Leaving the office of her dentist Michael Afash tuesday evening after three fillings replaced. When we asked her for her reaction to charges that the dentist had indecently assaulted and harassed a young woman here. Its very concerning. I have daughter, and you know hesitate to come here. Reporter yeah. For her. Reporter five days after charges were filed dr. Afash was back at work tuesday at the new garden family dentistry offices. Good afternoon. How are you . Fine. Reporter i was looking for dr. Afas had if hes in. He was charged last week by Southern Chester Regional Police who say six week long investigation found that afash indecenindecently assaulted a 21yearold woman during a Job Interview and dental examination at his offices off star road. Were seeing patients. So reporter okay. Theres no time to talk or reporter okay. When hes done perhaps . I i cannot speak for him. Reporter penny says she found dr. Afsah to be very professional in her recent visits here. In my experience here, there has been an assistant with him at all times. Reporter she actually applied for a job with the dentist but these allegations have upset her. He was not referred to me by anybody. I just stumbled upon him but it is quiet shocking to know thats in the area. Reporter dr. Afsah did not respond to our requests for a comment. He left his building tuesday evening out a back door and in his assistants car leaving his bmw behind. Hes been issued a summons on the two charges and facing a preliminary hearing in the next few week. In chester county, dave schratwieser, fox 29 news. From new garden township to trenton. Busy night. Breaking. Police at the area of bridge and lambert ton streets with reports that something ran into several people. We dont know in a car hit them or Something Else but you can see a lot of police presence. You can also see a couple of cars right there off to the right. Right . The area cordoned off with police tape. Trenton police tell us they can give us any more information right now. Were still working on it. More as it comes in. The details of a crime in delaware are incredibly hard to fathom. Police say a mother has admit totter killing two Young Children inn clouding her own baby. Prosecutors say the woman drowned her three and a half month old baby boy solomon. A baby she had with her boyfriend and they say she drowned her fiveyearold son alec. Wilmington Police Responded to the 800 block of west ninth street early yesterday morning. They say the woman whos liberian was worried about her immigration status. She was worried police were going to arrest because authorities arrested her boyfriend days before on immigration charges. Police saw the fiveyearold and did not feel the little boy was in danger, nor the baby. Yet office returned hours later to an absolutely heartbreaking scene after she called 911. She was pretty as a matter of fact about her admission that the two children were dead. Our officers discovred them in the back bathtub. Having kids myself, i mean, i can even imagine what would bring someone to do Something Like that. A small memorial now sits outside the apartment. She sits in jail on 2 million cash bond. A rec center thats as much a refuge from the streets in south philadelphia is closed and neighbors are not happy. The Vare Rec Center about 100 years old with age can come problems and a recent review the city says showed exactly that. Our dave kinchen is live at city hall. Dave . Reporter lucy, the closure happened on friday. Neighbors say they didnt learn about it until today. In fact many neighbors say we are the ones who told them about it. So reporter youre shock by this. I am because that building never been out of commission. It was always open every day. Reporter burton cant get over the sudden shut down of the Vare Recreation Center in south philadelphia. A home away from home for many years in her youth. Even in the summertime i was always there swimming or in the gym nass tick camp or in they arts program. Something. They always had something going. Reporter city Officials Say the 100yearold facility on the 2600 block of morris street was shuddered after structural issues were found in a review of the building. I was in there actually like a week ago. I didnt see i really didnt see no problems going on with the building. Now what are our children going to do, sit around and just be on the corners . Thats the problem right now with all the rec centers. Resources are scares in the city like philadelphia. You know, we just dont have an unlimited amount of rev few that we can allocate towards, um, towards things like this, towards needs like this and unfortunately over time that adds up and situations like this happen. Report roar the park and rec accept says vares playground and ball fields will stay open while officials find a way to fix the inside while pushing the new rebuild initiatives. Youll start seeing, you know, new rec center, new playgrounds, revitalize public spaces all over our city in the next few months. I dont think they should hurry up. I dont think it should stay too long report roar the park and rec ept Department Says its in the process of notifying parents of new locations for events and schedules as well. Back to you, lucy. Thank you, dave. Images from Hurricane Harvey grabbed hearts around the world including the hearts of children at one particular school in south jersey. Students at Newtown Middle School decided they had to help. Obviously not south jersey. And now the principle thanks to bet with the students is spending the night on the schools roof. Our Shawnette Wilson is live in newtown where its all going down right now. Shawnette. Reporter lucy, it is going down but actually going down right up there on the roof. The principal gives the forecast for sleeping out tonight a ten and the prediction for the school in houston theyre going to get love and Financial Support all the way from philly. Weve adopted a school outside of houston. We want to adopt that school for the entire year. Reporter Newtown Middle School principal tim long is camping out for cause. Long is make going on promise that if the school raised 8,000, he would sleep on the roof overnight. Its all to raise money for Houston School they adopted after harvey. We would have raised the money no matter what. I wanted to create some fun out of the atmosphere. Kit came up with the idea to help houston. When harvey came through and i saw the devastation, i just couldnt i couldnt get it it out of my mind. She lived there over a decade and saw Facebook Post from a friend and fellow teacher pleading for help for display students and their families. She was overcome with emotion. It comes from knowing the people there and the struggles good hardworking people in texas that i have been around for so many years. They would dot same for us. Reporter dressed in here foin nest texas swag, she helped load a basket of donated food to send up to long to keep him comfortable throughout the nig night. He said okay. What if i came and out on the roof if we make our goal . I said, okay. That wasnt my idea but okay, thats great. And so here we are. Report roar the money donated from faculty, students and their families will first go toward cleanup in houston then to individual familiar tolls get back on their feet. Adopting a community allows us to make and impact on this one group and well be a toil see the results of that. Reporter principal long will remain on top of the building until 8 00 oclock tomorrow. Lucy the students were out here all night cheering him on until they had to go home and get ready for school tomorrow. They brought him hot chocolate. Hes going neat big they were months of hot cocoa because its cold out there. Thats a great best he lost. Yeah. No doubt about it. Thank you much. From one good story to another great story. Fox 29s getting results tonight after years of living in cramped one bedroom just one bedroom home a family of four finally gets their happily ever. The couple in Delaware County gave a contractor their live savings to expand but they got scammed. On top of it all, their children are special needs. Well fox 29s Chris Oconnell has been working on this story for years. I mean years, joins us live from netter providence township and, chris, the kindness of strangers is such an amazing thing. Reporter yeah, as you know, lucy, fox 29 used to getting results for people but this one i got to say is one of the most gratifying and it has been years in the making. We got to take you back to 2014 when the Brooks Family of netter providence township whose dad is disabled and two teenagers with autism were living in that tiny one bedroom home. Well, the family was swindled out of 25,000 from a contractor who was supposed to build them a new addition to their home. Well, he didnt. He walk away with the familys live savings and they were left broke without an addition, so fox 29 has shared the brooks story and guess what . The community responded. It took more than three years but the family has a new addition tonight. Dozens of trades men and volunteers have been giving up their time, giving materials to build the familys addition and just this week they moved n the home now doubled in size. Everyone has their own bedroom. The parents have been sleeping on the floor and the sofa for the last 20 years. They have their own room tonight. The family says they are overwhelmed with the gratitude of viewers. There were so many people that thank you so much. So much for the prayers, for the donations, for weve had people donate furniture to us, to dave white to michelle dear and her foundation, to netter providen providence, to you, because none of this would have ever happened chris unless you came here and told our story. We would still be sitting here. You got it rolling for us yeah. Thank you. I cant say thank you enough. Reporter and lucy, as you well remember and also shared their story, first talk to the Brooks Family four years ago and tonight was the first time i met them you can actually see the weight lifted off their shoulders for the first time in four years. I asked them what are they going to do now . They said with all this construction behind them, they say its time to concentrate on their kids. And get a bed. Hopefully we can help them. Thank you much, chris. Im so excited. Wonderful stuff. This next story all these kids wanted to do was go to school. But for some local students that is turned into a terrifyin it took eight months prosecutors final al nounsed charges against 18 inmates in dead hostage takeover at a grayer of delaware prison. 16 of the 18 inmates face first degree murder and assault. The other two kidnapping charges. Prosecutors say back in february, inmates at the Vaughn Correctional Center kidnapped four corrections officers, held them hostage. They injured two. Sergeant Stephen Floyd died. Some parents in philadelphia are scared to send their children to school. Those kids go to building 21 high school in West Oak Lane and their parents say, theyre randomly getting target add tacked. One student 17yearold Marlon Francois has injuries so bad he has to have surgery to repair cracks and a break in his jaw. Another student says he was kicked repeatedly dragged off the bus. Parents are very upset, of course. We should be able to send our kids to school, not worrying about whether when school lets out whether you going to get a phone call because your child got jumped or worse yet killed by a group of people who dont even know him. Philadelphia School District police are working with the citys police of course to make sure this type of thing never happens again. Cool night in philadelphia over the ben franklin parkway. It says almost a taste of winter. I dont know about that. Its definitely a taste of fall. What do you think, kathy . Its a big bite of fall. Its a big bite of fall. Umhmm. The appetizer. Before winter. Before winter, yeah. When winter comes, well know. Exactly. Its not going to be 70, 50. No exactly. Its going to be 20. [ laughter ] and there you go. There you go. Outside tonight looking at a pleasant night. Its cool you need a sweater or light coat nothing like whats coming in the next couple of months. 52 degrees. Southwesterly winds at 7 miles an hour. This is what we talk about for fall foliage you want toes clear, cool nights and those warm sunny days and thats what were going to have. 41 in pottstown. Allentown 44. 46 in reading. 45 in lancaster. 49 in wilmington. 41 in millville where we do have a frost advisory. Tine 84 tear your saggers from toms river through southern burlington county, little egg her bore township, mays landing, millville, bridgeton we can get frosty tonight. Temperatures in the mid to upper 30 that is could kill any sensitive plants. Temperatures across the country uniform in the 50s and some 40s all the way to the west as High Pressure sits over most of the country right now. So we have cool air in place. As High Pressure drops to the south. Well see some warmer temperatures building in. The jet stream lifts north threw about monday and then things begin to change again. So we go hour with hour, southerly winds becoming a little bit westerly tomorrow. Then southwest again. It just indicates dry conditions and warming temperatures across the board. With that we see not a chance of rain that was saturday. Even sunday will be dry. So very nice stretch of dry weather across the region although we can use a little rain. Overnight 40 in the poconos. Pottstown 39. Wilmington 42. Philadelphia 45. Trenton 43 degrees. And then temperatures jump up 1n they were today. So its going to be much more comfortable after cool start. 72 in philadelphia. 71 in allentown. The poconos 66. 71 in wilmington and in dover. 68 in wildwood. So nice even down the shore. Look at the weekend forecast. As we jump ahead thursday looks nice. Friday looks great. Saturday, 75. Sunday 78 that could be a shore weekend. Monday increasing clouds, maybe a shower late, 76. For your tuesday, this is when the weather really begins to change. A couple of cold fronts move through. Tuesday rain. 71. After that lucy it gets cooler and that cooler air heads toward the end of the month could actually stick this time. Its the end of objection. Which is crazy. All righty. Thank you very much, kathy. You bet. A local organization all about giving city kids a taste of the Great Outdoors and today our Bill Anderson went out to see how its helping them find new passions and other ways to challenge themselves for goodness sake. A lot of the students come from a violent environment, um, they keep their shield up. Reporter its pretty universally septembered that things you experience first hand have a direct impact on your growth, learning and your development. I live in the hood, um, not everybody gets the chance to come out here top stuff like this. Reporter unfortunately, too many young people particularly those from inter cities rarely experience much outside of their community, their neighborhood or certainly theyre city. In a nutshell thats the point of Outward Bound. These challenges students out of their comfort zone and in learning zone where they can grow route. Reporter for years Outward Bound has been taking young people on trips. Get to that spot youre pushing it go one step further. Reporter i spent the day with students from Sarah High School the transformation in front of my eyes was impressive some started off typical students. They were too cool to participate. I didnt like it at first. Reporter played few games to break down they are defense and get to know each other people. People to people. Reporter quick were ready to take on in my opinion the challenge of the day. Youre going to climb with with the rest of your Team Sporting you. Climb up this ladder get to the top of the latter. Physical part of the climb and jump was one thing. But watching inner steeples teens whom who are used to not opening up trust their classmates and challenge themselves that was amazing. Beat that. Alex was one of those kids who wanted nothing to do with the trip initially but not only climbing but doing it blindfolded, you can see the days impact. I got over my fear. The first time i went i was too scared to do it but then i jump. Then i saw it wasnt that hard of a thing to do. This outbound journey was only a day but the message was lasting. When we give them these challenges and these chances to like rise to an occasion, youll age see it. Theyve been proving it for years. Give our kids a challenge and they just might surprise us for goodness sake. Im Bill Anderson. So 76ers big man big time not happy right now. Kristen rodgers. Yeah, lucy, joel embiid isnt a fan of having a minute sixers are limiting joel embiidss time on the hard court as this season kicks off and hes not happy about it. Kristen rodgers says its a smart move. Her commentary in 15 seconds. Joel embiid is not happy about head coach brett brown restricting his minutes. He had a rather colorful response to it today. But heres the thing. His opinion doesnt really matter right now. Joel embiid should be seeing season and heres why. Most every athlete tell you theyre fine when they arent. These guys love their sport. They love to play it, they want to play it, of course, theyre going to say they feel good to go when they arent. You know who can tell you if a player is good to go . Doctors. I am not craze so for saying that brett brown should trust his doctors when they say be cautious with embiid especially when the guy is one of the most injury prone players in the nfba. I mean hes only played 31 games in thee seasons for a reason. So you can swear all you what happened, embiid, but you need to be healthy to be one of the best biggs in this league much the sixer are doing the right thing by keeping him off the floor to for a bit its the only way they can make sure he gets back in when they really need him. You know what im right there with you on that one. Okay. Up next tmo seem followed boy page sick at midnight and stay tuned for the q at 12 30 and the simpsons weve got kathy orr running over to the desk to join us right now. Hey, kathy. I love watch you sprint across the studio. She ratted me out. Shes in the back 40 over there. Its takes while. Were back here at 4 00 a. M. For good day philadelphia frost fox 29 studios this is good day philadelphia. Right now on good day philadelphia a Popular Community sent area bankruptly closes down. Parent are left to figure out what to do with their kids. And classes are back in session. Kids returning to one of our schools after the mold had forced them out for days. And we trusted the process. It is time for action right now. Time for the team to show us what theyve got. We think theyve got a lot. The sixers get set to open the regular season and we are excited. Good day everybody it is wednesday, wonderful wednesday, thank you for waking up and joining us, thank you, bob kelly. Just making it a good day for you, bringing your coffee. And oh, sue, welcome back, how are you feeling. Better. There is some kind of crud going around this whole building and i got it. Welshing i like the picture you instagram, need a crowbar to get me up. True. Me for the past couple. So good to be upright and back again, and i pick a pretty good day. You did. Beautiful day. Thank you. Im not stupid. Here we go with a nine out of ten today. We are going to have a lot of sunshine eventually once the sun comes out. But just like yesterday, were off to a very chilly start. Flyers won last night, yay, so bus stop buddy has the sweatshirt on with the fleece probably good idea maybe even some gloves. Right now nothing on radar, not even cloud in the scion satellite, 49 degrees the current temperature, 69 humidity, west winds 3 miles per hour, tranquil morning, but chilly one. Sunrise time 7 15. Well check some other temperatures in a moment. But it, looks like a fine fall day with a High Temperature of around 71, 72 degrees, sunset time 17 0. This is the day to go pumpkin picking, bob kelly. Lets do it, youre not doing anythingment youll come right back here, take your medicine and sit right back down, right . You got an ease back into it here. Ticktock 4 00 good morning, everybody, working on 422 here. This is live look, 422, right near trooper road. Crews are also out on the schuylkill expressway, westbound here, in the tunnels, under 30th street station. And they are still working along i95 northbound as you roll up between girard and allegheny. Mass transit no delays. Karen, back over to you. Thank you so much. Right to the breaking news from overnight. Out of the west oaklane section of the city. We now the man there, 43 years old, found laying on the front steps after home. The scene there, 6400 block of west 65th street. This looks like it is the video of the mother that was take never connection with the children. But we know that that incident happened on west six street. Police are questioning witnesses who were in that area trying to get more details on that one right now. Over to another big story thats developing right now
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