Of the pal. The mother of a 3yearold boy who got into the cincinnati zoos gorilla exhibit will not be charged. The incident resulted in the shooting of the endangered gorilla to protect the little l boy. Today prosecutors said the childs mother and three other kids with her and she was attending to them when the 3yearold just scampered off. The boy apparently climbed over the outer barrier before falling some 15 feet into a shallow mote. The boys family is pleased with the prosecutors decision. They released a statement that reads in part this is one more step in allowing us to put this tragic episode behind us and return to our normal family life. New information now in the murder of a 78yearold neigh r neighborhood handyman beaten and strangled inside his home. Police say the killer is a ta teenager. Police are looking for clark who they say broke into the mans home last week. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton is live at Police Headquarters with the new developments. Monique . Reporter hi, den
Miles of high school or twomile walking distance from k8. Majority living in property, coming from single parent homes in which the parents generally work two jobs and they dont enjoy the same support system the counterparts have in suburbia getting to and from school. Minus the gangs, what if its bad weather, snow, rain. By the time you get to school, youre absolutely soaked. Its too much. Walking, go home in peace. If i was in a car or bus, i wouldnt have to go through this. This is unfair for people who just want to get to school and get home. Reporter and the next step, o of course, is taking what officials encountered today on these sidewalks to trenton in hopes for getting more money either for a contracted School Bus Company or passes on a public system for these students like new jersey transit. A truancy attendance officer who walked with me part of the way today didnt want to be on camera, but she said in the dead of winter when its freezing cold, our numbers are down because
60s. We are watching an accident in cheltenham on Central Avenue and tookany creek parkway. Route 55 in millville, new jersey, a few cars on the roads but no problems in either direction. More updates for you when i come back in the next ten. 5 31. New from overnight, a 17yearold boy is in the hospital after a robbery attempt turned into a shooting. Nbc 10s Pamela Osborne is live outside st. Christophers hospital for children in philadelphias hunting park section this morning. How is the teenager doing . I can tell you right now that he is in stable condition. Police say he was shot once in the shoulder. Despite that injury, he was able to drive himself away from the shooting scene. To st. Christophers hospital which is about three miles away. The victim went to pick up a friend in the 5600 block of florence street. His friends got into the car. As they were getting ready to pull out of a parking space, two men in disguise walked up to that car. They tapped on the window with the gun.
Not doing too badly. Were warm out there. 67 degrees in mt. Holly. Not feeling as humid as yesterday. Well continue with that lowering humidity as we move through the beginning of our workweek. It is warm, 70 degrees in dover right now. 66 in coatesville and 66 degrees in trenton as well. I mentioned High Pressure moving in. Thats going to be bringing us the sunshine. Were waiting on the official sunrise here in wilmington and everywhere in the Delaware Valley at about 5 33 this morning. Temperatures are on the uptick. Were looking for a High Temperature across the board of about 84 degrees to 87 with that sunshine. Jessica . Well, karen, we are watching the schuylkill expressway right around the conshohocken curve. No problems really right now in either direction. You can see all traffic moving along with what traffic is out there right now. A 12minute drive time into center city from the blue route to the vine street expressway. Speeds into the 60s right now. No big problems or delay
Party, you can sign up to win a brand new mazda cx9. Just go to our web site at fox 29. Com, click on the contest page on our home page on the right. We will pick a finalist once a week and on our final show we will have a big give away. Today there will be one lucky finalist. And before we give that cara away heres where we will be, taking a look at the map and you can see, july 22nd is the finally at Dell Music Center in fairmount park. Win that brand new mazda cx9. Sue, big question, will it rain all over because it is starting to sprinkle outside. Yeah, well, you know, good day drives you with the windshield wipers on, yeah, there is some rain as predicted yesterday that we knew there would be some but hopefully that prepares you, all you need is an umbrella it is not a real heavy rain zooming in. Remnant of bonnie is not factoring in the forecast as we told you yesterday so through can see some rain moving in the city, some steadier rain out in berks county and Lancaster County a