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Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20150915

Month ago that there was an investigation they had in south jersey. I didnt think much it because there was no followup conversation around it whatever it was had been pretty much taken care of, and my understanding from the questions i was getting is there anything current, anything direct, things of that nature, and the answer to that and still is to my knowledge no. You know, we live in world where between twitter and facebook and all these different platforms and so far forth a lot of information comes to our attention. Some of that information of course is to be taken all of it to be very seriously some may have little more substance than others. I dont have a lot of detail around thumbs fbi certainly would have more detail. But this is not something that people should be alarmed about. Reporter there you have it from philadelphias top cop nothing to be alarmed about. Again the 15yearold were told is still in custody because these are federal charges and he is a juvenile those records are sealed. They are not open to the public. So the fbi and federal authorities are not commenting on this. Coming up at 6 00 the commissioner will have more to say about this investigation and hell talk about the use of social media and how the feds and city police are closely monitoring that as we approach the popes visit here next weekend. Guys, back to you. All right. Well talk to you at 6 00 dave. With 11 days until the pope arrives in philadelphia crews are already working very hard to get ready. Skyfox over the parkway in front of the art museum earlier today to check out the stage setup. You can see some tents are already up and some of the flooring covering the grass is also in place. Meanwhile, vatican says pope francis will deliver four out of his 18 speeches in the us in english. He will use his native spanish for the vast majority of his hospital mill lease greetings and other speaking engagements. Have the can says the spoke simply find it easier to express himself in spanish. The four speeches hell deliver at english at the white house in congress. One to the United Nations staff and here to ben facts here in philadelphia. New information coming out every day and lead up to the papal visit youll find all of it on fox 29. Com look for it on the home page. A serious crash has traffic backed up for miles on the schuylkill expressway. Skyfox high above the westbound lanes as exit 339 in east falls you can see the two vehicles that caused the delays. Police still have not said who was hurt or how badly. Happening now officials are investigating a building explosion and fire in south jersey. This was the scene in pennsville. A huge fire after what appears to be a gas explosion. Gas Company Workers were right out front when the building blue and this video taken moments after the blast shows the intense flames and firefighters working for two hours to get that fire under control. Fox 29s dawn timmeney is live in pennsville tonight. Dawn, got news here, no one was hurt. Reporter right, iain. No one i was hurt or killed. Its actually a mazing. It was quite an explosion. The nearby neighborhood could feel the blast and were told that the damage was so extensive that they actually had to tear the building down as soon as possible which as you can see they have already done. I was in bed. Little after 8 00 oclock. I heard a boom. Reporter and when mark young court looked out his front door, this is what he saw. Flames shooting from a attorney john jordans office on North Broadway in pennsville. Then i saw burning like crazy. The whole side of the house blew out. Reporter jordan who also a municipal judge just happened to be out of town. Fortunately the 19yearold who lives on the second floor apartment had already left for the day. Only to get a call his place was on fire. Tried to act all strong. I just keep thinking about it and just like, but its all stuff, you know. Frank who also a pennsville volunteer firefighter says he lost everything and has no insurance. But hes just glad no one was inside at the time. The attorneys secretary was only 10 minutes away from work when the building blue. Could have easily been four people killed. Really lucky, i think. Could have been a lot worse. Reporter police chief alan comings took this cell phone video as he arrived on the fiery scene. Cummings says new jersey gas has been installing new gas line along this stretch of road for several months. He says it appears the contractor may have hit a line. We do know the fire started in the basement. There was an explosion. Were wondering if maybe, you know, the Construction Company working on the gas lines might have ignited something. Were not sure. Reporter 78yearold linwood lake lives right next door. He just run out for a cup of coffee and came home to chaos. The whole house full of flames. I mean flames. Shooting across the road. Reporter fire so strong, it melled the siding right off of lakes home of 45 years. You dont thing its one of those things it cant happen to you. Reporter you dont think its going happen to you. Gas company did release a statement late this afternoon saying it is working with Emergency Personnel to figure out what exactly went wrong here. So far no specific cause from them and as you can see the building right now is just a smoldering pile of rubble. The good news, though, no one hurt. No one killed because lucy this definitely had the potential to be deadly. It sure did, dawn, thank you very much. The red cross is right now helping residents of more than 30 apartments now out because of an Early Morning fire in center z started right around 4 30 at the grammar see apartments at 13th and chancellor streets. It quickly grew and took firefighters about an hour to get things under control. Nobody is hurt. Investigators are looking into what started it. Happening now, the search for a gunman who left one person dead on a south philadelphia street. Police say theyre looking for a man who opened fire while riding his bike leaving a 21yearold dead. It happened just after 11 00 last night near 24th and montrose streets. Investigators say they found the man with several gunshot wounds to his stomach. He died at the hospital a short time later. Officers say several people actually saw what happened. Police were also trying to see if theres any Surveillance Video from businesses in that area. To a developing story out of north philadelphia. All eyes are on Temple University tonight. Police say someone in a campus building shined a laser pointer at a Police Helicopter flying by and while it may have been somebodys idea of a joke investigators say no one is laughing about it. Fox 29s dave kinchen following it all. Hes live at Police Headquarters in philly. Dave . Reporter lucy, as you can imagine, Philadelphia Police are taking this very very seriously. They say this is an incident that could have easily ended in disaster. Looking photo taken by a Philadelphia Police chopper file lot over morgan hall at Temple University moments after a lace sr. Was pointed at the air unit while on patrol last unit. This is something that it could have caused an injury to our pilot. It today cause injury to any pilot up in the air conducting business. Reporter including pilots like ray ox line who operates skyfox for fox 29. Its like a flash bulb going off except its just bright green and it completely wipes out your vision. Sometimes you cant even see the instruments any more. And you get this oriened. Reporter oxline was flying skyfox when this green laser was pointed at him over philadelphia a few years ago. It completely illuminated the inside of the aircraft and i completely lot of sight of the airport. Light from laser can travel father than a mile cant damage the cornea. Faa investigat investigated nums where lasers blind pilots. In his case he was able to recover. I had my camera guy with me, and we were able to, you know, keep control of the aircraft and bring the aircraft in to a safe landing. Reporter Temple University circulated this mammo to students detailing the incident and warning them of the criminal and university penalties that could come from such an act. Many students were surprised to hear about it. Thats not cool. It can cause an accident. Reporter which is why Philadelphia Police say they will get charges pressed against those who did this if theyre caught. We just want to be clear its very serious and something we will, you know, assist in terms of prosecuting. Reporter so far police tell us they have not been able to identify the person or people responsible for shining that laser. Lucy. All right, thank you dave. Tolls on two area bridges spanning the Delaware River are about to go starting at 10am tonight if youre driving across the p. M. Bridge or basketball bridge. Right now the tolls twenty four dollars. But theyre jumping to four bucks in less than five hours. Do you, however, get a break if youve got an z pass. You only have to pay 3. Burlington county Bridge Commission needs the tolls toll hikes to pay for work on the bridges. Meanwhile no complaints in your fox 29 Weather Authority. Another Beautiful Life look at the parkway tonight. More mild fall like temperatures today. Also got plenty of sun. So could this be too good to be true . Chief meteorologist Scott Williams is live outside old city tonight. Scott, how long can we enjoy this great weather. Not too good to be true, iain. We are looking at several more days of the really pleasant blue skies because High Pressure, it is in full control. A lot of Smiling Faces here in old city walking by appreciating the nice weather. Lets talk about whats happening or not happening i should say on the satellite radar. We are clear. High pressure its full control. Well zoom in to old city right now. Market fourth fourth and market beautiful weather right now. You can see those blue skies overhead. Look at the temperatures right now. Comfortable 80 degrees in atlantic city. 79 in pottstown. We have 81 in allentown. But look how low the humidity is. Only at 26 in philadelphia. So hour by hour, dry, really comfortable if youre stepping outdoors. You have some plans maybe in the backyard in the garden looking pretty good. It will be another cool overnight. When i come indoors well talk about little up tick in the temperatures as well as a front that will be moving in in that seven day forecast. Maybe a spotty shower in the picture. Well talk about it wee come indoors. Back to you. Scott, youre not going to want to come back indoors much toots nice outside. See you soon. Two men Walking Around local home like they own the place, but they didnt. And theyre up to no good. What police say theyre stealing in this video and were not talking about money here. Plus flash flooding washing away lives out west. Authorities just upped the death toll. The popes visit to philadelphia will be a transform ma tiff weekend for many local catholics. Tonight a look how the historic weekend could also move noncatholics as well. Later Caitlyn Jenner making it official. Filing for an official name and gender change. But theres one important thing shes asking a judge not to do. Why she says shes scared. Tonight at 6 00 unexpected landing because of unruly passenger. What authorities are listing as attack, a kiss and a request they say the woman made while they escorted her off the plane. Two thieves in the night make quick work of the south philadelphia home. Camera was recording their every move. They struck before 2 00 a. M. On september 5th at this home on the 2600 block of south street. Once they got in through the front door, they took their time scoping out the place for valuables and ended up pocketing electronics and a bunch of other stuff. They walked two bicycles right out the door. So if you recognize either person, Philadelphia Police want to very much like to hear from you. Police are after a man who used a gun to rob a West Philadelphia convenience store. Surveillance cameras caught everything inside this citgo in mill creek wednesday night. You can see this masked robber sprint behind the counter orders the clerk to open the register. The gunman grabs all the cash and goes right back out the door so if you know anything about this robbery, please give Philadelphia Police a call. Got a pet and live in new jersey . Very soon veterinarian offices will have to tell you if someone is going to be watching your pet on overnight stays. Garden state Lieutenant Governor signed betsy laws today. Named after a rotweiler who accidentally strangled herself during an overnight stay at a vets office. Betsys owners are hoping this new law will prevent Something Like this from ever happening again. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf appears to be in no mood to break 11week old budget stalemate. The democratic governor told a pittsburgh Radio Station today that he would only sign a shortterm spendin spending plam republicans if he has a general budget agreement with lawmakers. It would take sometime to get the details in place. Meanwhile, with the state spen Spending Authority curtailed Pennsylvania School districts counties and not profit social Service Providers are searching for ways to get by. The Philadelphia Housing Authority and city officials gathering in Strawberry Mansion today for the grand opening of some new homes. The gordon apartments located along the 3,000 block of west gordan street include 21 new affordable units. The construction of the new apartments created 50 new jobs and Officials Say all homes feature Energy Efficient heating and cooling. Philadelphia launch add Bike Sharing Program in april and since then the bikes have logged more than 250,000 trips much thats pretty good and weve just learned the city now going to expand the very popular program. The city says its adding 24 new bike stations to its Indigo Program sponsored by independence blue cross. The new stations will mean 96 docking stations throughout the city. All this is possible because of a one and one half bill Million Dollars from the william penn foundation. For eagles fans it is the day. The day after and Opening Night loss to the Atlanta Falcons on monday night football. Now, just a short week to get ready for the cowboys, this sunday at the linc. Chip kelly broke down the film today and howard eskin was there when he met with the media. Howard . Reporter well, he broke it down all right. It was not it was not good. I can say one thing. You wouldnt be eating popcorn during watching that film because it wasnt a fun time. There were so many mistake eagles get behind. Thats the real killer. The fact that they got behind 20three and then they got to play catch up and you cannot make mistakes but theres lot of things that chip kell dull talk about and i think one of the biggest plays if not the biggest play is the fact that on the play before one of the plays before cody parkey missed a field goal jason kelce is called for a hold. Now, this play gets down to the 10yard line. And then it comes back to the 41 because of the penalty. Chip kelly talked about not that specific play but really what killed the eagles yesterday. First and for most thing that jumps out is penalties. We had seven penalties on the offensive side of the ball that negated not only did we lose 60 yards but we negated 98 yards gained. We had a 29 yarder called back. 25 yarder called back. A 14 yarder called back. Seven yarder called back. Nine yarder called back. You cant do that especially when youre the away team. I think we killed ourselves. We had too many negative plays. I wasnt good enough in the pass game to get us going. And then penalties. Seemed like we kept putting ourselves behind in the first half. I got photo bombed here because theres a couple of players here chickies and petes today. To their credit after a tough loss like they come out and know their obligations and they will talk about it. That would be Malcolm Jenkins and jason kelce. So at 6 00 oclock, that happens in the world. Its good stuff. Thats what we do on these phones. Good stuff. Can i help you . Do you want me to get a pizza . But nonetheless, well talk more about this at 6 00 oclock and cody parkey stood up to the media yesterday. Well hear more from chip kelly and sam bradford coming up at 6 00 oclock. Chickies and petes you need to get me crab fries. Talk to you soon, howard. Ill bring them back. Thank you appreciate it. With the cheese sauce please. World renowned conservation tift taking some time to talk to local students about protecting wildlife and of course the environment. He talked with elementary and middle coolness at the agnes school in rosemont today. Her presentation is part of a roots and shoots tour which focuses on helping people and animals and the environment that we all share. Im doing the tour which i began in 1986 really. I havent stopped since then talking about the inflicting on the planet in all the different ways and what we can do to change things. Her work on chime pan jeez moved mountains. She will host a lecture and book signing tonight at the agnes irwin gym. Excitement may have been too much at this big auto show in germany the bmw, coo was giving a presentation when something shocking happened. The video you have to

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