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On both biceps. Hasnt had anyone come forward at this point. Were cross referencing the information we have in terms of the description with missing person reports weve been taking over the last few days. So were cross referencing the two of those but nothing has jumped out at this point. Reporter police did arrest the driver. The driver was interviewed by investigators and then released and police tell us that the das office is now reviewing possible charges. One other detail. Aid is looking for the person who called 911 while following the suspect. They think that person may help police out in this case as well. Lucy . All right. Thank you, dave. Shots fired in point breeze have a man in the hospital in Critical Condition tonight. Right around noon today someone shot him five times on the 1700 block of tasker street in the chest, in the leg, wrist and twice in the stomach. Right now police are looking for the shooter. You pull up to a toll booth you hand over your money and move on right in delaware it looks like somebody else has very different agenda. State police say twice now a man stopped his car in the northbound tolls on 95 in newark, they say he got out robbed the toll booth attendant and that was the first time was friday. Next time was yesterday. No one is hurt and police arent yet saying whether its the exact same guy behind both robberies. Philadelphias archbishop says Catholic School leader noose fired a gay religion teacher showed character and common sense the sisters of mercy and Board Members who want Waldron Mercy Academy are being honest about the churchs teaching. The church opposes gay marriage. Margie winters lost her job last month even though disclosed her sex marriage back in 2007. Many parents are upset by her dismissal but the principal says the school recognizes the archbishops authority on religious teaching. Chaput Spokesman Says the archdiocese did not influence waldrons decision. A dose of summer heat and your fox 29 weather authority. Lets take a live look right now. This is allentown. Today started out comfortably enough but many of us were feeling the heat by Late Afternoon and were already tracking another chance for storms. Were talking downpours. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams in old city right now. What you got scott . Lucy, no downpours right now. Its actually not that bad. The humidity will start to increase overnight and during the day tomorrow. Grab the umbrella. Lets take look whats happening right now on the maps. You can see pretty quiet conditions across the area. As you move into central southern delaware thats where were picking up more in the way of showers and take look at the temperatures right now. 83 degrees in philadelphia. Humidity at 53 . Winds out of the south 9 miles per hour. The feels like temperature 84 degrees. Not that bad. Temperatures pretty comfortable down the shore. 78 in atlantic city. 77 in wildwood. 82 in pottstown. 82 as well in reading. So there might be a spotty shower south of the area tonight tonight. Otherwise just warm, the humidity starts to increase. Were looking at temperatures by 11 00 oclock right around 76 degrees. So for tomorrow, we are going to watch increasing clouds as well as a better chance for some showers even some downpours especially beginning the first half of the day. More on the timing of that system when i come indoors with the seven day forecast. Back to you. All right. Scott, see in you a bit, thank you. Construction mess in the heart of center city. Roads torn up. Parking spaces cut off one of the citys biggest conventions is underway. President barack obama will need to pardon our dust when he visits tomorrow. The city is preparing for the arrival of a once in a generation guest in just two months. Crews working against time as pope francis visit gets closer. Fox 29s bruce gordon is live in center city tonight with the push to get the work done on time. Bruce . Reporter yeah, iain something tells me mr. Obama will find a place to park somewhere along arch street as for the rest of us, well were on our own. As you say the september visit of pope francis and the world meeting of families is expected to bring a million plus visitors to philadelphia. City officials scrambling to get ready and as you say that means construction chaos. Traffic on arch street near the Pennsylvania Convention center is rarely free flowing. These days, its even more jammed than usual. Kind of mesoseme its hard to ride bike around here. Reporter work crews rushing to rewire arch from 11th street to 17th. Part of the project to install new state of the art led street lights in time for the visit of pope francis and the world meeting of families in late september. Speech commissioner dave perry. With the papal visit it really changes our construction season for this year. The construction season is being compressed because obviously we cant work in center city directly during the papal visit or several weeks in advance of the papal visit. Reporter the street light project is one of four already underway or set for the Northeast Quadrant of center city. Underground peco upgrade new Traffic Signals installed and the full repaving of arch from front street to broad. The streets commissioner april cysts fast tracking the street light project wont cost extra money but admits it will put other works to the back burner. Those who live and work along arch seem okay with polishing up the areas most likely to be seen by hundreds of thousands of out of town visitors. I think the city generally needs improvement in infrastructure across the board. Its a pretty big deal. We want our city to look nice. It can only improve the city overall but yeah, you got to hurt before you get better, right . Reporter go through the pain before you get the pleasure . Thats it. Reporter the repaving of arch street is set for this fall. After the papal visit. As for those led street lights im told they offer much better clarity both in terms of facial recognition and vehicle recognition when theyre used in conjunction with surveillance and security cameras so this is really a longterm safety issue for that stretch of arch street. Iain. Thats good news. Bruce, thank you. Police are looking for two men who robbed a Popular Center city restaurant overnight. Investigators say around 1 00 this morning the two guys made their way into tria cafe on the 1100 block of spruce street. Police say they got into the building through a cellar door left open to take out the trash. One of the men put something in the back of the managers head and demanded he open the safe. The men made off with over 3,000 bucks. They were last seen running away on 12th street. Michigan man shows up in newark delaware, gets arrested for raping a 15yearold girl. State police say 39yearold william bureaus met the teen through social media in november. The two stayed in contact until they met last tuesday at a motel six on the 100 block of mcintosh plaids satisfy the teens mom called police after going through her daughters phone. Bureaus is in jail tonight. A huge multi Million Dollar project to revitalize parts of mark street got start dad. The first settlement was poured for the east market project. The development will take up the and tire block between market and chestnut and 11th and 12th streets. It will include new stores, restaurants and apartments. The first phase expected to cost about 260 million. Its expected to open in late summer of next year. Philadelphia based comcast is trying something new. It is launching a streaming Video Service to keep customers it could lose to streaming Services Like netflix. The nations Largest Cable Company calls the new Service Stream and says it will cost 15 a month. Internet customers will be able to watch life tv from a dozen or so networks including hbo on phones tablets and laptops. Comcast is launching service in boston at end of the summer. Then hopes to role it out nationwide and early 2016. All right. Take look at this scary sight for some in the ocean this weekend. Folks are talking about this video of a 12foot shark. Why these are some familiar fins. Closer to home, more sharks showing up close to swimmers at the shore. We made the trip to see whats going on and whether this is changing peoples summer plans. Sean . Iain, Jonathan Papelbon is the phillies only player going to the all star game. He made it real clear where he doesnt want to be. Later in sports. Im Sigourney Weaver and new york is my home. Theres no place like it in the world. Like our state parks. The adirondacks are my favorite. For hiking, fishing, camping, you name it. Niagara falls is the oldest state park, but visiting it never gets old. The readers of a National Newspaper voted letchworth the 1 state park in america. Watkins glen, 3. New york state parks are a gift. Plan your vacation at iloveny. Com summer theres something for everyone. Some concerns of houseing shortage are brewing ahead of pope francis visit. Host for hospitals says philadelphia wont have enough housing when the pope visits in september. The Group Provides free or low cost rooms for patients and their families who are in philadelphia for special medical care. It says its hoping to find philadelphian whos will open their homes to visitors. Unwanted guest spotted off the coast of cape cod this weekend. The Atlantic White shark conservancy released this video of a 12foot male white shark. The shark was caught swimming off the coast of chad chatham massachusetts. They say this is the same shark that was seen there last week eating a seal in roughly the same area. Two men fishing along the jersey shore both catch a sand bar shark at the same time. Crowds gathering along the beach to catch a glimpse but was so many reports of shark attacks along the east coast this summer should you be worried . Im not worried. We sent Bill Anderson down to the shore to talk to experts. Hes live in our newsroom right now. You and i have talked about sharks. What do the experts think. They think you have the right approach we all need to take a deep breath and relax. Were less at risk because of declining shark population. Were just hearing about more attacks as more and more people go further and further into areas where the sharks have always been. Reporter after handful of shark attacks and sightings on the east coast this summer, people seem especially concerned about the possibility of attacks attacks. I dont go in the water. We received two more pictures of shark caught by fir cher men down in brigantine as far as i came down to talk about it iran into a couple more people who had pictures and videos of sharks theyre friends and family had caught and i went and spoke to the people at Marine Mammal stranding center and they told me the pictures are actually part of the problem. Something thats always in the ocean they come in with the gulf stream warmer waters coming in and its not uncommon. Just social media is jumping on it right i was and half the time not explaining the full picture of what theyre seeing. Reporter most of the people i spoke to were aware of the recent attention to sharks, the beaches were crowded and they didnt seem particularly worried about it. Ive been going in the water forever and the sharks do live in the water so its nothing im really scared about or freaking out about. I think the odds are very slim so it doesnt really bother me. Reporter the experts at the Marine Mammal stranding center showed mow a poster of all the things that more likely to hurt you than sharks and said its good not to be afraid because sharks in the ocean its really not a new phenomenon. More people die in bathtub falls than shark attack. I mean youd be amazed at the Different Things that caused death to people but yet you dont hear about it because no one sensationalize it and thats whats happening with the sharks. Witness growth of social media these probably arent the last pictures were going to seem experts dow down here told me if all the information about how safe you are isnt enough for you then theres another option. If youre afraid of the sharks, dont go in the water. Because your fear will jut be heightened because youre always looking around you. Instead of enjoying yourself in the surf youre worried about what will bite you or eat you. Roller coasts and black friday shopping killed more people annually than shark but nobody is afraid of the mall. Of course we want to hear from our viewers. Are you worried about shark hysteria . You can tweet us at fox 29 philly or leave your comments on our fox 29 facebook page. Iain . Bill, very interesting. Good example. Thank you. Were following breaking news for you right now in the heart of our rush hour. Sky fox is live over what looks like a bad day for this trash crew. You can see people are cleaning up giant pile of trash that spilled out of that garbage truck. This is happening along i95 northbound near the betsy ross bridge skit and traffic has not been impacted whole lot. A couple of lanes are getting by there but not a pretty sight as youre heading home. I used to drive that stretch when i lived in northeast philly it is hard to get home. This will make it that much worse tonight. Oh well. Did you treat yourself to some french fries today because its National French friday . And chickies and petes nose how to celebrate its sold famous crab fries for one buck. Our men and women in blue got an even better deal. Chickies petes brought their food trucks to philly Police Precincts and gave out fries for free to officers. I didnt realize it was National French friday. Always National Something day day. I know. Im going to have some fries, man. Yeah thats correct cheese is pretty good on though fries as well. Yeah. As far as the weather it will be pretty comfortable stepping outdoors right now. But overnight that humidity ramps up and then tomorrow, grab an umbrella. Scattered showers even some downpours especially the first half of the day. Right now most of us are dry. However, you can see just south of dover as we move into Sussex County right now around the milford area also moving toward lewes and Rehoboth Beach you might get in on the act as well watching a few scattered showers. But once again most of us stay dry until tomorrow. Take look out to the west. Weve been watching this nasty squall line of showers and thunderstorms just kind of plow from minneapolis through wisconsin through illinois, indiana, ohio, into kentucky and West Virginia causing a lot of damage Straight Line wind damage we call that derr ratio. Take look at the hundreds of storm reports from the north all the way to where that complex is right now. That will stay away from us. However, for tomorrow, increase humidity. Scattered downpours across the area. A flash flood threat as well especially if youre underneath some of those downpours rainfall rates could be where one to 2inches per hour. By tomorrow morning its mostly cloudy scattered showers around especially north and west of the city. Then by 10, 11 00 oclock, you can see norristown moving toward bensalem philadelphia, into sections of salem county, looking at some of those downpours and then into south jersey by lunch time. Down the shore looking a little unsettled for tomorrow. So well keep unsettled conditions tomorrow with those downpours across the area. Then it looks like things start to taper off by tomorrow Late Afternoon and evening settling down across the area so we are looking at some heavy rainfall from time to time across the area tomorrow. Just keep in in mind. Take look at the tropics trying to heat up on us talking about Tropical Storm claudette. Maximum sustained winds at 50 miles per hour. This is racing on off to the north and east about 17 miles per hour. Just going to be a fish storm so not really having a big impact to folks on land. 87 was the high today. Thats normal for this time of year. The record high for todays date 98 degrees set back in 1994. 83 right now. Humidity at 53 . Winds are out of the south at about 9 miles per hour. Look at the temperatures right now. A pair of sevenning in wildwood not that bad. 78 dover as well as millville. 80 degrees right now in atlantic city. So for tonight mid 60s to right around 70. Well call it partly cloudy, muggy for the overnight. Tomorrow 86 degrees for the high testimony cher. Once again those scattered downpours across the area. So it could cause some flash flood concern from time to time. Just keep that in mine. Otherwise 87 degrees for wednesday. Well see more scattered showers and popup thunderstorms especially during the heat of the day. Then not as muggy 84 degrees for your thursday looking pretty good. 87 by friday and then upper 80s near 90degree temperatures for the um coming weekend but it look like well stay dry for the weekend. Better chances for some more downpours likely by early next week. Typical summer pattern. Exactly. Weekend looks good. It does. A little steamy. Thank you. Sean bell. What doesnt look good anything phillies right now. Okay. All star break we only have one all star and that all star basically wants out right about now. He doesnt hold back about where he wants to be. Its trouble in dallas. It aint about the money. Dez bryant aint trying to hear it. The cowboys wide receiver wants a longterm deal a all star break and phillies have yet to do anything to get better for now or the future. If you want to rebuild you have to make moves and find young talent. The vets that should be gone by now are still here. Cole hamels, ryan how war chase utley and Jonathan Papelbon wasting away on a losing team. Papelbon is the only phillie at the all star break and it makes it real clear right now hed rather be anywhere else. Heres what lot of people dont understand. This decision was solely oh and my shoulders, id have been gone a long time ago. But yvonne so much power. I can only do so much. If another team comes to the phillies and they have an offer and the phillies dont like it or dont want to superintendent i cant do anything about that. Yeah, no worries pat. Phillies fans actually want you gone, too. Haul star break and the only event going on in any sport tonight. The homerun derby. Plenty of star power there. The young gun Chris Jenkins trying to make a name for himself. He got Prince Fielder and a resurgent albert pujols. Pujols has been on the down slide ever since he signed a fat contract with the angels. His power numbers have all of a sudden come right back this year. He currently has 26 homers, leading the al. But my money is on the big boy Prince Fielder. Dez bryant wants a new longterm deal and he wants it right now. The cowboy wide receiver was hit with a franchise tag but refuse refusing to sign it. Hes flash she. Has off the field issues but a top three wide out in this league and he wants to get paid and the security with it. Its great news for the eagles fans. Hahn neverly because hes willing to sit out for it. Today dez tweeted out as much as i love football and my beautiful babies i apologize hash tag cowboys nation but i will not be there if no deal hash tag fact. And cant be mad at the man because franchises never live up to their part of the bargain when it comes to yack talk. You dont pay that wide receiver that much and also we were talking about certain off the field issues he had in certain stores and then all of a sudden the video didnt come out. Nfl put the kabosh we were talking about that. Iain was talking about that. Whats going on. Exactly. I think hell bet paid. They better pay him. Exactly. Hey, well see. Eagles i hope not i think hell get paid be sure to join us tonight for the fox 29 news at 10. Look were dad found mixed in with dolls for little girls. It says appropriate for fouryearolds. The toy thats sparking a major debate for parents tonight. All righty. That does it for us here at at 6 00. Well see you back here at 10 00v a great night. Inside edition is up next. Save my baby how Carrie Underwood rescued her little boy from a hot car after her dog locked the door. Hit it hard, hit it in the middle. Is then, weve got a new miss usa. Oklahoma as donald trump takes on mexico again over the escape of the notorious drug lord. Then, whoopi under fire. I dont get on board with a lot of stuff that is upset ising people. And is

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