Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20150102 : comparemel

Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20150102

Jersey wnca. These cases could very well be connected to one at a popular Hamilton Township restaurant. Good evening im lucy noland. Im iain page. Now Health Officials are warning anyone that walked into a number of businesses you could be at risk. Our Chris Oconnell is live in Hamilton Township tonight. Chris . Reporter iain, those two people who came down with hepatitis a did come down with the virus after eating at a Mercer County restaurant where a worker there food worker was diagnosed with the virus last month. The two latest cases, one of the patients worked here as a part parttime Fitness Instructor at hamilton area wmca. Another patient worked in a Hamilton Township hair salon. Now both patients dined at rosass catering in trenton around the time when a food worker there with hepatitis a was working there. Although its not certain thats where the latest cases came from. This is a big scare here in Hamilton Township. Customers flocked into the department of health after that scare for an emergency vaccine of immune gob about lynn. Now the Health Department is warning those who have been around the latest two victims listen up. This is the first hairstylist people who were inside the hair port salon on South Broad Street in Hamilton Township between december 4th and yesterday may be at risk for developing hepatitis a. Those people are being told to go to their doctor immediately and get a vaccine shot as soon as possible. Now, to the second victim is a parttime Fitness Instructor. Officials are warning that employees and patrons of the wm wmca hamilton branch, the new Jersey Athletic Club in lawrenceville be checked the victim also works at the Mercer County board of social services in trenton. So officials are warning anyone who have been in any of those places in the last three weeks to be on alert for those symptoms. Now, those symptoms include mild fever, loss of appetite, vomit vomiting and jaundice among others. Right now there is no word on how many people may be exposed to this virus but it could be in the hundreds. We are going to get more information tomorrow from the Health Department and Afternoon Press Conference has been scheduled. So if you live in this area and have been to any of these places youre being told to be put on alert. Possibly get that vaccine. Well have more information as this situation unfolds. Iain lucy . Chris, thank you good advice. We have posted all this information for you right on our website. Just head to myfoxphilly. Com and look for the story on our home page. Very busy night also breaking right now police have charged a person with sexually assaulting a woman. This happened right around 11 00 this morning in the Spring Garden section of philadelphia. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live at the scene. Dave have you been on this all day. Whats happening right now . Reporter lucy that suspect was nabbed about a block from here heading towards the Community College of philadelphia after a Good Samaritan chased him away from the victim. Tonight the 32yearold man from pittsburgh has been charged in this case and women here have been on edge all day long. Really shocking because, you know, it is a safe area. Reporter women walking near 17th and callowhill were on guard thursday night after a 33yearold woman was violently attacked and sexually assaulted just before 11 a. M. In this parking garage. 11 00 in the morning. Thats quite early for an attack attack. Im very surprised because ive lived here 3. 5 years. I never had an issue. I feel very safe in the building and in the parking lot. Reporter crime seen investigators were still gathering evidence late thursday afternoon here. The attack happened in the park parking garage across from the one Franklin Town apartments. The victim was raced to Hahnemann Hospital in stable condition. Im always cautious. Like i carry my keys. Reporter investigators focus their search in this stairwell and on the second floor area between this white lexus suv and a ford fusion. Fingerprint dust could be seen outlining several hand prints on the lexus. I park there every day and come home after dark at night. So thats really weird to hear. Reporter a k9 also track the suspect up the block towards philadelphia Community College. Where fox 29 cameras saw investigators find a coat and hat. The attack has this Spring Garden neighborhood on edge. You never know. Especially you would assume attacks happen at night it just shows you it can happen any time time. Reporter now, the suspect is 32 years old. Press pittsburgh. Im told he has three prior arrests for robberies again torque night he has been charged with Sexual Assault in this case, nabbed about a block from here by some very alert patrol officers after a Good Samaritan chased him away from the victim and called 911. Hes behind bars tonight. Women in this area can rest a little bit easier. Lucy. Absolute. Thank you very much, dave. A heart wrenching night for family and friends 10yearold matthew mccloskey. Police cruiser hit and killed him while he crossed a street in south jersey sunday night and tonight dozens of people gathered for a vigil to remember him at his one of his Favorite Places the Franklin Township sports complex. He just was well loved by all of his classmates and teachers. Infectious smile like everyone has been saying. Always always happy and generous and kind and helpful to all of his teachers and classmates. The officer involved in the accident is now on administrative leave as Gloucester County prosecutors investigate. Police officers are describing how they saved a woman and her children from a burning home and they say they cannot have done it without the help of neighbors. It happened yesterday afternoon on atlantic avenue. Officers kicked open the front door but the smoke was too thick. They couldnt reach the family. They encouraged them to jump from the second floor into the arms of officers on the ground and this afternoon those officers thanked the neighbors. It was the citizens that flagged the officers down initially, and also there was also there was a citizen who really helped out officer mcmahon and officer rosellely in retrieving the um. Retrieving the officers retrieving the children from the second floor window. The officers demonstrated how they formed a human chain to catch the family. The mother and kids are in the hospital and were told they are doing well. On your radar a cold night. Storms is heading our way with rain and possible sleet saturday scott. Thats right, lucy. The cold air is here initially so the onset of that system for the upcoming weekend could produce a little bit of wintry precipitation but it will mainly be rain in the time being look for cold conditions tomorrow with wind chills in the theirs. Try and cold stepping outdoors right now in norristown west chester, moving into vineland. Were not looking at any precipitation on the radar close at home. However, look to the south. You can see the green showing up on the radar. This is our next system that will move in our direction. So its dry all day tomorrow but stays cold and then as we move into your saturday, saturday morning it starts off overcast, but dry. But watch the clock. By lunch time still dry and then as we move into the afternoon especially after 4 00 oclock, you can see that rainfall overtake the area but look north and west. Were looking at the potential for some sleet. The onset toward the Lehigh Valley and the pocono mountains but were looking at a wet saturday evening as well. Coming up well talk about how much rainfall to expect with the system. When it moves out during the upcoming weekend as well as roller coaster temperatures. 60s in the seven day followed by another arctic blast. Youll want to keep it here for that coming up. Lucy and and iain. Scott thank you. Look at this one. One lane of Market Street closed in center city after this. A fox 29 producer caught the scene tonight at seventh and mark. He saw the driver hit that pole, knock it over, she them guns the gas and runs over the pole to take off. Those sparks you see thats a fire hydrant stuck under the suv. Peco is now on the scene and police are still looking for the driver. That is a wild seen there. The mummers annual strut is in the history books for 2015. Certainly made history. New route new controversy. This years parade started at city hall and marched down broad street. Fox 29 is that so bean in a kuriakose was in the thick it all as the mummers wrapped it up in south philly. Reporter the roar of pomp and pageantry from city hall echoing down broad street. Happy new year reporter but among the fan cease, comics and string bands some decent. This is the rye way to go. The way theyre going wrong way to go. Reporter some in the wench brigade breaking off taking a stand against new route changes which saw the mummers start at city hall and travel south on broad. We stick with tradition and going north like it should be. Reporter down at broad and washington mummers dice hard disappointed the parade was skipping the old south philadelphia neighborhood. Thats belongs in south philadelphia. We came up here because we love the mummers but it belongs in south philadelphia. You got to go back to the original route. Reporter in the end philly showing love the way it has for over 100 years. No matter what walk of life youre from, doctors lawyers butchers bakers they all get dressed up on new years day. Reporter check it out. The Party Still Going strong late into the night here at broad and washington. Sabina kuriakose fox 29 news. In Bucks County Police gant new year at a murder scene. The home is on the 100 block of bellevue avenue in langhorne. 11 30 last night they say 24yearold kyle simpson stabbed his 58yearold uncle stanley taylor. He died a short time later at a hospital but police have not said what led to that attack. Former new york governor mario chemo has died. Earlier today chemo had missed the inauguration of his son andrew for his second term as new york governor. In his speech the younger comb mow cited his fathers health saying the family rang in the new year together in new york city because his father wasnt well enough to head to albany. Last month the heart condition accept mario chemo to the hospital. He served three terms as new york state governor from 1983 to 1994. He is survived by his wife and five children. Mario chemo was 82 years old. Incredible video showing flames ripping through a local warehouse forcing neighbors to evacuate. What it took to final the get this fire under control. A possible measles risk at the please touch museum. Right before its big years eve celebration. New information coming in. Why timing is everything. Plus a father of six whose known for his generosity will get a lifesaving gift of his own and its all thanks to a chance meeting at costco. Just awesome. The incredible odds that will change two mens l a vacant auto parts warehouse in south jersey is gone. Flames look at this things erupting signed the building on the 200 block of Almond Street in mt. Holly overnight. You can see how big that was. It took hours to get it under control. Nobody is hurt and investigators are still trying to figure out how it start. Another day another hack attack in a big chain. Hackers may have targeted chic filet. Suspicious activity has been popping up on customers credit cards. Several Financial Institutions say they have traced a pattern of credit card fraud back to chill chickfila restaurants. The company says its working with it security firms and Law Enforcement to find out how bad the hack is and what to do about it. Now we dont yet know which restaurants hackers targeted. Were learning more about the possible measles exposure at the please touch museum. The dement of health says someone with the virus visited the museum on monday and the sick person was there between 3 30 and 5 00 oclock. Fox 29s dr. Mike says this puts Museum Visitor whos have not been vaccinated at risk and the timing here is very important. Well, if that person came across someone that is susceptible doesnt have immunity to the measles virus there is a 90 chance that you will get that virus if you were in the same location around the same time. You have to be aware that measles can remain active on objects for up to two hours after that virus was there. Dr. Mike also adds its important that everyone get vaccinateed against measles. What do you think . Is there ever really a coincidence a chance meet tag costco ended up saving one mans live. On this new years day foxs Brian Mcmillan has a story of a new chance at life. Reporter michael is remodeling his kitchen hoping to get it all done by monday. I was hoping but its not going to happen. Reporter you see monday is a big day. A huge day. Not just for michael. I dont know how im ever going to repay him. Reporter this is advance father of six and concluding four foster kids. 15 years ago the two men met at this costco off of airport way. Michael wife work there and vance was a daily customer now he works there. Hes one of those really giving people that never complains. Reporter a few nothing as he got heartbreaking news. His body was failing him. Found out he was going to need a new kidney. That was pretty tough pill to swallow. Reporter along his with his full time job at costco dialysis became a parttime job. Three times a week for four long hours. I thought a great way to pay it forward. Michael wanted to help. He had tests run to see if hed qualify as live donor for his friend. If i can give one and extend his life, you know, for his kids and for his mother thats great. Reporter sure enough there was a match. That was surreal moment. I pretty much broke down and kind of cried a little bit and of course i was at work so i couldnt cry too much but. Reporter the past few months have been a whirlwind for the two. Last weekend his coworkers got the two men together at costco and surprised them with a flash mob. They dan to do a tune and right in the middle of costco while costco was open. Two celebrateed thanksgiving together meeting their families for the first time. I feel like after all of this has happened, you know, were going to be like this big family. Reporter selfless act that michael hopes others were consider, too. If one more person donates that would be pretty amazeing. Reporter an act vance will never forget. For him to just step up and offer Something Like this is just so so powerful and touch touching to me. And just awesome. Completely understandable that emotion. My goodness. This is an annual new years tradition at the jersey shore. Makes you cold looking at it. Yes. I would never be out there. A thousand people took the Polar Bear Plunge in brigantine that. Plunge raised about 75,000 for the fisher house. A great cause. It provides travel and house to go families of our wounded warriors. So there they are at the beach. And theyre tiny itty bikinis and trunks and stuff watch do you suppose the temperature was, iain. Had to feel like in the teens with the wind and all of that. Had to. Right. Im just saying, scott. It kind of did because of that wind, iain. You know the water temperatures down there are cold. Theyre in the low 40s right now. Yeah, a lot of folks were only in that water briefly and i think a few might have et cheat add little bit. But item which are right now are 36 degrees. We see how those winds out of the southwest at 11 miles per hour. So it makes it feel even colder despite today being a pretty seasonal day, you can see the low this morning 28 degrees just 1 degree off from the typical low and our High Temperature was 42 degrees thats actually 1 degree above average but the wind made it feel colder. Temperatures right now, 30 in the poconos. We have 33 degrees in wilmington wilmington. Mid 30s right now in atlantic city. So you factor in that wind, how your body reacts, it feels like 17 degrees right now in the pocono mountains. Feels like upper 20s in wilmington as well as atlantic city. So were dry and quiet as we look at ultimate doppler right now you can see off to the south and west were looking at our next storm system. You can see that moisture gathering mainly a rain event for our area. So tomorrows is dry. Lets advance the clock ahead to saturday mostly cloudy to start. We should be dry around lunch time but after 4 00, 5 00 oclock were looking that rainfall overtaking the area. But look north and west toward parts of the Lehigh Valley and the pocono mountains well likely see a little bit of a wintry mix and some sleet before temperatures warm in the layers of the atmosphere changing everything over to rain. So if you have some plans saturday evening, maybe checking out that new movie grabbing dinner plan on a wet scenario across our area and it really continues throughout the day on sunday. There might be a little bit of a lull but well continue to find by 2 00 in the afternoon chances for rainfall across the area. It will ab pretty good soaking as well but most of rain once again doesnt arrive until saturday afternoon and evening and overnight have an inch up to an inch pretty much area wide before all is said and done with that system. So for tonight cold and blustery temperatures in the 20s across the area. And then for friday similar to two. Highs in the low 40s but it will feel colder when you factor in that wind. So bundle up

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