Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20141028 : comparemel

Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20141028

Tempers flared tonight. Parents yelling inside the Walter Palmer high school. Their children told today go home. The high school is officially closed. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im dawn timmeney. Iain has the night off this comes just weeks after a lottery for Elementary School students to see who would stay and who would go. Our brad satin was inside that very heated meeting and hes live in frankford tonight with the latest. Brad . Reporter guys, certainly a chaotic scene for sure. We can tell that you all this quiet right now it will ab lot quieter tomorrow with about 275 students grades nine through 12 no longer coming here. They dont know where theyre going to go to school, ton night, the schools leader got an earful. My pain is what im feeling. Reporter it was just Getting Started but already clear this meet wog not go as planned. The morning shocking news just too fresh, 285 high School Students arrived for class at Walter Palmer Charter School to be told the school is now closed to ninth through 12th graders the classrooms are empty. Tonights meeting was supposed to up tow duce parents to other School Options with reps from public and catholic, charter and online schools all there. But when the School Founder tried to shake the hands of the High School Seniors who were suddenly being booted out months before graduation rasheeda jabar lost it saying this was not time for a photo op. Did he dont know whats going to happen our children. Her fifth grade grandson has no school. Its a disgrace. I appreciate you coming but im devastated. Im hurt. Im angry. Reporter 20 minutes in and it got ugly. This is ridiculous. Nobody wants to answer no questions. What about our children . Reporter parents demanding answers about everything from getting reimbursed to School Uniforms to questions about prom. Hes a senior. What about prom . What about graduating with the people youve been around for all these years . Reporter two weeks ago another 275 students were cut from the Elementary School. The result of a legal battle with the Philadelphia School district over enrollment numbers. Walter pal her in nearly double the students its charter allowed and when the state Supreme Court stepped in, funding was cut. But the schools leader stands by his decision to fill up these classrooms. I invited you guys in knowing what some of the reaction would be because i want to you see it and i wanted the see to see it. These are the at risk children at risk families that people dont care about. Reporter students like 11th greater yarris lopez are left in the crossfire while the yelling continued downstairs, she was upstairs cleaning out her locker. Upset. Sad. I have to go. So ,. Reporter all of this happening because enrollment has to be capped at 675 students. So it will continue k through eighth grade ninth through 12th no longer here. The big question where will they go. Its certainly not a question that will be answered overnight. Lucy . All right, thank you very much, brad. A massive septa strike not before the end of the week. Union leaders are now saying the decision to walk would come thursday at the earliest and theyll give riders a 24 hours heads up. Last night bus drivers and subway operators voted unanimo unanimously to authorize a strike. They have been working without a contract since spring. They plan to meet this week. Mayor nutter is not happy. He is calling the Philadelphia City councils decision to cancel the sale of the nations city owned gas utility a cop cop out. Council members did not approve a sale of pgw without that approval the deal is dead. In march the mayor said the agreement would inject more than 400 million into the cities pension fund and maintain low income and senior discount programs. He says the citys residents did not get a fair shake here. Sadly, this announcement today is not a shining moment of leadership in our city. People of philadelphia should have the full opportunity to be heard and also to hear all of the details of this proposed sale. Critics of the deal say private ownership would subject pgw customers to unfair rate hikes and City Council President Darrell Clark today tweeted the risks out weigh of benefits. New details are emerging to night about the Deadly School shooting in washington state. Police say the shooter was a popular freshman who invited his victims to lunch by text message and then put out a pulled out a handgun be opened fire on them a moment of sale license was held to today month remember the victims of the school shooting. Mourners left balloons, flowers and stuffed animals in honor of those who were hurt or injured and killed. Police are still trying to figure out why ninth greater jaelin fry berg shot at three girls and two of his own cousi cousins. Witnesses confirmed that the five victims were at the table when the shooter opened fire striking the victims before turning the gun on himself. The sheriff says that gun was purchased legally and registered and owned by a Family Member of the shooter. A five year old rushed to a New York Hospital with ebola symptoms gets the all clear. The child just returned from guinea and began throwing up last night. Were also learning more tonight about the doctor getting treatment for ebola in new york city. Foxs Sharon Crowley has the details. Reporter a five year old boy from the bronx brought here to Bellevue Hospital sunday tested negative for the deadly ebola virus. He had recently returned from west africa when he got sick sunday night with flulike symptoms so his mother called 911. There are pediatric icu nurses who are especially trained to work with children. So theres a lot of sensitivity here to making sure we handle this child carefully. Reporter today the child developed a fever in the hospital but tests show he does not have ebola. Meanwhile the first person in the city to have ebola dr. Craig spencer remains in serious but stable condition here at bellevue. Dr. Spencer treated ebola patients in west africa and developed a fever last week. Bellevue is the citys designated hospital for ebola cases. Workers here have been specially trained to treat ebola patients in the isolation unit. This past weekend, bellevue also transferred two Adult Patients being treated in its intensive care unit to another hospital. And two more children in the icu were moved to nyu Medical Center today. In a Statement Released by the hospital it says the transfers are to help alleviate some of the demand on bellevues Critical Care staff. Meanwhile the nurse quarantined in newark, new jersey, over the weekend was allowing to home today in maine. She was hospitalized friday after returning from west africa and she has tested negative for ebola. On your radar tonight a major warmup on the way. Scott williams tracking a forecast you will definitely like for tomorrow. Scott . Thats right. It will feel more like spring. Temperatures will rapidly warm tomorrow. Get this. Into the 70s, but well see a dip in the jet stream for the remainder of the week and temperatures will be tumbling so roller coaster ride ahead this week. But as we take a look at temperatures tonight, not quite as chilly as it was last night. Temperatures will bottom out in the 40s and 50s. But look at what happens by tomorrow afternoon. Were talking mid 70s in philadelphia. Close to 80 degrees perhaps in lancaster. 72 in millville. By 1 00 oclock and 76 degrees in pottstown. It will feel really nice stepping outdoors tomorrow. So the bottom line we have that rapid warmup for tuesday and then it starts to turn a little colder as we move toward the latter part of the week for halloween. Well talk more about that forecast if it will be a trick or a treat. Rain chances this week as well as the potential for a frost and freeze by the upcoming weekend all coming up. Dawn and lucy. All right, thank you scott. A big drug bust in Upper Darby Police seize tens of thousands of dollars worth of drugs along with almost 100,000 in cash and weapons. They have one suspect in custody and detectives say he was apparently using the us male to deliver the drugs. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser has the details. Reporter on the 2200 block of windsor avenue in drexel hill, halloween decorations are everywhere. But neighbors say it wasnt trick or treaters who came calling here friday. It was Upper Darby Police with a search warrant. Its a nice neighbor. You dont really hear things like that. Obviously hes got a big operation. Reporter investigators diss covered one of the biggest drug and cash halls in recent township history. One hun debt thousand dollars in hundred dollars bills. 300 vials of steroids, hundreds of pills in pact of crystal meth. 38 year old paul hadeki was arrested. Obviously the need for these types of drugs is becoming more and more prominent. Reporter the stash was protected by an ak47, an ar15, two hand guns and plenty of ammo. Detectives believe most of the drugs were shipped to his home using the us postal service. The mailing addresses were florida, california, oregon and some of the stuff was still packaged inside the boxes. I think something should be done about it definitely. Reporter superintendent chitwood says its too common to find drugs being shipped through the post office, air freight and private delivery rooms. Police are tracking the packages and his suppliers. Theyre shipped in and nobody caught it and you are looking at something thats a fairly lucrative, fairly large size operation thats bother some. Reporter dave street wiz sorry, foschratwieser, fox29 ne. Shamus mccaffery resigned effective immediately. The former philly cop was also the judge in the infamous eagles court at veterans stadium. Mccaffery has been caught up in the porn scandal still unfolding in the state attorney generals office. He has apologized for sending sexually explicit emails described his emails as private emails among friends. Cab caffrey rarely shun the spotlight when bruce gordon stopped by his northeast philadelphia home today he saw bruce then turned away from his front door and lowered the shades. In a letter to governor Corbett Mccaffery said after 20 years as a juris i decided to retire as justice of the Supreme Court of pennsylvania. Mccaffery says under no circumstances will he seek another judicial post. A hightech balloon being used to search for suspected cop killer eric frein who has been on the run for weeks now. State police say it provides Technology Similar to what is found in search planes but its much less expensive. Its also silenced. Its charged with opening fire in northeast pennsylvania back in september. A veterans state trooper was killed another was seriously injured. The manhunt for frein in the pocono mountains has cost millions of dollars and now in its seventh week. A local home all deck out for halloween catches this womans eye and shes not walking a way empty handed. What she swiped from the stoop that might have you check your front door. Thrown in handcuffs. Arrested all for trying to get into her own house . Im not going to be pushed away in fear of going to jail. Now someone else is moving their stuff into her house. The unbelievable reason why she cant stop them. Plus, their football season canceled over hazing allegatio allegations. Parents say they have been left in the dark and tonight they are demanding answers. And neighbors call the police after seeing this roaming in their yard. Its no wild animal. Believe it or not this huge what the is a pet. What you should do if you see the is a pet. What you should do if you see boo. At the bottom in job creation. Massive cuts to education. And higher property taxes. Under governor corbett, pennsylvanias been heading in the wrong direction. Theres been no leadership and no vision. Thats gotta change. As your governor, i will lead. And well move pennsylvania forward. Well restore manufacturing jobs. Close Corporate Tax loopholes. And make the Gas Companies pay up to fund our schools. After all, its time to get pennsylvania moving again. Take a look at this. Tonight police are asking if you know who the woman is in this individual. This is from the 1100 block of fitzgerald street. It happened just before 3 30 in the morning last thursday. If you know something that might help police catch this halloween thief, definitely give them a call. You know it takes very special kind of person to solve crimes against children. Theyve got to be really tough as nails to get through all of that evidence, and soft as ted dough bear to talk to the little ones. Right. Tonight fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose goes behind the scenes with those who have the very difficult job of looking out for the young defenseless victims. These are dangerous operati operations. Child predators and pedophiles have lot to lose. Reporter theyre a select team of federal agents rooting out the most disturbing criminals who could be living right next door. Were discreet. Reporter early fall morning were along for an exclusive ride at Homeland Securitys philadelphia field agents descend upon a northeast home. Tracking anism p address flagged for possibly downloading child porn. What i see is pretty bad. Reporter agent kim is a member of the crimes against children unit. Were not revealing her full identity to protect her work. Which takes her to some dark places. Homeland security giving us exclusive access inside their sensitive operations including their state of the art philadelphia lab. Were able to quickly bring that evidence back, analyze it and then rapidly proceed to include, you know, potentially going back to that house, that day, the next day, as soon as we can and removing a child from danger. Reporter tracking even one pedophiles can mean carefully sifting through hundreds of thousands horrific photos and film. Images are one thing. Individuals are different because they have audio. So when you see an adult taking pleasure in the in an inter fan or child its pretty hard. Reporter its not a job for the faint of heart but behind the badges are real people voluntarily tak takeing n unbearable task. Just imagine being a mom and doing this job. Did you always want to be mother. Yes. At some point i do want to be a mother. When we met kim she was eight months pregnant with her first child. A baby girl. Mentally preparing to juggle the joyce of motherhood with the Violent Crimes shes dedicated for live to stopping. How do you get the images out of your head . I dont know that you really forget them. We cant arrest our way out of this problem. Theres a growing problem of hands on crimes committed against children. William walker is the special agent in charge of Homeland Security investigations he oversees kims union. At any given time his agent or working on few hundred child abuse cases following up on tips, analyzing evidence, he can cuting search warrants and in dramatic scenes like this one tracking down and apprehending suspects. Also social workers dealing with oneonone with victims and families. Kim says that part of the job can be the most rewarding. Because you just see the sense of relief on the faces when you tell the child this person has been arrested. Reporter with every closed case comes another victim, another monster to track down. Its hard not to feel outnumbered. It can be overwhelming. Reporter one goal keeps them going. I think theyre an elite group we put together that focus singularly on one really horrific challenge, that is, you know trying to stop the the next kid from being abused. Thats good. We can do it that way. Reporter back to our morning briefing. Agents and Task Force Members local Law Enforcement planning out their operation. Hitting several homes theyve been tipped off for housing alleged predators. We begin the investigation of trying to trying to develop the truth. Reporter the hall from our ride this laptop computer. Agents will dig through it peace by piece back at the lab to get evidence that will put another predator away. Im far from a hero. Reporter Sabina Kuriakose fox 29 news. Thank goodness there are people with the guts to do that job. A brawl involving more than two dozen people breaks out of a all places a baby shower. It happened saturday night at a social hall in macungie, lehigh county. At least 100 people were at the shower at 11 00 p. M. They poured into the streets. Police say when they arrived they found 25 people fighting. Apparently there were harsh words he can changed inside the venue. People trying to either break it up or defend one another got a little out of hand and it went into a physical altercation. And police ended up giving citations to two women an a man for asking two other women. United methodist pastor disciplined after he efficiented the wedding of his gay son will be allowed to remain an ordained minister. The churchs judicial counsel ruling this morning that a Pennsylvania Church jury was wrong to defrock Frank Schaeffer last year after his would not promise never to perform another gay marriage ceremony. The council ruled on technical grounds didnt express an opinion about gay marriage since this church trial schaeffer has become a good proponent for gay right. Big traffic signal Improvement Project getting underway in center city philadelphia. So youre going to see work crews in the area from callowhill to market and broad to second. 16 intersections are

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