[phone rings] but a little less crazy. Were doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. Because we should fit into your life. Not the other way around. Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of aweso awesome. Two developing stories right now at 10 00. The first in manayunk where a man drowned this evening in the schuylkill river. Police say the man was seen in the water near the Venice IslandRecreation Center much this was just after 6 00 oclock. And then he disappeared. His body was found about an hour later. Officials have not yet released his name and they are not saying why the man was in the river. Also developing to night, a hitandrun investigation in northeast philadelphia. Sixyearold girl was hit around 8 00 oclock tonight. It happened on the 6600 block of sylvester street. A car hit the child and at least one other vehicle. Now the little girl is in stable condition thankfully. Police say the driver got out and ran from the car ran from the scene just minuting a investigators told fox 29 they caught the driver. He is under arrest. Neighbors talked to fox 29 and told us what they her. Oh, my gosh it sounded like an explosion. It was so loud my husband was down in the basement he thought thunder hit. We couldnt imagine what it was, and then i look out front, and it was horrible. It was horrible. Sixyearold girl is being treat tad local hospital. Again, shes in stable condition and is expected to be okay. Tears, sadness and anger today at a city park in chester. Thats where dozens of women who lost their children to gun violence rallied for peace but just two hours earlier, two more shootings in chester youngest victim just nine years old. Fox 29s brad sattin is back from the rally hes in the newsroom tonight. Brad, so many heartbreaking stories here. Reporter youre right, dave. We heard lost them. Group is called in the eyes of grieving mothers. They do find some comfort in knowing that other which is relate to what theyve been through you can imagine theyre desperate to try to find a way to stop the gun violence. The problem theres no easy answer because there was another shooting in chester late last night. Children know all too well bullet holes in plane sight as they play on Potter Street in chester. Somebody came up and just started shooting. Reporter someone opened fire friday night in front of butlers mothers home hitting 18yearold woman and nine yeared boy. Theyll be okay. Kianna last night been sitting where she is now i would have been hit. Probably must pell times. Reporter she keeps close watch on her only living child after her first daughter was shot to death at age four. She would be 15 today. I hope nobody would wanting to through the pain i went 32. Reporter but so many have. My son got murdered april 24th. He was murdered. Mother after mother i son got shot one torn and the bullet tour his inn sides up. He was dead on the scene. Sharing story after story. He was killed november 13t 1h of 2005. Eric dixon my only son. Reporter all attend agriculturally for peace saturday balloons released in the memories of so many lives cut short. As children laugh and play at Memorial Park pool, on the other side of the fence, mothers grieve. Boys stand beside photos of their big brothers gunned down and the names of 181 People Killed in the city since 1980 showed the reality gun problem. Some of the grief is still raw a mom whos son was killed back in may and still no arrests. He wont get away witness. Others have been living with the pain for decades. 27 years ago. Reporter all wishing not one other parent has to feel this kind of pain. Im trying to stop from having to add another name. Love our children to know to let theyre valuable theyll value their brothers and sister. In order for this senseless violence to stop, that we as community, we have to step up and put a stamp on this violence and say enough is enough reporter the woman bite name of tenetia palmer organize todays memorial she lost her sevenyearold son back in 2007. She came up with this idea because her son would have just celebrate add birthday. She is promising moral lease like this one. Joyce. All right, thank you so much, brad. Philadelphia police say that theyre confident that witnesses and Surveillance Video will help them track down a gunman who put two victims in the hospital earlier this morning. Now, officers arrived at the 5700 block of Cherry Street before 2 00 a. M. Thats where they found a 38yearold man with a gunshot to his arm. Investigators later found a 37yearold man already at the hospital with a similar wound to his arm. Police could not find any weapons or even any she will casings at the scene but they say nearby surveillance cameras an few witnesses were help them track down that shooter. Were turning to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Ill tell was, hot and hazy today. Makes you want to feel lazy. Were feeling some cooler temperatures moving in tonight. Meteorologist dave war warren is here to tell us how the rest of the your week send shaping up. Dave. The trend is the daytime highs get hotter and hotter the overnight lows get warmer and warmer. Warming trend now. Not as cool as last few mornings. Right now niece and clear a few clouds out there but the first headline its the heat wave begins its in it hun degrees today. This will start our stretch of 90 plus degree weather. The air quality alert is there because that air is not moving out there. Just light breeze and when you get that bright sunshine, it really creates some problems there right at the surface. The air quality alert continues tomorrow humidity returns. Didnt really feel that today. Youll feuillete by tomorrow morning the mugginess sticking around for a few days. Ultimate doppler all clear. This will be the trend over the next few days. Showers and storms theyre close but as they try to push south into this area of High Pressure which keeps that wind very light they just fall apart really didnt make it down past mount pocono just a few light showers to the north there. Heres the air quality alert pretty much everywhere but delaware and atlantic and cape may counties in that air quality alert zone for tomorrow. Right now the temperature still right about 80. Very warm out there still right along 95. You can see that hint of orange still fairly warm. But it gets a little cooler here overnight tonight. By tomorrow morning, back into the upper 80s. Were starting our warming trend soon and well see how long it will last in the seven day forecast. Ill have that coming up. All right. Thank you, dave. And happening now, flights along the east coast are in the air again after a day of delays and cancellations. Computer problems caused a major headache earlier today for air travelers. The technical break down left many people scrambling to make other plans and tonight the faa says that problem is now been resolved. Ill tell was it wasnt an easy fix. Some people were already on the planes sitting on the tarmac when they were told theyre not going anywhere. Foxs bryan llenas has the latest. Reporter delays and cancellations from new york to the carolinas causing headaches for thousands of flyers saturd saturday. Our flight was for 9 55. Weve been here all day. Reporter it all started around 9 45 saturday morning. These women were sitting on the tarmac at washington race began National Airport bound for marthas vineyard. After the realization that planes werent going out bay they were all piling up work comes to a halt on highway construction a project in Schuylkill County after workers unearthed a mass grave. It happened along route 61 in schuylkill haven. Crews have been widening a stretch of that roadway and Officials Say that the remains are a victims from the spanish from more than 100 years ago. The karo they ares office estimates a couple hundred bodies could be in the field along that construction project. Coroner will attempt to identify those remains which will be then reburied somewhere else. Fastmoving fire has forced more than a dozen residents from their homes in trenton and left a young woman with severe burns on her body. Firefighters doing their best to contain the flames consuming five row homes late last night. Investigators say it started in a basement of one of the homes and it spread quickly. Police say a man helped pull a 21yearold woman from her home. Shes in the hospital tonight. Shes got burns over 70 to 80 of her body. The man who rescued her has burns on his hands and two firefighters suffered heat exhaustion. In all, 13 people are being put up by the red cross tonight. Fire officials still dont know what sparked that blaze. And theyve been knocking each other around for weeks. But tomorrow, well theyre going to get a chance to hit somebody else. Were just a day away from the unofficial start of the eagles football season. Thats right. And tomorrow afternoon that game wont count but it still gives us a chance to answer some very Big Questions on the field. Fox 29s sean bell is talking quarterback from the newsroom tonight. Sean a big debut for one man in particular. Yeah, big debut was sam bradford is segment out chip kelly giving him another week of practice before he gets to see some real action. Mark sanchez will start but wont see much playing time. So it will be tim tebows debut along with him battling with matt barkley. Barkley is clearly the better quarterback. Hes been in the system longer and he can throw a better ball that tebow. But tebow still seems to have this intrigue. He has the intangibles people seem to love. If he can show any type of improve many he has a shot to make the team but at this point he seems to be happy to be back in a uniform. I love it. Im excited. Im excited to experience it. Ive been able to watch it for so long from when coach was at oregon since hes been here and how much success hes had with it. Im excited to be able to be a part of it. Big change for me has just been appreciating every opportunity you have out here whether its a walk through or its a game, you know, playing in front of a bunch of fans, you know, just being able to appreciate it. More. You should definitely see over a quarter of action tomorrow. He or bark the want to earn a roster spot theyll have to prove something. Later in sports the quarterbacks will talk about what they have to do tomorrow against the colts. All right. Well, thank you, sean. Still to come on the fox 29 news at 10 00, the countdown to the papal weekend continues. Visitors from new jersey need to act quickl quickly if theyre tg Public Transportation into the city. How you can get your hands on an nj transit rail line pass. Plus space travelers landed at your local airport . Sound like a distant future . Maybe not. Well show you how the commercial space race is taking flight. Im dave warren in the near feature well have very mild temperatures and mugginess in the air. Youll start the day tomorrow with the sunrise at 6 00 14. Just blow 70 in the city. 64 degrees in the suburbs. That humidity is increasing and its sticking around for while. See how many days in the seven day. Ill have that coming up. And just six weeks until pope francis comes to philadelphia. If youre plan to go use new Jersey Transit to get into the city, well you have to get your tickets now. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose shows us how to do it. Reporter beefed up security at the Pennsauken Transit Center k9 unit on patrol as special passes for the popes visit went on sale. Tyler willis the first customer to buy a special pass here. I think pope francis is a real class act, and i think hes good for the world. I think this is an opportunity i dont want to miss. Reporter this woman drove here at nooned to the same. She says the last time the pope came to philly she saw him on her lunch break. Not so easy this time around. I recently restored my faith, and its very meaningful i see him because the last pope when i saw him it was such an aura about the pope. Reporter nj transit releasing a limited amount of special rail passes at noon today. The passes are for Atlantic City rail express service to philadelphia and River Line Service to camden. Saturday and sunday of the pope visit. I got four tickets. I got two days to for sunday and two for saturday. Travelers need to avoid large crowd and delays. Reporter nj transit executive director announced 4,000ac rail passes and 7500 river line passes are available per day. But maximum river line ridership on a typical weekday is 10,000. That means the river line will be operating at about a 75 capacity. Unlike septa which is doubling space for its typical work day ridership. This is the weekend. Saturday and sunday. We have limited capacity because we have to be able to get everybody safely to these stations. If youre familiar with the river line stations configurations theyre not large footprints. Reporter even witness passes in hand tyler and this woman say nothing about this process looks like it will be simple. Theyre making it as dill difficult as humanly possible. Reporter trying to get there. Ac line special passes are on sale at nj transit. Com. The river line on sale here at ticket booths like this one at one about a half dozen stations including here in pennsauken. Remember they are the only way to ride those two lines during the popes visit. In pennsauken, Sabina Kuriakose, fox 29 news. Happening now, new explosions are rocking a disaster zone in chain n its been three days since those massive explosions happened at a warehouse storing hazardous chemicals ton night there are new concerns about toxic chemicals in the air. Also today, the number of dead rose to 104. There are reports authorities have ordered People Living win 2 miles of the blast site in valid evacuate. According to Chinese Media theyre worried that the winds could change and that could spread toxic chemicals inland a bit of good news today, though. A 50yearold man was rescued about 50 yards away from the site of the blast. He survived three days inside a shipping container and hes in stable condition. Thats amazing. Really is. Fastmoving wildfires in Washington State are forcing hundreds of people from their homes. Take a look. Lightning sparked several wildfires and crews have been working around the clock to try to contain them. They say shifting winds are making it really tough to fight. I fought fire in the past but its different when youre home and family and all your possessions are sitting in the way. All your life going up in smoke. Several homes have been destroyed. The red cross opened a shelter for residents affected by the fire. News photographer covering those wrong fires is in the wrong place at the wrong time. A plane dumped fire retardant all over him and his camera yesterday. Now hell be okay. Were not sure bout camera though. The retardant is made up of water and fertilizer. Well ill tell was a new idea from for private Companies Looking to capitalize on commercial space travel out of the this world. It sure is and it could mean a change at your local airport in the near future. Foxs Jonathan Serrie takes lo look. Reporter space travelers landing at your local airport. Sound like the distant future . Maybe not as the commercial space race takes flight. Its like going back to the 1960s where the us and russia were competing for space as countries. Now its a commercial environment and no longer countries competing but the commercial industries. Reporter see err in a Nevada Corporation is developing dream chaser a vehicle resembling nasas original Space Shuttle but dream chaser lot smaller so theoretically it could land on any runway capable handling a boeing 737. Studies are underway to determine whether dream chaser can lead at this airport in Huntsville Alabama placing it win minutes of the Aerospace Centers and laboratories. It could make us the first commercial landing sight for a spacecraft which is incredibly exciting for the rocket city. Reporter the first but not the last. Georgia tech robert braun says companies and communities around the us are planning space ports and other investments in the final frontier. One thing i will say with certainty is that we will send more humans into space in the next five years than we have in the past 50. Reporter back in alabama, studies must first determine dream chasers impact on air traffic, the environment and runway. If all goes well space could be added to this ports rifles list within the next five years. Jonathan serrie, fox news. Still to come on fox 29 news at 10 trapped mother desperately tries to get her baby away from a raging intern know. What she did that literal hal firefighter jumping into action and how he sacrificed his entire body to keep them safe. Plus abandoned home on the verge of collapse. Neighborneighbors called 311 lor help but they say nothing is g getting done. Is 311 worth your tax dollars . Tense moments for two aerial acrobats high above the city of chicago of Officials Say two military parachutes were performing at the air and water show today both were injured in a possible mid air collision. Officials say that one of them landed on a beach and is in serious condition tonight. The second parachute may have hit a building after deploying his emergency chute. Were told hes in critical condition. A woman and her infant son are alive tonight because of the quick work by an off duty firefighter. The fire broke out friday inside an apartment complex in shaat into good tennessee and quickly spread to two dozen units. The first fire crew arrived just moments later. Their station is only one block away. But inside one of the apartments was off duty firefighter lawsuit vernon lane. His quick thinking saved a young mother and her 10 month old. As i proceeded to the building, the baby got released from the top of the building and i dove into the bushes to grab the baby. As i was trying to get up, um, i felt a weight of somebodys body come down on my back as i was getting up and i real life the mother of the child. Wow. No word on their conditions tonight. The red cross is providing shelter for displaced residents. Central pennsylvania town changed its controversial policy that originally barred a man from paying his parking fees in pennies. Officials in shapers burg told the man that a federal rule prevented him from turning over 2500 pennies as payment but residents there complained this week and City Council Members say they eliminated that outdated plan. Theyre also bringing in coin counting machines although theyre hoping that people wont use thousands of coins to pay off their debts. Protesters storm inside the lobby of a texas jail demanding answers about a mans death. The angry people want to know what happened to 48yearold joseph hutchinson. He ran into the jail lobby in dallas on august 1st and he yelled for help. Cher rip deputees say he was acting erratically and they were forced to tackle him. Hutchinson died. Demonstrators are asking deputees to release surveillance tapes so they can see for themselves what happened in the minutes before his death. Well, were demanding right now is that sheriff valdez treat joseph hutchinsons family like human beings. Treat them like she would if a deputy had gotten killed in this jail. They would release the tapes immediately. The cause of death is not yet clear, and the Dallas County medical examiner says that hes waiting for toxicology reports before making any kind of ruli ruling. Sheriffs department will not release any Surveillance Video until the investigation is complete. Theres lot more to come on fox 29 news at 10. An unexpected guest decides to surprise an idaho man by making a house call residents not the first time hes gotten company like this. Who else keeps showing up outside his mountain home. Weird looking. Not weird looking here. Jennifer lopez, harry connick, jr. And keith urban stars all right here in philadelphia. Straight ahead we go behind the scenes for a look at the local auditions for the final season of American Idol. Dave warren. Heating up out there. Thats the case. We have temperatures on the rise. Showers and storms trying to make their way into the area. They will give us some relief from the heat this week. A look at this days when we can see that rain in the seven day coming up. Hey terry stop they have a special so, what did you guys think of the test drive . I love the jetta. But what about a deal . Terry, stop its quite alright. You know what . We want to make a deal with you. Were twins, so could you give us two for the price of one . Come on, give us a deal. Look at how old i am. Do you come here often . He works here, terry you work here, right . Yes. Ok lets get to the point. Were going to take the deal. Get a 1000 2015 jetta s oe for 139 get a 1000 month yes, the smooth sounds of jazz filling the air in north philadelphia. Its the ninth annual jazz on the of a event and were talking about cecil b. Moore avenue, of course. Jazz greats like billy holiday and Dizzy Gillespie frequented jazz clubs along the of a decades ago dans events were free to the public. Grammy nominated he will verna and Jeff Bradshaw were headliners at the concert. They were dance to go a slightly different sound in manayunk tonight. Music lovers helped to put the Venice Island outdoor amphitheater to good use. Dozen of performers took to the stage of the brand new hidden river blues festival along with incredible blues acts out there. Visitors were also invited to check out a variety of food vendors and even a beer garden. Well, as you may have heard, this Upcoming Season of American Idol is going to be its last for that music competition. Thats harder to believe. Today they held their season 15 auditions at the Philadelphia Convention center and you know we got sneak peek behind the scenes. Judges jennifer lopez, harry connick, jr. And keith urban will be handing out the gold tickets today and tomorrow we caught up with the local Rowan University student right before he went in to sing. Im nervous waiting around. Ive been waiting around for a couple of hours now to get in front of these judges and theres something really you can do. I sit around and drink water. Listen to mu sick. Talk my uncle but as soon as i get in there ill be okay. Ooh want them to say yes. Im not nervous. I just want them to say yes. Well, maybe they will. Judges auditions kick off right here in philadelphia. Theyll continue across the country in hopes of finding the final American Idol making history and you know American Idol is right here on fox 29. Be out there again tomorrow. Atlantic city beaches will be jammed with thousands of music fans tomorrow. Maroon five will hit the stage on the sand on sunday afternoon. The music continues next sunday with rascal flats on the beach stage. The two shows aring expected to drove draw about 100,000 overall and the city says ticket sales doing pretty g. Your fox 29 Weather Authority has some good news for all of those music fans head to go ac. Dave warren here. Should be pretty good weekend to spent it right on the beach. Thats really the only place you want to be. The beach would be good. Right along that beach where its nice and cool. A couple hundred feet inland things start to heat up. Like here. Right. Certainly feel it. Next few days that will be the place to beat the heat right now ultimate doppler is not seeing any rain out there. A few showers. Even few thunderstorms well north of mount pocono up towards scranton theyve tried to push south but everything falls apart as it gets farther south. High pressure continues to control our weather the rain cant really work its way in. Eventually that will move out. Wee see that rain push in but until then, we are just high and dry and getting hotter. That heat will continue to build. The humidity is coming back as well. Now that rain again stays to the north. There could be few sprinkles trying to work their way south but they hold together as they go through the Lehigh Valley thats overnight tonight. Waking up tomorrow morning it is dry and it is humid. Theres lot going on again tomorrow. Music fest ends tomorrow. A week long festival. Theyre um across the Lehigh Valley. 1 00 oclock not football weather. Preseason but its like 90, 92 degrees with high humidity so wont feel like it there. Plenty of fluids if youre heading to the game. Bright sunshine. Cooler along the coast. Certainly no rain out there. But thats the place to be. Ending weekend nice and comfortable. Its 79 now. Today is day number one. Well see day two, three, four, five, at least 90 degrees or higher. But eventually well see some of that rain move in and give us some relief from the heat. If do you get a thunderstorm coming in. Temperatures in philadelphia right about 80. Theyre right along the 95 corridor still fairly warm but cooling off nicely in the surrounding suburbs. Mid to 60s by tomorrow morning. Thats what youll wake up to. Quickly warming up. Just afternoon there. 1 00 oclock we have kick off. And its 88 and climbing. Temperatures still warming up. So its if you think its hot enough its not done because well peek out about 92 degrees by 2 00 oclock. Staying right about 92 by 4 00 oclock. But then slowly dropping. So continue to go warm up quickly. It will be close to 90 by noon. Definitely stay cool tomorrow. Now, High Pressure controls our weather. This is the summertime pattern we see. You dont like to see it right over there. The southeast coast it moves over bermuda called the bermuda high because it brings in the heat and humidity day after day and really doesnt change much and this is just the start. So were dealing with the hot and humid weather building. It gets hotter on monday. Up into the mid to low nines. When factor in the humidity it feels like the upper 90s not quiet heat advisory level but close. Certainly look to see how hot we get and how much humidity comes in because youll start to feel that oppressiveness in the air as that heat index climbs close to 100 on monday. 90s all way through the first five days of the seven day forecast. Storms and then just chance of storms. This type of pattern you cant really pinpoint where well see that rain. But its enough of a moisture in the air and the high moves off the coast just enough where storms could be able to pop up and develop. Dumb app lot of rain all at once den then die down wednesday and thursday. By friday, better chance for showers and storms some cooler air comes in. And it starts to clear up a bit next weekend. Want to watch closely how far that rain moves to the south. But it looks like well start to see a little change in our stubborn weather pattern by day seven of the seven day. A lot of rain on there. People in in ac. We hear snoop dog is down there. Not in ac. Allentown. Thats right, allentown. Were here. Not there. Thats right. Still ahead on fox 29 news at 10, there was a phone call this military family never expected they would get. Theres no words that can describe the feeling right now. Its amazing and its awesome and its a blessin blessing all. Years later and thousands of miles apart, a technology reconnected them with a Family Member they thought was gone forever. When it comes to helping those in need one Iconic Company is saying just do it. Nicky special delivery to kids with disabilities. Yeah, im married. Does it matter . Youd do that for me . Really . 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The United States and japan commemorated the anniversary with a ceremony at pearl harbor. Wreaths were laid and new yell yall plaque was unveiled. The war ended when japan surrendered on august 15th, 1945. The ceremony honored both the dead and celebrated the seven decades of post war alliance and friendship between the u. S. And japan. Now, around the world, there were 15 Million Deaths on the battlefields and 45 million civilians who died from that w war. It was one heck of a celebration in south philadelphia this afternoon. The sal vague army playing host to all Day Block Party in grays ferry. Neighbors were invited out for day of fun and food and to get their first look at the new Neighborhood CommunityCenter Salvation Army says that they renovate the the facility and it will now serve communities beyond grays ferry its welcoming visitors from other parts of south and west philadelphia. On the last day of camp some very special gifts were given to group of deserving kids in chicago. Kids were given a free pair of nike shoes. But theres nothing ordinary about these shoes. Then are specifically designed for these kids who have disabilities that alter how their hands function. The special gifts were donated on the last day of camp chicago, a special camp for some very special kids. To us in the world of work wig people with dissables this is transform ma tiff. I can grab the tap tab open and keep root on going much the shoe opens up. You put your foot in. And then grab the tab and pull and back on. Nice kicks, right . The camp is now in its 12th year. Organizers say it gives those with dissables an opportunity to feel like a star athlete. Thats fantastic. I tell was, coming up on fox 29 news at 10, a abandoned home on the verge of collapse. Neighbors called 311 looking for help but they say nothing is getting done. So were asking 311 really worth your tax dollars . Heres something you dont see every day. A bear tries to get inside a house through a cat door much thats what that is there. Not just diss embodied head. This happened in idaho the homeowner snapped the pictures and he says this isnt his first run in with bare trying to get in. As you can see a few more of them through the sliding glass door. Thats scary. A military family is reunited with the dog they were told died several years ago. This is sues. He was living with the who are worths in georgia. In 2011 they stationed in south korea and left him with a friend in north carolina. A year later the friend told the family sues had died. Just a few weeks sues was found roaming the streets of durham. A micro chip led a vet to the the family. They havent spoken to that family friend in years. They arent sure why they were told sues had died but theyre just happy hes alive. Well, they told thus it would revolutionize the delivery of city services. While easing the burden on the 911 emergency call system. But has philadelphias 311 hell help line made good on those promises . Thats the big question. Frustrated homeowners convinced our bruce gordon to take a look at the multi Million Dollar program want he found may just leave you frustrated frustrated. I dont like to live next to this. Terrell harrell system thrilled to so the crumbling long vacant row house next to her place in philadelphias logan neighborhood demolish. Its going to be lovely. Reporter its about time. Im going to take care of this block like it was my own. Reporter we had met terrell and her husband ike days earlier. She told us she called the citys 311 help line eight times over the past five years. Asked this dangerous eye sore be removed. Calls she says resulted in visits from the department of licenses and inspections and formal label the structure dangerous. They would come out and put a sticker on the wall. Sticker on the wall and lea leave. Yes. Reporter the house couldnt to do crumble . Yes. They make us believe that they going to do something and it doesnt get done. Reporter the harle harleys frustration is typical of a problem oy hear about all the time. A fundamental misunderstanding exactly what 311 is supposed to do. Of course that leads to bigger perhaps more important question s311 worth its twopoint ail Million Dollars a year price tag to taxpayers. The program puts operators on duty monday through friday 8 00 a. M. To 8 00 p. M. To answer questions and send Service Requests to exactly the right city agency. Like the water department. Streets department. Or l and i. James morris is the new Senior Operations manager here. Its valuable resource much its a good tool but to make sure that citizens have access to services. Reporter 311 puts requests for service pothole repair a street light into the right hands. But these operators dont actually do the work. Thats still the responsibility of often under staffed departments like streets, water and l and i. 2011 city controllers report on 311 found fully a third of the Service Requests submitted and monitored by the program were not completed in a timely manner by the responsible city department. Controller alan butkovit butts y says its still hard to know whether the program is actually helping people. Theres not enough useful data coming out of the 311 collects their information to know really what is working. Reporter morris promises more detailed information on the 311 batting average is on the way. Would you make the case to the taxpayer that this is worth it how important is it to be able to say this is percentages here our batting average. I think its critical. Reporter theres another problem. 311 was launched in januar january 2009, mayor nutter promised the new service would help unclog philadelphias over burdened emergency call center. It will ab winner. Its good for the city. Takes some of that call volume away from 911 as well. Reporter so what happened . We check the records and found that since 2008, the year before 311 launched, calls to 911, some of which turn out to be non nonemergency, have actually risen by 16 . Police, fire, ems all responding to more calls than in 2008. Butkovitz all the other cities that have used 311 have major drops in 911 usage. Baltimore cut it by 50 . Philadelphia didnt cut it 911 usage at all. We think thats significant failure. Reporter james morris cannot refute the numbers but says we can look at our call stats and see that chances are out of those million plus calls that we handle every year a good number of those had it not been for 311 likely would have been going to 911. Reporter as for the harleys, it was calls by fox 29 that led to the quick demo next door. I thank god for yall, you know, cause now i can sleep peacefully you know, knowing that this wont damage my home. Reporter as for the citys help line 311 number you might as well go ahead and call l and i. Reporter and put your patience to the test. Bruce gordon, fox 29 news. Some people dont appreciate being called a geek but its a term hundreds wore with pride tonight in university city. The fifth philadelphia annual geek awards held at the academy of Natural ScienceSocial Security hosted by the academy and geek delphi ya youve never seen a red carpet like this one full of wild animals. And the awards honor and highlight everyone from Game Developers to social media marketers. About 400 turned out to seat winners announced in 13 different categories. And a program note here the teen Choice Awards tomorrow night theyre on and crews are putting the finishing touches on the big show. The night celebrates the hottest teen icons in television music, film, sports and comedy. Cohost this year is josh beck. You can watch this teen Choice Awards tomorrow night at 8 00 on fox 29. 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Bark system clearly the better quarterback but tim tebow adds the x fact the quarterbacks are trying to earn think keeps but none feel like they have to prove anything. I think when you go in and trying and do stuff like that you might get away from who you are and what youre really trying to accomplish. The most important thing take care of the football, move the team down the field. Really all im thinking about. Just what i can control. Worry about, you know, focus on what i what i need to worry about and my foot work and my reads and, um, making the guys around me better. I think you just try to focus, off mind set and that mind set is try to do what youve been coached to do. You know, scenarios pop you try and make play or whatever. For most part just try to do what youve been coached to do. Phillies hot start is over. They lost three out of four back to the worst record in baseball. Back to cleaning house the next man to go will certainly be chase utley. Utley having a hitting surge all of a sudden. Past two games solo shot in the top of the third. He went two for four. Thats going to help his trade value big time. To the bottom of the fifth, march rash rah with the single. Jeff francoeur comes up throwi throwing. Now check this out. Francoeur with a bad throw to third. That would pass him. A run would score because of that error. Game tied. Bottom seven jawn with the rbi single to go ahead. Puts the brewers up threetwo. Phils lose fourtwo. Their fourth loss in the last five games. And to the pga championship. The young begin speith getting it done. Won the first two majors hes in contention in this one right here. 18th hole look at that beautiful approach shot. He birdied it end of the day 13 under tied for second behind jason day he nails the long birdie putt. He grabbed the lead going into the final round at 15 under. And theres reason you didnt see tiger woods. He didnt make the cut. Third time in a row in major. Hes done. Im talking his career. Were done. That is our news for this saturday night. Fox 29 weekend again tomorrow morning at 8am. Your powerball drawing is next physicalled by animation dom nation. Good night