Right now hes climbing the walls of Philadelphia City hall, but this guy is no spiderman and police want a word with him. And facing death on a simple run. A woman jogging, assaulted by a guy with a gun and now other runners are looking over their shoulders. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Tonight local park shut down Police Investigate that sexual assault. Teenager out for a run says a man with a gun attacked her and hes still out there. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. It all happened late this morning at the Norristown Farm Park and thats where we find our Shawnette Wilson tonight. Shawnette. Reporter well, as you can imagine, this caught a lot of people here off guard. Many of them were just going about their daily routine. They got off from work and came right here to the park. Only to find it closed and learn the terrible reason why. I was just looking on my fanion saw news report that said that there was runner that was assaulted. Reporter rachel marco cant believe what pol
From the park. Which is scary because ive been here at 8 00 oclock in the morning. Ive been there at 6 00 oclock when its kind of getting dark and you never really think about somebody coming to assault you while youre running report roar walkers and runners arrived at the park this evening to find it closed. Park rangers blocked off this entrance as they turned people away. And East Norriton police staked out the nearby neighborhood. I knew something was going on. Report roar chris tan and howard live on the grounds of Norristown State Hospital on the same property as the park. Their part of program called chop which they say helps get Homeless People back on their feet. They locked the whole facility down. We werent allowed to come in or good out. I didnt and wont go out by myself until the person is fou found. Bill cosbys defense Attorney Says he wants off the case. Attorney Brian Mcmonagle filed documents today to withdraw from that case before cosbys retrial. Cosby faces charges h
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For a picturesque scene in downtown allentown but the warmer temperatures we felt this week kept most of that snow from accumulating. Lets got right over to meteorologist who tracking the snow and sleet by hour by hour. A lot going on today. We definitely it had those warmer temperatures the past few days. Filling more like feeling more like winter. We only top that at 36 degrees but here is your story. Weve already seen some light snow for parts of Lehigh Valley. It looks like chester county, delaware county, philly county also see some light flurries moving through. Were getting reports of sleet still for parts of new castle and kent counties. Thats a big concern. Also as we were talking about just a couple seconds ago visibility is an issue with that light snow moving through. We are seeing some areas of patchy fog developing especially across the Lehigh Valley. As we get this into motion this is your sleet line, your wintry mix the rain is moving northward but all start to push off
And new this morning a taxi driver is shot in West Philadelphia. Now police look for the gunman and mostive. Trump ves versus lewis president elect engages in a war of worlds after cog gress man lewis decides not go to the inauguration. He is not not the only one not going. Why the rainingling brothers and barnum and bail emis pulling its tent for good. Good morning, im rahel solomon lets get started on the forecast with meteorologist Justin Drabick it was a little chilly overnight and possibly icy spot. And a warmup. We see a lot of sunshine, comfortable, light breeze mid 40s to january and every day warmer 50s by end of week. Feels good, januaryp that you will happen the next week or two weekends and until then, though, we had nice finish to the Holiday Weekend with mlk day tomorrow. Nice sunrise developing in 15 or 20 or so and clear skies over center city and still wet roads to deal with this morning with temperature below freezing and could be a few slick spots on untreated surfac