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Transcripts For KYW Eyewitness News At 5 20160810

Police say that was one of the 20 shots fired from two separate high caliber weapons. She was shot anywhere. It would have been potentially fatal shooting. Reporter neighbors told Eyewitness News that the young girl visits her aunt living on the block but family members who arrived wednesday declined to speak on camera. Shes a pretty girl, bubbly, she has always, when i see her shes smiling. She always says hello. Reporter luckily that little girl has been since upgraded from critical to guarded condition, meantime, police are still looking for a gunman that they say is a black man in his early to mid 20s with a thick beard last running west on chelten avenue. He fired a are distinct black and silver hand gun and could face attempted murder charges. Live from northwest detectives, anita oh for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Police are investigating a possible drive by shooting in the same East Germantown neighborhood as our top story. It happened around 1 30 near chelten avenue and 21st street. Hand told Police Someone inside a dark colored vehicle pulled up and started shooting as he walk by. The 47 yearold man was taken to Einstein Medical Center in sable condition with the gunshot wound to his hand and his leg. A parked car was also hit by gunfire. Police continue their search for the driver of this black honda, investigators believe that it may have been racing another driver, who then crashed into a familys car a second and york street in kensington monday night. Threeyear old, Esther Palmer tied in the collision. Her grandmother is now in critical condition. The driver who hit them is 17 years old and police say he is cooperating. The heat and humidity are back, combination that that could fire up some thunderstorms. Meteorologist kate bilo joins with us what we can expect, and when those storms, to strike and fire up, kate . Reporter that is right, each day for the rest of the week we will deal with the increasing heat and humidity and this is a perfect set up for thunderstorms. Storms love to form in this kind of an environment. Good news it does look like storms will be generally scattered through next couple days mainly limited to the Late Afternoon and early evening hours thaw can see the storms back across central pennsylvania, looking pretty nasty this evening. Right around State College heading up toward williamsport we have pretty heavy rain and frequent lightening. These are expected to fizzle by the time they get here. We cannot rule out pop ups off to the north this evening and it is all part of the larger pattern that pumps humidity from the south as this warm front lifts to the north. We will be in a very unstable atmosphere for the next several days what to expect in the weekend . Extreme heat and humidity continuing. Scattered thunderstorms around, the greatest risk each afternoon is north and west of philadelphia, and cant rule out a few strong storms each afternoon. Temperatures right now, well, we have started our heat wave, we will get in the 90s each day where were at 29 right now and we will stay in the lower 90s right through weekend. Coming up ill have more on how hot it will feel and when some relief could return. Back over to you. See you then, back to you. Three children are rushed to the hospital after being stung by wasps at a wilmington area park. Twelve children were stung at Rock Wood Park and museum this morning. They were on a picnic trip when they were stung. They were treated and released. Other nine children were treated on the scene. Park says they have now hired an exterminate or. Well to day is day three of the criminal trial of the Pennsylvania Attorney general Kathleen Kane. Former top aid took the stand and testified that kane asked him to block a special investigation in the grand jury leak. Eyewitness News Reporter jan carabao is live in norristown with more from the courtroom, jan. Reporter nicole, good afternoon, that is right, attorney general Kathleen Kane top aid was on the stand yesterday. That is exactly where we pick upright around 9 00 oclock this morning on the second floor of the Montgomery County courthouse. Now, that top aid says he was very concerned by the reaction and the statements kane made after learning about those grand jury leaks. Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane has had little to say as she arrived into Montgomery County court for her perjury and on trucks trial. Today bruce beamer testified about several conversations he had with kane after discovering secret grand jury documents released and landed in 2014 newspaper article. Beamer remembers asking kane have you seen the article that came out this morning . I think this is a problem. They got this information directly out of our office. Id like permission to look into this. Beamer says kane responded by saying dont worry bit, it is not a big deal, we have more important things to do beamer said he was relieved to learn a special prosecutor was tapped to investigate a leak and told that judge that the ags office would cooperate fully. Then in a 44 minute phone call beamer remembers kane asking him to file a motion in court to stop the investigation. My heart sank, because i pledged my cooperation, i was operating like this was right course of action. I was concerned. The also taking the stand state agent michael mold to and william dave hoist both testified about being shock to find parts of their grand jury investigation in the press. Both saying they had nothing to do with the leak. Now, kane is charged with leaking grand jury documents to make a state prosecutor look back and lying under oath to cover it up. The defense says she did not do it. Five witnesses have taken the stand, there are dozens of people on the witness list. The judge has said that this trial will take about a week give or take but it is slow going. We will keep you up to date. Live from norristown, jan carabao for cbs3 Eyewitness News. After a multi year investigation charges have been brought against more than two dozen people for their involvement in an auto theft ring. State inspections replaced vehicle identification numbers and in more than 100 fraudulent insurance cards, made it possible for this criminal organization to make profits from stolen cars, and insurance fraud. Our greg argos will have have have much more coming up in the 6 00 oclock hour. Amtrak has started settling lawsuits brought by victims of the last years deadly derailment in port richmond. First settlements were reached last week and dozens more are in the works. Lawyers say that a strict confidentiality clause prevents them and their clients from talking about how they are doing or how much money theyre getting. The washington to new york train sped into a sharp curve and jumped the tracks on may 12th of last year. Eight people were killed and more than 200 others were injured. This man, 19 yearold joshua trunk, is charged with the murder of his own mother and her boyfriend. Authorities say trunk shot 54 yearold janice trunk and 44 yearold kevin smith, at the forest Garden Apartments in ambler july 31st. In addition to the murder charges, the suspect is facing drug possession charges. Has been in Police Custody since the night of the alleged murders. U. S. Backed libya militias have taken overhead quarters of the isis in the coastal town. Militants final place in libya. Militia fighters launched their offensive a begins isis in june. U. S. War planes aided in the effort with air strikes. Now the race for president , Donald Trumps off the cuff remarks about Hillary Clinton continue to dominate headlines. Yesterday in North Carolina trump suggested that advocates could stop democratic nominee from appointing Supreme Court justices who would abolish the right to bear arms. Republican nominee did not mention the controversy during a rally in southern virginia today but instead trump criticized clintons jobs record a a new york senator. Look at the Washington Post from two days ago, look at story on Hillary Clinton, compared that with what she says tomorrow, we will never let her escape it. Because everything that she says, is all talk, no action. Reporter trump was rallying voters not insighting violence. On twitter the daughter of a sandy hook shooting victim asked trump if he thought gun violence was a joke. Erika went on to say would love to tell you about moms life and gruesome murder. Erikas mother was principal of the sandy hook elementary. Since the shooting erika has been a vocal proponent of strict gun laws even speaking at the Democratic National convention hear last month. Im here alone without my mother. Too many politicians cower behind the gun lobby instead of standing with american families. Democratic lawmakers have also attacked trump for his comments. Today a conservative watch dog Group Released 300 pages of emails. Some of them suggest possible ties between the Clinton Foundation and the state department. Clinton spokesmen denies any connection. The democratic nominee focused on job creation in des moines, iowa today. So in my first hundred days we are going to do some big investment in infrastructure and Clean Energy Technology and advanced manufacturing and small business. The Clinton Campaign has also formed a new group of elite republicans, and independents who say that they will work to elect her. On the sidewalk you are looking live at trump tower in new york city, a man is scaling the glass face of that high rise, right now, police are just watching this man, Police Officers wearing helmets are just above him. No word on why he is climbing but this just in live picture for you of trump tower and a man scaling the high rise building. Well, coming up on Eyewitness News a Big City Police department under fire, Justice Department paints a disturbing picture of baltimores police, shocking findings of the report and how Officials Say they will move forward. Also it is a danger that could be lurking in your back yard, maybe in the campground where you vacation or maybe even places your kid play how to avoid tics that could be carrying lyme disease coming up, plus this. Would i like to think they were just replacing sammy davis junior tap shoes when he was a child. They have a quite a few pieces. Hundreds of pieces of memorabilia from africanamerican film, sent from our area to a soon to be opened National Museum, what they represent to one woman and why she wants to share it all with the but how did we end up here . His mom thought he had the flu and that he was covered by the meningococcal meningitis vaccine he had received. Until 2014 there were no vaccines for meningitis b in the u. S. Now there are. While uncommon, meningitis b can lead to death within 24 hours. Trumenba is a vaccine for 10 through 25 year olds to help prevent group b meningococcal disease. Trumenba should not be given if you had a severe allergic reaction after a previous dose. Most common side effects were injectionsite pain, fatigue. Headache, muscle pain, and chills. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about all the risks and benefits of trumenba and tell them if youve received any other meningitis b vaccines. Meningitis b can be spread by typical sharing like. A drink. A spoon. A kiss. It all started here. It might have been prevented with trumenba. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about trumenba. Department of justice released findings of the year long investigation in the baltimore Police Department. Federal Officials Say baltimore officers routinely discriminate against African Americans and repeatedly use excessive force, among other critical findings. Reporter adam nay has more now from baltimore. Reporter Justice Department officials gathered at Baltimore City hall to release their report, into the baltimore Police Department. The investigation find that the department discriminate is a begins African Americans, uses unreasonable force, and fails to hold officers accountable for misconduct. These violations have have deeply eroded mutual trust between bpd and the community it serves. Reporter reports found officers make large numbers of the unlawful stops, mostly in poor, black neighborhoods. And they retaliate with force against citizens who talk back. Baltimore Police Department is already started making changes before the report was released. In the last year the Department Revised its use of force policy, and added more cameras. Those who choose to wear this uniform and choose to blatantly disregard someones rights, absolutely should be uncomfortable. Because we are not going to tolerate it. Reporter federal investigation follows the 2015 death of freddie gray who suffered a fatal spine injury while in custody. Reports assessment and its followup to it will help us heel relationship between the police and our community. Reporter Justice Department will work with Baltimore Police on a plan to reform the department. Adam nay for cbs news, baltimore. Just a tragic accident in florida. A seven threeyear old woman was shot and killed by a Police Officer in a class about police procedures. It hard in florida just north of fort myers at the Public Safety complex. Mary was taking part in the cities eight week Citizens Police a cast my. Two participants were randomly select to be put through a shoot dont shoot scenario. During the first scenario in a horrible accident, participant marry nolton was mistakenly struck with a live round. The officer who shot her is on paid leave and Florida Department of Law Enforcement the is investigating. A massive clean up efforts is underway this cleveland, ohio after Stormy Weather wreak havoc on that area the strong storms moved through the area late tuesday night, bringing torrential downpours, and strong winds. The storm toppled trees and left live power lines in the roadways. More than 50,000 people in that area are still without power. We will be watching the skies in our area watching the heat, feeling the heat, watching the skies. Ill tell you areas off to the west like cleveland, places like that, that is where this front will be stalled for next several days. It will not push through and clear us out. We will sit in swelter and showers and storms form off to the north and west. We can see a few but our best threat for a strong thunderstorm may be sunday or monday when everything starts to move again in the atmosphere basically. What were looking at for the next few days is increase in heat and humidity. We felt to it day w heat and humidity we will get a threat for pop up storms but we cannot get a front in here to end the pattern. Throwing is really moving. That means days, upon days, of extreme heat and humidity. Lets look down the shore right now, very hazy day, talk about hazy, hot, humid, triple a kind of weather in midaugust, down the shore, lot of folks still outside on the beach. Not a bad beach day. Good way to cool off in the heat and humidity but definitely looking hazy and a little bit foggy there in ocean city this afternoon. It looks better a couple miles inland as we head to cape may courthouse. You can see clouds have over taken things just a lit built in the city where were seeing blue skies from the palmyra cove nature park but these big puffy cumulus clouds in place, temperature there is 89 degrees right now. Really no storm activity locally, in our region, storms have have been relegated mainly off to the west but you can see pretty heavy thunderstorms moving through Center County State College area, traversing along i80 and continuing down to the south. Is there a chance a few could creep in the western part the of the region this evening but most of these should die out before they get here but heres the overall pattern, we have got this storm and take a look at how clearly you can see structure to the storm to the north. Cold front associated witt extend back towards minneapolis, that is front that may be a change maker but a very slow progression with that one and that means heat and humidity just sits in place for the next several days. And it is right now 92 degrees in philadelphia. Ninety in reading. Dew point is 71. Dew points jump back in the 70s today and puts us in the oppressive range right now and what that means is our 92, feels like nine. Feels like 101 in millville right now. Feels like a miserable 109 degrees, in dover, and it is only going to get worse, tomorrow in philadelphia may feel like 102, friday and saturday, could both feel like 105 and that is why we have got this excessive heat warning, it is now a warning that goes into effect at noon and continues through to saturday evening. Most of the storm begin to fizzle off to the west tonight and we will see a cha

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