Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20160921 : comparemela

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20160921

Right around 7 00. Those demonstrations turned violent, and ended with at least 16 officers injured. Several police cars are also heavily damaged and interstate 85 shut down for hours. Foxs Jonathan Serrie has whats happening right now in charlot charlotte. Reporter protests breaking out here in charlotte, north carolina, after a black man was fatally shot by police. Demonstrators blocking an interstate highway looting a wal mart and Damaging Police cars. More than a dozen officers suffering injuries in the melee. Police were looking for suspect at an apartment complex when they say Keith Lamont Scott was seen exiting a car with a gun. Authorities say the 43yearold ignored several warnings to true drop the weapon and officer brently vincent also black then fired at him. Its time to change the narratives. Because i can tell you from the facts that the story is a little bit different as to how its been portrayed so far. Reporter supporters of scott refute the Police Account of the incident. Some say he had a book, not a weapon. One local religious leader calling for an economic boycott of the city. Black lives do not matter for this city, our black dollars shouldnt matter. Reporter shooting comes just days after Police Officer shot and killed unarmed black man in oklahoma. Both incidents impactin impactie 2016 president ial race. Republican donald trump says he supports police but is trouble by what happened in tulsa. To me it look like, you know, somebody that was doing what they were asking them to do. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton weighing in. We are safer when communities respect the police and police respect communities. Reporter police say the officer who shot scott was not wearing a body camera. He is currently on administrative leave while the investigation into the shooting continues. In charlotte, north carolina, Jonathan Serrie, fox news. In the midst of this latest frenzy over Police Involved shootings, we sent a video that actually were apparently sent a video that may shed light on all of the tensions on the street and just a few minutes it illustrates the anger on both sides of the divide. Police frustrated and a lack of cooperation from the communities they protect and residents say they feel hassle and harassed by those in uniform. So we asked our bruce gordon to take closer look at the video want it may teach us. He joins us now in studio. Reporter guys, in fact this whole videos lasts 44 seconds. We blur the faces of the officers because weve not been able to identify them for their side of the story. But its the audio difficult as it may to be hear that tells this story. Run your mouth. Were looking for someone. The video shows two white philadelphia Police Officers looking for information from several young black men on city street corner. The conversation quickly goes sideways and the cop ordered the men to disburse. One of the black men is heard to say come on yall they might be going to shoot us. The camera is turning so we dont see him replies, not all of you, just one. Listen carefully. Come on yall, they probably going shoot us. Not all, just one. Listen again. Come on yall. They might gonna shoot us. Not all of you. Just one. We caught up with commissioner ross. Played him the video. His reaction to the idea that one of his officers may have responded to a taunt by suggesting someone should be shot . No doubt the context is difficult to deny. Were going to have to figure out, you know hooks made that comment and obviously its highly inn appropriate. Reporter consider the state of the relations between police and the africanamerican community. On the one hand incidents in tulsa and now charlotte cops kill men had may or may not be an actual threat. On the other right here in philadelphia an officer targeted ambushed by a black man in january and a Police Sergeant released from the hospital days after being ambushed by a black man in a shooting rampage last friday night. Frustration on both sides. Were under manned. Were under equipped. The attitude towards police has changed of where around the country. Weve seen that. Theyre not facing justice. Its open season when it comes to Law Enforcement targeting black and brown people. Africanamerican officers can feel stuck in the middle. Verbally abused by members of the Minority Community who seeming to be on the quote wrong side of the debate. They are not traitors. Theyre not uncle tom. Though the community thinks that they are. Reporter theyre just doing their job. Theyre just doing their job. Reporter in the midst of the bitterness and name calling we ran into Jacqueline Wilson near city hall. Long live philadelphian. Daughterinlaw is a cop. She wears a black lives matter bracelet. Jacquelines view of the standoff between cops and their community. We dont seem to give us the respect they deserve and they dont give us the respect until wee deserve. Until theres cleared up well have race riot out here. Reporter commissioner ross promises a full investigation into the shooting comment. His views echo those of miss wilson bridges must be built and that starts with viewing the other as more than the color of skin or the color of a uniform. Iain . Lucy. Thank you very much, bruce. More and more information coming in now on the man accused of of setting off explosives in new york city and new jersey. Federal documents show Ahmad Khan Rahami bought bomb ingredients on ebay and warned that bombs would ring out in the streets. The documents also show he was a big fan of terrorists such as osama bin laden. Rahami remains hospitalized from shootout with police. The charges he faces now include federal terror crimes. Meanwhile fbi has released new video of two men who took a suitcase holding the bomb that did not go off in new york city saturday night. The agency says these men were seen taking that bomb from the luggage and then leaving the device behind while taking the suitcase. Investigators say these men are being sought as witnesses, not suspects. Fox 29 Weather Authority n now. Live look at south philadelphia on this final day of summer. My, just flies, doesnt it . Feels like summer today with temperatures in the mid 80s and some sunshine to boot just gorgeous all the way around. Meteorologist kathy orr is pu putting her spending her final hours of summer at penns landing. Smart move, kathy. What beautiful day, lucy. You know, usually when you get very close to the water you get a bit of a breeze and its little bit cooler but not today. Were seeing the high clouds filter the sunshine, but still temperatures well into the 80s. And behind me the beautiful Delaware River, you wont believe it, the temperature is sitting at 77 degrees. So quite warm there as well. Take look at our satellite. Ill show you that temperaturesare going to stay on the mild side even though we have little bit of filtered sunshine here. We do have the remnants offshore of that old tropical system julia keeping the cloud cover in the region and that will slowly move away and so will the clouds. Take look at the numbers. In philadelphia we have 84. 84 in wilmington. Even 84 degrees in new york. 80s in burlington and boston. You know its a warm day when they are still in the 80s. This evening temperatures will be falling through the 70s. Mainly clear at 9 00 oclock and 74. 71 degrees and partly cloudy 11 00 p. M. Coming up well talk about a fall warmup before temperatures come crashing down. A dramatic drop over the weekend and for the birds, were going to have a chill for those tailgators. I think youll be wearing their jerseys, maybe a turtleneck it depends how early you head to the stadium. Ill be back with that forecast later in the broadcast. For now well zen it back to you. Kathy, thank. Testimony began today in the civil trial that will hopefully determine who if anyone is responsible for damages for the Center City Building collapse. Opening statements wrapped up yesterday and lawsuits were filed on behalf of the six people who were killed and 13 others were injured when a wall came crashing down on top of a Salvation Army store at 22nd and market streets in 2013. The trial expected to last for months. On the second day of testimony in the bridge gate trial a jury heard from the agency that operates George Washington bridge. Executive director patrick foy told jurors he approved News Releases that blamed the traffic jams on a traffic study even though he knew it was untrue. And fort lee mayor mark sock lidge testified for a second d day. He initially lied did he not think the closures were for political revenge because hawaii phrased jeopardizing a redevelopment project. Prosecutorprosecutors say bridgy and bill baroni created those jams near the gwb in 2013. They claim governor christie knew all about it. You decide 2016. Recent Police Shootings grabbing the attention of both president ial candidates while campaigning in key battleground states. In the key swing state of florida Hillary Clinton condemning the shootings and calling for reform. Meanwhile republican nominee donald trump speaking to pastors this morning in cleveland, ohio w he seemed to question if the officer in tulsa was prepared to her job. Clinton also mentioned the two officers injured last friday here in philadelphia. Drum is that scheduled to hold recall toll note at the Sun Center Studios in Delaware County. Exciting moment today in our area. Our nation has newly minted u. S. Citizens and theyre from more than two dozen countries. Dawn timmeney live at pennsylvania lanning across the river from where the ceremony happened. A great day, dawn. Roar report lucy, the ceremony taking place on the battleship new jersey right behind me. The most decorated war ship in americas history. This certainly is a day these folks will remember for some time and it also affords them knew privileges including voting in the upcoming president ial election. Reporter it was a very special ceremony today i was bore the deck of the historic battleship new jersey in camden. 41 people from 26 countries from china to india to mexico and vietnam became unfortunate s citizens. All taking the oath of allegiance. I hear by declare,. I here by declare. On oath. On oath. , arc moment they had dreamed of. It feels fantastic i feels so good. Im excited. For some it was long journey. Joseph born in Nigeria Holding her son in her arms as she officially became a u. S. Citiz citizen. Im so excited. Ive been waiting for this day. Im happy now. As new citizens were couldnt graduate lated they were also reminded of the responsibilities that come with their new found citizenship. Most importantly, you must register and vote so your voice heard now and forever. Reporter that was for most on the minds of many today with the upcoming president ial election just weeks away. I know im going to vote. Do you know who youll be voting for . I think, um, its tough to say but probably will be donald trump. With the immigration issue a major focus of this election, these new citizens have strong opinions on people who enter the country illegally. Illegal i dont think it should be encouraged under any circumstances no matter what it is. So well have to come to any country legally. Reporter louis, who immigrated from bolivia feels it really depends on the circumstances. In every country theres lot of people that they are looking for better future. When they come here, they dont know the laws. I think for people like that they need to be once they are here they didnt know they were breaking the law. Reporter now, the deadline to register to vote varies from state to state. In new jersey, its octobe october 18th. In pennsylvania and delaware, its several days earlier. Iain, back to you. All right, dawn, thanks. A question a lot of people have been asking. Whats that nasty looking green slime on the sue Schuylkill River . Well tell you why its not actually all bad. A feud caught on tape landed a couple of new jersey shore neighbors in court. One is a top septa official and you could have predicted how this thing would end. Fox 29 investigates ahead. A story that sent shock waves through hollywood. Brad and angelina calling it quits. How Famous Wax Museum is now getting involved in the break up. All new at 6 00 police say this man robbed one store and a few minutes later tried to rob another. What had him running for his life. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. I know more about isis then the generals do. John mccain, a war hero. Hes not a war hero, hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured ok. Donald trump compared his sacrifices to the sacrifices of two parents who lost their son in war. How would you answer that father . What sacrifice have you made for your country . I think ive made a lot of sacrifices, built great structures. Ive had tremendous success, i think. Those are sacrifices . Thats big snake. About 8 feet long and whoever was missing it in Delaware County now has their pet back. Springfield Township Police recovered the 8foot south american false water cobra last night. A resident on Spring Valley road spotted it in their yard, called police and police tell us that snake is now back safe and sound at home. You may be wondering whats causing all that green slime in the Schuylkill River. It may be as as it looks. Karen hepp spoke to experts to so what all that green stuff is and if we should be worried or not live from Fairmount Park now, evening, karen. Reporter good evening. I love this time of the year and this time of day. Everybody is out all the bikers and walkers going by. Walker jut stopped over here taking picture of this. Doesnt this look inviting . That green color . All of our rowers out there skulling on it. It looks kind of slimy out the there. Experts say do not worry, it is not dangerous. In fact not bad for us at all. Everybody is an eagles fan. Hook who got tired of being up staged by the boat houses now the Schuylkill River is green but what is that gunning . The thousands who run, bike, row, even drive by every day are scratching their heads. When we saw it, we were shocked. Its disgusting. I think its probably normal. Probably algae and stuff like that. Reporter experts say it is normal but it isnt algae. From skyfox our producers thought it look like green slime. But he lie gentleman says no way. At three hes a slime expert. Slime is go woo. It looked like one of the frog lakes. Ding, ding, ding. Lilly pads. Thats about right. Take a close look. Theyre tiny floating flowers. The green swatches weve been getting a lot of questions about the green swatches. Theres nothing to worry about. The green swatches are actually naturally agree free float aquatic plant. Called duck weed. The Kelly Anderson from the Water Department says she show the river is healthy and its totally safe. But why do we get so much of this and all of a sudden. Mondays big rain washed it do down. The water shed area that the schuylkill is draining is over 1900 square miles if you think about that it goes up to berks county up passed pottsville into Schuylkill County and all of that water because of the rain we saw on monday is draining down towards philly. So its compounding the duck weed as it moves down from upstream towards philly and out to the Delaware River. Reporter it will stay on the river for hell bit until we get big wayne that will push it threw down the delaware. Staying along the banks because thats more slow moving. I would like to go with my Conspiracy Theory our river has decided to jump on the wentz wagon bandwagon and turn green because were all so excited much thats my theory. Lucy, im sticking to it. There you go. I like that theory. Im with you on that one. Im also on that bandwagon thank you very much karen hepp. Delaware police are now investigating the fire that damaged two parked cars. This take look here this is the aftermath from the scene on the 1,000 block of robin road in wilmington this morning. Truck clearly in bad shape. Mini van also not doing well. No injuries though to people reported. Competition of sorts in gloucester township, new jersey, this week. By the end well know who is top dog. Us police k9 association is hosting its National Patrol dog trials put k9 officers from around the country head to head competing in agility open bead yens as well as evidence detection. One of the benefits of doing a National Certification is because now you have judges from all over the country its not just your he john judges who see you once or twice year and know you. So youre dealing with judges you may never met before theyre judging your dog on the standards saying that your dog meets the standards and hopefully excels at them. Things wrap up tomorrow night with parade at timber creek high school. In mayfair the Philadelphia Department of prisons welcomed new Correctional Officers today. Abraham Lincoln High School hostehosted the graduation of 44 officers. The incoming class completed 13 weeks of study including practical and Tactical Training and learning how to treat inmates who suffer from drug dependency and Mental Health issues. The new staff will work throughout the

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