Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20140801 : comparemel

Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20140801

Good evening im iain page. Im lucy noland police are looking for that man tonight. They want him off the streets. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose joins us live at Police Headquarters. Sabina, incredibly scary what this guy did. Reporter lucy, can you even imagine you are sitting in your can and suddenly somebody starts shooting at you . We talk to the shopkeeper who captured this incredible surveillance video. At first the scene looks like normal traffic. Red jeep loredo comes to a stop at a red light along the 300 block of north 23rd street wednesday. Green forward for taurus pulls up behind it but within seconds, gunshots shatter the afternoon calm. Watch as the passenger of the ford jumps out and police say fires at least three times at the jeep with a 40 caliber semiautomatic handgun outfitted with an extended magazine. The folks inside of the jeep detective has an opportunity to interview them. They hully drove off from that location and went directly to the police station. Lieutenant John Stanford of the philadelphia pleases says two people, 23 year old man and 44 year old woman inside the jeep were not hit. He says the victims dont know their attacker seen here in jeans and dark tshirt and investigators are looking into whether this was and extreme case of road rage. You pay not be paying attention and realize you cut someone off or someone is mad you didnt use your turn signal. What a way to find out the next light you get to somebody gets out and fires at your vehicle. You dont know what the situation happened between both. You can tell. Nobody knows. This man owns carnival peas sam his surveillance cameras captured the whole shocking incident. A lot of neighborhood kids usually play outside and hes happy no one was hurt. Its very scary, of course. Never happen to me before. Reporter and tonight that gunman is still on the loose. Police say he is armed and dangerous. If you recognize him call police. Iain . All right. Sabina, thank you also developing right now triple shooting in north philadelphia. One man is dead and the other two are being treated at Temple University hospital. This happened on the 4200 block of north hick street about 7 30. So far there are no arrests. Breaking news now on the deadly ebola virus. Centers for Disease Control says an american with awhile contagious virus is now coming back to the United States for treatment. Were not sure exactly how the unidentified aid worker is getting here. The federal government may help facilitate the trip but a private company would transport the person to atlanta. The cdc says at lands toes Emery University hospital is one of many here in the states able to treat patients with infectious diseases. American hospitals are well equipped to deal with the proper isolation precautions and what we call contact precautions and respiratory droplet precautions to prevent the spread of the viewer us in had hospital setting. The virus begins with fever, headache, muscle ache causes massive hemorrhaging when its the most contagious. Officials now say two American Peace corps volunteers have been exposed to ebola and so Health Officials are warning americans not to travel to guinea. Liberia and sierra leone. The disease has killed more than 700 people in these west african countries alone so far this year. It is the worst outbreak since the disease first surfaced nearly 40 years ago. Good news for commuters traveling through wilmington, delaware. The southbound lanes of the i495 bridge are reopened. This is Major Development as it opened a month ahead of schedule and skyfox over the scene earlier. The bridge was shut down back on june 2nd after an inspection showed four columns supporting the bridge were tilting. Deldot Officials Say they were successful in realigning them. Governor jack markell is pleased with the progress. We know the process is not finished. We know that there are obstacles that remain but we also have lot of confidence in the team that we have in place. I certainly. Northbound lanes should be reopened by labor day. One of the survivors of last weeks carjacking that killed three children is talking about what happened. Thelma brown says its a day that changed her life forever. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in the newsroom. Chris, what is she saying . Well Lucy Thelma Brown was the other vick testimony in that deadly carjacking last week. The 69 year old recovering from her injuries is still come to go grips with the reality that three children were killed and her life was spared. Theres in way that i could not move out of way of that car without that guys help because i was standing right there. Reporter thelma brown remembers almost everything from the time the carjack suv hit her to seeing the bodies of her friends children spread all over this north philadelphia intersection. Police officers crying. Squad people crying. You never seen nothing like that. Reporter miss brown as shes known in the neighborhood is now home from the hospital recovering from a broken leg and a broken heart. When someone as close to you as those kids were and that happened to them, thats something you cannot process. Reporter she is the lucky one. She was with 15 year old key area williams, 10 year old joseph reid and seven year old Terrence Moore when they were run over while selling fruit for a local youth group. Their mother Keisha Williams still remains in a coma. Those are the only two sons she had. And her oldest daughter. Theyre gone. After a week of sadness in the neighborhood, there are signs of new life in a garden that all three kids who were killed helped grow. This is a part of joseph and terrence and key era. They planted this. They participat participated ine seeds in the ground and took care of this garden. Reporter vegetables will be delivered to the childrens surviving family members. As for the two suspects, charged in their deaths, miss brown says she holds no anger. One person can forgive them, thats god and they still going to get what they deserve. Dont need to be angry with them for killing those kids. Reporter now, brown tells me her friend Keisha Williams still remains in a coma. She wants to be the first one in the hospital there when she wakes up. She believes williams may have been struck while trying to save her own children from being hit from that suv. Lucy . All right, thank you, chris. Fox 29 viewers have helped Police Capture at least one suspect accused of stealing a Police Officers wallet. Police say they have arrested arthritic year old lisa gill. 3184 old robert reid is still on the run. These pictures from the wawa on the 55 north fork landing road in maple shade, new jersey. Police say these pictures are from there and they stole the wallet from the officers perm vehicle at that place. They say that his debit card was also used at a hotel in a wawa in cinnaminson. Septa says Train Service running again tonight along the norristown high speed line in delaware county. Part of it had to be shut down after a woman was hit by a train. Skyfox was over the penn field station in havertown where the accident happened. Septa says the woman was hit by a northbound train and was killed around 4 00 p. M. Use shuttle buses between 69th street and wynnewood home to get commuters home as official again an investigation into what happened. Happening now, israel and hamas agreeing to a humanitarian cease fire for 72 hours beginning tomorrow morning. The cease fire is critical to give civilians a much needed reprieve from violence. Civilians will get humanitarian relief and time to bury their dead, take care of the injured and restock food supplies. The cease fire will also help crews repair water and energy infrastructure. Nearly 1400 people have died in the past three weeks. The state house of representatives cancels a vote on the cigarette tax to Fund Philadelphia schools and city leaders are furious. They say schools might not open this fall. Our Shawnette Wilson live in the social media Center Tonight with that story. Shawnette. Reporter majority leaders say since house members failed to reach a consensus they wont revisit the cigarette tax issue until mid september. School starts Early September leaving the district with a tough decision to make. Its all politics. I dont even begin to understand the levels of dysfunction and beurre rays see standing between, you know, us and our children being properly educated. Reporter sabrina, has two children in the Philadelphia Public School district. Shes concerned about the funding fiasco that has city and School District Officials Saying schools may not open on time this fall. The idea that somebody wouldnt step in and say, we need to provide the School System with enough money so they can open their doors, can pay teachers, we can have the School Supplies for the kids, have things like School Nurses so we can keep our kids safe, just the most basic things to keep our schools operational. Reporter state House Republicans are reportedly backing away from plans to meet next week to pass a cigarette sales tax in philadelphia. That would provide much needed money for schools. Mayor Michael Nutter and City Council President Darrell Clark released a statement thursday regarding the move. It reads in part, the news that the house will not return next week to pass house bill 1177 is devastating to us. Superintendent dr. William hite has been clear that without the new revenue from the philadelphia cigarette tax to fill the now 81 million budget gap, he could not open schools on time. We support dr. Lights belief that ensuring schools are safe and adequately plan is more important than opening schools on september 8th. Think of what that will do for working parents. I mean its going to basically shut down the city. Reporter and what happens next city Officials Say they will stepped layoff notices to teachers unless the tax is approved by august 15th. Reporting live in the newsroom, Shawnette Wilson, fox 29 news. A Small Plane Crashes into a store parking lot and witnesses dont give their own safety a second thought. They rush to the burning plane to help. Why the brave bystanders say theyre proud but heart broken tonight. A local mom is accused of losing track of four year old child several times. Little girl is found wandering a busy street alone. Why a neighbor is jumping to the womans defense. Nine year old new jersey boy is running a very profitable Lemonade Stand. The money is for him but its not for what you might think. His ma and to raise enough cash to help him hear. A student punished forced to sit on the floor for 22 days. What she did in class that left her without a seat. Lucy right now the Weather Authority is monitoring weather change that is will impact your forecast over the neck several days. Rain gathering to the south coming up increase in humidity as well as the timing of the rainfall. Stole cigarette and lottery tickets. If you know who these guys are call police. Tens of thousands of people packing the look at that crowd. Bagging the beach of Atlantic City for a free concert tonight. Just oceans of people there. What a huge show by country super star blake shelton. Fans packing the beach, the boardwalk, their boats. 60,000 people had free tickets to tonights show. Fox 29s drew dickman spent the evening at the concert where the mayor says this is just what Atlantic City needs. Blake shelton grew quite a crowd an estimated one hadnt dread thousand people enjoyed his free concert on the beach. City Officials Say its one of the ways theyre try to reinvent themselves to get more pebbled to ac reporter shelton had the Atlantic City beach rocking. I cant hear you. Thousands of beach chairs and umbrellas filled the shore as the Country Music super star played some of his favorite hits. People also took into live music from boats and hotel rooftops. Others couldnt get a ticket partied along the boardwalk. Reporter welcomed site excitement in ac has been fleeting in 2014 possible al third of the east coast gambling hubs casino could be closed by the end of the summer. Mayor don guardian says free concerts of one of the ways the city plans to reinvent itself. This is exactly what the new Atlantic City is all about. Things to do besides casinos and gaming and having blake here and hundred thousand extra people is the way that were rolling out the red carpet for everyone to come down. Reporter if you ask the thousands of people who watched the country sooner from oklahoma the plan is off to a great start. Hes awesome. Good show. Reporter jenn for herman and her family drove six hours from pittsburgh for the free show. Theyll be staying the night in ac as will the this family from wilkesbarre. Its enjoyable. You can see a lot of people. I think its a great thing for the community. Local shariff wants to see more of these kinds of events to prop up her be leaguer city. This brings people and dollars and revenue. Everybody wins. Reporter there were no major Security Problems at tonights concert. Theyll be another free concert here on sunday Lady Antebellum will be on the beach. Reporting in Atlantic City, drew dickman, fox 29 news. Arbitrator awards Philadelphia Police a new contract and the commissioner will now have the power to move officers in and out of the departments new contract comes just one day after six narcotics officers were arrested for corruption. The mayor said the contract would help avoid corruption in the future. Commissioner karl ramsay addressed todays cover of a Philadelphia Daily News depicting Police Headquarters wrapped up in crime tape. That is a slap in the face of everybody who walks into that building that dont engage in any kind of conduct like that. Now i may have sold a couple of extra newspapers but i mean, again, i think we need to keep this stuff in couldnt tech. Ramsay says the ability to rotate officers will not only help weed out corruption but help Career Development for officers. The jig is up but Authorities Say before they stopped it cost taxpayers like you millions of dollars behind the scheme prosecutors say a penndot contractor and a consultant they stand accused of stealing money meant to maintain the roads and highways that you drive on every single day. Authorities tell fox 29s Dave Schratwieser they were not in it alone. You want to say anything. Reporter state contractor yen refused to answer questions thursday as he arrived at court with his lawyer to face theft, bribery and corruption charges. Its all part of a widening probe of penndot contracts. A lot of times we say there may be additional arrests. In this case, i guarantee there will be additional arrests. Hes presumed innocent is innocent and we look forward of going to trial. Reporter only fox 29 was there when his company was raided back in aim. Prosecutors say V Tech Services was supposed to maintain state highways like the blue route by cutting grass, eliminating weeds and keeping the roadways clean. They say millions of dollars in work was not done and drivers safety was put at risk. These highways theres exit signs covered up, median strips that are overgrown, um, to say some of these roads look like jungles is not really hyper bowlly. He was not engaged in any illegal acts with anyone above him, below him or anywhere else. Reporter former state inspector robert sleigh man was also charged thursday with taking a 5,000 bribe from new yen for looking the other way when work didnt get done. You can read between the lines as to what that 5,000 might have been for. Reporter state investigation is also targeted former penndot supervisor Nick Tarantino who maintained his innocence and not been charged but the initials nm martinos former title appear several times in the latest court documents. Mcmonagle says there will be no help from this client. He knows nothing about any criminality that was occurring on the job, on the work site or in any back rooms. Reporter dave schratwiese schratwieser, fox 29 news. Lets go to chief meteorologist Scott Williams now for a look at your friday morning forecast. Hi iain. Eye, everyone. As we move into your friday look for the humidity to be on the increase. Already stepping outdoors you can see it up to 71 temperatures still pretty mild at 76 degrees. So by 6am on your friday morning temperatures in the low mid and upper 60s across the area and you will note that it will be a little mr. Humid with those winds out of the southwest at about five to 10 miles per hour. Coming up well talk about the timing of a storm system that will bring rain, unsettle thed conditions and impact the upcoming week

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