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WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 April 1, 2017

Peoples friday night out. You can see its still really active break from this rain until sometime tomorrow morning. Parts up with more than 2inches of rainy. Im Chris Oconnell much its around whether for anyone youre trying to walk around, driving, letsilams to final out when this is going to finally let up. Nd dawn. The good news the heaviest of the rainfall continuingo sea bun area of low pressure still off to of pennsylvania. So we still havezzle low visibility as we take a live look outside our studios still look at the rainfall totals so far. Philadelphia little over an look at wilmington. Closing in on 2inches of rainfall. Plac inch inch. Atlantic city about an inch and a half. Take look at some of the area in particular in downington Brandywine Creek we have a Flood Warning there as it continues a. Other problems in parts of New Castle County around thehe areas highlighted in green mainly wesd advisory through late tonight of those creeks and streams. So what t next 12 hours. A few scattered showers, some lr showers but the good news is it looks like we start to dry out for sur the clouds. The entire weekend forecast coming up. Scott we could use that dry youre driving in delaware. High water from the rain is shut down governor prince boulevard e more road. Fresco user ronald video crews g that traffic as this raint now. Chilling words from the white house. Isistelligence and law can build laptop bombs capable of evading airport u. S. Intelligence suggests terrorists have gotte sophistict allowing them to learn how to properly laptops and other electronic have played a role in the president s travel ban. H philadelphias point breezeer il conditiong night police are trying to figure out what went terribly wrong. In shock. Fox 29s brad sattin joining us from the seenls. Brad. Reporter yes, dawn, were at the corner of south 19th mene stabbing, a wellloved couple found shebbir home and discovered by their Police Presence through the night trying tooman was stabbedo death and her critically injureh stab wounds to his neck and chest. They were upstairs bedroom by their son around 3 30 this afternoon and it. I was just just see them and being happy together. I dont know what could have nowened at penn Presbyterian Hospital in criticaling to gather from the victim who is stillyoun speak to him and find out exactly what happened. Reporter as family outside e police will only say for now there was no sign of a break noy danger. A weapon was found at tsay the s friendly and there was never any sign of trouble. Omree days ago i gave him a hug. He hug me back. I asked him how was the doing g. This woman spoke to the couples son just moments befor. We hugged and he asked how my family was doing family . That was it. What did he say when youamil. He said everybody good. I was going to my mom house when i sawaihe was about to go to his mom house. So here it is. Its like wow. Reporter at this point there are no arrests in the case but, hearing the community is not in any danger. All. Now to bucks county the District Attorney is keeping thn the disturbing murder of a today at the courthouse it was a no show for jacob will he van 44 rained arraignment on charges raping, killing anddism. Sullivan is the boyfriend of the victims mom the case set to go to trial in about a year and District Attorneythis case may in fact wt the death penalty. We filed notice of our aggravatrlr this week and we int e d it before the arraignment and we can always make a decisionts where the cas adoptive mother sarah is also charged with murder in the case. Pair tried together. Develop to go night a man now in the shooting outside a Spring Garden gentleman 29yearold Lawrence Mitchell facing attempted murder charges. Policeesr county. Hes accused of shooting at a car in the parking lot of on moe 100 block of the shooting prompe shut. I name. Police sources tell fox 29 mitchell had no connection to the woman who owned the car. Em balanced philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams giving up laworily but not stepg down. He has a new lawyer in fed bribe rear and extortion case. Shawnette wilson joins us live outside District Attorneys office with what is nex. Shawnette. Reporter chris the new lawyer says that Seth Williams will remain in administrative capacity only. That lawyer would not take questions from reporters and neitherid court today. Seth theyre calling for to you step down. Federal courtistrict attorney today to a barrage of cameras and media f. Hes object taped a new lawyer to represent him in his bribery attorney thomas burke dropped a Major Development in what s unrf williams roll as District Attorney. Today District Attorney williams took theteeing to tempn of his law license penhe will rn administrative capacity only. Reporter w kenney for reacto todays news. I made cant do his job in this current condition. Im not day. Reporter District Attorney williams is accused of 160,000n exchange for pavsecutors also se stole money meant for his mot ps for williams to step down grew louder outside his office. You must resign. You crossed the reporter the Philadelphia Bar association calls from people concerned theyre dealings with the da may have been compromised. His new Attorney Says not so contain a single allegation that the out come of aecuted by my ce was affected. We look allegations and to the day mr. Williams is cleared of this behavior. Reporter and so far the only thing weve heard from will he says he got into financial problems following ada . All right, shawnette, thank you. Guilty, that is the verdict for the get away driver in shoon new jersey mall. Counts related to the murder of 30yearold dustin freed land. Prosecutors say henry was one of four men carjacking at the mall at short hills in mill burn back in december of say one of the susps killed freed land right in front of his wife. More fallout tonight commens tweeted out by a Drexel University professor saying he a good deed for a uniformed soldier. Twitter has been lighting up with ang professors remarks. As bruce gordon reports new move is a foot to professor George Ciccariello maher fired. Reporter fear severe is not happy. Small but representative sampler boycott Drexel University. Our freedom to be diss reinfect tull. He needs to s zone and drexel u, you have and lets be very clear this represents just blow back. Drex u break. On this day the campus is s but inside a lounge at a campuss hard a starte started a petitior onhe. To demand professor george mahe. He threatens to educational experience. Drexel with such anat a accepting environment wouldter r this tweet from the controversial professor studies. In which he describes feeling the of a passenger giving up a first class a uniformed member of the military the military and i was really upset. Just i was what does that me . Ciccarielloerah carlsons fos channel and explained his tweet was a shot at the war not the really irresponsible to blindly support, for example, wars youno combat risk their as weve justn in mosul. He lock his twitt backlash fe public telling carlsoning. Twitter feed when people like to go on and speech decide its time to violently threaten people who speech. Longs petition attracted tnt buying theification. Him getting in trouble trying like a oh, well, it wasnt like that. Reporter you may r maher rud feathers and made headlines back in decembe wanted quote White Genocide hes currently on sabbatical in mexico. You Drexel University when are you address your radical pres mouth. These are the professors asoom. The fire storms continues. Im bruce a police chase goes horribly wrong. Three mothers want justice. Tense moments in the air fort oday. They had to attempt to land with and talk about a sticky situation. Duct taped to pole. Scott williams tracking your soggy forecast. Gg going out like a lion but more the seven day forecast. Details next. Rains during the morning rush on the west trenton line heading into center cit us equipment issues to are to bla blame. The smoke reached the. There was never any fire. All passengersas hurt. Delaware county fire unabled an event thats vital to i the y cant use the venue i. But now Community Members are trying to fur next. Fox 29s Joanne Pileggi from glenn alden. We hear you just got some goodht dawn. There is some good news but its been a complete uncertainty here. The entertainment was the food and beverage ordered a lot of the tickets sold. Bu hour they were about to cancel it all. Members of the briar Cliff Volunteer Fire Department usuald well in an emergency. Thats what. But they admit they had a a big event scheduled for tomorrow in their about to be sc, tf 3 00 oclock this afternoon all the inspectionsnse time. Reporter fire company fundrais wrestling had been in the plan but no one knew then that the r. Apparently, were in a littl. Like to get it straightened in. We have app its for the community. Its a family function. I m we just had woman up here to buy moring is sear this one was as well. Portraying, for, this is the. Reporter late this evening theyheir new building. But the township on in the currt firehouse volunteer Company Looking to try to raise mont back out to the community. Reporter in t because they still would have had to pay the entertainmenttas canceled. But as you heard as we on tomorw night at 6 30. Tickets areer fire Company Grateful thatoc to hold this evt at their old firouou, dawn and. Good news, t days three teenaged girls will head classm. 16yearold amy last april aftet inside a. Authorities say the victim had a and contributing factor to her death was the stress. Tonight Joyner Francis familysr she wasnt doing anything to we. No parentrohoh what weve be. Weve lot. A lot. This is. It certainly s the tee is chy negligent homicide and teenagede charged with conspir of death of those twin baby girls lindenwold, camden county. Medical exasne the girls died of naturaltheir mother foun month old girls unconscious inat wednesday. Same thingal will be tom hroe again and see the through or save yourself be like normal a 10foot pole. Its hank im jerseys shuttered state disgrace. The guy that owns it now says he state would get my take is maybe to. Glennrevel casino in Atlantic City and hes tryi phone wednesday he told me new jersey keeps tow. G now theyre coming up with unless we go along with the pilot and pay 4 million a year in taxes license. Im saying, that is so crazy. Reporter hy. I borrowed bike to get a good ok place. Ill be right back, all right. Enjoy yourself. Reporter trb says hell call it ten gorgeous. New and originally cost two it. It was designed to beli. We got a free room i think one timets. [ laughter ] so we came down and then we shut down in 2014. Orter lee ans if it did reopen tthd be back. They offered quite a bit l oe restaurants. A lot of nice p bl area was excellent. Reporter problem is the Status Commission wants straub to do his other casino o, he . Toicense, civic his mind thats the sam down red several other gaming halls in the last three years. Cut up,t game cards from different casinos the kind ofacf scaring some people a having tradition of only dealing politd straight up maffia. Reporter ouch. G advantage avenue downed economy to get his way the there are for a reason and di lump it but thesenere revel n thousands of jobs tha shore andf state officials canthe way. The line to open casino in ac i. Georgia. Police say responsible forta highway. Crews assessing the damage afte. Its now a travel citys most heavily traveled roads used by more than drivers day. The georgiaonths before the higy isested were homeless and used quote available resources to srt fire. Fortunately no one was injured. A 15yearold student kidnapped by io thin air. Until now. The new lead police are working. And they were once motherond daughter. That might not be the biggest surprise. A lot of movies have been able to but you didnt expect sharknado to be one of them. E in new york city this morning after three man holes intense iw out several windows of square. Most of the damage was strand bookstore which was not open at the time. Two firefighters were hurt say s were minor. No word yet o ld tonight in the 15yearold student. Authorities siting of 50yearold with elizabeth thomas. Footage shows them ahoma city f. These are first photos obtained by invkidnapped the teenager o h now to florida where two crew members small plane are counting their blessings tonight. Withouy landing gear. Officials say the landing gear malfunctioned when plane was about to land. The plane did event its belly in daytona beach. The circles to burn off the fuel to reduce e ground. A flying instructor witnessed this as a chance to teach his students. Them what was happening. E why did the pilot shut they learned that if do you the right stay collected for its going to be okay. And it amazingly pilot and copilot walked awa with no serious injuries. A polic wrong though. Three teens are dead and now their mothers want justice. Our Scott Williams tracking this very wet forecast. Hey, scott. Hi there, chris and dawn. Take a look at the rainy friday on average one to 2inches of rain today. But what about the weekend . Coming up my pick day when well see the most sunshine. And theyre going to need a bigger boat. Rough weather causes a sailboat around tosses a sailboat around like a toy. We demand justice. We are going to get justice. Strong words from mother who blames Law Enforcement for the death of her daughter. It was a year ago today that three teenaged girls died tragically when the car they were in plunge flood a pond. Their mothers say it ended up there because they were being chased by sheriffs deputes who disobeyed orders to back off. Foxs evan axle bank has more from florida. Reporter a year later, the pain of devastated mothers has sprouted fury. We demand justice. Reporter seeds of that fury are the words of sheriff deputes spoken a year ago today as they watched the car that held teens dominique battle, ashante butler and mill her link is cemetery pond. Its going down i hear them yelling i think. The deputes were topped stopped by the pond muck the girls lawyers say the car was only 15 feet from shore and floated for five minutes. In that fear they held each others hands so tightly. Hours later when their bodies were recovered they had to be pride apart. The lawyers insist the chase shouldnt have happened. The deputy tried to stop them without warning light and the lead deputy diss oh boyd the order. The girls took the car to get away from someone who hined he was interested in sex. They also said the girls were smeared by a sheriff who in trying to harness Public Opinion cited the girls past history of stealing cars. It was Systematic Campaign to say listen their lives really didnt matter because they were doing this or they were doing that. The sheriff held his own News Conference and called the deaths tragic but said the claims are without merit. More than four decades later a south jersey family is reunited with a famous painting stolen right from their cherry hill home. Someone stole this 1919 Norman Rockwell painting known as taking a break or lazy bones from the grant familys home in 1976. The fbi says antique dealer who had the painting hanging in his home came forward. He thought it was a copy. Mary beth grant knew it was theres because of a hole that her fatherinlaw accidentally made with a pool queue. He had no idea at the time that the rockwell would become americas favorite artist. He truly loved this painting. And was very sad when it was stolen. Now its been returned and i can see that he is probably smiling down on us right now. That paining by the way now valued at 1 million. Back in the 1970s the grants only paid 50 for it. Wow a man is going around stealing cologne and Delaware Police need your help tracking him down. Cops say this man stole more than 2,300 worth of cologne in the past week alone. Police say he managed to break in to locked displays at four different wall greens around the state two of them were in wilmington the others in dover and magnolia. A former penn state football coach will not have to foot any legal fees in his whistleblower case. Judge granted Mike Mcquearys lawyers 1. 7 million for their work on his case. Mcqueary claimed depth mission and misrepresentation whistleblower suit over his treatment by penn say the after jenn sans child molestation a arrest. He has been awarded millions in that case. We first introduced to corey mason almost two years ago. At that time the Michigan Team who was born a boy was transitioning to girl. Now coreys mom is in the process of transitioning to a man. Their story is powerful. That lyle but be went off in my head for myself as well as my child. Reporter a father and his daughter with unique bond. Because i know what it feels like to be trapped in the wrong body. Reporter both have changed their gender identities. Eric and corey mason used to be mother and son. I know how lucky i am and how lucky corey is to have the support we have. We first introduced to corey mason in september of 2015 after her mother surprised the then 14yearold with her first dose of hormones. Erika her name at the time was very supportive of corey who always felt she was a girl trapped inside a boys body. But it turns out her mother was feeling the same way also battling gender identity from a young age. But i kept that to myself

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