Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20151008 : comparemela

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20151008

Reporter week ago sunday investigators say ali and did he say mon smith made good on that threat and went to the victims lower moreland home. According to the criminal complaint they came to the back door of this home where the terrified girlfriend saw them, screamed, grabbed her baby and hid in a closet. Then three attackers burst in ran upstairs and shot her father in the neck through a closed bedroom door. Her dad 53yearold kevin brown fell out from this front door window trying to escape while his despondent wife watched in horror. But he was mortally wounded. This young lady, 18yearold, who tried to get out of a relationship that was violent that was dangerous, that she knew she did not want to be in very tragically lost her father in the process of trying to get out of her relationship. We were just shocked. We went over the next day and consoled the wife and just a tragedy. Reporter such attach deem there may be a third suspect out there but prosecutors say these were the two main people who were involved, abdul ali turned himself in last night. Theres no bail in this case. Theyve yet to set the preliminary hearing. Back to you. Philadelphia police want to you take a good look at this woman. Surveillance cameras caught her stealing a purse in juniata park and she had a child with her. It happened sunday afternoon at kathy world furniture on castor avenue. Investigators say that the woman walks into an office, swipes a purse right off of a desk and then hides it in a bigger bag. If you recognize her, give police a call. Happening now a major cleanup at a local park. Its an area meant to be a place for children and their families to enjoy, but tonight, city officials are serving the destruction and picking up the pieces. This as police work to track down the vandal whos they say caused thousands of dollars in damages. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live at Black Rock Park in ridley township. You got a look another this me mess. Dave. Reporter first hand look at the dug outs right behind me on rogers field. Thats where most of the damage was. Police tell us the vandals did thousands of dollars in damage and they believe they swept through the park here sometime over the weekend. Jay we are sick and township crews were hard at work thursday repairing the damage at Black Rock Park after vandals swept through here this week blasting holes and dug outs, smashing lights and electrical outlets. Its heartbreaking. When you see this. Its like do you a lot of stuff down here for the community, and kids come down and vandalize, and breaks your heart. What were looking for to hold someone accountable for this. Reporter police say the vandals caused thousands of dollars in damage at the park. Both dug outs on rogers field sustained damage. The roof on the storage shed was also knocked in and the clubhouse was vandalized. Some kids saw the kids with bats in their hands and they were doing some destruction to the property. Julie krause brings her daughters here to play during the week. She was upset by the damage he here. Im here all the time. I love it here. I cant believe it. Reporter this is home to several championship baseball, softball and Football Teams. The 12yearold Girls Softball Team that plays here went to the world series in florida this year. You hope its not kids that came through our programs. That would really break your heart. But, um, kids are just bored. Parents should watch their children and know what theyre doing. Its sad. Reporter as you can see, some of the repairs have already been accomplished here by volunteers. The Ridley Township Police department believes that some parents may hear information about this from their children. If they do id theyd like to give the Police Department a call as quickly as possible. Lucy . Thank you very much, dave. To a developing story now surrounding a familiar name. The man hailed a hero for helping tackle a gunman on a french train in august is in the hospital tonight seriously wounded after someone stabbed him during a fight. Police say a man stabbed 23yearold Spencer Stone last night outside a bar in sacremento. Surveillance video shows some of the fight. Its blurry but you can tell the brawl was nasty. And that the man stabbed stone repeatedly. Police say two people took off afterward in the car. So far no arrests. We dont know why this fight started either. But police say it was alcohol related. Stone gained fame along with his two childhood friends after stopping a gunman on board a highspeed train bound for par paris. A final day of beautiful weather in your fox 25 weather authority. Heres a live look right now at center city. Beautiful. Just ahead though is not so beautiful. This is a picture perfect evening out here. But things could look a lot different tomorrow and meteorologist kathy orr is live in old city tonight with more on that. Such a nice day today, though, kathy. We were hoping for more of this. You know what its been a win are in all week dawn. You and i us will see were tal talking about needing an umbrella tomorrow at this time. Yes, a cold front is moving through and it will be wet. So dont get caught off guard. Now, lets talk about the current weather because it is beautiful out here. Temperature 75. Thats the high for the day. Pottstown 71. Trenton 71. Wrightstown little bit cooler with on shore breeze the temperature 67. Ultimate doppler showing clear skies along the coastal plane but i want to draw your attention to this over the great lakes a cold front doesnt have a lot of moisture with it it will draw up warm air. Right now were seeing winds off the ocean at about 8 miles an hour from the southeast in atlantic city. Cooling things down. We have a southerly wind at 3 miles an hour in philadelphia. That wind is going to pick up big time come tomorrow and warm us up quickly. On the fox future cast, few clouds will blow through tonight. A warm front tomorrow morning. But relatively dry. Its after the noon hour thats when we see the rain. So just think of it like this. Odd numbers. 3 00 oclock in the lehigh valley. 5 00 oclock in philadelphia and its suburbs. 7 00 oclock interior south jersey and by eight or 9 00 oclock, it is offshore. So coming up this is what well talk about here. Temperatures will be soaring. How high . Thats the question. The wind turns really gusty and how will this weather, this front impact the weekend . Because it sure will. Ill have the seven day later in the broadcast. In the meantime try to get outside and enjoy this before sun sets. Excellent idea, kathy. Talk to you soon. Lot more excitement at Ben Franklin High School in philadelphias spring garr depth section anyone had anticipate dad. A small fire broke out during class and you can see smoke in this twitter video. The fire was in a fourth floor bathroom and didnt do much damage. No word yet on what started it. Nobody is hurt. This is actually the second fire at the school in the past few months. Science fire forced students outside in june. Nobody hurt there either. Investigators are look nothing what started a massive fire in southwest philadelphia. This is what it look like now. You saw flames and smoke ripping through the vacant warehouse last night. Heres breaking newses at 10. It took firefighters about 2. 5 hours to get this thing under control. One firefighter went to the hospital late last night. Fire officials havent said why but we do know hes now out of the hospital. Early morning strike by hundreds of Philadelphia High School students. These teenagers boycotting classes today at the Philadelphia High School for the creative and performing arts. Theyre hoping that their walk out sends a message to the citys School Reform commission. The src decided this week to terminate its teachers contracts after a dispute over health insurance. Pennsylvania senator vincent hazy, hot and humid addressing the states budget and says something needs to be done about education funding. What i know is that the people of pennsylvania should not be held hostage in many process. We need to fund the schools. Fund the Human Service providers and in a divided government one side cant be just the ones that compromise. Both sides have to compromise. Pennsylvania has been operating without a budget since july and many schools are still waiting for funding while some discuss districts are taking out loans just so they can stay op open. During this Domestic Violence Awareness Month the gloucester Township Police department is rolling out new initiative. A Specialized Team of officers will now focus solely on Domestic Violence. The officers will check in on people had may be in danger and keep in contact with victims and their children. The Program Honors gloucester township woman whose boyfriend killed her last year. Her sister was at todays announcement. This is amazing. And on behalf of my family i cant thank you all enough for stepping up to the plate and making this publicly known that this is an issue and that we have to resolve this and the gloucester Township Police department, you guys were at the forefront. You are doing amazing work. Not only honor of my sister for all the victims of Domestic Violence. Police say a former intern helped them come up with the idea for the program in 2014. Only on fox, federal and local authorities teaming up for a big operation in philadelphia. Theyre going after a street gang they say rules with fear and murder. How theyre taking the fight to the gangs home turf. She thought she got a great deal for a popular skin treatment but she wound up burned badly. They dont know how to treat our skin. They can damage our skin. Now shes scarred. This local womans warning that will make you think twice about cashing on supposed good barga bargain. Plus the ad aiming to educate women about their sexual health. Why some say this is sending the wrong message. And we showed you this, at least me, cool video of a glass walkway that just opened in china giving walkers views from heights. Not even week later its closed and youll understand why. And all new tonight at six poisonous caterpillars can cause serious misery. Where theyre turning up at 6 00. Federal and local authorities are targeting a notorious street gang in southwest philadelphia. Now theyre going public trying to take them down. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser has the story youll see only on f fox. He was a good son. He was a loving person. He was a jokester. He loved to make people laugh. Markell write was an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire as two rival gangs opened fire outside this corner store at 53rd and greenway three years ago. 38 shots were fired. Markell lost his life at the age of 22. You destroyed a whole family. You take a life but you take the life from whole family. Reporter there have been five more murders here in recent months. Now the atf and Philadelphia Police are putting up these flyers in the very neighborhood where markell was senselessly killed. Investigators want the publics help as they target the greenway gorillas street gang. They have access to guns and theyre feuding over money for drugs. It can get ugly. The flyers went up wednesday on light poles and storefronts. Many neighbors like Richard Steven son came to fine the flyers in their mailbox or stuffed in their front door. I am really surprised about this. This, um, organization, no, i dont believe it. I dont. With things happening it dont be people that live around here. People live in on the hoods and come and hang around. How the problems start. Reporter greenway gorillas rule with fear and theyre behind a recent spree of violence. A 21yearold lost his life in a hail of gunfire here on will ton street back in july. There are still bullet holes in the storefront where Markell Wright was murdered during a gun battle between the gorillas and another gang. The thoughts of what could have been, what should have been if i was there. If they werent there. Police and markells mom believe the public can help end the Gang Violence here and perhaps save a life. Always try to look at it like, what if it was me . Put yourself in somebody elses shoes. And then youll come up with the answered to the right thing. Reporter investigators say there are 15 to 20 members of the greenway gorillas. Some of them are already in jail. Theyre hoping the community will give them information that will help them take the rest of this crew off the streets. Dave schratwieser fox 29 news. A nurse accused of using the same two flu shot syringes for 67 people has surrendered her had nursing license. The nurse gave shots to employees at a Pharmaceutical Company in west Windsor Mercer county last month. Health Officials Say the risk of infection is low since the nursery placed the needles for each shot but authorities are still suggestin suggesting thoso received a shot be tested for hiv as well as hepatitis b and c. The Health Department has given the nurses name to the state nursing board so now its up to that board to decide if she will face any disciplinary act. Mayor nutter has said the visit of pope francis was never about the money and thats a good thing because new report says a lot of philly business doctors not farewell. The City Controllers Office released Economic Impact study today. It says the papal visit left 84 of businesses behind on revenue projections. Out of the 108 businesses that participated in the study only 14 said they were on track or ahead. The controller says the goal now is to figure out how to keep businesses from falling hyped during future big events. Happening now, at least 17 people in South Carolina are confirmed dead from this weeks did he have stating floods. Even though the water is receding, in parts of state, coastal areas could see more flooding over the next couple of days. The painful extent of the damage is becoming even more apparent and the threat persists. It could take until the weekend for the threat of floo flooding to ease in storm ravaged South Carolina. Thats according to officials who are warning people along the coast to prepare for more flooding as water from swollen rivers makes its way towards the atlantic ocean. This is not over yet but we need to continue our prayers. We need to continue to be responsible and diligent as we move forward and we need to continue to remember that it is all hands on deck. Reporter crews are also watching more than 60 dams for potential failure at least 13 have already collapsed. In columbia, the National Guard is working to patch a breached canal thats part of the citys water system. This is probably the worse ive he have seen since ive been living here and of course my heart goes out to the families in the columbia and surrounding areas. Reporter meantime the death toll from the flooding continues to rise with police finding the bodies of two men wednesday. They were in a pickup truck when it drove past a barricade and plunged into the water. A lot of the death that is weve had the people had just paid attention may have been it could have been a different out come. Reporter in addition to the human cost the storm is also taking a toll on property in the state. Thousands of homes have been destroyed or severely damaged. Leaving residents wondering when their lives will return to normal. I got to get my kids to school. My cars are underwater. So, um, im glad its stuff and not my family. It is tough. Its not clear how much it will cost to repair the damage in South Carolina. But officials there are estimating the state could need up to 1 billion in federal aid. Funeral services forgery montgomery desire are next went at Bright Hope Baptist Church in north philly. He passed away sunday after complications from an aneurysm. He led the chapter for 17 years and was also the founder and publish cher of the philadelphia sun and cofounder of the Philadelphia Association of black journalists. The funeral is at 11 a. M. Wednesday. The viewing is on tuesday evening from 4 00 to 8 00. Both services will be at the church at 12th and cecil b. Moore. Montgomery desires family says wednesday is his birthday. He would have turned 66 years old. Well a big surprise for hockey fans in voorhees hoping to grab a cup of coffee this morning. Flyer fans are used to seeing hall of famer goalie Bernie Parent between the pipes but today, he took a special spot behind the counter at dunkin donuts. Parent helping serve up free medium coffees to everyone in line. Along with special flyers orange and black doughnuts. Appropriate, right the former goalie says it felt different than his playing days and even offered a bold prediction for the flyers this year. Being on the ice is much easier. Believe me. Im telling you theyre busy. Its not like one car every five minutes. Its constant. Constant. I really enjoyed it. Hopefully ill meet those people soon in a parade in phil. That sounds good. Parade in philly. Flyers journey to that broad street parade begins tonight witness first of the season in tampa bay. Theyll be back in town for their first home game on monday night. 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