Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20140708 : comparemel

Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20140708

Southwest philadelphia fire station. They claim firefighters didnt respond fast enough to the fire that killed four children over the weekend and theyre outlooking for answers tonight. And this is the scene you are looking at right now. Skyfox is live over the scene in southwest philadelphia. Over the fire station at 65th and woodland about 200 people have showed up here to protest. This all started about 7 00 oclock. So its been going on for several hours. At least two people have been arrested. You can see the scene is still very active right there now. Its after 10 00 oclock this evening. In fact, this all started because of a row house fire on saturday. Four children died. Absolutely heartbreaking to all the people their emotions running very very high. And the neighborhood is still in turmoil asking a lot of questions. A lot of the neighbors wondering why did it take so long for firefighters to show up at the house because you know when drama unfolds you know that it seems like eternity. However, firefighters say they were there in three minutes. Exactly. Chris oconnell is live at the scene tonight for more. Chris . Reporter iain, lucy, good evening. 65th and woodland is blocked off at this hour here in southwest philadelphia after a very tense night that led to hundreds of people spilling out into the streets and several arrests and an entire neighborhood asking why. As you see behind me dozens of Police Officers here on scene. They arrived here about 3 00 oclock after a meeting at the Liberian Association church here in the area. They wanted answers from firefighters in terms of the Response Time to saturday mornings early fire that killed those four precious children. These people said that the Response Time was too long. Firefighters say the Response Time was about three minutes. That escalated into hundreds of people coming out to the outside of the fire station that responded to that fire just blocks away at one point protesters were blocking the entrance to the Fire Department. You see some of that video. Mayor nutter just addressing this very issue minutes ago. I will not tolerate under any set of circumstances Incorrect Information, allegations, innuendoinnuendos or lies suggeg that members of the Philadelphia Fire Department did anything less than perform admirablely in their service in the 6500 block of gesner street. Reporter as we bring you back out here live, we can tell through have been three arrests. One woman was actually taken to the hospital. She suffered seizures during this event. But as you can see, theres still a major force of Police Presence here as well as the community. Once again, police tell me they are going to be out here all night. But the community the Liberian Association telling me tonight they still want answers into this fire investigation. Guys, back to you. Thank you very much Chris Oconnell live on the scene. Heres a live look at the scene of the protest from sky fox. Well continue to follow this breaking news throughout the newscast and bring you the very latest as it comes in. Developing to night another Building Collapse in philadelphia much the roofs of two row homes come crashing down on the 6,000 block of spruce street in cobs week neighborhood of philadelphia. Investigators think a wall between the homes gave way causing the collapse. Both roofs and second floors came crumbling down. Home inspection Officials Say no complaints or violations have been reported on either home. One of the homeowners noticed cracks in the front bedroom within the last week and a half. She wasnt as worried about her home as she was about her dogs who were inside at the time of the collapse. These dogs are my life. Better than family cause they listen and they dont come back and give you back talk. Miracle. Oh, my god. Great day. Its a great day. I got my dogs. The dogs are safe. Its a great day. Both dogs were found and their doing just fine tonight. The red cross says its helping three families affected by the collapse tonight. Happening now, the search for whomever actually through broken glass into two Community Swimming pools in Montgomery Countys towamenson township. All that glass shut down those pools. Fox 29s dave kinchen is there live and dave as journalists we see a whole lot of things but this is unbelievable. Reporter no question about it. We learned that these were actually beer bottles that were cracked along the side of the pool and sent all that glass into the water, and now this community is really upset about it. This woman and her son expected to spend the hold fourth of july weekend cooling off in the pool after paying hundreds of dollars in a summer fee. Vandals tossed in broken glass. To find out somebody would do this, you know, its very disappointing. We have cos since coming from california and we wanted them to show them the pool and its closed because of this. So we were kind of upset. Police say the pool manager found the glass in two pools as he was opening up the complex. It could have seriously injured someone with so many children who swim here. Investigators say the vandal or group of vandals broke glass bottles on the waters edge and also through in a traffic cone and reflectors. We decided pretty much right away we had to close the facility for the safety of the patrons. Reporter crews had to drain the water, pool the glass and clean the filters. We noticed our Insurance Company and well have to total up the time our public works crews normally they wouldnt be doing this. Reporter it also hurts the owner of the cool eats snack b bar. It was a hot couple of days and holiday weekend. Definitely impacted us. Reporter the police chief says the investigation is on going. We really dont have any solid leads right now but that doesnt mean we dont have some things were working on. We are aggressively investigating it. Reporter frustrated pool members like the millers say this to ever ruined part of their summer. Why . Whats the point . Reporter as you can imagine theres big cost for draining the water, cleaning the pool and then refilling the pool, and dont be surprised if the people that are eventually arrested are held responsible in the meantime im told the pool could open tomorrow. Lucy. Dave, thank you. A baby abandoned in new york city subway. On a platform. The search is on tonight for her parents. New york Police Released these pictures of a little girl hoping to find her mother. Investigators say a woman pushed the stroller on to the subway platform when the train stopped this morning. The doors then closed and the woman road away. The baby is in the hospital in good condition. Skyfox over a law office that went up in flames in ocean county, new jersey. This was the scene as firefighters gained control of the fire on the 2100 block of long beach boulevard in ship bottom. Officials tell us the fire sparked at the shackletons had a haze seal teen law office. No word on what caused the fire. 13 year old Camden County girl thought she was going to die after bullets pierced her bedroom wall striking her. A stray bullet hit tia hudson in her lower back. She was fast asleep on her bed on hathaway drive in sicklerville, new jersey, when it happened close to 1 00 this morning. Across the street the stray bullet shattered glass and injured a 56 year old woman in her bedroom. As you can imagine everyone still very much shaken up including the sister of the girl is now recovering in the hospital. I went in there and i kissed her, whatever, gave her hug and i walk back in my room, two minutes later i hear gunshots boom, boom, boom, and the lady screamed i heard my sister scream. Iran to get my mom and when i came out, my sister is crawling towards me saying she got shot and she started crying saying she was going to dime i was like youre not going to die. Okay. Crazy that you live were not at the wrong place at the wrong time. Were home in the bed and Something Like that happens. Kind of like crazy. Camdens Cooper University hospital is trea treating betty hudsons daughter. Shes in stable condition tonight. In philadelphias andora neighborhood a burglary has a lot of folks talking to night wonder hook would actually make off with very heavy airconditioning unit. Not only in the middle of a stormy night but from a pediatricians office. And doctors there are incredibly upset someone could stoop so l low. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose shows us the impact its had on the office. Reporter it was a dark and stormy night. But that didnt keep these thieves from making off with a 4ton central airconditioning unit last wednesday. See the guys down there working but they actually you actuallactually see them carryie the unit away. Reporter dr. Selig has had an office for 35 years. Insurance will cover much of the seven grand the equipment costs but in the meantime, he says staff and patients have to suffer. This situation we have people that are working in here all day long, um, and, you know, its 95 degrees. A lot of babies that are coming in. Basically, it slows us down in terms of patients have to wait. Dr. Selig whats most shocking the two men didnt even bother to conceal their entities as they worked to cut the electrical lines and drag the unit away. They obviously didnt see the camera. Theres actually two cameras out there. One mounted up on the ceiling. They just didnt see them. Obviously now well have some more secure things besides our alarm system being hooked up to them well have tamper switches on the boxes and on the ac units but to have to go to this ex at the present time to protect an airconditioning unit is just especially in this area doesnt make any sense at all. Reporter sean good win of jm oliver heating and cooling says the copper was the real target but the estimates the metal could fetch the thieves about 50 bucks. I dont understand why you would steal from somebody. This repair will cost them couple grand. How much money are they going to get out of doing this . To me it doesnt seem like its worth it. Pretty scum bag like. Police are still investigat investigatininvestigating. Is a bone in a kuriakose fox 29 news. We have breaking news out of Southern California right now. At least four people are injured at Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. Reports say miniature roller coaster somehow hit a tree and derailed. So how a roller coaster hit a tree. We have no idea as of now. Rescue operation is currently underway and we are told at least two of those injuries are serious. Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter is calling on state senators to pass a new cigarette tax that was already approved by the house of representatives. The city says the new tax could raise millions of dollars to help philadelphias under funded school diss track without it city leaders say schools would not be able to fit be fit to open in the fall. Last week the state house of representatives approved the tax and the governor said hed sign off on it as well. Tomorrow it goes back to the senate. Should there be positive vote tomorrow from the senate and the cigarette tax goes into effect, theres no question as to whether as to whether or not schools will open on time. They will. Without the additional Revenue School district Officials Say theyd have to lay off 1300 more educators. Two teens say a jersey shore boardwalk shop offered them free samples of an illegal drug. They septembered means say they got sick. What because in a hookah pen that local officers have never seen before. Mom posts this picture on facebook and its tagged by a user as porn. Facebook agre agrees its not sexually he can plus sit but agrees shell take it down. A man says he caught two women stealing his stuff on the beach. Yeah, this is our stuff. This is yours . Yeah. Looks like he caught them red handed but he didnt want to press criminal charges. Why he says what youre looking at is punishment you have enou enough. Temperatures were in the 90 todays but the heat continues to build throughout the week. Also, find out when to expect the threat of scattered showers and storms. The mayor and fire commissioners say they responded in three minutes aft the call came in. Two protesters have been arrest to do night and we of course will continue to follow this story and keep you updated throughout the newscast. Wilmington, delaware, gunfire hits an Undercover Police car and the chase is on above it all sky fox over west 35th and north Market Street where it all began. Just before 1 00 this afternoon. The unmarked car was trailing a silver buick. That Police Believe was involved in another shooting. Police say a passenger in that car fired several shots at them. Then ended up crashing into a parked car. Three men jumped out, took off, Police Chased down and caught two of them ton night theyre still after the third man. Despite all of those bullets flying, no officers or bystanders are hurt. A substance on the ac boardwalk is causing problems for teens and police. Police say its all because of a liquid form of synthetic marijuana that they have not seen in Atlantic City before. Agents in fact bust add business they say gave it to teens in a hook coo pen. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson has the story. I seen it like on the internet but i never seen it like i bought it or seen it in the store. Reporter Jackie Torres is shocked to hear about a liquid substance Atlantic City police say caused two teens to get sick. One had to go to the hospital. Police say last month, workers at angels and saints on the boardwalk offered a 16 and 17 year old hookah pe inform s with an unknown substance to try. It does surprise me theres a lot of teenagers out here all the time on the boardwalk and they come to ac to have fun its not right they would do that. Reporter police later determined the lick wither contained synthetic cannibus known as synthetic marijuana but in a liquid form. Police say its not as common as the form once sold under k2 and banned in new jersey two years ago. But there are plenty of youtube videos like this about the liquid form. Ive heard about it. They can put synthetic weed in it. During a raid of angels and saints police found five bottles of the liquid labeled not for human consumption. The owner an store clerk were arrested and the stores license suspend pending the out come of criminal charges. He is scary to some. Anyone can put any liquid form night. It doesnt have to be just marijuana or any tobacco really. Reporter meanwhile police also say a week and a half ago they were led here to the boardwalk outlet store where they say undercover officers were caused a substance that would quote get them buzzed. It turned out to be synthetic marijuana in its original form. Atlantic city police say this is the first time theyve seen synthetic marijuana in the liquid form. In Atlantic City, Shawnette Wilson, fox 29 news. A delaware man arrested for dui for the ninth time. Police say 51 year old dale of hartley was trying to leave a yard sale sunday afternoon when his truck broke down. Officials say the trooper who arrived on the scene smelled alcohol on his breath. He was first convicted of a dui back in 1993. Wedding crasher who admitted to stealing gifts from a Montgomery County wedding will spend eight years behind bars. Joseph franzone was sentence to do four to eight years in prison plus an additional five years probation. Back in july of 2013 he was caught on Surveillance Video yo at the william penn inn in lower gwynned township where he apparently stole thousands of dollars in wedding gifts. He pleaded guilty back in march. In new jersey a police dog has died after escaping from her kennel. This is a inform ka a k9 in the Glassboro Police department. She got away saturday night an car hit her. They think firework in the area had scared her. Should Atlantic City become a destination for cruise ships . Well soon find out. Thats because the new Jersey State Agency that oversees tourism in ac hired a Consulting Firm to see if adding a port will add up to big bucks in tourism. Some cruise Industry Experts say new yorks port may be too close. So stay tuned. Finally tuned into storms a brewing in the pocono mount hence chief meteorologist Scott Williams what are you watching are scott . Lucy we talked about this during the earlier broadcast how strong and severe thunderstorms would likely impact sections of the pocono mountains and thats exactly whats happening right now in sections of carbon and monroe counties we have a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 10 45. You can see moderate to very heavy rainfall right now moving through the pocono mountains, penn forest, jim thorp area, also moving toward polk. Watching out for the potential for damaging winds out of that system in the pocono mountains. Elsewhere, its just warm, its humid right now. 85 degrees. Humidity close to 50 . Still a little breezy with those winds out of the south and west. Over the next 12 hours it stays warm. Look at the temperatures by 7 00 oclock on your tuesday, 77 degrees. 84 degrees at 10 00 a. M. So tomorrow we warm up rapidly. Also, tomorrow north and west theres a slight risk for severe weather. Well have the timing of that potential coming up. All right. Scott. Thank you. A prowler pick the w

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