Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20170308 : comparemela

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20170308

But still very mild for this time of year. We are looking at colder air moving our way. And the threat of snow by friday mornings rush. Well time it out and have update on those snow accumulations coming up later in the broadcast. For now, though, well zen it back to you. All right. Kathy, thanks. Terrifying scene outside of philadelphia home when a mother and toddler plunge from second story window. Police say that woman was holding her twoyearold son when she jumped. Neighbors rushed right in to help. Dawn timmeney is following the investigation live now in north philadelphia. Dawn . Reporter lucy, this is such heartbreaking story. Neighbors and police tell us that the woman was in fact having suicidal thoughts that she was out on this same window 11 yesterday with her little baby in her arms staring up into the sky but they thought they had talk her out hurting herself and her little baby. When i come to run outside i just scene them laying on the ground. Oh, my goodness, like, im like, devastated because its crazy. Danielle couldnt believe her ice this morning her neighbor had jumped out of the window of her home on the 2,000 block of diamond street with her twoyearold son in her arms in an attempted suicide. I just didnt expect to see that. You know what i mean, its bothering me right now. I feel kind of like, you know, i dont know. It all started yesterday when she saw her neighbor sitting on the window 11 with her child. She tried to reach out. Basically i seen her basically dangling the baby out the window and i ran over there, and got the baby from her. Reporter darden says she kept the baby for about a half hour and talked to the mom for awhile. She thought the 36yearold was feeling better until she saw the ambulances this morning. And the mother and son lying on the pavement. His face and head and stuff was bleeding. I didnt want to look at him lik that. I didnt want to see him like that report roar another neighbor who doesnt want to be identified says it was a bad scene. Yes, it was very awful especially the baby. Thats what i was concerned and shook up about the baby. Reporter Danielle Darden tried to let the distraught woman know she was there for h her. I wish any mom out there they get help, you know what i mean, suicide is it could have been anybody. One of my children. Anybody. Its like sad. It really is. Its sad. Reporter Danielle Darden says little boys name is justin and that he is a really sweet child. Right now he is at Saint Christophers Hospital in bad shape. Hes listed in Critical Condition. The mother is hospitalized in stable condition right now. Police say no charges have been filed pending a psychological evaluation. Iain. Dawn, thank you. 4500 people still without power tonight after a fire at this peco substation in tioga. The power outage shut down the Philadelphia High School for girls and ow roads middle school today as well as building at temple. Fire investigators are still look what starte started that fe yesterday afternoon. Thankfully no one was hurt torments night investigators want to know who is behind a second bomb threat at a Jewish Community center in wilmington. Skyfox over the siegel jcc police say someone emailed the threat overnight. Police evacuated the building found nothing just last week someone called in bomb threat to the same building as well as two other jccs in our area. Jewish Community Centers across the country reported similar threats. Was he targeted or just in the wrong place at the wrong time . Police dont yet know why 25yearold man in a jeep in East Germantown ended up shot in the head. Someone opened fire last night on the 1100 block of east haines street. The driver crashed into another car injuring himself and the two people in that car. The 25yearold remains in Critical Condition tonight. Developing right now in voorhees, some disturbing images spray paints on home on round hill road. The images are so offensive even racial slur we blurred them so you cant see them on televisi television. Now police are trying to figure out how it got there. The neighbor told fox 29 off camera that theres been some ongoing issues with the property although no one currently lives in the home. To story now about a very sick little boy. A frantic mother and the kindness of strangers. That boy with cancer was on his way to get treatment when all of a sudden his moms van broke down. Word spread quickly an lot of people stepped in to help save the day. Fox 29s bruce gordon is live along i95 in boothwyn with heartwarming story. Bruce . Reporter yeah, we are in fact along i95 because this is the route taken weekly by a dover, delaware, mom and her teenaged son to get him to the medical care he so desperately needs. Well, as you said, yesterday their story and their route took a heartwarming deport. April mcleishs husband josh got their 2,009 Dodge Caravan up and running again. Tuesday morning that was another story. My van shut off. 80mile each way trip from for ant know what i was going to do. My husband had the flu. So he was down yesterday. There was no way he can come up to the childrens hospital. Reporter whats going through your mind when that happened . Im like, whats going on . Im scared. Reporter your van is broken down on the highway and now kind of stranded. Yeah. Reporter they limp the van to chop and explained they are dilemma to their doctor. He contacted their social work worker. She reach out to an Organization Called kisses for kyle. Montgomery county based Charitable Organization that helps families dealing with childrens cancer. The organization paid to have mcleishs van towed back to dover. Then reached out to one much their volunteers, a veteran philly cop named timothy mc nicholas. He had just finish off nine hour bomb disposal shift and was ready to do some more good. Mc nicholas drove april and thomas to dover and then turned around went to his home a nearly four hour favor for a stranger. It was so generous. I offered to give him money for the gas. I offered, you know, to pay for the tolls to get him something to eat. He wop accept nothing from me. Reporter more than year ago thomas was given just six months to live. That splotch in the miffled his brain thats the tumor. Hes not out of the woods just yet. But with the kindness of strangers, he keeps battling. I just keep fighting. Doing my job. Reporter your job is to fight. Yup. We know theres people out there that do that in this cruel world that we have now a s amazing. Reporter tim and his wife who happens to be a Philadelphia Police officer delivered presents to needy children at christmastime, also through the kisses for kyles program. I reached him by phone like most folks who do good deeds, he down played his efforts called eight little more than a taxi ride. Well, for a family in need it was a whole lot more than that, lucy. It surely was. Thank you very much, bruce. On this International Womens day people across the globe are demanding equality and here in the u. S. Activists are taking a stand by removing women to make an impact. Lets go to logan square live right now the day without a woman march is just now beginning. As part of it National Demonstration the same folks behind the womens march in january encouraged women not to go to work today or spend money to show the impact they have on the economy. And some are bringing attention to labor issue as well. The Philadelphia Federation of teachers held this rally in coordination with International Womens day. Teachers have been working without a contract for the past five years so their union decided today was the perfect day to rally. We have teachers and other educators all over the city who feel the same way, you know, they give their all every day for the children and they dont feel theyre respected and they dont feel theyre valued. The School District of philadelphia spokesperson says 930 teachers did not show up for work today. Thats about 10 of the diss treks staff. The spokesperson says nothing is going to stop the district from its primary objective of teaching the children of philadelphia. He famously wrote the art of the deal now President Trumps negotiating skills are going to be put to the test. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle say theyre ready to secure the new Republican Health care bill being pushed by the president. Foxs joel ad waldman is in washington with the latest. Reporter the American Health care act put together by gop house leaders to repeal and replace obama care is now making its way through a pair of committees in the Lower Chamber of congress. The first to take a crack at it, the house ways and Means Committee with advice chair of the democratic Conference New York congressman Joseph Crowley demanding to know why the newly proposed Health Care Law was not accompanied by a report from the congressional budget office. Its clear that you dont have the information there to give to us and yet were taking action on bill without incredibly pertinent information. Reporter democrats fear the proposal which eliminates the individual and employer mandates as well as subsidies for the poor give too much power to the Insurance Industry which could lead to higher premiums. The conservative House Freedom caucus whos 40 plus republican members could kill the bill argue the new legislation is too similar to obama care. If you just look at the bill text, the very first paragraph says it amends the Affordable Care act. It doesnt repeal it. Reporter President Trump who publicly called out senator rand paul in this tweet is reportedly personally reaching out to lawmakers working to make the American Health care act a reality. Telling congress its what the American People hired him for. I think hes very much a cell mode. Reporter House Speaker ryan publicly said the house would get the 218 votes needed to pass the measure while connecticut rand paul says it would be dead on arrival in the senate. Joel waldman, fox news. Grandmother went to wal mart to buy a loaf of bread and ended up leaving with a couple of black eyes. She says im trying to get some bread white bleep. The clue her attacker left behind that police are using to find her. The lights go out on the statue of liberty. Why some are saying the timing was intentional. You have to see this to believe it. A woman eight months pregnant chasing a man through a parking lot. What she says he did that made her so mad she took off running. And coming up at 630,000 smoker is back in its rightful place tonight. Where the owner says it showed up weeks after someone swiped it. Why are you deleting these photos . Because my teeth are yellow. Why dont you use a whitening toothpaste . Im afraid its bad for my teeth. Try crest 3d white. Crest 3d White Diamond strong toothpaste and rinse. Gently whiten. And fortify weak spots. Use together for 2 times stronger enamel. Crest 3d white. These guys look like theyre swinging in local park police say they are about to attack. Investigators say the two guys saw 67yearold man walk by and jumped him from behind hitting him over the head and over and over again in the face. This happened in port richmond. The guys then went through the victims pockets and stole his wallet before getting away. Victim now has fractured knows and other cuts on his face. Group of guys loading exercise equipment into a house get targeted by a pair of armed robbers. Who started shooting. It happened just past 1 00 this morning on the 6,000 block of somerdale avenue. Oxford circle. Thats when Police Say One of the robbers shot one of the guys who was loading the equipment in the leg. Police say the robbers then stole 450 bucks and ran away. The man who they shot is stable at einstein medical sent. Nobody else is hurt. Allentown man facing years in prison after failing to pay millions of dollars in taxes. Prosecutors say James Schlosser failed to file tax returns for 21 years because he considered using a Social Security number the same as using mark of the beast spelled out in the bible. In to time, he didnt report more than 2 million of income and then he funneled the money through foreign business trusts. Schlosser will now be sentenced in june. Trump administration rolling back federal fuel economy requirements that increase the efficiency of new cars and trucks. The move will eliminate president obamas requirements that all new cars and trucks average 36 miles a gallon by 2025. The administration could make the announcement as early as this week. In hangs tank you heard about it here and there for couple of years now. Hahn know bees in decline and some call it colon knee collapse disorder. Any was you cut fit bees die off it means the threat to our most prolific pollinators an threat to our food, right . Hank flynn is in doylestown. Reporter check it out. [ laughter ] wants to see whats going on. Reporter bees are astounding. To learn about them from someone like master bee keeper vince who runs Delaware Valley universitys april pierre program for me thats a treat. So bees have rules. Reporter okay. Very strict rules. The spacing between the combs has to be exactly according to their rules. You violate rules, they will change things and you wont like it. Reporter vince and his student of his kyle mayo had me out to see the hives up close. Let me see whats going on. Nice. Here we are. Reporter theyre in good shape but other hives arent doing as well. Local bee keepers report 40 losses over the winter. Study out last week from the center for biological diversity said more than 700 bee species are in decline with more than 300 facing extinction. What does that mean to you, kyle . Thats pretty disastrous when you think about it. Its going to be a lot of work to keep those things those colonies alive those species alive. Reporter the study list as number of key factors for the decline. Climate change, urbanization also lists Pesticide Use something vince says was not in play when he was growing up. We didnt have any money to spray pesticides all over the place. Nobody sprayed their lawns with herbicides. You know the clover and the dandelions and the winds thats all food for bees. Not only honey bees but bubble bees, the orchard bees, and the butterflies, you know, and you know that theyre all having troubles. Reporter another reason the might which came from china in the 8 80s theyre big prob. Theyre on everything. Absolutely. Theres no way to avoid them right now. Careful coming out. Reporter they agree on one thing. Bee populations are stressed out right now. The question is how to stop the downward spiral especially when we depend on bees as much as we do. We cant do without them, can we. Definitely not. Think about trying to manually pollinate whole crop of orchard of apple or almond groves or adversary cad dose. Its impossible. Theyre doing well, too. Report roar complex problems usually require complex solutions but in the case of saving bees, people need to care first. One bee keeper put it to me this way. If you like eating food and sustaining yourself, you need to have bees. Im growing my hair long and going back to nature. We all need to. Im hank and thats my take. Pesticides are a big deal. Got to love this. South jersey students loving up on shelter dogs all thanks to new program where students from the Brook Field School read to doing at the Camden County animal shelter. The kids come from a school specializes in special needs. And they say this lets them read without anyone judging th them. It also gives the dogs some desperately needed love. When you read in class and you mess up a word, and the kids start laughing at you, you dont you dont want to feel like that. Thats bad feeling what we do here is, we boost their confidence. Its really a dual purpose to make sure the dog has a companion and really helps the kids to progress in their rea reading as well. That is great. Students come to the shelter about once a month and read to the pups for about half hour. Are you looking for love perhaps . Because these dogs and the kiddies there very much would love to love up on you forever because Shelter Animals rock. Parents stunned tonight after an Elementary School principal is arrested. I send my children to the school here expecting them to be safe, and taken care of. What police say he was doing to kids without them even realizing it. Do you know you know phillys history. You probably dont know these secret places. One local zoo welcomed a couple of new additions but they need your help. How you can help pick a name for the new zoo babies. My girlfriend loves artists. To be unique. And i need a conservative pair, cuz her parents hate artists get up to 40 off a second pair of glasses. Schedule your eye exam at pearlevision. Com. Some people are calling it Perfect Timing for the lights to go out on liberty island. The lights that usually illuminate lady liberty went out last leaving her torch and crown visible. According to the National Park service the outage was related to work being done on new emergency backup generator. Its one of the last remaining projects linked to Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts. The lights have

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