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You can see all of that debris is cleared away but this window shattered from the impact of that explosion. Police say theyre just glad nobody was injured. I was on my back deck talking to my son and we heard a loud explosion. It was it shook the deck. It shook several houses around here from what the neighbors said. What bob heard just before 11 00 oclock thursday night was this explosion. Caught on surveillance cameras going off on the 4200 block of magee avenue in mayfair. Just a block from where he stood with his son. We both ran out of the front door. Pretty much every neighbor in the area ran out the door. Cops say it was a homemade explosive device placed in inside a soda machine. You can see how it tore apart the machine and shot debris as far as 65 feet away. This was a significant blast. Very lucky that no one was injured. Investigators are pouring over additional Surveillance Video of someone planting the device and leaving the scene. Within seconds the blast shook the neighborhood and shattered windows. It broke the window. The soda machine is trapped. Reporter rob owns the vending machine that sat just outside his plumbing business hes been here 30 years and says the explosion seems sense. A bomb went off in front of the building much its insane. Totally insane. This is someone that constructed an explosive device, powerful one and somewhat sophisticated one, and we need to have them in custody to make sure that we have them and any other components they may pose to make another device. And tonight the atf is investigating. Theyve already sent peaces of the device to their lab for forensic testing and theyre looking over the Surveillance Video to try to identify the suspect. Iain . Sabina, thank you. Happening now, major news involving one of philadelphias sports teams. The sixers revealing plans to build a new head quarter and Training Facility in camden, new jersey. Fox 29s dave kinchen live on the camden waterfront tonight. Dave . Reporter iain, Big Development the sixers saying goodbye to pcom in northwest philadelphia. Theyre looking to move the training operation here to an area between the Susquehanna Bank center and the aquarium and were learning also going to move the basketball operations over as well. The familiar camden waterfront landscape will see a big change now that the philadelphia 76ers organization has confirmed to move to bring its Training Operations across the delaware. Building a 100,000 square foot state of the facility here near the aquarium. Good tour the city. Good for the region, you know, this camden and philadelphia is still part of the same area. The Delaware Valley you know so its good overall. Reporter Juan Gonzales another big win for his hometown which has attractions inn clueing the battleship new jersey, Susquehanna Bank center, rutgers campus and many apartments and condos. Im born and raised here in downtown camden by the waterfront. Thats a another piece of of the puzzle of making camden a better place to live. Theyre waiting on vote on tack credits by the new Jersey Economic Development authority. Philadelphias mayor says money talks with the state of new jersey making the team an offer it conrey fuse. If you have tens of millions of dollars that are being thrown at you, just to entice you to do something, thats a business decision that someone has to make. It will bring more finances into the city. It will bring mr. Jobs into the city. Things like that and then the kids will love it. Steven forte is a injuries see based sixers fan and likes the move. Why stop at a Training Facility. I wish they would bring the whole stadium over here so we could gain the sixers we dont have the nets any more. The phillies mayor says, not so fast. The philadelphia 76ers are under a longterm contract to play their basketball games at the wells fargo center. It is where they will play their games. Reporter the city of philadelphia put up self offers over the course of two years to keep the Training Facility in the training but, of course, it looks like its coming right here to camden. Iain . All right, dave, thank you. The platt bridge in southwest philadelphia is shut down this weekend for repair work. The bridge is getting a coat of sealant part of 43 million overhaul. It will reopen at 5 00 a. M. On monday morning. It will be a beautiful weekend to be outside. Heres a live look in old city tonight a perfect night if you want to eat out or just walk around the city. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams is live outside of our studios with a weekend preview. Scott . Good evening, iain. Old city is packed here on this first friday. Folks are out and about just enjoying the festivities the beautiful weather as well. Temperatures have been comfortable throughout the entire friday evening across the area. That will set us up for pretty nice weekend as well. 73 degrees thats the current temperature. Humidity low at 39 . So just beautiful here across our area. Right now, its in the 50s toward millville. 61 degrees in pottstown and we have 66 right now in lancaster. So temperatures are pretty comfortable and what about that saturday snapshot . Warm weather on tap for the city. 84 degrees will be the high tomorrow. The pocono mountains were looking at temperatures right around 78 degrees and down the shore, 77. But dont forget that sunscreen. High pressure will give us a nice weekend but will it last . Details on some weather changes when i come inside. When to expect some rainfall with that seven day forecast. Iain. Scott, thanks. You can track the weekend weather any time youd like just head to our website myfoxphilly. Com and click on the weather tab. Investigators identified two sisters in law whose remains were found more than 40 years ago. In october, the bodies of martha stiver and sandra ann stiver were exhumed from a potters field in berks county. Investigators believe that there were similarities in their cas cases. Authorities sa say sandra died m multiple gunshots. A cause of death was never determined for martha. Both women were reported missing by Philadelphia Police in 1968. Well, why were 75, fourth grade students fed dog treats . That is the question the Boyertown Area School district is looking to answer tonight. School officials at New Hanover Upper Frederick Elementary School say that a recess aid gave the treats to the kids. They may have been misrepresented as cookies or crackers. Letter was sent home to parents about this last night . No word yet on how many students actually ate the treat. The employee has been placed on administrative leave. Philadelphia will seek to play a big role in the 2016 president ial election. Mayor nutter announcing the city has officially bid to host the next Democratic National convention. Organizers say the convention could bring 300 million to the regions economy. A decision expected to be announced in november. Philadelphia hosted the 2000 sand Republican National convention. The world honors the legacy of the brave troops who stormed the beaches of normandy on dday 70 years ago. Ceremonies were hell at the world war ii memorial in washington today. Among the speakers, the granddaughter of general Dwight Eisenhower and greatgrandson of president franklin roosevelt. In new york city there was a ceremony at the statue of liberty. Helicopters showered the statue with 1 million rose petals. In franks World Leaders including president obama gathered to honor the allied troops who stormed the beaches of normandy. Most participants in the nor hasnt dee invasion have died and many survivors are in their 90s now. Fox 29s bruce gordon spent some time with a couple of these brave men today. You are about to embark upon the great crew side. Reporter this us what not the first time Harry Schneider had a front row seat to the invasion of normandy. We will accept nothing less than full victory. Good luck. Reporter 70 years ago schneider was an army draft tee who hit open in a had a beach six days after the initial assault. He remembers his reaction to the carnage left behind on the beach where so Many Americans had been slaughtered. Apprehensive. Not fear at that time. Just whats happening here . Reporter schneider a member of a replace many crew linked up with the Second Armored Division as it fought its way inland. In what became known as operation cobra. laughter . We got caught there in the battle at the second Pantry Division and i didnt think i was going to come out of that. We were we got a lot of vehicles shot up. And a lot of guys got killed. We traveled from the beaches over the way through france into germany, belgium and holland. Came back for the balance of the bulge and went back again. Reporter Michael Axelrod was host of Seaport Museum event at which schneider was a guest. His take on dday veterans. They saved the western world. They saved democracy. They saved freedom. And they saved liberty. Reporter schneider is like many world war ii veterans stoic when describing his war efforts. Just another soldier doing his job. But he has a lingering question after all those fire fights . I dont know why i wasnt killed. Reporter later to become a father, grandfather and great grandfather, 92 year old Harry Schneider thinks he was spared for a reason. I think i somewhere along the way in future generations someone is going to come through from my family and do something great. Reporter more than 16 million americans served in world war ii. More than a million and a half are still around to share their stories first hand. Their stories worth hearing told by folks who gave us the life we now enjoy. In the newsroom im Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. A suburban doctor arrested for child porn. What neighbors tell fox 29 they witnessed when cops showed up at his home. Also ahead, a tough lesson. A father finds racey Text Messages on his 15 year olds phone. Allegedly from her teacher. What he did when that teacher showed up at his door. Its a wild robbery. What one suspect tries to pull off while another struggles with a local store manager. And a road trip with a goat . Why a man is walking thousands of miles with his why a man is walking thousands of miles with his so brian at citizens saids side. One deposit a month waves the monthly maintenance fee. Hes so good to me. Mom this is amazing i know. No fee. No. Brian at citizens bank. He gave you a special deal . Hes into you. Sounds like its time to get back out there. Honey, anyone can get one deposit checking. Besides, hes younger than your brother. Eww. You got that right. One deposit checking. Only from citizens bank. One deposit of any amount each statement period waives the monthly maintenance fee. A threemonth investigation shows the shooting of a mother and her unborn child by a Pennsylvania State trooper was accidental. Montgomery county da says no charges will be filed against joseph miller. Officials say an investigation of the march 7th incident in East Norriton shows that miller was trying to clean his weapon when it discharged. A single shot to the head killed his wife and unborn child. A Bristol Township doctor is busted on child pornography charges. Investigators say they found explicit images and videos on his computers. Neighbors are in shock tonight. Fox 29s thalia perez reports. Hes a sick person, you know. Very sick. Reporter neighbors are reacting to the disturbing details of the charges against Quinton Parker the 36 year old was hauled away by Penndel Police and fbi after they say he downloaded child porn to his home computer between apri april 19th and june 3rd. I saw them take him away in handcuffs and take some, you know, bags out. Reporter police say parker has admitted to downloading 58 images and videos of girls between the ages of nine and 13 engaged in sex acts. That is the ages of my grandchildren. Reporter no one answered the door at his home on dark leaf lane in levittown. While police tell us parker was arraigned on the felony charges. Im glad hes in jail because, im glad i didnt know about it. He would have had a hard time with me. Ill tell that you because i dont like that i dont like that at all. When you hear this about child pornography Something Like that it yeah, it sort of changes your your perspective in terms of this is just some random normal looking guy. Hes a doctor. He helps people every day. But then theres this obviously other side to him, you know, i doubt his own wife knew about. Reporter thalia perez, fox 29 news. Statement has been issued by aria Health Regarding parkers arrest. It says in part quote while a parents pant in ari yas Physician Training Program the trainee is not a medical of arrow ya staff. They responded by playing the individual on administrative leave as the investigation proceeds. Two people are a in Police Custody accused of trying to remove wire from train tracks. It happened this afternoon in bensalem, bucks county near the neshaminy train station. The incident held up a septa train for 10 minutes. Fortunately, there was no damage to the tracks. A substitute teacher in northern, new jersey, is under investigation for allegedly taping students mouths shut. The students say they were punished for talking during quiet time. A nine Year Old Girl complained to her father about it. Police in the states Child Welfare agency are now investigating. The Elizabeth School system says its taken the teacher off its substitute list while the case is pending. Pottstown police and fbi need your help to identify the gunman who tried to rob Wells Fargo Bank on east high school. Authorities say he fired several shots into the ceiling and a bullet proof divider. No one was injured and the suspect left empty handed. Pressure is mounting for the white house to explain why it side stepped congress on deal to release five taliban guantonimo bay detainees for Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. Foxs Michelle Macaluso reports from washington. Reporter the political fire storm continues on capitol hill. Many lawmakers are outraged over the Obama Administrations decision to release five taliban prisoners in exchange for american soldier Sergeant Bowe bergdahl both democrats and republicans alike say the white house broke the law by not telling congress about the deal. An Intelligence Committee leaders are furious that they were not notified by the president. The law clearly required the administration to notify congress 30 days before such a prisoner swap. Wort. Reporter white house officials insist they had move fast on the deal because they were worried about bergdahls health. The Obama Administration says there was a threat the taliban might kill the soldier if about the deal was leaked ahead of the prisoner swap. Presented with an opportunity to recover sergeant bergdahl. We believe time was of the essence. Lawmakers are not jumping to conclusions but members of the bergdahls platoon are branding him as a deserter. I would have done everything i had to do cursing them, trying to escape, swinging on them, trying to steal a gun, shoot them im not going to be a propaganda piece so my familiar confidential see me on the inter 93. Reporter pentagon says bergdahls health is improving each day as recovers at a u. S. Military hospital in germany. He will eventually be moved to one in texas. Theres no set time on when he will return home. In washington, Michelle Macaluso, fox news. Beach goers head to do from and delaware shore could add to the traffic trouble from the i495 bridge shut down. Delaware senator chris kuhns toured the damaged bridge at rush hour this morning. Hes working to get federal money to help make the emergency repairs to the tilted vertical support columns that have shut down the bridge. Lets check in now on your fox 29 Weather Authority and Scott Williams has look at your forecast.