Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20160211 : comparemel

Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20160211

Many on board cheering as they pulled in to port. Their smooth ride in a different story from the rough seas of sunday noreaster. 30foot waves battered the ship passengers were told to hunker down. Tonight their first chance to get off that cruise ship. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. And lets get right to fox 29s Shawnette Wilson live in bayonne, cape liberty. Shawnette, have passengers started disebarking yet . Reporter oh absolutely, lucy. It is quite the chaotic scene here behind me. Well take a look right now people continue to come out of the terminal here. You can see many of them out trying to make plans as to how theyll get home tonight. People coming out with luggage, suitcases everything they took on this cruise that basically did not happen. A lot of wary faces. Some of them happy. Most excited to be back here at home. And so this cruise ship the anthem of the sea pulled in here to new jersey just after 8 00 oclock tonight. It was a rough trip. I hate to call eight trip because they never made it to their destination what was the bahamas the ship left new jersey on saturday and sunday encountered a very bad storm that passengers described aster feig. They say it tossed them around tossed the boat around. Many people reported they fell on the ship furniture was moving everywhere. And they had no idea a lot of the passengers say that they were coming into a storm until they came in contact with 30foot waves. So very terrifying experience. They had to turn around and come back home and we talked to some of the first passengers to get off the ship tonight. Horrible. Horrible, horrible. I have to tell you it was extremely bad. Ive been in bad situations in my life. That was the worst. I dont scare easy. That scared me. I can honestly say id rather have captain crunch as the captain. He was bad. It was horrible. It was horrible. Whole trip was horrible. We got nowhere. Felt like we got lied to about what really happened. It was bad. Reporter and back here live again, you can see the terminal here as passengers from the ship the anthem of the sea continue to exit the terminal. People out here trying to get them to their destination. The one thing we also know is that some of the passengers arent leaving the ship tonight. They are going to stay another night believe it or not on the ship because as you can imagine they werent expecting to be back here this soon. They were going on a seven day cruise to the bahamas so a lot of them have flights out that arent obviously scheduled for today. A lot of them are from out of town. Theyve got to get transportation back home its getting late and so theyve been offered the opportunity to stay on board the ship another night just for safety purposes and because its so late but, again, a lot of mixed emotion here tonight some of the passengers are happy to be home. Some of them just wary, worn out, and again, you heard the kid say in the background lucy and iain hed have the rather have captain crunch as the captain. Im telling you, shawnette. Unbelievable. Theyre trying to keep a sense of humor about this because what can you do . If it went wrong it went wrong. One woman said, though, she would rather be in the bahamas now theyre back to frigid temperatures here where we are. And thats exactly it. With you in the hat and the coat and the scarf and all of that. Captain crunch that was a quote of the night. Shawnette wilson, thank you so much live in bayonne. Shawnette hit the nail on the head. Its bitter cold already and man theres more on the way as we take a life at wilmington. Tomorrow is going to feel like its in the teens. Already tonight folks dressed like shawnette, hat, scarves, coats to walk out in center city and this is just its just the first round of cold it kathy. It certainly is. Arctic front moving through right now. You can see bands of snow coming off the great lakes, a cold front is drifting down from the south. This is the first of two arctic strong that will pass threw the Delaware Valley and with this tonight a few snow showers are possible. Creates a lift in the atmosphere seeing a little bit of snow you can see along the Eastern Shore of maryland not even connected with this and you can see a few snow showers down through the jersey shore late tonight. Temperatures cold enough for snow everywhere in reading 26. Pottstown 25, 30 in trenton. 32 degrees in wildwood and 30 degrees in millville. So as we look ahead, wind chills will be falling precip tissuesly durintissueslyduring early morn. 16 in pottstown. Seven in the poconos. 21 in millville at ac airport it feels like 18. Overnight tonight temperatures fall to 23 in the city. 17 in the suburbs. Wind chills in the teens in philadelphia. Single numbers in the suburbs. Winds will become gusty and few snow showers possible especially to the north and west of philadelphia overnight. Coming up, five days of frigid details on that and the coldest air coming in that seven day forecast. All right. Kathy, thanks. To a developing story now. As stomach sickness spreading fast at a local college. This morning 50 students fallen ill at Ursinus College in Montgomery County. By this evening, the number had more than doubled and now Health Officials are trying to figure out whats causing the stomach pain and vomiting. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live in collegeville tonight. Dave . Reporter iain, classes will be held at the college tomorrow, but the dining facilities will remain closed while authorities clean and disinfect them. Tonight, they are still trying to get to the bottom of this. Its kind of scary. Reporter junior Danielle Kenny left a local pizza shop wednesday night. Cheesesteak and fries in hand. Take out order came after the college voluntarily shut down its cafeteria and snack bar when over 100 students were sickened over the last two days. Swept across campus and im hoping for the best im one of the lucky ones. Like virus or food poisoning. We dont know. Im not sure. Lots of theories. Reporter official say the gastrointestinal illness sent 22 students to area hospitals and urgent care facilities. Just really nauseous. Painful like stomach shooting pains, and really drowsy and i feel kind of weak because dehydrated from throwing. Students experienced vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain forcing them to seek medical attention. Were at this point not sure if this is some foodborne illness or if it is being transmitted person to person. Reporter what do you do to protect yourself . Hasnt sanitizer. Reporter the school in Montgomery County Health Officials decided to close the cafeteria and snack bar so they could gather more information on the illness outbreak. I want them to like name it and like know what it is and then like have medicine so we could just reporter take caver it. Yes. Its like scary. Reporter students and employees are being enter viewed, Health Experts are looking at all possible sources of infection and common factors. They are conducting tests for bacteria and viruses. Test results could take week. Were spending extra time obviously in our residential areas and high traffic areas on campus. I dont know when well be back in the dining hall. So we got to plan make plans for breakfast and lunch tomorr tomorrow. Reporter now the college will partner with wawa and wegmans tomorrow to provide a breakfast to go and lunch. They gave students a 10 allowance tonight for dinner they tell us they expect this illness to be gone in the next 24 to 48 hours. But no cause so far tonight. Lucy . Thank you, dave. Officials at Lehigh University every University Say the Pennsylvania Department of health told them one of their students tested possible for zika virus that. Student has since recovered and had traveled to abroad over the winter break. Its not clear if this case is one of the two already confirmed zika cases in the state. Lehigh University Officials say no one on campus is at any risk of catching the virus. Torments night for the first time were hearing from lesean mccoy after a brawl inside an old city club. Just trying to hear your side. You got anything to say . Whats that . inaudible. . I just want to hear if you got anything to say. One more time. I apologize. One more time, shady. Thats shady way group of people coming out of misconduct tavern on jfk boulevard. This video from the philly influencer you can hear someone in the group say the word mistake. The photographer claims that was mccoy saying quote i made a mistake. Now Buffalo Bills star linked to that fight late saturday night inside recess lounge three off Duty Police Officers were hurt. So far tonight no decision on any criminal charges, you decide 2016 fallout after the New Hampshire republican primary after a poor performance there two gop candidates have left the race. One of them is new jerseys own chris christie. Governor had a poor showing in iowa last week and was hoping for a strong showing in New Hampshire. No such luck though he came in sixth place. Well behind donald trump and falling behind the other governors in the race. John kasich and of course jeb bush. That finish meant christie would not qualify for the gop debate ahead of the South Carolina vote. The governor took to facebook today with a message reading in part, i leave the race without an ounce of regret, im so proud of the campaign we ran, the people that ran it with me and all of those who gave us their support and confidence along the way. And after a seventh place finish business woman Carly Fiorina also suss spented her campaign today. Two sheriffs deputes in maryland are dead after investigators say a gunman opened fire on them. The suspect was also killed after an exchange of gunfire. It happened around noon in abington. Authorities say a deputy was called to panera for store for a someone of report of someone causing a disturbance. According to investigators aft the deputy got there 67yearold david evans shot him in the head. Evans ran from the store, then exchange the fire with deputes, killing a second one. Their identities have not been release. Local man who vowed he would never go back to jail died in a hail of gunfire. Tonight investigators say it appears the shooting by police was justified. Six Police Officers opened fire on 33yearold shall lamar longeron monday. He point the a gun at them after a chase through Delaware County. It all began early monday morning when Upland Borough Police officer tried to stop the car who was driving. He sped away. Officers from three departments became involved in that chase. Longer ended up crashing into a parked car in chester. A passenger jumped out and thats when police say longer pulled a gun. The Delaware County District Attorney says the officers believed their lives were in danger. Its clear through the investigation that he made the statement. He had no intention, no intention whatsoever to go back to jail if he was apprehended with a gun he would have went back to jail in this particular case. Longer was a convicted phelonion parole who was not allowed to have a gun. Months after a string of robberies at local bus stops, a guy targeting people with a gun Philadelphia Police say theyve got their man. Officers arrest the 22yearold eric heys they say hes behind nine robberies throughout the month of december. The victims all said the gunman took their cell phones. Police say after one of the robberies, heys was caught on surveillance video. Thats how they track him down. Police say they found evidence linking him to all of the crim crimes. This sounds like the script of an action movie. A passenger on plain pass as secret note from the Flight Attendant the message that had him racing to her for help. The battle over Drinking Water in south jersey. Why some say theyre too scared to drink what comes out of their faucet. Terrifying ride to school and students see a kid bull out a gun and load it. A few seats behind the driver. What one student did next police say saved lives. And he was an all star student athlete at the top of his game until one day tragedy struck. I didnt see any other opti option. It was like i have a choice to be miserable or not. How a horrible accident became his biggest inspiration. A live look again from bayonne cape Liberty Royal caribbean anthem of seas just docked tonight. Nightmare trip finally over aft getting caught in a storm. Well stay on top of this throughout the hour. Live look at bayonne cape liberty where Royal Caribbean anthem of the seas just docked tonight. You can see a lot of passengers are coming off of that ship right now. Others decided to go and spent the night. Their nightmare ship is ending after the ship got caught in a storm. Authorities are trying to track down a driver involved in deadly hitandrun. Berlin Borough Police say 55yearold john hays was killed after two vehicles hit him on tansboro road back in january. The first vehicle stomped at the scene but then cops say a Nissan Sentra took off and is shown on this video pulling into the parking lot of the Golden Nugget tavern minutes after the incident. Police say the drive enters the bar. So anyone with information should call police. Concerns tonight about water contamination in one new jersey community. The morristown Township Council held a special meet to go night to talk about the issue and residents well they showed up in force. They want to know are they now at risk. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell was at that meet to go night. You cant feel drinking your water. Reporter something is in the water in moorestown. And its not pretty. Pcp is manmade chemical. Standing room only emergency meeting is filled with residents demanding answers as to why their water is contaminated. Tap water continues to meet state and federal Drinking Water standard. Reporter township officials are assuring residents their Drinking Water is safe. Even after higher traces of chemicals are still being found in the water after more than two years. The chemicals try color propane and try color ethylene according to the National Institutes of health tce is considered a carcinogenic to humans and tcp is commonly found in Hazardous Waste sites. But Officials Say the contaminants were not at harmful levels. Definitely dont feel save drinking it. In fact, today we just installed a very costly filtration system because we couldnt we didnt feel right putting that water in our bodies or our childrens bodies any more. We feel like were poisoning them. The probable let me with the contaminated water got so bad the township began buying water from another utility and even closed down one of its aging treatment plants. I truly believe we are safe. Now, with that being said i want to make sure we have the best quality Drinking Water. The township is already in the process of Building Three new Water Treatment plants and replacing old mains. But those fixes are years away. In the meantime, worries. We drink the water weve done so since griffin was baby. Absolutely we want to make sure its good. Reporter back out here live, that meeting still going on as we speak. Now, since those permanent fixes could be years away, i can tell you moorestown city or township officials just approved temporary Emergency Water plant to be built within six months from now. Although residents say thats still too long. We can tell you that even those temporary plants it will be awhile residents say and that could be a couple hundred thousand dollars, lucy . A lot of money. All right, chris, thank you. Police in deptford new jersey arrest add man accused of of starting a fire in an apartment building. 25yearold are a tease of woodbury faces arson and other charges. He started a fire inside the Chestnut Lane apartments yesterday morning. The fire displaced 26 residents. No word yet as to a possible motive. Brian is in jail unable to post 100,000 bail. Investigators are still trying to track down the cause of a fire at this home in philadelphias West Oak Lane neighborhood. This is the 6600 block of north uber street. The fire started on the second floor a little after 2 30 this afternoon. No one was hurt. Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane survived a vote to remove her from office. But an effort to impeach her is moving ahead. Kane faces criminal trial accused of of leaking secret information and lying about it under oath. Shes lost her license to practice law. The state senate failed in its attempt to remove her from office today when it couldnt muster a twothirds majority. Democrats largely rejected the measure in the state house lawmakers did vote to begin the process of impeaching kane. Panel would begin an investigation which could result in a trial in the senate. Delaware governor jack markell signing a resolution that apologizes for the first states role in slavery. That resolution was passed by state lawmakers in january. It also apologizes for wrongs committed against africanamericans during the jim crow era. The mesh hopes to promote reconciliation and healing. One of philadelphias most famous parks is get all revam revamped. City leaders attend

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