Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20160731 : comparemel

Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20160731

wild shrieking, growling shrieking, electrical crackling continues captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org parts of new jersey under water tonight after a half foot of rain pounded the region. Plus, a month after being shot in the line of duty, a local business is thank ago officer in a big way. Your news is next, keep it here. L those pokers, prodders, shuckers and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. Farm, crate, and store. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. Hang right now it, will take some time to dry out in part of new jersey but first, it has to stop raining. Parts of Mercer County, new jersey, are inundated with water tonight, after more than 4 inches every rain fell over the last several hours. Dollars rain just fell too hard, way too fast, for the drains in the places like princeton to keep up with it. And there is more rain on the way. Good evening, everybody. Im joyce evans. Now, here in philadelphia, weve been dealing with on and off showers all night long, as we take a look live, at Philadelphia International airport. Flight running an average of about two hours late tonight. So check your flights before you head out to the airport. Now, lets get onto meteorologist, Scott Williams, finds out about all of this rain, when will it all shop. Keep the un set dollars pattern for tomorrow, not done with the rainfall, look at ultimate doppler, really still lit up, moving further to the south and west of philadelphia, places like chester county, moving into Delaware County, New Castle County right now, seeing heavy rain, also stretching back into maryland, that will be moving into sections of delaware. But, the hardest hit area, Mercer County, numerous flood, high water rescues, still have that flashflood warning, in effect, until 10 15. Take a look, numerous roads reported to be flooded and i am passable, and also, numerous high water rescues in and around the princeton area. Well zoom in. Look at the bulls eye around west windsor, princeton, Princeton Junction, around south brunswick, talking about five to 6 inches, half foot of rain in just the past several hours. Philadelphia looking at light rain. Once again, heavier rainfall off to the south and west. That will be moving in from maryland. So we put a tracker on this, moving toward smyrna, delaware, 10 33, dover, 10 33, some of the moderate to heavy rainfall that is moving out of sections of maryland. As we take a live look outside of the studios, rain cooled right now, temperatures right around 76 degrees, but the dew point are very high. So, we will take you hour by hour, through the next several hours, heres midnight, looking at pocket of heavy rain around the i95 corridor, and look at tomorrow morning, moderate to heavy rain, philadelphia, points north and west, when we dry out, all coming up. Back to you. All right, thank you, scott. As you mentioned, scott, Mercer County just pounded today with rain and other Severe Weather there. This video from fox 29 viewer Jason Beckett. Now, buckets of rain falling throughout new jersey has created some dangerous flooding conditions, as scott mentioned, there, fox 29 joanne waded through high water throughout to find the hardest hit areas. She is joining us live from Princeton Junction. Thats right, they call it a flashflood. It happened so quickly, drivers have little time to react, and thats what happened tonight. Some drivers not making the best decisions, as the roads around here flooded quickly. Looking more like a small body of water, than a road, this is Alexandra Road in west Windsor Township. A deluge every rainfall and it was a mess. It was in minutes, final seconds, like i saw the street, like it was fine, cars going through, and i just followed the cars like two seconds later, and i almost made it and i got stuck. Stuck in the middle of knee high water nickys car just stopped. And i sat down. It was a lot of smoke coming out of the engine, i dont know how much damage did i. Same for this white bmw. Stuck and the driver couldnt open the doors. He was helped out of the window by police. People go around the cones that we set up to block them from going in. When they go around, they go through very quickly, they create a huge wake, and it washes out the other cars, the cars stall out. West Windsor Township declared state of emergency after the flashflood this evening. We had trouble all up and down route one, now the boulevard, evacuated two buildings, one was voluntary, several parking lots flooded. Andrew griffin got stuck at the Princeton Junction train station, his wife jody was trying to goat to him, but couldnt get through alexander road. Tunnel connect both sides of the station. That will tunnel completely flooded out and the east side of the station, might be higher elevation, so where i was on the west side basically saw all of the water rushing through the station, steps go down to the tunnel, it filled up with water. No patience, no common sense, you cant drive three cars down to one lane road. People need to get smart. Fortunately, no one injured here in west wind so, though police say plenty of cars got stuck as those drivers attempted to drive through the high water. Live tonight in Princeton Junction, fox 29 news, back to you, joyce . All right, stay safe out there, joanne. Dont let Mother Nature spoil your plans, you can always stay ahead of the rain with the fox 29 app. It has got live radar, breaking news alerts, downloaded today in itunes or google play. New Jersey State Police responded to the wrong house and ended up shooting a elderly man inside. Investigators say state troopers were sent to check out a hangup call to 911, but something went terribly wrong when they entered the home of an elderly couple. Fox 29s Jennifer Joyce spoke with that couples daughter. Shot him twice in the chest, once in the groin. Seventysix year old gerald psychs is in Critical Condition at Cooper University hospital. How he got here sounds like a nightmare, but hes realizing it is a very harsh reality. Stepdaughter diana la south shares her parents store. I my mother called my house at about 11 47 last night, hysterically crying. Heard the dog barking. Looked out the french doors and saw two dark figures standing at the doors. Those figures turned out to be two uniform police, responding for reported 911 hang up. Police say the troopers announced their presence, and shined flashfloods into a rear sliding glare door. It was 11 30 p. M. La south said her 80 year old mother woke up out of bed terrified. Sheen know who was there. There were no lights going on, no sirens, no indication and they were at the back door, which backs up to the woods. No telling what was going on. She said her step dad did not immediately wake up, hes deaf in one ear, when his wife ran for his help, he acted on instinct. He walked out there, with his shotgun, at which point they said drop it. And within five, 102nd of them saying to him drop it, heard three quick shots through the door, knocked my stepfather to the grounds, at what point he did not know who was out there, and firing at him. Police say the man exchanged gunfire. His wife says she watched in horror as her husband bled profusely and awaited help. The man was flown to Cooper University hospital. Both troopers retreated for minor injuries and released, while the case remained under investigation by the new jersey attorney generals office, one detail has been confirmed by the agency. The initial 911 call did not come from the psychs home. In cumberland county, fox 29 news. Tonight police in bridgeton, new jersey say that the condition of gerald psychs has been upgraded to critical but stable. One person is dead and another injured in a late night shooting in philadelphias mantua neighborhood. Police say a 25 year old man, and a 50 year old woman, was shot on the 500 block of north 38th street. That 25 year old died this morning, at penn presbyterian hospital. The woman was treated and released, police are now offering a 20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. A large scale investigation has gun into a deadly hot air balloon crash. At least 16 people were on board that balloon when it went down about 30 miles south of austin, texas, people near the scene describe seeing a massive fireball four stories high. Foxs kacie spiegel who has more now from texas. Reporter experience after lifetime turning deadly in central texas. A hot air balloon, bursting into flames, with 16 people at least on board. Investigators say there were no survivors. And theyre working to identify everyone killed in the disaster. The hot air balloon caught fire around 7 40 a. M. Central, and crashed in a pasture near the town of lockhart. Thats about 30 miles south of austin. Margaret while i lives cloe by close by and told reporters she heard pop, pop, pop sounds. I think the pops i heard was the balloon connecting with the lines. By the time i looked that way it was already on the grounds. Authorities have not said where the hot air balloon was based out of or which company was flying it. But they believe the fire was in the basket portion of the balloon. The land near the crash site is mostly farmland, with corn, and grazing cattle. The area popular for weekend excursions, such as ballooning and sky diving. We asked the Fbi Evidence Response Team out of santonio, to come and assist us with seeing documentation. Live so close, i just wanted to see how far because they park behind me house before. You know, have come down behind my house before, i was wondering, man there is could have happened right behind my house. Ntsb or National Transportation safety board is the lead agency on the grounds, as investigators work to try and figure out what went terribly wrong here today. Thats the latest near lockhart, texas, kacie steegel, fox news. Just over a month since officers Christopher Dorman was shot in the line every duty. Today a local business says thank now big way. Man leaves path every destruction in his way while he chases a pokemon through a residential neighborhood. How police were able to quickly track him down. Welcome to good day philadelphia. On the other hand, discuss me, im on the air. Welcome to philly. Alec, im on the air. laughing . Good day local news. All morning long. A special surprise today for Delaware County Police Officer, 25 year old chris dorman survived being shot seven times in the line of duty, back in june, while he also happens to love to teach. So today, the Southern Delaware Jeep Club joined with extreme terrain and turn five to upgrade the heros car, they surprised him today with thousands of dollars worth of upgrades on his jeep. We heard your story. You know, we all wanted to be able to do something. And it was incredible when we found out that you were really a jeep guy. Were all Delaware County businesses in chester county, were local guys, and hearing the story was heart wrenching for us. And we appreciate everything that you do every day. Well, chris dad was in on the surprise. He pretended to take the car to get it tuned up. Yes, it was tuned up. Well, traffic is slowly moving across a new jersey draw bridge, after it malfunctioned and it was stuck in the open position. Earlier today, the bridge in toms river got stuck around 4 00 this afternoon. Leaving no way to get into seaside height. Causing heavy delays on secondary roads as drivers tried to find another way to get around it. Tonight the bridge is back open, and traffic is flowing. Tonight, in you decide, the keystone state is on the front lines of the president ial campaign. Hillary clinton and runningmate tim kaine campaigning in johnstown, in pit burying today. In clintons vp pick had some harsh words for opponent donald trump. And between Hillary Clinton and donald trump it, comes down to Pretty Simple question Pretty Simple question do you want a youre fired president or a youre hired president . Although pennsylvania has gone blue for the last six general elections, political analysts say the state could be up for grabs this year. Clinton is continuing her stronger together bus tour. Shes heading next to ohio. Meantime, in the wake of another email hacking scandal, the Clinton Campaign says their internal systems have not been compromised. Foxs Kristin Fisher has more now from washington. The Clinton Campaign is saying its internal Computer System was not compromised watch was come pro priced separate computer used but maintained by the dnc. Clintons press secretary explains it like this, quote, an Analytic Data program maintained by the dnc and used by our campaign and number of other entity was accessed as part of dnc hack. Goes on quote no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised. This is the third time in just one week that we have learned about hackers gaining access to democratic organizations. First, it was dnc, then the dcc, the partys fundraising committee, and now this. Earlier this week, president obama said russia is almost certainly responsible. And with election days just 100 days away, the Clinton Campaign is now openly speculate that Russian Press vladmeere putin might be trying to help trump win in november. Here is the director of the cia john brennan speaking last night at the annual Security Forum in colorado. Obviously, interferance in the u. S. Election process is a very, very serious matter. And i think certainly this government will treat it with great seriousness. Thats all i can say at this point. So the fbi and the department of justice are now investigating, in terms of what kind of data was actually compromised, this is a system that was used to analyze voter data. Soap, think things like names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, but not Social Security numbers, and not credit cards numbers. At least thats what Clinton Campaign was claiming. In washington, Kristin Fisher, fox news. Meanwhile, donald trump held a rally in colorado today, one week after his speech at the Republican National convention in ohio. Trump took some shots at Bernie Sanders and general john allen. He also emphasized that more people watched his speech than Hillary Clinton. We had, i think it was, 35 million they had less, like 33 or something. In other words, we had more. And i have sort of been saying that, and i have to tell you both numbers are great numbers. And speaking of numbers, a new pole has Hillary Clinton ahead now by sixpoint. A michigan man was arrested after smashing his car into a park pickup truck and leaving the scene. Police say not only was he drunk, he was chasing an imaginary pokemon while driving. As foxs dave spencer reports, it wasnt too hard to track him down. It was 3 30. I was making coffee. And i heard allowed bang. And i turned around, and i saw my fatherinlaws truck on to the grass. A 28 year old driver who place say was on the hot trail after pokemon led him into a commerce meadow neighborhood in commerce township. Thats not all he was said to be on. Police say he had also been drinking, not a good combination as it would turn out. No regard for life. Witnesses say the 28 year old pokemon hunter was going 60 to 80 miles an hour. It is crazy. It is crazy. There are so many kids, the speed limit is 15 through here. You can be going 15 and hurt somebody. You know, let alone 60. After the collision in the driveway, that pushed the truck right into the front lawn, some neighbors saw that, got in their car, tried to follow the driver as he drove out and block him in, but it didnt work. Despite having deployed airbags and busted out tire, the driver managed to swerve around the roadblock and drive away. Much like finding a pokemon, police were able to track this suspect down thanks to trail of debris he was leaving behind from hits crash. How bad was the f150 . It was totaled. Police tracked into his house, he admitted to drinking, driving, and chasing pokemon. Luckily for him the only thing he caught was a parked f150. Yesterday it was hot, it was a ton of kids out. And im glad no one got hurt. In commerce township, dave spencer, fox news. No fan of the series game of thrones is looking forward to this. The show coming to an end . Wildly Popular Series will sign off for good. And it is an incredible video of Mother Nature at work. Spewing lava and smiling about it . A gunman kills three people at gathering of young adults. Police say the gunman, a 19 year old, opened fire first, at a fire pit, then, he shot more rounds, from a rooftop. Witnesses say the gunman and one of the victims, a former girlfriend, just broken up last week. State troopers pulled the suspect over and arrested him on an interstate, more than 100 miles away from the crime scene. Tonight our community has been shaken to its core. We grieve with the families of those lost in this horrible event. There is no words that can measure the pain that theyre feeling. All i ca

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