Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. Innocent bystander is caught in a barrage of gunfire in southwest philadelphia. And that man a construction worker is now fighting for his life. Good evening, im dawn timmeney. Iain is off tonight. Im lucy noland. Only on fox, our Dave Schratwieser is live at penn Presbyterian Hospital where that man is in Critical Condition. Dave . Reporter lucy, a close call for that 30yearold construction worker after a bullet pierced his femoral artery in his leg much niece Critical Condition tonight. A coworker and an eyewitness described the barrage of gunfire on cecil street. Pop, pop, pop, pop. Reporter just will 11 00 Tuesday Morning ken was sitting on his front porch in the 800 block of cecil street. Suddenly gunfire rang out. Sound like a small caliber gun. Reporter he quickly ran inside when the gunshots ended he piqued out and saw 30yearold construction worker harry pleading heavily. Police say he was in an innocent bystan
You, and get a look at our weather on this wednesday. Hi, lauren, i think you will like the number we chose today. It has been a while since weve had a ten. So lets get you one for today. Thank you, we need more coy bells. Yes, it is going to be ten worthy today. First of all were cooler to start. So it feels nice out there this morning, 67 degrees. A 5mile per hour breeze out of the northeast, 81 relative humidity, that will be going down throughout the day. Sunrise at 6 02. Look at mount pocono with only 60 degrees, 64 in allentown, 64 in lancaster, 68 in wilmington, we have couple of 70s in dover, and wildwood, that temperature will probably go down a little bit before we go back up again. Dew points, this is the good part, now down into the lower 60s, 50s, in mount pocono with the lower dew points, feels a lot more comfortable today. So looking at a High Temperature of 83 degrees, pretty nice day, lots of sunshine, drying out, with the humidity, and sunset time 8 12. So, thats your
Ken was sitting on his front porch in the 800 block of cecil street. Suddenly, gunfire rang out. Pop pop pop pop pop. Reporter he quickly ran inside when the barrage of gunshots ended he peek out and saw 30yearold construction worker harry bon notice et bleeding heavily. He was an innocent bystander caught in a hail of gunfire. Hes a hard worker and he was trying to, you know, better himself, better his life. Reporter Steven Hassan is bonos coworker they are rebuilding two homes on the block. You know an innocent man got caught in the crossfire just trying to do his job. Reporter police say the shots came from a passenger in a burgundy car that pulled on to the block and stopped in front of a home here. The man with the gun starts firing multiple times. We believe as many as eight shots are fired. He just what happened to make the neighborhood a better place. Reporter police say none of the intented targets were struck. No one else on the block was injured. Tonight Police Continue to r
At 11 00. Construction worker caught in crossfire now fighting for his life. He was simply heading to a job when the bullets started flying in southwest philadelphia the this afternoon. Witnesses describe a terrifying scene. Good evening, im lucy noland. Only on fox our Dave Schratwieser spoke to a coworker standing feet away when his friend got shot. Live now at penn presbyterian hospital. Dave. Reporter lucy that worker was carrying some Construction Supplies down the block to a construction site on local street in southwest philadelphia when he walked right into a barrage of gunfire. Sounded like a small caliber gun. Reporter it was just before 11 00 tuesday morning, ken was sitting on his front porch in the 800 block of cecil street. Suddenly, gunfire rang out. Pop pop pop pop pop. Reporter he quickly ran inside when the barrage of gunshots ended he peek out and saw 30yearold construction worker harry bon notice et bleeding heavily. He was an innocent bystander caught in a hail of
With scott pelley. Lot. The t. S. A. Said checkpoint delays are being dawz caused by an 8 increase in Airline Travel and a shortage of security officers. The agency has also intensified its screening process to more carefully monitor more passengeres after a federal investigation revealed significant security vulnerabilities. I would not characterize it as a national crisis. Reporter today, secretary of homeland security, jeh johnson, outlined plans for hiring more officers and deploying more canine teams to billsy airports ahead of the busy Summer Travel season when lines could get longer. People have missed flights during this period. Without a doubt. Reporter did you do a good enough job preparing people for this new reality . Im focused on what away do Going Forward and making sure that we are focused on this, that we are anticipating, that this has both the personal attention of myself and the t. S. A. Administrator. Its a crisis. Reporter congressman john mica sat on the floor of