Kensington avenue just north of lehigh a large and growing encampment of the addicted and homeless has turned this already rough neighborhood into a war zone. 39yearold Nicole Stevens walks through the battlefield every day on her way to the local methadone clinic. Its a struggle every day. Its not easy. Reporter addicted to painkillers after a car accident at 19 shes trying to get and stay clean. I go by every single dane it breaks your heart half them people out there. Are they going to freeze to death at night. The city of philadelphia teamed up with conrail to clean up nearby Railroad Tracks and roust addicts who made this round zero are to the citys heroin epidemic. The fear at the time was that those addicted would simply move to new location to get their fix. Those fears seem like theyve come about. Definitely came true watch did they expect people to do . , you know if they cant stay there they got to stay somewhere. Reporter Business Owners up stratt from the kensington say th
Speak to an administrate but couldnt find one. The mother called High School Administrators leaving a detailed description of the images but didnt receive a return call. From what im being told several parents have and no one has gotten responses yet. Reporter whats your reaction to that . Thats why we called you. Report roar both parents asked we not identify them fearing trouble for their children. High School Principal dr. Ramon mc fall declined comment in a face to face meeting with fox 29. A spokesperson called back later to say when we became aware of the video, we followed our proper procedures and turned the matter over to the local police he added we have not op obtained or seen the video. Local police would say only that the matter is under investigation. The mom says her daughter believes the act occurred in the back of a biology class with the teacher present. But unaware of the sexual activity. Anybody that sees this video should be disturbed. If youre a parent and you hav
Breaking news out of upper gwynedd. Now sky fox over the scene just about half hour ago. This is valley forge road. Police say a car hit an officer at a traffic stop. The officer is at the hospital, should be okay. Police say the driver did stop. More information well give it to you as soon as it comes in. Also happening right now she was good kid. She studied hard and she had her whole life ahead of her. Community is remembering a 19yearold woman killed in a hitandrun in lower southampton last night. You saw it as breaking news right here. Tonight police are still looking for the driver. Thank you for joining us at 11 coliseum lucy noland. Police say someone in a ford f250 pick up the truck with the same color and look of the truck you see right there hit the young woman and a friend last night and she died a few hours ago. Fox 29s brad sattin is live where this all went down. Brad, police in the community a common goal here. To fine the driver. Reporter yeah. For sure they want to fi
Good. Yeah. Reporter officer quickly catches one of the brawlers and taser in hand halls him back to the scene. 18yearold david thinking penn charged with simple assault and reckless endanger many. No word on what became of the second person pounding the homeless man. We track down the beating victim tuesday. He did not wish to talk to us but the incident comes just nine days after the fatal beatin beag another homeless person kevin cullen allegedly at the hands of a group of teens. This certainly has been up tick just in the last fewer weeks of violence. You know, we always worry because people who are on the street are so vulnerable. Reporter liz hirsh directs philadelphias homeless servic services. Theres lot of violence in the culture here. Right. Theres a lot of bullying conversation and i think that translates down the. Reporter hirsh says drug addition who find themselves out to the street get less sympathy from the public she estimates that 80 of the nearly 1,000 chronically ho
Area. Lets go to delaware county. The blue route at 95 right now. We have seen traffic at a standstill once again many blazes many times tonight. Back outside now to Rehoboth Beach, delaware, everything getting covered in white. Thats actually a pretty scene. The snow is not stopping for a couple of hours depending upon where you are. So brace yourself. The weather is where we begin tonight at 6 00 oclock. Thanks for joining us. Im dawn timmeney. Im chris oconnell. The know moving south right now but still its an absolute mess out there. We have Live Team Coverage for you tonight from across the area. Dave kinchen is out bracing the roads. Brad sattin live in cherry hill but first up meteorologist mike masco. Hes outside our fox 29 old city studios. Its still snowing out there, mike. Its still snowing but its encouraging because now were starting to see the snow wrap up from philadelphia points north and we have f youre watching us in reading and allentown the snow is done and done for