Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of awesome. We begin with breaking news tonight. A shooting outside a gun store in northeast philadelphia. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Im dawn tim menage it happen at the Delaware Valley Sports Center a short time ago. Lets get right out to fox 29s drew dickman live at the scene. Drew, what are police saying tonight . Reporter dawn and iain so far police arent telling us two men were leaving the shooting range when they were approached by a man and woman and robbed at gun point. Those suspects stole seven weapons from the two victims including some revolve verse, then police say the male suspect shot the 67 year old man one time in the groin. That victim was rushed to aria torresdale hospital. Niece surgery and currently in Critical Condition. The suspects got away in a darkcolored car with heavily tinted windows. Investigators had believed they had tracked that vehicle all the way to south philadelphia near
Well, a good wednesday morning to you. We begin with the latest on the growing ebola crisis. The cdc changing the response to ebola after admitting it could have done more at a dallas hospital. The nurse battling that is doing better this morning. But there are grim new warnings in africa. Tahman bradley with more. Reporter nina pham, the nurse turned ebola patient is doing well. She was upgraded to good yesterday. In a statement, im doing well and to want thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers. They are investigating how she contracted ebola despite wearing full protective gear while treating Thomas Eric Duncan. We are surging resources into dallas to examine what exactly happened that ended up infecting the nurse there. Reporter the cdc admits pham may never have been infected if they had experts on the ground from the very beginning. To prevent another nurse or doctor, the cdc will send a Rapid Response team to any hospital that diagnoses an ebola patient. I wish we had pu
Witnesses for not coming for and on a community that critics say tolerates bad behavior by local sports heros. But now only on 360, new allegations. Susan candiotti got the exclusive and joins us now. Susan, you spoke to the attorney for one of the accused, i understand. What did he tell you . Thats right. This is the attorney who represents 16yearold trent mays, who is one of the two defendants in this case. And he tells me that on august 14th, this would be about three days after the alleged attack, that the woman that the young lady that prosecutors say is the victim in this case, allegedly sent a text message to the defend, trent mays. And heres what he said it said. I knew you didnt rape me. We talked to him about it. He explained it. Heres what the lawyer had to say. I would like to bring up an interesting fact that we do plan on presenting at trial, is that my client received a text message the following day from the alleged victim. The alleged victim herself, stating that she s
Clashes. In geneva talks aimed attening syrias civil war are still on. Talks didnt happen today, but a short time ago, the un said that the sitdown had been rescheduled for saturday. That announcement came after the delegates from the Syrian Government say they would leaf geneva unless serious progress was being made. Nick schifrin has the latest. Nick . Reporter yeah, good afternoon, [ technical difficulties ] and the opposition said we all agreed that we would create a france situational government without assad, and the Syrian Opposition said today we wont have a facetoface meeting before the government agreed to that condition. The government says wait a minute, this is not our fault, this is your fault. This morning we had facetoface meeting scheduled, and it was you who walked out. So we went back and forth all day. Any un special enjoy did shuttle diplomacy between the go and opposition, and finally after hours of going back and forth, he finally announced this afternoon that th
Its a terrible place. What are you seeing there . Its difficult. I mean, we went there as an organization before the counter conflict. We were there in december 2012. And we had chosen in three states, john lee, upper nile and unity, which we thought were sort of the fragile states inside the country. And we started to train youths in jonglei state. They did a great job. Unfortunately the war broke out, the civil war. It scattered people. Because of Technology Training and human training, they started to help people get to safety. They acted in some ways as a First Response unit by helping friends across ethnic lines, because its not only a issue. Tribal. So they activated that. When they came in, we worked with them to relocate or help them get situated as best we could. And started working in the protection civilian camps. Our largest project has moved to eastern equatorial, and we are training a new group of youth leaders that will go back to the communities, initiate training and p