Cultural strategy resolution passed narm nam and the Planning Department has been directed to work with the Mayors Office for a working group to outline a cultural strategy citywide for the Lgbtq Community which you will see after we have actually prepared something but that should be the deadline of having a Progress Report or Implementation Plan is six months from yesterday so you will be seeing that shortly. I also wanted to make you aware that the lgbtq Historic Context statement is the civic center of a governors preservation award and that will occur next month so congratulations to the consultants and the Department Staff that worked on that effort. Also 140 lane and the gift shop and the proas Presbyterian Church pending this was scheduled at the Land Use Committee on monday. There was hold up in the language of the ordinance and sponsorship and theyre ironed out so staff is representing you monday at Land Use Committee. We dont anticipate there to be any changes to the designa
Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. We start tonight with fire down the shore. Skyfox over the scene earlier. You can see the flames engulfing a familiar bridge. Anyone who uses the garden state parkway to get to the southern shore points probably remembers the beasley point bridge. Parkway now runs right passed it all toll bridge caught fire around 7 30 tonight. No word yet on the extent of the damage or how it started. Dads all over the city are getting ready for a very special walk with their children tomorrow morning. Its call part of a National Movement to get more dads involved in their childrens lives. Good evening, im dawn timmeney. Lucy is off. Im iain page. Organizers say it can help inspire countless children to do great things. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live at city hall tonight. Shawnette. Reporter its a powerful thing happening tomorrow. Fathers all over the city plan to walk their children to school then join other men for a march and to
To sea, thats when well see things heat up. This is margate showing you a view of the shore right now. We still have a rip current threat and the skies are getting a little darker with rain off in the distance. That is one thing were continuing to watch for the rest of the day, high risk of rip currents through this evening because of hermine just sitting off the coastline. The winds are still a little breezy because of this. Mostly the north wind direction, in philadelphia and wilmington, 17mileanhour winds in Atlantic City. Breezy for the rest of this evening. Our temperatures today, though, 86 degrees right now in philadelphia. New jersey coming in mostly mid to low 80s. Lehigh valley about the mid80s. Things are heating up. If you look at the sevenday scrolling right at the bottom of your screen, youll see we have a stretch of 90s in the forecast. Another heat wave. So summer is not officially over yet. Well take a closer look at the heat wave coming and whether that will last into
Of heavy publicity. Prosecutors made clear they will fight that attempt. I just finished up a case that was pretty high profile here in pennsylvania. We were able to get fair impartial jury and we were able to get the justice in that case. So we plan on doing it in this case also. Reporter cosby accused of of molesting dozens of women over many years all of the other cases are in civil court. But prosecutors in this criminal trial now say theyll attempt to bring 13 other accusers to the witness stand to establish a pattern of bad behavior by cos cosby. The defense did not take questions but in statements made after the session blasted the string of accusers and medias handling of their claims. The time has come for somebody somewhere to shine a spotlight on the trampling of this mans civil rights and that time is now. Smart man a long timing a said in injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Those words were true when they were spoken and they are true today. Victims of Se
Anyone hes the guy hell get through this. Hes going to recover. Reporter cross and chisholm captured after intense manhunt following the shooting. Investigators havent said who shot the officer. A nine year veteran of the force. Pba president matt rogers praised officer vadell for his bravery in the line of duty. Were human underneath all of this, and unfortunately he became the victim of very Violent Crime and hes on the road to recovery. Now the pba says officer vadell is improving. Gofundme page set up to help him with his medical expenses has now surpassed 52,000. Dawn . All right, thank you, dave. Philadelphia police have launched an eternal inch Affairs Investigation to determine if an officer will be charged for shooting a relative last night while the officer was off duty at his home on taunton street in northeast philadelphia. After an argument police say the officer fired his gun at least two times. The relative who was hit was last listed in critical but stable condition in