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Im iain page. Thanks for joining us. Police say they know who hit the victim but they hope someone watching to night can department if i the man killed. Fox 29s dave kinchen is live where that cyclist was hit yesterday an into many dave, what clues do police have tonight. Reporter well, iain, police say they have that mike. They have a bag they recovered at the scene but they have very few other details they need witnesses and i can tell you from talking to the officers on this case, this is even breaking their hearts. Skid mark sit on a dark Second Street in north philadelphia where drivers raceed through likely unaware a man around 20 years old died here on this bike sunday afternoon. When police say a woman struck him while entering the wrong lane to get around another vehicle. A man is dead. But the only name known to the world is john doe. The worst part of this is that this individual is at peace now and his family has no knowledge of it. Reporter lieutenant stanford says Philadelphia Police want to give a family closure but cops only have a few leads to go on. Including this pink bag an officer takes away from the scene. Police say the victim was standing at 5foot nine weighing 153 pounds. He was wearing a blue nike tshirt with bright yellow lettering, gray fleece sweatshirt and multiple tattoos on both biceps. We havent had anyone come forward at this point. Weve cross referenceinginging with clotheing with missing persons report. Police arrested and interviewed the driver as she fled where cops got the vehicle. But sources say they was released while the das office considers possible charges. Another part of this Investigation Police are trying to find the person who they say called 911 while following the suspect vehicle. In the meantime if you have any information at all f that description sounds familiar to you please, please give Philadelphia Police a call. Iain. Eye all right, dave, thank you. Still to charges in two other high profile hitandrun wrecks that killed two Young Children just hours apart. The da has not yet approved charges on an accident on mascher street that killed a fouryearold back in april and theyre still waiting for warrants in another crash that fatally injured a little boy on warrington street and 57 in this kingsessing the same night. On your radar storms on the way. A live look at trenton, new jersey. Scott, weve been soaking in this nice weather but youre track something heavy duty rain. Thats right. A soaking in the sunshine today but tomorrow were looking at some wet weather across the area. In fact as we look at ultimate doppler right now a few pockets of light sprinkles showing south and west of philadelphia well zoom in closer. You can see around Cumberland County watching out for a new light showers but off to the wuest been watching a lot of Severe Weather a complex rolled through sections of the great lakes and also right now more storms are developing around chicago as well as moving toward cincinnati. That system will head in our direction tomorrow but look at all of the Severe Weather reports from that first system. Not anticipating that type of Severe Weather here, however overnight increaseing humidity, scattered downpours around for tomorrow the main threat would be some ponding on the roads as well as a flash flood threat. So by tomorrow morning its mostly cloudy, you can see by 7 00 a. M. Were watching for some pockets of showers. So grab that umbrella out the door tomorrow. And then well continue to keep the clouds and scattered showers around. Now, everyone is not going to see those downpours but coming up, new timing on tomorrows system when it finally clears out as well as what to expect in cincinnati tomorrow for the all star game. Were watching potential rainfall impacting that event coming up. All right. Talk to you soon, scott. Stay ahead of Severe Weather with our fox 29 news app. Youll see live ray dan car and get weather alerts sent right to your phone. Download the app for free in the apple or google play stores. Weeks after severe storms tour through south jersey, health may be on the way for homeowners. Governor Chris Christie announce dag that he asked federal government for 15 million to help people in atlantic, Burlington Camden and gloucester counties after that june 23rd storm. The governor cited hundreds of thousands of power outages. Damaged buildings and roads and infrastructure. No word yet when we could get a decision. New tonight police in arizona have released a body cam video from the officer who pulled over former Philadelphia Eagle Donovan Mcnabb in june. How much have you had had to drink tonight . Nothing. Are you sure . Yes. How come i can smell it on you . That apparently wasnt the case. Officers arrested mcnabb for dui fox 29s sean bell joins us from the newsroom now. Sean what does all of this newly released video actually show . Lucy the video shows every moment of the arrest from him getting out of the car to him being booked inside the Police Station he got into an accident with a woman in arizona. Once the cops came here was what happened. Mcnabb was taken out of the car and away from the other person. He went through the regular tests that people go through for drunk driving. He took the eye exam and from there the police decideed to he was under the influence. He was then arrested put into the car and taken to jail. Heres what he had to say to the cops prior. First of all ive been i got a cold. So ive been on cough said medicine. So like i said wave cough medicine . Chlorophyll robe with to us glenn do you have something in your mouth. Two cough drops. Like i said, ive been really sick. Definitely a new one. Poor excuse there. He also had a good amount of money on him as you can see he can barely see right there theyre counting cash. Hes out of jail now and hell probably await trial. Mcnabb has been suspended from his gig as an analyst at fox sports one. We dont know if its going to be permanently or indefinitely but well see what happens. Iain, back to you. All right sean, thank you very much. Also new tonight the city of new york has come to a settlement family of eric garner who died in Police Custody back in october the city will pay the family 5. 9 million. In a lawsuit filed by garners family they had a asked for 75 million. Garner was stopped by police back in july of 2014 for selling loose cigarettes video showed garner being taken to the ground what appeared to be a choke hold which is banned by the police force. Garner lot of consciousness and then died at the hospital. His death sparked protests throughout the country against police brutality. In Cumberland County dozens of needles feet away where children play. And now one man has made it his mission to change that from ever happening again. Tonight he and others just want to keep their neighborhood safe. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is in millville, new jersey. Shawnette, whats going on here . Reporter lucy i can tell you it is a big concern. You can drugs especially heroin are hitting many neighborhoods hard signs of it now showing up here at this park behind me and neighbors are fighting to keep it out. We were just here yesterday. We were here yesterday. Reporter robert kill roy is disgusted to find this syringe in walton park in millville a day after he says he an group of residents cleaned up here. I come out every day and take the dog for a walk to find this stuff. I find it disgusting this is our park where kids are supposed to feel safe and its not. Reporter and thats his biggest concern. That this is a Community Park where lots of families bring their children every day. Hes afraid one of them will get hurt. 75 feet away theres kids playing on the playground and three needles sitting right there in the weeds. Reporter last week robert took a bunch of stuff he found at the park to a City Commission meeting. This is video of him showing it to Board Members. Four days we collected over 200 bags that the heroin comes in. 13 needles and about 100 little plastic bags that the pot comes in. I had it in a sealed container. Reporter timothy and kimberly bring their twins to play here often. Just the view itself. Youre right on the river and its a nice place. Reporter they want it to stay that way but theyre concerned. You dont want to know thats happening in your community but we know we have a problem here. We know a lot of places have problems. So while its more disappointing i guess than surprising. Reporter robert joined forces with social media sight called taking back millville. They work to solve problems in their community. We have been coming out with bob every sunday at 10 00 a. M. And we are um, trying to approach the city about how to work with the Parks Department to do organized cleanups, trying to work with the mayor of public safety. Reporter so during that Commission Meeting last week, commissioners advised kill roy not to pick up the drug paraphernalia. They said he could be considered in possession of contraband. They said he should instead call the police. We reach out to the board tonight. Well let when you know we hear back from them. Iain. Shawnette, thank you. A 14yearold is recovering after fall tag bucks county camp that happened just after b5 00 at the cherokee day cam in that langhorne. Officials say the teen fell about 20 feet from a rope swing he has head injuries and was flown to chop. No word on his condition tonight tonight. A guilty verdict today for one of the men involved in a deadly drag racing crash that killed a mother and her three children. A judge found this man guilty on four counts of third degree murder. His car hit samarra banks and her children as they were crossing roosevelt boulevard back in july of 2013. The man he was racing is now serving five to 10 years. The fbi and Philadelphia Police have new Surveillance Video they want to you take a look at. It shows a woman they say robbing a somerton bank on thursday. Police say she went into the Citizens Bank on the 10,000 block of bustleton avenue, hasnted over note demanding money got it and then took off. They say she left in a dark colored Nissan Murano or rogue. Police think this same woman is behind several Bank Robberies in northeast philly. Philadelphias archbishop says Catholic School leader whos fired a gay religion teacher showed quote character and common sense. Archbishop Charles Chaput says the sisters of mercy and Board Members who run waldron Merry Academy are being honest about the churchs teachings. Margie winters says she lost her job last month as waldrons religion instructor instruction director even though she disclosed her same sex marriage in 2007. Many parents are upset by her dismissal but the principal says the school recognizes the archbishops authority on church doctrine. One dads shocking find shopping with his young daughter. A half naked doll in bondage right neck to the barbies. Why does this doll have a chain around her neck . I dont have any answers. But what shes wearing isnt even the biggest problem. What this doll is called made this dad jaw drop. And missing for days theyre plain just disappeared whom police say just wandered out of the woods sparking an even bigger mystery. And known as the king maker hes helped launch the careers of hiphop biggest stars the secret cosmic kevs success. Plus i am stuck inside fed he can office. Yup. Locked inside. No way out. Trapped for hours in a fed he can. What this guy finally finally did to break free. Police tried to track down two men who robbed a tree ya cafe in center city early this morning. Investigators say the two guys entered the business on the 1100 block of spruce street around 1 00 a. M. Through a cellar door that was left open to take out the trash. One of the guys put something to the back of the managers head demanded he open the safe. The men made off with over 3,000. They were last seen running away on 12th street. A trip down the toy aisle had a local dad doing a double take. Hes furious over a popular star wars action figure sold in stores in our area. He says you know what, not appropriate for Young Children. So is it harmless movie memorabilia or too racy for youngsters. Take a look. You decide. We sent our Chris Oconnell to talk with a dad and do some digging, chris you say this doll is not just being sold in our area . He is being sold all over the country and this is it. A toy thats all over the country in stores and online. Some parents say this action figure for kids four and above is way too inappropriate for kids of any age. Reporter thats fred hills daughters at the target store in deptford shopping for their birthday gifts. Pretty and appropriate. Single dad was shocked to see this on the toy aisle shelf. A hasbro made star wars black series action figure of princess lea wearing what the box described as a slave outfit. I got two daughters i dont need seeing that crap. The toy features a van at this timely clad version of princess lea with a chain around her neck. The toy has dad blushing. Dad why does this doll have a chain around her neck . I dont have any answers. Im just like blown away looking at it. Even his kids thought the toy meant for ages four and up may be better suited for adults. She was wearing a bikini like but it says slave costume and it creeped me out. I was just looking at it and i was like why does this girl have a chain around her neck. We showed the action figure to other parents who had similar reactions. Its really indecent. A little more clothing would have helped. Its just a bit much for a child. It is. So no i probably wouldnt give this to my fouryearold and maybe not even an eightyearold eightyearold. One mom with three daughters all star wars fans say the figure is true to the Movie Star Wars return of the jed high. Even still true to the scene but i dont know if i would purchase this for my girls. We found the toy sold online and in stores like target and toys r us but this dad thinks this princess needs to go. That kind of crap is in the toy aisles for my daughters to see, no. Reporter we did reach out to target corp. Headquarters for a response. In a statement tonight they tell us, we are have not received any other guest complaints about the this product f a guest has a question we recommend they reach out directly to the targets guest relations team. Now, we also have to say we did reach out to hasbro. The production the people who make this. They say we have not received a response from them yet and heres the toy itself. You can see it is sold all over the country found it online. Its about 15 or 20 bucks. Again, we talked with many parents. Most of them their eyes bulged when we showed it to them. Hard to explain to a kid. In fact that dad reached out to me on facebook which is how i found out about this. Just i mean, yeah, im glad i dont have to talk to my kids about it. There you go. Me as well. Thanks, chris. The first settlement was poured today for the east market project this project could change the face of Market Street the development will take up the entire block between market and chestnut and 11th and 12th streets includes new Stores Restaurants and apartments the first phase expected to cost about 260 million. Its expected to open in late summer of next year. Caught at the jersey shore this weekend these two sharks at the same time and with recent shark attacks along the east coast this summer, should you be hmm at all worried . We sent our fox 29 weekends Bill Anderson down to the shore to talk with some experts. Reporter with several reported shark bites and sights in the region, people seemed to be on heightened shark alert this summer when we got two more pictures of sharks caught here in brigantine i came down obviously perfectly dressed for the occasion to check it out. Literal al few minutes after arriving here, i met more people who had pictures and video of sharks that theyre friends and family had caught. But even with all of that, the people here just didnt seem that phased by it. Ive been going in the water for over 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 most people didnt seem phased by it. A few who said they have a little bit more experience they had a different take on all of this. I wouldnt go in the water number one a shark was just caught a number of beaches down. Reporter general Public Opinion varies but the experts at the Marine Mammal stranding center told me that people are dramatically overreacting to animals that have been there long before we were. Any common sense would tell you that sharks are in the ocean forever. Theyve been around forever. Um this is nothing new. Whats new is the fact people are on the beach with their cameras and do you mean it right away and put it out on the air. Reporter they also showed me sharks that have been caught in this area long before the hysteria thats taking place right now. So they said that people should get all of the information before they panic and even with all of the information if theyre still panicked stay out of the ocean if youre that afraid. Use a pool. Thats why hotels have pools. Reporter okay, guys. Just to put in it context i found out that roller coaster coasters and black friday shopping actually all kill more people than shark tax annually and nobody is staying home from the mall. But we still want to find out what our viewers think. You can tweet us ating 229 philly or leave your comments on our fox 29 facebook page. In the newsroom im Bill Anderson fox 29 news. Bill putting it into perspective. A devastating wake up call for one neighborhood. People raceing to see what happened. We heard like an explosion. I was like what in the world . So got up. Looked. And all we saw was smoke. What came crash crashing through this home killing a man sleeping inside. Piles of pot confiscated. Edible weed and Marijuana Plants now police evidence. What one Company Claims they were selling when police found this loot instead. Only in philly. Streets torn up, entire sections just a mess right before the president lands in the city were talking hours here much whats really behind all of this. Youre only young once. Unless you have a subaru. announcer the subaru xv crosstrek. Symmetrical allwheel drive plus 34 mpg. Love. Its what makes a subaru a subaru. female announcer you could win 1,000 a day for life. husband hon its Grover Cleveland female announcer . 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Police are still investigating but say the driver could face charges. A family praised for a mother of five to return home. Their suspicions are rising shes been gone for more than a week now. Police say 35yearold crystal rogers disappeared from the home she shared with her boyfriend brooks houck. Rogers family says not like her to be out of touch and vest gathers say houck told them he was asleep when rogers disappeared but they say he waited two days to call police. Police have found rogers car abandoned with a flat tire. Her purse and her phone were still and side. You decide its official Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is running for president. He is joining the already crowded pool of gop candidates. Walker is the 15th republican competing for the nomination in 2016. If elected the wisconsin governor will be the first president since harry truman not to have a college degree. Part of a mysterious weekend plain crash solved tonight. Teenaged survivor reappeared but what actually happened we still dont know. Legal land and Sharon Bowman took off with their teenaged step granddaughter on saturday. Their plane vanished in flight along with everyone on board. Well 16yearold autumn post add picture from inside the cockpit of the plane right before they took off. And this evening autumn showed up on the side of a road an driver picked her up. She told authorities she survived that plane crash and had been walking for days. Shes now getting treated for minor injuries and we still do not know what happened or the condition of her grandparents. One of historys most dee loved characters turned into a villain. The twist for an american classic no one saw coming. It has people already boycott boycotting. Scott. Iain the latest on Tropical Storm claudette in the open waters of the atlantic and rainfall chances ahead for us tomorrow. The timing amounts next. Credited with launching careers like 50cent and meek mill called the king maker. Cosmic kev reveals the secret to his success. Right now at 10 30 breaking news out of the citys kensington section. Shots fired again. Philadelphia police say someone shot a man near somerset and hancock streets. He was rushed to Temple University hospital. Now we do know that he is in stable condition. We do not know however any word of any arrests. A construction mess right in the heart of center city. Roads are torn up. Parking spaces cut off as one of the citys Biggest Convention Social Security underway. President barack obama is going to have to pardon our dust when he visits tomorrow. Got quite a bit of the president comes here a couple of times a year but a hope hasnt been here in generation with two months to go bruce gordon has the push to get our city looking good. Reporter traffic on arch street near the Pennsylvania Convention center is rarely free flowing. These days its even more jammed than usual. Kind of messy. Its hard to ride a bike around here. Reporter work crews are rushing to rewire arch from 11th11th street to 17th part of a 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. Streets 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 direct 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 in center city. Underground peco upgrade. New Traffic Signals installed and the full repaving of arch from front street to broad. The streets commissioner insists 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 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 gotta hurt before you get better, right. Reporter go through the pain before you get the flesh . Thats it. Reporter repaving of arch street is set for this fall. After the papal visit as for those led street lights, im told they give much better facial recognition and vehicle recognition when used with security and surveillance cameras a longterm safety benefit thor that stretch of arch street. In the newsroom, im Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. Meanwhile septa is making plans for this falls papal visit. If you want to take Regional Rail during the popes visit you can have to buy one day passes. They go on sale monday. All Regional Rail riders even if you already have a monthly pass you will have to buy a oneday pass if you want to ride during the weekend of the popes visit. Thats the way it goes. Septas also only operating 18 Regional Rail stations so for a full list of all these things, head to myfoxphilly. Com. A mile long secret tunnel out of a mexican prison gave an drug lord the route he needed to escape fort second time. Now the u. S. Is pledgeing to work with mexico to provide any help needed to get Joaquin Guzman back behind bars. Authorities say it probably costs middle millions of dollars to build that escape tunnel. Mexican Authorities Say they are now questioning 18 prison workers. Authorities are scratching their heads tonight trying to figure out what happened to a cause a woman to fly into the air on a popular rhode island beach. She just got out of the hospital. But the force of whatever happened through her into a rock jetty saturday. No one else was hurt but several reported smelling gas. Authorities evacuated the beach that. Beach is back open at this point investigators say we may never know what happened. But they add they have no indication of a bomb or a terror plot. All right. On your radar, lets get a check. Beautiful day today but scott youre track something rain the way. Yeah. As well as increasing humidity. Scattered downpours for your tuesday. Not everyone is going to see the rain but if you do, you can see a quarter of an inch to up to an inch of rain across the area. Once again thats for your tuesday. So as we take a look at the hour by hour forecast well call it partly sunny to mostly cloudy. Temperatures top out right around 86 degrees by 1 00 oclock. 3 00 oclock were looking at some of those scattered showers and downpours across the area. Right now things pretty settled on ultimate doppler. As we move into Cumberland County watching a few light sprinkles right now but really not amounting to much but take look out to the west. Weve been watching a nasty line of showers and severe thunderstorms that started all the way in minnesota and moved down to the carolinas tonight then theres a second batch that has developed right now produce producing Severe Weather around chicago end flips fort wayne and this one will move toward cincinnati overnight tonight and then tomorrow more scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop. But you can see philadelphia we could be in the clear for Severe Weather the highest threat down to the south around parts of the carolinas. Put for us tomorrow morning its mostly cloudy by 7 00 a. M. Were looking at pocks of scattered showers around the area. That will continue kind of on and off throughout the day. Once again not a complete wash out throughout the day tomorrow but we do have chances for those scattered downpours across the area by 4 00 in the afternoon you can see around philadelphia, trenton also north and west once again watching for some pockets of showers and thunderstorms across the area. Things start to settle down by late tomorrow night. So on average were looking at about a half an inch maybe a little more right along the i95 corridor. Lesser amounts likely as you move into south jersey. What about the all star game tomorrow . Well take a look tonight. Showers and storms around cincinnati. Then tomorrow morning we get a break but during the heat of the day tomorrow, another disturbance will bring some scattered showers heres 3 00 oclock in the afternoon. By 6 00 still watching for a chance for some showers and thunderstorms. But it looks like by 8 00 oclock the start of the game that system will move out. You can catch it of course right here on fox 29. But heres the forecast. During the afternoon watching for those scattered showers and some downpours there in cincinnati. Well, of course, keep you posted. The seven day Weather Authority forecast shows tomorrow 86 degrees. Muggy, scattered showers and downpours. That trend continues for wednesday. Then all of that system its going to be out of here, the humidity leaves, 84 on thursday looks pretty good. Then we heat things right back up to near 99 degrees for the up coming weekend. Looks good. Thank you scott. Iain is a happy camper. Thats right. Thank you, scott. Piles of pot confiscated edible weed and Marijuana Plants plants. One company claimed they were selling when police found this loot instead. And i am stuck inside fed ex office on 281 and bitters. I was over here locked inside with no way out. Trapped for hours in fed he can store what this guy finaly did to get out. And thousands of unwanted guests move into a Popular Hotel hotel. Why they cant just call an exterminator to get rid of all these bees. I was over here in the back for an hour on the computer and no body was here because they left and locked me inside fed ex office. You heard him right. Chris galvin got locked inside a fed ex store in san antonio for hours saturday night. He says he was making flyers in the back of the store and when he was done employees had already locked up for the night. Galvin posted this video from inside the store to facebook. He called another store location that he knew was open and that manager drove on over and let him out. In your money tonight philadelphia based comcast trying something new. Launching a streaming Video Service to compete with streaming Services Like netflix. The nations largest cape Company Called the new Service Stream and says it will cost 15 bucks a month. Internet customers will be able to watch life tv from dozen or so networks including hbo on phones tablets and laptops. Comcast is launching the service in boston at the end of the summer then hopes to roll it out nationwide in early 2016. All right. Get ready. Carnita lover which it popely says its back. The Company Named a high quality pork supplier that meets its standards. Company based in the uk now all chipotle serve serving them by the end of the year earlier the chain said it was experiencely a shortage of responsiblely raised pigs a third had to stop serving them. Texas now a Nonprofit Group who claims it is saving our eco system. How. By relocating one beehive at a time. This hive was a problem honey bees built this huge hive on the side of a austin texas holiday inn. The they couldnt have the bees bothering the guest instead of killing the creatures they got an eviction notice. The American Honey Bee Protection Agency is stepping in to help. They say these bees are a crucial part of the eco system. Everybody wins. Holiday inn wins. The bees win. City of austin wins. Beautiful trees win. Honey bees are a necessity that without them humans would probably starve. The bees and the hive were carefully removed nonprofit relocated the hives to a safe place on the roof. Good stuff there. Known as the king maker hes helped launch the careers of hiphops biggest stars. The secret to cosmic kevs suckless one of historys most beloved character turned into a villain. The twist to an american classic no one saw coming. Hey, honey. Day dreaming . [laughing] sorry. About being at the beach . Uh. Yeah. In the caribbean . Thats odd. At our very own beach house . How do you know . Youve got the new instant game from the pennsylvania lottery. Oh, yeah 1,000,000 big money with top prizes of a million dollars. [male announcer] want to see your dreams come to life . You could scratch your way to instant winning. The pennsylvania lottery. Bring your dreams to life. Crutches, walkers those things were not inside this socalled medical supply in detroit michigan. Instead police found marijuana and pot products everything from candy to brownies filled with marijuana were all found inside the store. And thats not all. Police seized 12 pounds of marijuana at least 100,000 in product. Five men were arrested and four cars confiscated along with 10,000 in cash, charges are expected soon. Harp if he lees new book is due out tomorrow sequel to lees to kill a mocking bird. Its not out yet and readers are rebelling. Recast Atticus Finch the moral center of harper lees first book as racist. Foxs stays city delicate shows us whats inside the pages. She look out the dining car window with a delight um physical. The first chapter begins. Go set a watchman set in the south in the 1950s during of the Civil Rights Movement picks up 20 years after to kill a mocking bird. Finch and his daughter are back in watchman but theyve changed. This was Atticus Finch portrayed by gregory peck in the 1962 film version of to kill a mocking bird. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Finch an own who defensed a black man falsely accused of of raping a white woman in mocking bird revered as a i dont know of justice intolerance now now. According to early reviews much watch ma which lee wrote first finch is portrayed as a racist in his later years. The new york time says in the book hes a man who once attended a kkk meeting and makes derogatory statements about black people. Its kind of like heartbreaking in a way. Readers like know what coop pier who counts mocking bird as favorite arent happy. It really puzzles me. I cant even believe that would happen because he stood up for africanamericans. Probably burst the bubble of a lot of peoples fond memories. Reporter on twitter reaction has been sharp. Mia farrow wrote Atticus Finch a racist. Miss lee how could you in all of fiction, few were assure specked and loved. Another twitter user writes, our son is named for the most noble man in it will Atticus Finch. Please say it aint so. Hash tag devastating. Pub lib cher Harper Collins issued a statement. In response to the early reviews saying quote the question of atticus is racism is one of the most important and critical elements in this novel, and it should be considered in the context of the books broader moral themes. But controversy breeds curiosity and this isnt likely to disrupt sales of the book a a manuscript which earlier this year and maam amazon says is among the most pre ordered books ever. I certainly dont like that. As for harper lee well dont expect to hear any explanation from her. The 89yearold author is notorious rec clues. In fact she hasnt granted an interview in decades. In Greenwich Village stays tee delicate, fox news. All right. Pluto get ready for your close up. After 9. 5 years and 3 billion miles were about to see something no humans have ever laid eyes on. At about 7 50 tomorrow morning nasas new horizon spacecraft will fly by the dwarf planet. Back when it launched in 2006 pluto was still it still had full planet status thats how long its been it ranged an atlas five pocket. Third stage motor push it to speed of 36,000 miles an hour. Hard for me to even say its going so fast putting new horizons in the record books as the fastest spacecraft ever. Bunch of folks from the Delaware Valley helped make that booster at osh with shaat a2k in elkton maryland. A key player behind all your favorite hit songs and its not the artists or producers who create them. Its the djs who actually play those tunes that make you want to turn up the radio. One of the best in the business is right here in our area. Quincy harris introduce us us to the local king maker. Reporter for past two decades kevin owens better known as dj cosmic kev has nominated philly radio at power 99 fm. I love my job. I love breaking new artists. I love playing music of course. For me, i just like always i want to hear whats the neck thing much whats the neck thing coming . Reporter kev is one of those guys that was a huge contribution to how my career stepped and took place in my career and hes really important. Hes going to be there for everyone else. Like the guys who come. Kev, you know, he like the number one puzzle piece. Hes one of the people that took the first chance and played me on the radio. He played a major roll in my success. Reporter cosmic kev isnt respected by artists. But by his pierce as well. Whatever he does, just incredibly powerful. If kev says it or plays it, then its out of here. Its like the gospel. He just has that gift. Some people have it. Some people dont. He has it. This is where its right here. Lets go report roar its important to note kev maintained the top spot in the targeted ratings since hes been at power 99. My ratings at night i am number one 1834. Number number 25, 54. Number one another one. Hes number one in so many categories he cant even remember them all. Come on, come on. Reporter what is the secret to success . I dont york smoke, i dont drink. I dont do drug. I get high off of my profession. Whats key is, you never follow the leader. You be the leader. I dont follow. Im the leader. Reporter quincy harris, fox 29. You just saw roup per 50cent in quincys story he filed for bankruptcy today. Hes gotten to 50 million in assets and the same amount in debt. Hes on trial for up loading a sex tape online without the other persons consent. A judge ordered him to pay 5 million buck to the woman in that tape. In you go. We need good news. Got any sean. I have good news. 50 might have to highlight this because hes about to get a dez hes about to get a pay day. Hes willing to sit out if he doesnt get paid. Jonathan papelbon is the only phillie at the all star game but he wishes it wasnt for the phils. Papelbon speaks up. He wants to get trade. Sports is next. [brad] my friends, my sweet, sweet friends, i believe that finding the right apartment, through the right source and in the right way, can lead youim hoping to the realized life. Its so amazing what can happen when bold vision and great apartments. Come together. The new apartmentsdotcom. Change your apartment. Change the world. The trade deadline is july july 31st and the phillies are trying to get rid of any veteran thats worth anything. The main guys are cole hamels, chase you will, ryan howard and jonathan papelbon. Pap probably holds the most value sin the phils arent winning any games we dont need a closer. At the all star game papelbon made it really clear he doesnt want to be here either. Heres what a lot of people dont understand. If this decision was solely oh on my shoulders id have been gone a long time ago. I only have 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 accept it, i cant do anything about that. Pap needs to go now and hopefully we get a slugger in return phillies have would die for any of the guys who played in tonights homerun derby. The only event in sports tonight. The reds frazier wing the derby in his own building. In cincinnati. Also a local boy from toms river, new jersey. He was underdog beating all the heavyweights. Albert pujols Prince Fielder and the young gun. He was heating bombs. 15 homers in the final round. 39 in total. Second player to win the derby in the city he currently played for. First ryan sandberg. Football dez bryant was given the franchise tag but he wasnt hearing it. The cowboy a long term deal with long term security despite some off the field issues hes a top three wide out by far and hes willing to sit out until he gets paid what he thinks hes worth. Today dez tweet the out as much as i love football and my beautiful babies i apologize hash tag cowboy nation but i will not be there if no deal hash tag fact. Cant be mad at the man franchise never had to live up to their story their bargain or any type of contract talks that they have. Everyone wants to be on tv, right . Everyone wants to be youtube sensation now days. Guys create all types of trick shots trick catches things that has no practical use its hard to find something new and impressive but i think i may have found one. Quick check on this one. Kevin one shot he throws from deep off the bounce another shot look at that. Bank. That was between his legs and he heave it check out it again out. He does a back flip to celebrate. Two incredible shots as you see right there unbelievable. I use the poopoo on these shots but it was unbelievable. Thats fan tis tick. Full hour of Entertainment News is next. Well see you tomorrow. Have great one. Today on tmz. We now know that birdman is the boss of lil wayne. It all has to do with liquor. He took his drink and threw it on lil wayne. Did lil wayne attack him . No. Lil wayne just stopped a sec. If youre standing there wet with a drink on you and you dont do anything. What do you want him to do . Bryan cranston seriously burned a fan. He claims that hes from albuquerque. Did you have fun there . Yeah, id go visit your mother once in a while. Im at comic con and Bryan Cranston says hes with my mom its way cooler. That would be awesome. This is it

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