Tonight a new recording new accusations dropping jaws from hollywood to households everywhere. A local professor on leave. He offended a lot of people with just a couple of tweets and now School Officials are scared for his safety. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Septa employee trying to get to work ends up at the hospital instead the victim of a crime robbed and shot in the leg and then left for dead. Thanks for joining us im iain page. Im lucy noland. Tonight police are looking into whether this is part of a crime spree and that employee is telling his terrifying story to fox 29. Our Dave Schratwieser live outside septa headquarters in center city tonight. Dave . Reporter iain, septa bus operator robert long guess is resting in the hospital tonight awaiting surgery on a fractured leg caused by that shooting this morning. He says he was sit simply wal walking to bus stop to go to work at 4 00 a. M. When gunman approached him, demanded his money and then shot him. Hanging in the. Everything
Im hanging in there. Everything is sore but iming in. From item tell University Hospital bed wounded septa bus operator spoke out tuesday night over the phone. Telling fox 29 how a would be article robber opened fire on him on his way to work. Demanded everything i had and i seen the car coming down the street, i decided to just run for tour the car and thats when he started shooting at me. Reporter 47yearold wongus who usually drives to work walked Tuesday Morning to this bus stop around 4 00 a. M. Because his car was in for repairs. He was shot in the leg and left bleeding in the middle of the ridge avenue when a driver pulled over to help. He was my angel. This morning he was my angel. Like i said god wasnt ready for mow because im sure if he was, the guy could have took my live at any time. We heard like three shots. Oh, my gosh whats that. Reporter police are trying to determine if the shooting here in the 3100 block of ridge was part of a pattern of gun point robberies in the are
Turnpike connector bridge headed eastbound, from the pennsylvania turnpike, into new jersey. On the new jersey side, the ben franklin bridge looking good. No problems at all. And mass transit off to good start. Karen, thomas, back to you. Bob, keep us flowing. 4 01, breaking news out of south philadelphia this morning, Police Investigating triple shooting, happened just before 11 00 last night, police found three men shot, two in the leg, one in the foot. All three in the hospital this morning in stable condition. No word on a suspect or a motive. Developing right now, there is a drexel associate professor who has been making the headlines time and against with the offensive tweets, now put on leave. Not for the post cents itself, it is for his safety. Steve keeley is over there, drexel, to explain. Steve . Reporter well, not just his safety, but everyone else around here on campus, as well. We believe this is a necessary step to ensure the safety of our campus, what drexels Public Sta
To his families back and forth to the mansions. Slim calls the president shady during the bet hip hop awards. Good day philadelphia, 5 00 a. M. , starts right now. It is straight up 5 01, thank you so much for waking up with us, joining us on this very early wednesday. Half way through this week. Good morning, gang. Really doesnt feel early here at 5 01. Guess what today is . What . National take your par dont lunch day. Oh, goodness. For my kids, im wait willing, i have my phone right here. First one in get the best appointment. I have a feeling we may be waiting. Waiting, waiting. Good morning, sue. Oh, wow, my moms in baltimore, thats going to be a long lunch trip. An hour drive . Right. Just be prepared for the windshield wipers, little later on today, because we do have rain in the forecast for today. Lets just say, were beginning an unsettled stretch of weather for the next couple of days. Six out of ten today, with bus stop buddy. Hes got the rain gear with him. The possibility
And this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the program the fall of i saw is declared capital rucka is near fighters are expected to leave over night taking civilians as human shields at least twenty people are killed in a truck bomb explosion in somalias capital of mogadishu. The. Final rallies ahead of sundays vote in austria could see the country turn to the right and elect the worlds youngest leader. Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is expelled from the oscars a cademy after allegations he raped and sexually harassed women for decades. U. S. Backed Syrian Defense forces are on the verge of taking full control of raka selfproclaimed capital local Officials Say all remaining eyeful fighters are expected to leave the city in the coming hours taking civilians with. Them as human shields its part of a deal brokered by tribal leaders the u. S. Led Coalition Says it isnt involved in the negotiations but believes it will save lives around one hundred members of the group have