Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 11 20160813 : comparemel

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 11 20160813

Tonight was about the fans. And to see a stadium packed like this. Its been a while and it has been a lot of fun. After what happened tonight, after everything in this stadium, you imagine yourself wearing another uniform . Right now is all about tonight. These pin stripes are the best. Alex, thank you. Congratulations. Back to you. It was great the night. Started off with thunderstorms during the ceremony and rbi double and the Rodriguez Family here. The yankees win tonight 63 over the rays. This night was about Alex Rodriguez. We have seen him as a mariner, started off as an 18yearold and continueed with texas with the biggest deal this game has seen. And then the pin stripes in 04, a world series in 09. In 22 years in the major league the, Alex Rodriguez his final game of his yankees career and maybe his major league career. You witnessed it tonight. It was a fun one from the bronx. Thank you for watching. If youve ever been lured in by a low price wireless plan. 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It is all about staying cool out there tonight as another heat wave has it feeling down right oppressive and its going to be a few more days before theres any relief from this dangerous heat. Good evening, im dawn timmeney. Today was the third time this year that temperatures have reached 97 degrees. Thats the highest temperature we have seen this year. Believe it or not, tomorrow could be even hotter than today. Meteorologist Scott Williams has more on your first forecast at 11. Scott it will feel like over 100 degrees tomorrow . It really is, dawn. Dangerous conditions across the area. The high today 97 degrees and take look at some of the statistics. Were talking about the 28th 90degree or better day so far this year. The fifth heat wave, it is official. Day three. It will likely be a Long Duration event. Look at the current feels like temperatures at this late hour. Still feeling like 97 in philadelphia. Feels like 98 in dover and 92 in atlantic city. Much of the area now through the end of the weekend feels like temperatures over 100 degrees during the afternoon. That includes lehigh valley, i95 corridor, south jersey, all of delaware. In fact as we talk a little bit about those temperatures, you can see 93 on wednesday. It was 95 yesterday, 97 today. Were looking at 98 degrees tomorrow. Making it the hottest day so far this year. That big area of High Pressure that bermuda high will continue to act like a heat pump across the area and those temperatures are going to soar. As we look at the extended forecast you can see feeling like 111 tomorrow. Feeling like 107 for sunday. Coming up well talk about popup showers and storms and a little bit of relief with that forecast. Dawn . All right, thank you, scott. In todays oppressive heat we found a story of a broken airconditioner and some unconditional love. Fox 29s brad sattin crashed a wedding, no surprise, he joins us now from maple shade to explain, brad . Reporter somebody has got to do it dawn for sure a lost cities including philadelphia that have declared excessive heat warnings. Everybody looking for ways to stay cool including newlyweds. Behind me there was a reception that just wrapped up a short time ago. The airconditioning was on full speed but that wasnt the case earlier at the church service. Reporter talk about breaking out in a sweat at your own wedding. Not the that you can blame jazz minute and Wilfredo Sanchez being introduced here at their reception 30 minutes earlier with no ac in the church the bride was gushing all right. All i could think about how hot it was inside the church. Pretty much dripping, and all our faces were glistening. We had fans but the veil over my face. I couldnt feel any breeze and it was crazy. So hot really. Reporter her photographer frank green brought back memories. I got married in 1988 and that day was 103 degrees. Hot enough for you. Reporter the show must go on as it did a few miles away where the Camden County police put on a carnival for the kids. The eight tubs of water ice and hundreds of bottles of water ran out before the halfway point. Before stepping out of the car, thermostat said 100 degrees. Oh, man. The kids bum come out here. They really want to have some fun. Reporter Tanya Williams had her own idea of fun. I think im going to buy me a little kid pool and sit in my backyard. Reporter a pool does sound good. How hot is it . So hot that the 82degree air temperature inside the salvation armys Community Center pool almost felt refreshing. It feels a lot better than 104. It feels like outside. Ill take this any today of the week. Reporter so too will the sanchezs nothing wrong with little warmth on your wedding day. When you look back years from now, what are you going to remember . The heat. laughter . For sure. laughter . Reporter for sure. How hot is it. One car actually showed up to this reception on fire. It took our extinguisher to put that fire out. Firefighters then arrived. Does it not appear that the heat started the fire, dawn, but it certainly didnt help matters here tonight. All right, thank you, brad. Mother nature is changing the citys plans about closing public pools. Mayor jim kenney announce dad only eight of the citys 70 pools will close this weekend. Initially, the city was going to board up about two dozen pools because of a lack of lifeguards. But this weekends excessive heat warning forced officials to change course. The public pools are open tomorrow and sunday from 12 noon until 5 00 in the evening. The citys heat line is still active until midnight tonight. It will be back open tomorrow from 8 30 until midnight. Health department nurses are manning those phones to help with any heat related problems. The number to call is right there on your screen. 215 7659040. We have that information by the way posted on fox29. Com as well. And dont forget, you can always beat the heat with the fox 29 app. Get the extended forecast, breaking news alerts sent right to your smart phone. That app is available on i tunes or google play. Breaking news right now out of East Germantown. Police have just released these surveillance pictures of a vehicle wanted in connection with the shooting of a sixyearold boy. They are looking for a green mercury mountaineere with a roof rack and a spare tire on the back of that vehicle. Growing outrage tonight that this little boy was shot just days after another a sixyearold little girl was shot in the same neighborhood a few days ago. Four other people were injured last night in that latest shooting. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson live in hunting park where the little boy is recovering tonight. Shawnette . Reporter well, dawn, yes, that little boy remains here at saint christophers tonight. He was shot in the chest and leg and gunshots rang out again in another East Germantown neighborhood this evening where a sixyearold girl was shot on tuesday. Police in cars on bikes and in swat units swarmed the area of woodstock and madiera in East Germantown before 6 00 this evening. Theyre looking for two gunmen who shot a 34yearold man who was taken to einstein. This is a continuation of a vicious cycle of killings. Reporter reverend robert shine passes church a block from where it happened. He watched as residents period at the crime scene from their porches in this area for the third time this week. Thats the great fear that parents are reluctant to have their children playing out in the street. Reporter just last night, gunfire rang out in another East Germantown neighborhood of ashmead and clarkson. Police say 50 shots were fired. Six people were shot. The youngest victim is sixyearold mihaj brown who was in a car with an adult who was driving him home. Rival groups opened fire in the neighborhood. Reckless, disregard for life and now you have a sixyearold fighting for his life. Reporter bullets also pierced several homes including Juan Williams house. It hit right here. You can see that would have been my head if i was standing here. Reporter no one has been arrested in any of this weeks shootings including the 6300 block of woodstock where a sickyearold girl was hit by a bullet tuesday. Neighbors are fed. We should instill in our children how to respect each other and if more parents were like that more adults were like that then it would be better out come in the community. Its reprehensible there continues to be this black on black crime. Reporter and we want to give you another look at those surveillance pictures of one of the suspects vehicles used in the ashmead shooting. Police tell us eighths mercury mountaineere with a roof rack and also has a spare tire on the back. And back here live, the Mayors Office tonight offering a 10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in both of those shootings involving the sixyearold children. Dawn, back to you. All right, shawnette, thank you. The defense rested its case today in the perjury and obstruction trial of attorney general Kathleen Kane. Kane did not take the stand. She also decided against putting defense witnesses on the stand. Prosecutoprosecutors say the det leaked secret grand jury information and then lied about it to get back at a political foe. Closing arguments are set for monday. If the jury finds her guilty, a judge could sentence Kathleen Kane to up to seven years in prison. Jerry sandusky was back in a courtroom today denying the child molestation charges he was convicted of four years ago. The former penn state assistant football coach is hoping to have his 45 count conviction thrown out or get a new trial. The 7284 old says he was not properly represented by his legal team. The jury convicted him of sexually abusing 10 boys. Sandusky is serving a 30 to 60 year prison sentence. His hearing continues on august 22nd. A fight at one local target sends a mother and her toddler to the hospital. Police say it all started when a shopper was blocking the aisle with her cart. That reportedly made another customer so mad she used a common household product as a weapon. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose reports from wilmington. Reporter Delaware State Police say this suspect poured bleach on a customer inside the wilmington target on brandywine parkway after app argument over a shopping cart last week. A oneyearold child in the cart was also struck with the bleach. You never know who will snap don something weird. Crazy. Reporter state police say it was just before 6 00 last thursday evening when the suspect seen in this surveillance still began an argument with a 24yearold woman who she accused of blocking a target aisle with her shopping cart. Authorities say the victim then moved her cart to let the woman pass. Instead of calming down thats when the suspect allegedly jammed the victims cart with her own. Causing another argument. Police say the suspect then dumped a bottle of bleach on the victim and splashed the baby. Thats really bizarre. I mean why would anybody pore bleach on somebody. Reporter police are still looking for this suspect. She was last seen getting into a white car along with another man. Luckily the victim and the child are both okay. Target did not get back to us for comment. In wilmington, Sabina Kuriakose fox 29 news. Tonight in you decide polls show Hillary Clinton is polling ahead in battleground states. That poll conducted by nbc and wall street journal shows the former secretary of state with leads in florida, virginia and north carolina. And more split in the gop. Frustratefrustrated republicansd letter to the head of the rnc urging the chairman to stop supporting trumps bid for the bows of white house but the chairman up tow dude trauma tap rally today in pennsylvania showing a united front. The question still remains will trump release his tax returns . He did speak about tax todays but not about his. Highest taxed nation anywhere in the world, folks. She wants to tax us more. So well be lowering your taxes very substantially. Well going to be simplifying the whole deal. You wont need h r block any more believe me. Hillary clinton released her 2,015 personal tax returns tod today. Pundants say it puts more pressure on donald trump to do the same. Drivers in pennsylvania will now have to make sure all car seats are facing backwards for children until they are two years old. Its part of a new state law that went into effect today. Police will issue warnings for the next year for drivers who dont comply. But after that, violators will be slapped with 125 fine. Advocates say facing children toward the back of the car dramatically lowers their risk of death or serious injury during crashes. One of the men featured in the hit Netflix Series making a murderer is a free man tonight. Why a judge decided to throw out the conviction. And do you like to listen to music while you work or exercise . Well, some doctors also enjoy music while they operate. The reasons some fought to keep their tunes in the or. And when you gogo to the fare you can find a lot of food even twinkies how youll soon be able to enjoy them right in the comfort of your own home. Susie got all germy a cold, a bug, a flu when school was back in session those germs were shared with you back to school means back to germs. And every year kids miss 22 Million School days due to illness. 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