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Difference between negligence and a crime. Big difference between an accident and a crime. Reporter bostian had accelerated amtrak train 188 to 106 Miles Per Hour as he entered the frankford curve on the night of may 12th, 2015. The train derailed killing eight people and injuring more than a hundred 50 others. Amtrak paid out big bucks in civil judgments but the philly District Attorneys Office declined to file criminal charges. Citing a lack of evidence. Legal maneuvering by attorneys representing the family of a crash victim led to the state attorney general filing charges. But the case was challenging from the start. Federal crash investigators ruled bostian was not drunk or high or playing with his mobile phone at the time of the crash. They believe he may have have been distracted by reports of vandals throwing rocks at septa trains nearby. Look closely at this map from the ntsb hearings in may have last year. Bostian had the train going 106 in a 50 miles an hour zone approaching the curve. But if he thought he was farther along the tracks, beyond the curve as investigators believe, his speed would have been completely appropriate in what was a 110 miles an hour zone. Still plaintiffs Attorney Tom Kline said the families he represents will be saddened and disappointed by the judges ruling. It was by definition reckle recklessness and reckless disregard of human safety and reckless disregard of human safety does rise to the level of a crime. Therefore, it was not only surprising but even shocking that the charges were simply dismissed with a slug of the shoulder. Reporter bostian said nothing as he left court this afternoon. But defense attorney Brian Mcmonagle described his client as relieved. No on camera reaction from the attorney generals office. They are considering their options which include will he filing the criminal charges. Lucy . So we will stay tune. Thank you much, bruce. Massive cleanup efforts are underway as south tries to recover from irma. Life is returning to some sense of normalcy if you can really call it that im not sure that you can in florida. Most commercial airports are back open but many flights remain canceled or delayed. Some people have started to return to their homes. Major theme parks reopened today. Heres where things stand as of now. Around 10 Million People without electricity thats about half of the population in florida. 110,000 are still in shelters across the state. 13 deaths in the u. S. Have been blamed on irma along with 35 in the caribbean. Foxs joel waldman has been in the thick things all week live at Miami International airport. So, joel, its back open at least. Reporter yeah, lucy and iain, good afternoon to you. Weve been bracing the elements out there as have so many floridians over the last couple of days today brings us inside to Miami International airport. I can tell you i fly in and out of here frequently usually it is jam pack but today you can see very thin lines right now the airport only operating at about 30 with 150 flights going out and 150 coming in. This is going to be frustrating event. Its going take some time to allow people back into their homes particularly in the florida keys. Reporter in places like charlestown, South Carolina storm surge from irma now has that area dealing with flood damage. Jacksonville, florida, meanwhile also realing after irma triggered historic flooding there monday. Power outages. Lots of trees down in our area. And this is going to be an ongoing event. Reporter power and emergency crews are spreading out across the region to help. But some twothirds of floridas population still remain without power. I stayed in hotel room for a couple of days. The money ran out and now im just waiting to get back in. Reporter in the hard hit flor keys officials now say it appears a quarter of all homes have been destroyed by irma. And 65 sustained major damage. At this point, Navy Aircraft carrier is in position off key west helping a large scale search and rescue operation is get getting underway theyre current follow clean drinking water, limb thed gasoline and hospitals across the keys remain closed. Im praying that, um, when people get to see the damage in the keys we dont lose any body else down there. Reporter so were back out to live shot here of the arrival and departures board. This one right here is obviously the arrival. A whole lot of cancellations theres a flight coming in now from barcelona, spain. That was delayed expected to arrive at 609. Many of the mow domestic flights remain on very limited basis. Ft. Lauderdale up i95 thats running at about 50 . So about 20 better than mia. Still they typically have about 400 flights in and out much thinner schedule today and while were here indoors people in the keys still suffering that was the worst hit area of all of florida. Iain and lucy. Yup. Joel, thank you very much. Live for us at Miami International airport. Tough there but as joel morningsed people in florida have started to make their way back home. Now theres a push for necessities look at these pictures from wawa in oh vida a half hour north of or lancome you can see how busy it is. Some hungry victims irma are surviving with little bit of philly flavor. Reporter fox 29s Chris Oconnell has been in florida covering irma and today talk wig a chester native whose cheesesteaks have been bringing joy tom floridians. As floridians return back to their homes after some major damage like this, one of the first businesses to reopen to evacuees after irma was a philly cheesesteak join. We got up in the morning. All the fences were down. Pretty much in the whole neighborhood. Reporter the gas generator outside was a site for sore eyes for orlando resident and west chester native matt. It meant he and his pregnant wife got to eat a hot meal for the First Time Since irma ripped through their neighborhood. I have been craving a cheesesteak. Im pregnant. Theyre open. And i said he saw on facebook they are open today. I said were getting a cheesesteak. Reporter not just any cheesesteak. The real deal. With whiz right in the middle of orlando. A little better than what weve been eating . Peanu eatint butter and jelly. Snacks and crackers. Need a cheesesteak. Yeah r report florida transplant and chester native john has three cheesesteak shops in the orlando area all of them suffered some damage. Its like horrible known knowing that you cant open and getting out the house and getting down here to your business. Reporter but with downed trees still littering his parking lot, the power still out and hungry customers calling by the minute, hes using a generator to power their grills as the rest of the store is left in the dark. I was thinking, you know, well be devastated theres going to be lines out the door people that need to eat. Reporter and eat they did. The place filled with eagles gear and amoroso rolls is providing a little philly comfort food to evacuees in orlando. Luckily i have a generator. Ive gotten extra gas were good here making hoagies and slicing things up. Bring going sandwiches to people of orlando. Reporter another small sign things are starting to get back to normal after irma. Both walt biz every disneyworld and universal studio reopened their theme parks today but it still may be weeks before electric is restored to the millions of floridians still without power. In orlando, Chris Oconnell, fox 29 news. So tough there. Little taste of home can mean everything. Absolutely. Check in with your fox 29 Weather Authority right now. Live radar that is what a left of irma. Its now basically over alabama headed toward tennessee but if you look kind of closely youll see the showers are moving our way. We could see some of the remnants i guess by tomorrow. Kathy is here to tell us all about that. Did you look dawn. Those high cirrus clouds from the outer bands. Is it. Were feeling the effects already. The rain comes next and another thing youll notice is the humidity. All of a sudden its going to feel more like summer around here. So you can see the bands moving toward the north this band is the one that will get us during the day tomorrow. Not a lot of rain, more pesky showers and high humidity. Temperatures mainly in the 70s. This afternoon 80 right now in allentown. Down the shore temperatures in as we go hour by hour well cool down into the 70s by 9 00 oclock and overnight low temperatures will fall into the 60s. By the 11 00 oclock hour, 70 degrees. Coming up well talk about the next couple of days and what irma means for us, plus the very latest on jose. Its good news. All right. Looking forward to thats correct kathy. Thanks. Happening now a deadly fire strikes overnight in wilmington. The flames started at a home on west 37th street around midnight. And people were inside at the time. One manmade it out. But when he thought his wife had not, he rushed back inside and he never did make it back out. Dawn timmeney is live tonight from wilmington with details. Dawn. Reporter well, iain and lucy, the man went back into the house to save his wife of some 30 years. Not knowing that as he was going into the house, she was coming out on to that roof up there jumping into the arms of a neighbor on the ground. I caught her when she jump off the roof. Reporter jamar warren capturing on cell phone video the moments right after had he saved his neighbor from her burning home on the 100ing of west 37th street in wilmingto wilmington. The woman trapped on the second floor with flames shooting all around her. Hold on jump into my arms. Jump top my chest. Reporter warren was watching tv about 11 30 last night. When he and his family heard the commotion outside. They looked out and realized their next door neighbors house was on fire. Every window like down the side, every door, right, it was just a blaze. Reporter the woman who lives there on a second floor roof about to jump for her life. I had to do something. I had to try to help her because she is like 70, 70 years old. Jumping off roof. I just cant let her just jump straight to the ground. Reporter warren says they both fell to the ground. But he helped break the womans fall and dragged her to safety. Little did this hero neighbor know the womans husband had just gone back in to the house to save his wife of some 30 years. If hed have waited 30 seconds hed have seen her coming out on the roof and me and him both would have been catching her instead of me catching her and him dying inside. Reporter the Wilmington Fire Department trying to prevent another tragedy like this. Replacing the batteries in smoke detectors in Warrens House today. As he tries to make sense of what happened. I still got to take it all n its like just crazy. Reporter now warren hurt his leg trying to help his neighbor. He just had surgery on that leg a couple of months ago. But says he would do it all again. Fire investigators say there were no working smoke detectors in this home. They also say the own are in tried to put out the fire with a garden hose. Not a good idea. The wife is hospitalized tonight in critical condition. Iain and lucy. Just all so sad. All right, dawn, thank you. Coming up one local radio dj home safe tonight after a terrifying stay in the carribbean. He was in the middle of Hurricane Irma. Now hes talking to us about surviving that deadly storm. The School District of philadelphia is facing a lawsu lawsuit. One recent grad says the way the district handles its athletic teams is just wrong. Politicians playing gameston while south jersey gets short changed . Then vote fran grenier. Think its time we had a regular guy, not a lifelong politician . Thats fran grenier. Looking for a fighter to take on the tax hikes and job killing regulations . Elect fran grenier. Want a leader wholl actually stand up for south Jersey Schools and communities . If you answered yes to any of these questions, theres only one way fran grenier. Isnt floridians getting back to their home aft the wrath of maim many getting first eyes on the destruction last behind. Safety officials are estimating the amount of damage the hurricane caused. One federal official estimates one quarter of the homes in the keys have been destroyed. Harrowing stories of fear and survival continue as a local radio mix master returns to philadelphia after being airlifted from the devastated island of st. Maarten. Fox 29 joyce evans joins us in studio with that long journey home for the popular radio dj. A cat five when it hit, joyce. Reporter it certainly was iain and lucy. Wrnbdj touch tone got home from what many survivors call a vacation straight out of hell. Instead of asking for time off to gather himself he happily accepted double shifts on the turn table. Dj touch town back on the air at radio ones 100. 3r and b. Spinning and scratching hit tunes in the 12 00 oclock work out mix with karen vaughn. You also learn whats really important. Its good to be home. They never lie when they say theres no place like home. Reporter thats because the sounds he heard on the island of st. Maarten were far from music. For me, its a sound that i never heard before, and god willing i hope i never hear that sound again. Reporter he r and bdj lady b and four other friends huddled inside resort bathrooms. Taking a direct cat five hit from Hurricane Irma. You just hear the door rattling and you just dont know if win the next minute or second that that door is going to fly open. Reporter even scarier, touch tone is blind. Didnt know what was going to hit me or what direction he was it was going to come from. Reporter when the winds stopped, the damage was evident. And so was the fact that they were stuck on that island. No power, water and food running low. Touch tone prayed. Ive been through the worst of the storm just get me out of here at this point. Reporter us troops to the rescue with a c130 cargo plane to fly americans out. I never thought in a million years i would be on a military plane. Reporter they were crammed in but who cared . Im actually being you know, airlifted to safety. Reporter to puerto rico then home to philadelphia and straight back to work. Back to the ground running. Back to the grind. Back to normalcy. Reporter and without a scratch at that. Praising the us military and his travel companions for having his back through the whole thing. Meantime his boss was pulling her hair out worrying about him and dj lady b. And her own family caught in the midst of that storm. More coming up on that at 6 00. Iain . Great story, joyce. Thanks. Police identified a man gunned down in north philadelphia. They say 29yearold Sherman Williams was killed last night after someone shot him while he was riding his motor scooter. More than a dozen shots were fired on the 2700 block of north 22nd street. So far no arrests or a motive. In west chester threats to High School Students on 9 11 landed one person in custody tonight. They say that person posted threats and racial slurs on instagram singling out three students at west Chester East High School and it read if you guys come to school tomorrow, you will die authorities wont say if the person is a student. Now developing right now, the stool School District of philadelphia facing a new lawsuit tonight. Female student athletes are claiming discrimination. Our fox 29s jeff cole joins us live in studio now with more on what both students and the district are saying. Jeff. Reporter iain, lawyers for former High School Lacrosse and field hockey player says she and others were discriminated against by city schools which down played these sports for women of color. The district says its goal is he can qu account the former students coach also says that she lost out on a way out. A 2017 graduate of Strawberry Mansion high nadir rah mcrae plays lacrosse. Ive grown to love the support more than i actually love basketball now. Reporter she excelled says her former coach but did it in the face of discrimination from philadelphia public schools. The district has em brave the steer yo types these sports are not for girls of color and actively blocked the opportunities for these girls. Reporter on behalf of mc gray lawyers filed a class act lawsuit in federal Court Tuesday morning alleging racial and sex discrimination by the School Reform commission and the School District. The suit claims young women at Strawberry Mansion played the same schools over and over again and were denied support. Games canceled. Buses canceled. Um, playing the same teams over and over again which i then deemed the negro league based upon only playing girls of color. Reporter smith who runs a league for la teen known africanamerican girls Playing Field hockey and lacrosse says, she was fired when she complained to the district. A source with knowledge of the situation tells fox 29 smith contract was simply not renewed. In a statement the district writes one of our core values is a School District is increas ing tune in the classroom and on the Playing Field for all our students regardless of race or gender. Lawyers also claim mc gray lost out on a chance to play lacrosse at the university of hartford in connecticut on a full ride because the district failed to provide documents to the university. It made me feel that like we werent good enough to play lacrosse because we were discouraged so many times from not playing and like not being noticed for like the Great Potential that we have. Reporter a spokesperson for the university of hartford didnt immediately return our call for comment. A source with knowledge says transcripts were provided to the university on august 9th and believes they were in fact received. The School District says it works to ensure equity and claims more than 250 female athletes competed in field hockey and lacrosse last year. More reporting at 6 00. Im Jeff Cole Fox 29 news. Iain. Jeff, thanks. Still ahead the people of florida are hurting right now. It will take weeks even months for some people just to repair their homes. One deputy goes above and beyond to cheer up a woman in a shelt shelter. Maybe fast food isnt so bad for you after all . New Research Says that greasy burger may actually be helping you. Hes the local man who had been drumming for decades. Now hes using his passion and attitude to teach others. Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere waiting for me isnt that great . That is sheriffs deputy doing his best Frank Sinatra rendition to cheer up a woman at an evacuation shelter. Deputies say she looked sad so they asked her what can we do to cheer you up . And she said, well, a dance would be great. So thats when this charming deputy stepped in. Just love that. Back here at home, number tell the tale. 70 grams of crack cocaine. 55 bricks of heroin, 15,000 of drugs in Mercer County authorities couldnt be happier about the bust that got they got a load of heroin and crack off the streets. The county Drug Task Force searched darrell rices home after twoweek investigation found the drugs they say along with 2,000 in cash. Prosecutors charged with rice with possession with intent to distribute. Testimony continues today in newark, new jersey, in the bribery trial of democratic new jersey senator bob menendez. The alleged former girlfriend of wealthy donor testified that her visa was approved after a florida dr. Said hed reach out to menendez. Prosecutors say menendez used his senate seat to help the financial interests of his lon longtime friend mel began. Lafayette College Community mourning the loss of a student tonight. 19yearold Mcrae Williams passed away yesterday after a medical emergency. Police have not yet provided details. Williams was a lacrosse player from weston mass. The School Community gathering on campus tonight to pay their respects. Skyfox over lansdale this evening at a water main break that crews have just fixed. So apparently they rush to this break on broad street between allentown road and Sumneytown Pike right around two confidential in the morning. Officials warned to drive safely in that area citing that it would its repair would probably take all day. It pretty much did but here it is done. They got it fixed this afternoon and restored Water Service to the area. Coming up, in the middle of a hurricane. Drenching rain, whipping winds but this officer braced it any way what was lying on the grou ground. Remember staying at homesick from school when you were a kid. Thats a memory this local student does not have. The big achieve many his school just honored him for. Kathy. 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In Spring Garden the Salvation Army loaded up eight of its big old trucks 11 volunteers are heading to the carolinas today and tomorrow. Theyre going to meet with oth others to decide what areas neither them most. They are bringing water and theyre bringing food to the many victims. Weve all seen the devastation of houses and, you know, cooking facilities. If were needed in the shelters, too, we will come in there and said set up mobile feeding can teens and centers and also bri bringing just some words of hope and assurance. Sal vague army says the best way you can help is simply by donating cash. So florida First Responders have carried a heavy burden of course this past week. Theyve help out at shelters. Helped safe lives and one Florida Police officer still found the time to save old glory. Joseph, another First Responders were surveying the damage on the streets of Coral Springs florida when they came across an American Flag on the ground. He runs out to the street, picks up the flag and then runs it back to the car. The Coral Springs Police Posted the video yesterday on septemb september11th quite the timely occasion to remember our count country. Absolutely. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Whats left of irma is heading our way. Some clouds today. But soon the rain arrives. Kathy says the clouds are actually part of irma. Shes got all the details in 15 seconds. High clouds moved in from the south next it will be the rain across the Delaware Valley. The remnants of irma its not a lot of rain. More pesky showers, some heavier rain possibly thursday. But all in all, its not going to be too bad of an event. Prolonged though for a couple of days. Right now in philadelphia, we have 78. 80 degrees in allentown. How about 79 with that filtered sunshine in wrightstown. The ocean water temperature 72. As we look at the remnants of irma those out bands lifting toward the north and the east. Its going to take some time to moisten up the atmosphere. We have dew points right now because the air is so dry in the 40s and the 50s but those dew points will be increasing. Look at right here millville at 61. 60 tends to be muggy when you get towards 70 thats when its uncomfortable and that humidity is going to go in that uncomfortable range tomorrow afternoon and thursday afternoon as that air gets really moist and tropical from irma. As we go hour by hour in the fox future cast you can see the clouds rolling on in. Then by tomorrow morning, some pockets of rain especially to the north and west of philadelphia during that morning rush. By the evening, a few more showers. You can see that southerly wind lifting in with the warmth and the humidity. By thursday, some showers moving through here or there. Then possibly additional rain thursday night when the core of the remnants an front move through. Friday is actually looking better. So for wednesday and thursday into early friday, about a quarter of an inch to half an inch of rain locally higher amounts up to an inch. High humidity in the uncomfortable range and down the shore the surf has been building already. That rough surf and high rip current risk will continue right through the week and into the weekend. Now part of this is because of jose. This is the very latest from the National Hurricane center. Barely a hurricane with a 75mile an hour wind. Moving east at seven. We talked about this yesterday. Doing this crazy loop it looked like it would be moving toward the mainland u. S. But now seems to be curving back out to sea which we all can breathe a sigh of relieve from. As we look at our spaghetti plots, after the last track you can see most of them i would say 99 of them curve it back out into the atlantic. That is the good news about jo jose. Overnight tonight low temperatures mainly in the 50s. But for philadelphia wilmington and millville to the south and east temperatures in the 60s. Increasingly humid conditions so temperatures will be in the upper 70s to around 80 tomorrow. Youll see that milky white sky and then the clouds come on in. Some showers as well with high humidity and very not so pleasant afternoon witness rain. Thursday look for more showers. 80. Just a chance of a shower frid friday. Friday is looking like a better day. Morning clouds increasing sun. Saturday looks great. So does sunday next monday and tuesday look stellar with high temperatures in the lower 80s which is pretty much where we should be this time of year it has been a very cool september. So thats it, guys. Pesky showers, high humidity, bad hair days. At least two and a half of them and then were in the clear. I think i heard somebody say 80. I love 80s. September. Woody allen once said 80 of life is showing up. The School District of philadelphia hopes that its students would heed that message. Mayor jim kenney joined philadelphia School District superintendent blight to preach the importance of School Attendance and launch the attendance hero campaign. Hite would like to see the amount of kids who attend school 95 of the time increase. Wed like to see increase. Wed like to see a five or 10 increase every year in our attendance we want more and more children being in schools each and every day. Philadelphia eagle Brandon Graham helping out mayor kenny and superintendent hite making those robo calls to families in the School District to push them to go to school. U. S. News and world report is released annual list of the top ten american colleges and some local colleges have made that cut. Princeton University Number one. The university of pennsylvania comes in at eight. The Media Company made its decisions after gathering data from each college on 15 indicators of academic excellence. Senator ted cruz raising some eyebrows on twitter. All because he liked another post. Well now his camp is explaining what really happened. An interesting little post that he liked. A coffee shop is filing suit against its town. Why employees say theyre fighting for the rights of people everywhere. And ahead at 6 00 gargoyles are watching over one neighborhood in philadelphia. Well tell was this is all about. Hillary clinton was back in front of a crowd of her supporters today. Clinton on day one of her book tour promoting her memoir, what happened. She was holding a book signing at barnes noble in new york city. It is the first stop on tour expected to stretch through the end of the year. Mrs. Clintons third memoir delivers a candid and direct retelling of her stunning defeat by now president donald trump. Senator ted cruz is pointing the finger at a staff after his twitter account like a pornographic tweet. Texas senator says a a number of staffers have access to the account and the liking of the tweet was really nothing more than a mistake. Cruz says his team taking care of that matter internally and he made light of the whole ordeal which gained a ton of attention on twitter. He said perhaps we should have posted Something Like this back during the indiana primary there you go. To Washington State now, where seven bikini clad barristas and owner of a coffee chain are suing the city of everett. The shop called bikini hotties. The new ordinance is banned bear skin and the barristas say this violates their right to free expression. Theyre forced to wear a tank top and shorts. The owner of the coffee chain says the employees are now threatening to quit because theyre not making any money. Maybe if the coffee was good. I dont know. All right. So its the unveiling tech lovers have been waiting for for months. Apple has got a new iphone. Actually its got three. But were showing you the new features of the hottest of them all. The i phone ten. Fast food bad for you, right some new Research Says not totally. How that greasy burger can actually help you out. Sean . Iain, allegedly theres lot of tension between head coach Doug Pederson and defensive coordinator jim schwartz. Allegedly. Today schwartz cleared up all those rumors. Thats coming up later in sports. Caught on camera. One amazing crash right there. Wow this is connecticut. Man lot of control of single engine plane it ended up flying into that tree as you see. Which swung the plane back but more gently into the ground at the parking lot near the robertson airport. He got out with only minor injuries. Without that tree the pilots crash could have easily turned tragic. Faa is investigating what happened. In your money tonight apple changing the game again. Announcing newest iphone today. A lot of people waiting for it. Phone . Well its probably priceless to you if youre a fan but it will cost you a lot. Yeah. Got a lot of features. It does. Its one of three models its iphone ten they also introduced the eight and eight plus but the iphone ten that everybody is really talking about. Its going run you 1,000. Actually its 999 to start but im going to round up to a thousand. Absolutely. About the same size as some of the older models but it features edge to edge display the whole screen. It also has an off the hook camera with better colors, less diss touring all kinds of new featurfeatures. Display will adapt to ambient lighting similar to feature in ipad pro models. Speakers will be louder, more base too. Gets rid of the home button you dont have home button any more. Facial recognition instead to unlock your phone even animate your emojis with your face. So through your face, you can make the emojis doing whatever you want like stick out your tongue, laugh whatever it is. It will begin shipping at the end of november. Good luck, though, trying get your hands on it very limited edition. Please dont stand in line for this. You know people will do that. That was five years ago. Wait. Apple also unveiled new smart launch. This will be less dependent on the iphone to work. The new model will come with Cellular Access so it will be possible to do a lot more like receiving messages while your iphone at home. Tim cook unveiled these new products marking the tenth anniversary of the hard iphone. Tepp years. Cook also paid homage to his former boss job steve jobs during the presentation. Its amazing. Ten years ago. I was i actually got my hands on one of those i phones. I was sit tag restaurant and i had it with me. People at the restaurant they started filing over standing in line can we just look and see wait does . And this new now i didnt want the iphone ten. Now do you. Yes. Installments. Can you doin stall j guess what t mobile saying if you go with t mobile theyve you 300 off. Carriers will give you discount. Wow. I have to say i havent looked a thus san bucks thats probably the intro. You get more storage. 1514, 1500 like a laptop. It does everything a lop tap does. Im just going to dream about it. Ill wait one more year. Pulled to safety in car seat crews save a baby in jackso jacksonville florida. We dont know if the family had to be rescued out of the house or if they needed medical care but jacksonville sheriffs deputies say many people had to be rescued irmas damage could exceed storm surge flooding records set back in 1965 during hurricane dora. Amazing. Irma has the Sunshine State gnats rear view mirror whats head of many floridians as evidence that video you just talked about its one long road to recover reach many cant get home. Those who can arent sure what will greet they them when they get back. Getting back has not been ease seem all those people who drove north to escape the storm are hitting the road at the same time to get back home. Reporter troopers and f dot out here again what goes north must go south and theyre trying to make sure that at least when they stop here at these rest areas things run smoothly. People are knead flooding in gas stations on in orders turnpike. Headed south again after doing their best to get out of the pam of irma. Head and up to north georgia and ended up getting stuck right in the middle of it again when all the bands came through. Reporter fueling up for the moment stretch loaded up with water gas cans generatorring and carrying with them a little anxiety about what waits at home. Praying that everyone is safe. I dont even know how my home is. Um in ft. Lauderdale. We havent been that. We heard its been flooded in miami. Journey of the past few days has been a long one. People are heading home exhausted. Everything was just completely booked up. So we ended up catching a few hours of sleep here. You slept on the hood of your car . I d i did. It was more comfortable. I talked to one trooper who said that traffic picked up here on the turnpike almost as soon as the storm passed. But he says he does expect busy conditions and give yourself plenty of time. Be patient. In osi yoel la county dana jay fox 35 news. With all eyes on maim understandable until recent days harvey has taken a back seat. Residents in houston are still working to just put their lives back together while city leaders decide how to you pay for everything . Because its huge. Houston sill vetter turner proposed a property tax increase of 9 . The city will hold three public hearings to discuss that proposed tax. Tensions with north korea are still on the rise. New diplomatic blitz by the trump administration. Un Security Council has agreed to new sanctions targeting north koreas economy. Now this comes as World Leaders try to cut off funding for the norths weapons programs. North korea has responded with predictable anger saying the us will suffer. But lawmakers on capitol hill are wholy skeptical the sanctions will have really any significant impact. And today President Trump said this decision is quote no big deal. And more needs to happen to reign in kim jongun. It was nice to get a 15zero vote but those sanctions are nothing compared to what ultimately will have to happen. As the diplomatic battle playplays out, us military forcs are continuing live fire exercises with south Korean Counterparts despite warnings of retaliation from the north. In your health tonight, maybe that burger and fries arent so bad for you after all. New study finds fast food could help protect against the deadliest form of skin cancer. Researchers at Boston University studied mice and their pigmentation when inject width specific fatty acid found that fast food the acid increased their pigmentation and helped prevent melanoma. The break through could lead to a drug for those who are fair skinned. Interesting. Speaking of fat, take a look at that right there. That, its a clogged sewer in london. Folks are calling it a fat burg live an iceberg but made of fat. Yup. Going to take workers three woke to remove the 820foot long clog made up of things like hope youre not eating diapers, wet wipes, stuff like that. People have flushed down their toilets. Crews say this one of the largest they have ever seen. Weve talk about these things before because apparently this happens a lot over there. Workers will have to use high powered jet hoses to break up that mess. All right. Still ahead the local man whose been drumming for decades. Now, hes using his passion and attitude to teach others. 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Additional cases are likely to come in the near future. Federal Court Records show the lawsuits were filed through the weekend after the credit reporting giant said thursday that a cyber attack by criminal hackers provided unauthorized access to information the preach primarily involved names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and in some cases drivers license numbers. Well they are drummers with attitude. A group that gives some young percussionists as real chance to shine. Fox 29 photojournalist bill rohrer spent time with them to find out what makes this group so special. Reporter Kevin Travers loves to drum. Sometimes for hours in his rocklidge home. Where else can you get. Reporter in his ding room serves as make shift concert hall finding the perfect rhythm for the past four decades. Drums is a part of me. Reporter whether its up here on his electric set. I can sound like a full orchestra. Reporter or in his basement imitating drumming heroes even when he didnt have drums to play. Go to my house and still my brothers and sisters records. Its going to get loud. I would go downstairs and put it on my horrible phone know graph and i would play on this bar table and i would use the lamp as like a sim balance and play for hours, man. The passion and love that i have for it is unparalleled. Reporter every week kevin shares his passion for drumming in the Bristol Township School District. All right. You guys are there . Lets see how we sun. Reporter not with drum sets. But with buckets. One, two, three, four. Reporter is called drummers with attitude. Last 18 years, students have been given chance to shine. I just got drawn to it. I didnt want to stop. Catch me if my room on my pillow just drumming on my pillow so i can get all the rhythms and improve as much as i can. So if you can go home and practice. Reporter maced up middle and High School Students drummers with attitude started with just six members much over the years kevin has seen thousands walk through those doors. Guys straight on up. Reporter helping each kid. This will be a great review. Reporter reach their full potential by thinking big. It helps people realize why cant they accomplish anything and any dream that they want to accomplish. I mean i grew up where you know probably a lot of teachers in the philadelphia School District thought id probably be dead or in jail. Once you get the basics down and you think you can play a more progressive beat let me know. Reporter kevin helps the group not just to perform in the classroom places he can never imagine like mid court at the philadelphia 76ers heff time show. The thing im most proud of, you know, it has kids all ethnicities all exceptional will thes and they kind of look out for each other. You know, they take care of each other. Kids who won normally talk to each other. Whats up man. Being part of the group they do. Reporter in Bristol Township, bill roar are fox 29 news. Always have loved drummers and drumming. Good stuff. Yeah. All right. Fox 29 news at 6 00 starts right now. The sun has come out in florida. Only to shed light on the destruction from Hurricane Irma and many are facing the same problems from when they tried to get out of the storms path. I waited around 30 minutes in line no gas and very few places to get any food. I caught her when she jumped off the roof. A woman jumps from her burning home. Hold on. Jump in that my arms. Jump to my chest. What they didnt know her husband just ran back in the flames to find her. It cost him his life. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6 00. Breaking news to begin out of philadelphia involving one of the deadliest train crashes in the citys history. A judge late this afternoons ting out charges against Brandon Bostian the man behind the controls of amtrak train 188 when it derailed in 2015, eight people died. Thanks for joining us at 6 00. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. He failed inn voluntary manslaughter and Reckless Endangerment charges. Bruce gordon joins us now. The bruce, the judge ruled no evidence points to crime. Reporter yeah, did he inn died. In a ruling frankly most uncommon. Shutting down a criminal case before it reaches trial. Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas Garrett ruled in essence that an accident no matter how tragic, no matter how gruesome is not necessarily a crime. State prosecuto prosecutors n voluntary manslaughter against against amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian alleging his actions while at the controls amount to do criminal conduct with deadly results. The judges ruling brings that criminal case to an early and stunning end at least for now. Bostians attorney is cheering the decision. I think the judge concluded that this was a goodman who unfortunately was involved in tragedy and this accident occurred. There was no criminal intent. There was no crime. Reporter bostian accelerated amtrak 188 to