Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20140623 : comparemel

Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20140623

Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of aweso awesome. Arrive from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10. Chilling images tonight of the man Philadelphia Police believe follow add young woman home, forced his way into her rittenhouse apartment and raped her. Hes on the loose tonight but investigators have released this Surveillance Video and theyre hoping to catch him before somebody else becomes a victim. Good evening, everybody. Im joyce evans. And im chris oconnell. Nearly 48 hours after the attack, people in the neighborhood where it happened remain on edge tonight. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose has the story tonight. Reporter Surveillance Video shows the 26 year old victim just yards from her door at 1 20 saturday when the suspected rapist comes up behind her and grabs her neck. Police say he forces her to first open her buildings door then her apartment. Once inside investigator investe rapes and robs her. My god, the girl had nothing to do with anything. Im really shocked because this neighborhood is really family friendly. Reporter police say the alleged rapist steals a young womans iphone and keys and watch closely. Youre looking at the suspect leaving the sick tims apartment after the initial rape. But then he turns around and goes back inside the building and assaults her a second time. Its a darn shame this kind of thing could happen here. I guess could it happen anywhere. Our hearts go out to the poor girl that, you know, this happened to and we hope that she heals in a quick and painless manner. Reporter Rittenhouse Square residents are on edge as the police hunt for the alleged rapist who targeted their neighbor. If this person is still, you know, at large and has not been caught probably keep an extra eye out. Prayer full thing to happen someone who does nothing. Doesnt even know. Its a total stranger. Had nothing to do. Reporter police say the suspect is a man between 25 and 30. Thin build between 5foot five and 5foot 10. He has dark hair, baseball cap and wearing a messenger bag. Police say he rode a bike and left it on the street during the attack. I think well be careful. But hopefully they catch him quick. Any neighborhood, any poor girl, anywhere. Terrible thing. Reporter Sabina Kuriakose, fox 29 news. We have the entire Surveillance Video of the man Police Believe is responsible. You can see it again at myfoxphilly. Com. Breaking news out of israel tonight where the country has confirmed air strikes that were launched this weekend have hit their targets. Those targets were nine military locations inside syria including a command center. The strikes come in response to a cross border attack that left israeli teenager, one israeli teenager dead. Israeli Officials Say the attack was a quote unprovoked act aggression against israel. Then a military Spokesman Says that quote direct hits are confirm. No word yet from officials in syria. Back home here in philadelphia, developing story. The summer is off to violent start with the weekend erupting in gunfire across the city tonight three people are dead and residents say theyre scared. Theyre calling for an end to the violence. Fox 29s dave kinchen is live at Police Headquarters tonight where detectives are searching for clues and the suspects. Dave . Thats right. Police have their hands full dealing with at least eight shoot that is have left three people dead. Residents all across the city are on edge, and police need all the help they can get tonight . Pow, pow, pow, pow. Reporter hail gunfire rocks the 1900 block of 69th avenue in West Oak Lane sunday afternoon. Its an area where children play. Also where a 21 year old man died. Police say he was shot at 15 times at point blank range. Like an automatic or Something Like that. One of them kind of guns. Get down on the ground. Get down on the floor. And thats what we did. Until the gunshots was over. Reporter this identified man found the dying victim in his back alley and tried to he help. I grabbed the middle part around his lower back area to try to lift him. Me and a cop and another young man got him in the car and they took him away. Reporter the victim pronounced dead at the hospital. Saturday night shell casings litter the the ground after two teens were hit by gunfire during a barbecue on the 700 block of westmont avenue in north philadelphia. A 16 year old boy shot in the head and killed. A 19 year old hospitalized. A cop car window even shot out. All of this has police were breaking up hundreds of people at the barbecue. At that time there was about 11 10 or 11 shots fired. Reporter also in north philadelphia, a man shot multiple times after an argument at this bar at rising sun and germantown avenue. The victim hospitalized and pronounced dead. Some of the same cops on this scene, too. We have about 13 shell casings and there was a large crowd at the time of the incident. Reporter suspect still at large. On the 5500 block of north american street in north philadelphia, two shootings take place including an incident where police say a man was shot at eight times hit in the leg by a man who allegedly asked about the sale of pills in the area. That victim treated at einstein hospital. No arrests made yet. And on the 1300 block of mc kin the street in oxford circle, a 17 year old boy is shot twice in the back side while inside this house. He, too, taken to the hospital while Police Search for the shooter. In the meantime, police say they are either talking to witnesses or looking for witnesses. If you have any information on any of these crimes, please give Philadelphia Police a call. Chris . Dave, thank. New tonight coast guard crews have recovered the body of a philadelphia man who went missing off of floridas east coast. 25 year old man was reported missing while swimming at new sub myrna beach today. He was trying to help friend who was struggling in the surf when he apparently got caught in the rip current and never surfaced. His body was found earlier tonight. Now torque your fox 29 weather authority. A beautiful sunset over center city tonight after a mostly beautiful weekend. We enjoyed some cooler temperatures on the first weekend of summer and today some of us got some rain out there. Meteorologist caitlin roth is here with look at whats ahead. Hi, joyce. We did see a little bit of everything here on this weekend of summer. Although it doesnt feel overly summer like. Temperatures very comfortable. Some clouds at times each day, and also the showers earlier this evening moved straight through the city down along the Atlantic City expressway. There they were. They popped up around the heat of the day with some of those clouds that bark was a lot worse than their bite. One rogue shower up in the Lehigh Valley in the easton area moving into portions of new jersey. But all of it kind of coming to an end after what was a pretty warm afternoon before the showers came in and in philadelphia we hit a high of 83. The normal is 85. Right now 70 in the city. 65 in wrightstown. 68 in dover. 71 in lancaster and 72 in reading. Still pretty mild north and west where they had a lot of sunshine today. For tonight underneath the clear skies, well be very comfortab comfortable. 63 in the city. Some of our suburban spots could fall back into the mid 50 50s. Either nice day an tap. Ill have your first look at the monday forecast still a ahead. Follow the weather all week long on myfoxphilly. Com. Click on the weather tab at the top of the home page. Youll find the latest forecast information and live radar images. Former pennsylvania governor and u. S. Attorney general dick thorn spurring in the hospital tonight. His wife says the 81 year old suffered a minor stroke saturday at their weekend home outside of pittsburgh. Thornberg is at home resting actually at the hospital as governor in 1979 thornberg led the state through the three Mile Island Nuclear crisis. Four men under arrest tonight accused of stealing a moon bounce and a dunk tank. Police say those big items were swiped in the middle of the night earlier this month after they were used at a fundraiser. Police say all of the men have confessed to their parts in this crime. Their facing several charges to night. The ever growing crisis in iraq now. Sunny militants continue to storm through the country now controlling four towns along the syria and iraq border while occupying a huge swath of the northwestern part of iraq. Meanwhile secretary of state john kerry made an announced a visit with the egypt shouldnt president on sunday. Kerry is also expected to make a trip to iraq. Foxs Elizabeth Prann is in washington with more on that story. Reporter . Secretary of state john kerry made with owe lip sean president on sunday covering number of issues that the newly lecked leader including the political transition, the nations security and its relationship with the us. Yet some lawmakers say they want the administration to take a more aggressive Foreign Policy approach. I think the first thing he needs to do because to me this is not just about iraq. This is about syria, this is about egypt, this is about the and tire middle east. I do believe maliki has to go. I dont know if we have time to wait for maliki to go by then it may be too late. It is absolutely search that we stop isis. Kerry is expected that travel no iraq soon we are learning sunny stream mist expanded their volatile offensive capturing a number of strategic towns some which share a Border Crossing with syria and another with jordan. Each day it appears theyre inching closer to baghdad. President obama hitting the air waves to talk about his intentiointentions abroad repeay calling for more inclusive nation including the shiite sunny and curdish citizens but he also says the solution is not a simple or immediate one. Well have to have a more focused, targeted strategy and partner and train local Law Enforcement and military to do their jobs as well. The administration also wants secretary to encourage other arab allies in the gulf to break off all regional financing or affiliation with isis. In washington, Elizabeth Prann, fox news. A local mom loses her battle with cancer. Still to come, how a community is looking after her children. And later, at tracting cruise ships to Atlantic City. How this could be the answer to a lot of peoples prayers. Plus, talk about your parking restrictions. The state that is only allows you to park for one minute. Well explain coming up. A church near harrisburg partially collapses. Authorities say caused damage to neighboring homes as well. Two families are out of their homes tonight. The church is several decades old and has been vacant for years. City officials now want it torn down. Theyre looking for the owners get that done tonight. Taking a look at National News tonight. A friend of one of the accused Boston Marathon bombers is hea heading to Court Tomorrow for detention hearing. He plans to ask the judge to release him on bail while he awaits a trial on charges of interfering with the investigation. The 23 year old is accused of deleting computer files and lying to investigato investigate probe of the tsarnaev brothers. The people who investigators say planted those bombs. In new york city booze see saturday night boat party ended up with a crash no a runway pier at laguardia airport. There are new tough questions tonight about how easy it is to get close to those planes. Heres foxs lisa. Reporter in this exclusive picture, you can see the 28foot, 1981 well craft boat with its hull smashed. Wedged right under the runway 22 extension at laguardia airport. The nypd tells us the boat crashed around midnight sunday morning. And was operated by a 51 year old man who had two party companions on board. Former Navy Seal Jonathan Gilliam is shaking his head. Theres a number of different types of technique they could use to bring down a plane and being able to get this close to an airport make it easier. Reporter the pleasure boat breached the 200foot restrictive water way around the airport. It was spotted by police on video cameras. But they were limited in their response. Because theyre only loud to use boats in the daytime. Pba president paul, says the p papd boats purchased with federal funds for airport perimeter patrol and aircraft water rescue should be on patrol 24 hours a day seven days a we week. Gill lump greece. The amount of money that Port Authority takes in from bridges, tolls, tunnels, you would think they would at least be able to keep a boat on patrol overnight. Its just absolutely ridiculous in a city that has been attacked and will most likely be attacked again some day. This is a real problem. That was foxs lisa evers reporting much the boater police say crashed into the dock was arrested for boating while inn tock indicated. Hundreds of protesters are demanding an end to Police Brutality in allobar kerr key new mexico they are outraged over the findings of a scathing report from the Us Department of justice slamming the Police Department there over what appears to be a pattern of Excessive Force and possible violations of federal law like the constitution. Demonstrators also set up a mock trial this weekend for the citys police chief. A private Memorial Service is held for Radio Broadcasting legend casey kasem. About 100 family members, Close Friends and Business Associates gathered at a church in belaire yesterday. His children spoke about his personal life and celebrated him in the same way most of america did. By listening to his unmistakable voice. Some of his rid yo shows were played during the memorial. He passed away after a long battle with dementia. He was 82 years old. Closer to home, a Burlington County Community Races against the clock to help the children of a single mom battling Breast Cancer. The event was planned a couple months ago to help jennifer folk with her medical expenses. Sadly tonight the money raised will go to. Jennifer died yesterday at the age of 39. Dont let the music and dancing fool you. This gathering of friends is bittersweet. She was like sunshine. She was was like a ray of sunshine. She was beautiful beautiful woman. Hundreds filled the delran vfw hall to help raise money to pay medical expenses for jennifer folk. The 39 year old single mom who was battling Breast Cancer until yesterday. When she passed away. I dont know how, why this happened. Theres no explanation. Came on very very suddenly. Three week ago she was fine and yesterday she passed away. And its not fair. The money raised here today through ticket sales and silent auctions will now go to folks two daughters, gabbie and jenn. They were there by their mothers side when she died. These women and these men that are here today are just they loved jenn, and it doesnt matter if theyve ever met her children before. They are going to help take care of them whatever whatever they need. Folk who was diagnosed with Breast Cancer five years ago was in remission. But a couple months ago, that cancer came back aggressively. She passed away a day before this benefit. She was supposed to attend. Many friends including member of the band rock and road grill have now shifted their focus from their friend to her daughters. This whole community of people are here are there to help them. Period. They need clothes. If they need shoes. Whatever. Theres a lot of loving people and caring friends that are here just for them. Donations for the folk girls are being accepted at any Wells Fargo Branch under the Jennifer Foulk fun. We have information on our website myfoxphilly. Com. Well, it is a celebration of life at Childrens Hospital today. All for the 18th annual fetal surgery reunion. It was all fun and games in university city. 1600 patients and their families traveled from across the country to participate. Nearly all of the children here that received prenatal diagnoses of serious birth defects. They were operated on while they were still inside the womb or right after they were born saving many of their lives. This is my favorite day of the year and i think thats true for all of our team, because we see all the kids and theyre growing and healthy and what can you better than that . Chop is the Worlds Largest center that is performing fetal surgeries. It is expected to conduct 150 of these operations this year. Meteorologist caitlin roth back now with a look at your wake up weather. Whats monday looking like, caitlin. Pretty good, chris. Probably the best well have all week. So enjoy monday. I know thats tough to do but it is going to feature really great weather. Fox future cast shows clear skies as we head into the overnight hours. Well start off with a lot of sunshine tomorrow morning. And i think tomorrow delivers the most sunshine for everyone all across the board. Temperatures fall back into the 60s overnight. By the time we hit sunrise, 5 34, still very early in the morning. Those temperatures will rise quickly. Your 7 00 a. M. Wake up Weather Forecast 65 in the city. 60 in the suburbs a lot of sun its beautiful nice morning with low humidity but that humidity does quickly

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