let any animals on the field these days in ballgame. Well, this was an inn inviteed guest and delran darling is back home trying to catch her breath. Carli lloyd back in town and she tells us what is different about her life. Thats coming up in sports. Im Whoopi Goldberg and new york is my home. Theres no place like it in the world and no better place to lean about the people who shaped who we are today. Hear about the lives of slaves in colonial new york and about the fight to abolish slavery. Pick a stop on the underground railroad and visit the home and grave of one of new yorks most controversial citizens. A journey in new york is a journey through history. Plan you next trip at iloveny. Com summer. Theres something for everyone. Guess whose back in town . That would be the darling of delran, new jersey, carli lloyd. Shes also the most valuable player on the usa womens world cup champions. Now she finally came back to town before she heads up to new york for a ticker tape parade on friday. Carli is still trying to catch her breath from the events of the world cup. You know when we got to la right away straight away, um, the restaurant i eat when i got there picked up the tab. So life is definitely changed for me. I think i have to buck up and get ready for it. But its good. Its fun. I got to enjoy it. Im used to them picking up the tab for me but thanks im glad you enjoyed that. Phillies werent game last night night. I know that shocks people when the phillies actually win but its one of the backup players that help frillies win. Lets go to dodgers stadium. Jeff francoeur would you believe he leads the phillies in homeruns only part timer here in the third inning hits a two run double. Jeff francoeur has dawn really good job for the phillies and he was a last minute signing for spring training. In the seventh inning sixth homerun im tracking, tracking, tracking this homerun. Its other side of the i95 corridor. Sixth of the year. Phillies go on to win it, the score seventwo. Something different at the cubs cardinals game last night to wrigley field. A duck. Ive never seen whats that matter that duck dont know where Lake Michigan is. How about the cardinals players. Feeding the duck. They tell never to feed the birds even the umpire. He couldnt call balls and strikes. That duck didnt want to leave. They ended up finishing the game but the duck stayed. One upset at the quarter finals at wimbledon. Stan, lost in five sets. But its amazing how well Roger Federer is still playing. Lets go to london. This is match point. Federer in the far court. This guy is truly amazeing. I dont think what hes got coming up after this that he can win but you never know. What a great point by Roger Federer. He wins again at wimbledon. Its important that we know everything that goes on in the world and the duck was important. China was important. Severing important. Howard, we tie it altogether. Thats what we do here at fox. We tie it altogether. Thats nice. Speaking of that be sure to tune in tonight to the fox 29 news at 10 00. One womans shocking discovery on her front porch a9foot alligator. It gets scarier. What she saw and side that gators mouth. Was eight duck . Dawn duck, was it. Youll have to tune in to find out. Lets hope it wasnt duck. Im curious much that does it for us here at 6 00. That does it for us here at 6 00. Have a great night. And side edition is neck. Pop diva Ariana Grande caught on tape, licking denuts at a doughnut shop . Reporter can you believe the doughnuts were sold to other customers . And then angry whoopi, standing by her friend bill cosby and tv personalty janices message to whoopi. I was raped and drugged. You will have to swallow your tongue. And hes hijacked a police car. Wildest police chase ever. He was completely
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