Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20140711 : comparemel

Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20140711

Im iain page. Lets get right out to fox 29s drew dickman. Hes live at Saint Christophers Hospital tonight for us. Drew . Reporter iain the boys family didnt want to wait for an ambulance to take their son from the scene so they actually drove him to the hospital themselves. Investigators say that the alleged drunk driver actually followed them there before he was arrested for dui. I was just completely in shock. I was shaking. My heart was racing. You know, tears came to my eyes. You dont ever want to is he Something Like that happened. Reporter witnesses dry chaos after drunk driver ran over a three year old boy before 4 00 this afternoon on the 2800 block of fourth street. Investigators say the boy identified by family as Jimmy Rodriguez darted into the stre street. He was balled up in a ball and when i turned when i grabbed him, he was bleeding through his mouth, his nose and his head. Reporter aunt Elizabeth Perez says he also fractured two ribs. She watched the horrifying scene unfold in front of her. My heart broke my heart. I couldnt breathe. I didnt know what to do. Reporter another rodriguez aunt rushed home from work after hearing what happened. The incident has her shaken. I dont know what to do. I have three of my own and i cant imagine what my sister is going through at all. Reporter those who live around block are now worried about the safety of the rest of the children in the neighborho neighborhood. You have to be cautious when you drive down the streets especially in the summertime. All the little kids are playing. You have to expect to be cautious of where youre drivi driving. What your surroundings are pay more attention to the little kids playing. Reporter rodriguez is listed in stable condition tonight however hes expected to be kept here overnight for observation. The name of the driver has not been released by police at this time. Iain. Drew, thank you. To your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Parts of the injuries seashore under a Flash Flood Watch. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams is here now. Scott w is this threat over . Reporter iain, right now the threat is over mainly north of the philadelphia area but you can see were still looking at ultimate doppler. Very heavy rainfall right now in lancaster and Chester County. Getting a break down the shore but we still have that Flash Flood Watch there until midnig midnight. Im going to zoom in little closer here. Toward lancaster and Chester County look at this very heavy rainfall where you see the red, the orange that intensity rainfall rates one to perhaps 2inches per hour. Zoom in a little closer here. Ing see around coatesville area. Downing ton over to exton, this shower and thunderstorm is rea really just set up shop across the area. Not really moving that rapidly. So a Flash Flood Warning for central Chester County now until 12 45 a. M. Because of that storm. Elsewhere you can see that rainfall moving away from south jersey. But look at the rainfall earlier in the day. Two to perhaps five, 6inches of rainfall fell within the system earlier. Central, southern sections of delaware, about 3inches of rainfall. So the system has been slow moving with that stalled boundary so of course we continue to follow leftover showers overnight. Your friday, mostly sunny, but lower humidity. Well talk about the weekend forecast and those changes coming up. Back to you. All right, scott, thank you. This is wait looked like earlier today in ocean city. Heavy rain causing a lot of flooding. People caught off guard force to do push their cars through high waters in the streets and take a look at this. Really shows you just how deep the water was in ocean city. Fox 29 catching these kids swimming in the streets. Family is desperately pleading for help tonight. Their searching for a woman missing now for 10 days. Police say someone has kidnapped nefertiri trader and whoever is behind it has her car. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose is live in new castle, delaware, where shes been speaking with the womans family sabina . Reporter thats right. The family of nefertiri trader Haldane Meg Al press conference right on the lawn of the home where police say she was abducted from. The family is begging whoever took her to let her come home safely. With tears poring down their faces, the family of 33 year never tear tee trader gathers on the front lawn of her home. Public plea 10 days after police say trader was force cybillly object ducted. Whoever has her, have mercy. Just send her back home with her family and friends, her mother. Reporter police say she was last seep struggling with man outside her home around 4 00 in the morning last monday. Cops say an eyewitness saw a man in a dark hoodie forcing her into her own car a 2,000 acura rl like this one. She pack at a 7eleven for a pack of cigarettes. One of her children was home at the time and heard the struggle didnt realize it was her mother. The eyewitness a neighbor didnt report what he saw until concerned family members called nip 11 that evening to report nefertiri missing. I really wished that, um, people understood just how important it is that any time that you see, um, a crime or an incident that you feel maybe you should report on, you should go ahead and dial 911 report roar police are searching her phone logs and social media sites and hunting for her car. They say she hasnt contacted her three kids ages seven, 12 and 17. Family members say its not like her at all. We dope know what steps to make next, you know what i mean, because two weeks is a long ti time. She was last scene wearing print animal pajamas. Her pocketbook, keys and phone are missing and she hasnt used credit cards or been on social media. This is heavy on everybodys hearts. Please. Reporter and nefertiri family says they have no idea who would want to farm her. If you know anything call New Castle County police. Iain, back to you. Thank you former philadelphia daycare owner awaiting trial in a boy drowning admits to Million Dollar fraud. Teyona edwards plead guilty to illegally taking almost a million and a half dollars in public child care subsidies. Prosecutors say edwards ran the center in another womans name because her criminal background disqualified her as a provider. A seven year old drowned during a group outing baaing in 2012. Sky fox over the scene of a bad accident in northeast philly youre looking at a multi vehicle crash on i95 at cottman avenue. 10 cars involved in the Chain Reaction wreck. It happened today and police arent saying how many people are hurt or how serious those injuries are. Still don know why it happened but traffic that was backed up all it the way to center city. Two delaware men sitting behind bars tonight following a big drug bust. 28 year old christopher robs and 29 year old gary stanley are facing numerous drug and weapons charges. Police say on tuesday, they found more than 300 bags of heroin on the men inside a home on the 100 block of mass circle in dover. They also found cocaine, marijuana, oxycodone and weapons. Governor corbett signed a new state budget but not before cutting more than 70 million in spending. Most of it is the money the legislature had approved for its own operating expenses. Including 5 million for parking. The governor blasted lawmakers for that and for failing to tackle growing pension costs for Public Employees including teachers. The General Assembly left harrisburg earlier this month with unfinished business. They need to come back and enact pension reform. Asked if he would call lawmakers back, for a special session, governor said all options are open. Germanys diplomatic advice with the us over spying allegations on officials is escalating tonight. Chancellor merkle kick out the top u. S. Intelligence official in her country. The move comes a mid a new round of us espionage accusations. Germany says it hasnt been gettingetting the cooperation is from the National Security agency. Merkle calls the us spying a breach of faith among allies. Secretary of state john kerry makes a surprise visit to afghanistan. Hell try to help row solve the potential political crisis over a disputed election. Kerry will meet with two candidates who both claim victory in last months president ial race. U. S. Is urging calm until things can be sorted out. Happening now investigators pouring over the scene of a deadly fire in massachusetts. Cell phone video shows the fastmoving fire at an Apartment Building in a town about 25 miles northwest of boston. It claimed the lives of seven people ton night investigators continue to search for the cause. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live in the newsroom tonight. Shawnette, this is a horrible story. Reporter iain new york city question about that. As you mentioned, seven people died in this fire. Three of them children. Nine others were told were taken to the hospital. Tonight investigators are looking into whether fireworks are to blame. Now a neighbor recorded this cell phone video of flames shooting from the threestory Apartment Building in wil lowell massachusetts just before 4 00 this morning. They heard people crying for help. Several people ran to the fire station just up the street to alert firefighters. Investigators say some people jumped from windows. Others were rescued by crews with a ladder but one woman describes seeing people desperately trying to safe themselves. She saw a little girl dangling from window. First thing i saw were you little girl dangling from the window and she was screaming out help, help and she was dropped to save her life. Investigators are looking into reports that residents heard exploding fireworks before the blaze and claims that man killed in the fire may have kept fireworks in his apartment. Reporting live in the newsroom, Shawnette Wilson, fox 29 news. A local couple comes home to this. And says they were shocked but not surprised. We just knew at some point the tree was going to come down. You just didnt know which storm was going to take it down. They say the city of philadelphia promised to remove the dying tree two years ago. Now its on their house. Fox tonight getting results. A bolt of lightning knocks two men off that are feet and they lived to talk about it. What one wasnt wearing that made this Lightning Strike even worse. Smash and grab robbery doesnt work out so when he will when the thieves couldnt break the glass. They moved to plan b. How things went off without a hitch once they got and side. Two men craving an adventure decided to break into their Old Elementary School. Its what they walked out that has a lot of folks shaking their gunfire near a daycare in north philadelphia ends with a pharmaceutical deliveryman shot. It happened this morning right outside of a popular pharmacy and police say it started as a bold robbery attempt. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser spent the day at the scene talking with the people who saw it all go down. I was shocked. Im feeling shocked. Reporter that is was the scene caught on tape of one of the suspects police say was involved in thursday mornings daring robbery and shooting of a pharmaceutical Delivery Driver at 24th and ridge. Want or two bubble approached him and they robbed, they shot him. Reporter video shows the alleged suspect pull up in a ford taurus and get out. He walks to the corner and quickly retreats to the car and drives away. It was just after 10 30 when deliveryman pulled up to the Wellness Pharmacy to drop off drug supplies when two robbers appeared and one opened fire. Reporter pharmacist inside says the Delivery Driver came running in bleeding from a hand wound. I saw the deliveryperson rushing in, and i called ambulance and police for him. Reporter the driver was rushed to hospital as two Daycare Centers just a few feet away on the same side of the street immediately went into lock down. The man outside with gun we shut down like were closed and we shut all the gates down. Get all the children in the middle of the center and make sure theyre safe. Reporter the drivers ford van was loaded with drug supplies. Police were still trying to determine if any drugs were actually stolen. He does deliver to our pharmacy every day. So its like he should have, like, security with him as well. Reporter central detectives arrived to process the crime scene and investigate. They pulled Surveillance Video from the daycare and other businesses. Pharmacy workers are hoping the driver is okay. I feel bad for him. Im praying for his family somebody had to watch him or something for while. People dont just do that out of the blue. Reporter Dave Schratwieser, fox 29 news. A 20 year old man behind bars tonight accused of violently shaking his girlfriends 10 month old baby. Codey rig of exeter facing charges. It happened last thursday. Authorities say rigs could not stop the baby from crying. So he grabbed her neck and started shaking. The baby is now in coma and doctors say they dont know if shell survive. Philadelphia police have made arrest in tavern burglary caught on camera. It happened at flukes irish pub in holmesburg. The place was closed when the thief used a crowbar to force open door and pry open two cash registers. A Highway Patrol officer recognized the man from the video. They have a suspect michael car pinot in hand. Mural adorns a building in kensington and honor firefight firefighters lieutenant robert neary and daniel sweeney. Our car help spoke to the loved ones they left behind. Reporter bagpipes, the color guard, proud absolutes all the pomp and circumstance to honor two men who deserve every bit of it. Lieutenant robert neary and firefighter daniel sweeney. Big and bold their faces gaze to the north the site of where they lost their lives a few blocks away in that terrible five alarm east ken sipping ton warehouse 52 years ago. With their families in the front row, their mural was dedicated. A remembrance of their commitment, bravery and sacrifice today and always. Particularly bell toll . Bell tolled 777 the call to bring the company home. Reporter everything in the Fire Department had the meaning a reason. So too this mural a torch burning for that fateful day. Lions for bravery. Patrons saints. Mostly it is the faces these artists worked so hard to capture smile that goes all the way to the eyes. Youthful pride shining from strong heart. The design worked with the families to get it just right. Its bittersweet. Everything in our life is bittersweet. Its all our mind all the time the loss of our son. We wake up in the morning and its the first thing i think of. Sometimes we cant sleep at night. Its like two years, three months and like it was yesterday. Its a heart ache. You can see the mural from the el larger than live portraits of what makes our so great. With her husband gone, diane neary walks arm in arm with one of the injured firefighters to the scene that made her a widow. I believe that our father wanted him home at this time and i think that he is sitting at the table in heaven instructing all the other firemen that theyll continue to do good job assisting those that are down here still fighting fires. Thats what i think. Reporter karen hepp, fox 29 news. Again that mural is in kensington. Lets go to Scott Williams for your troy today morning forecast. Lucy it looks like well turn the corner tomorrow. Getting some relief from the heat as well as the humidity. Temperatures by 6 00 a. M. 70 degrees in the city. 64 in the suburbs. Well call eight mick of sun and clouds. It will be mild. But im keeping a shower chance south of the city in the forecast. As we look right now at ultimate doppler, as well as the concern, we still have Flash Flood Watches until midnight for south jersey, all of delaware. But the concern right now in sections of lancaster as well as chester counties a slow moving thunderstorm complex has developed. You can see right now as we zoom in were looking at very heavy rainfall. Where you see the orange, where you see the red, thats the intensity. So were looking at rainfall rates one to 2inches per hour. But well zoom in a little closer here. And once again this is central sections of Chester County. Around the exton area, moving toward downington, coatesville, yeah, youre looking at some very heavy showers and thunderstorms right now. Also moving toward the west chester area. This activity hasnt been moving very rapidly. So it will likely just kind of rain itself out and produce some flash flooding. You can see that Flash Flood Warning highlighted there in green. It includes the parkesburg area, coatesville, downington, exton, west chester as well as east whiteland. Were looking at very heavy rainfall. That Flash Flood Warning is in effect until 12 45 a. M. So ponding on the roadways. If you have to be out and about, dont drive through any flooded roadways in central sections of Chester County as we watch that very heavy rainfall. The heavy rain has ended down the shore. Of course, earlier we were looking at up to a half a foot of rainfall in southern sections of south jersey. You can see around the Cape May County area, closin closing in r 5inches of rainfall between ocean city and Sea Isle City has folks are cleaning up down there from all of the mess. Also, central and southern sections of delaware we saw well over 3inches of rain. 75 degrees right now in the philadelphia area. Humidity a

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