Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20170316 : comparemela

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20170316

Owners. Prosecutors say the goods were swiped in an elaborate burglary ring that spanned all across the Delaware Valley and allegedly ended up jewelers row store st. We found him at one of his stores today. Are these allegations true . Were you selling stolen goods . Did you know they were stolen he refused to open the door and comment on what investigators are calling a whopping 1. 5 million in stolen goods. Sha zazz was charged with belo belonging to corrupt organization and receiving stolen property and has since been released. Four other men were also charg charged. These defendants effectively targeted highvalue homes and specifically looked for jewelry, designer purses and cash. Reporter detectives say they recovered 50,000 stolen pieces of jewelry and other valuables grabbed at numerous highend homes between august of 2015 and july of 2016. Extensive ring that investigators say were responsible for eight burglaries in Montgomery County, six in delaware county, one in chester county, plus alleged thefts in cherry hill and new castle county, delaware. Our investigation revealed that these crimes were the product of a sophisticated and organize effort by this criminal enterprise. Reporter police raided his v jewelers store this past january much it is now closed. Officials say his home was also searched where they found more suspected stolen goods in buckets along with computers and documents we receipt peteedly tried to talk with him. We want to get your side of the story. We just want to get your side of the story. Reporter Montgomery County Prosecutors Office put out a website for people to go to if they recognize any of that stolen property. We will link to that website on our website fox 29. Com. Iain . Dave, thank you. Happening right now in warrington, bucks county fiveyearold boy is in the hospital after a tragic accident while playing with a family dog. The child was found lying face down in the snow outside his home on pal mean know drive yesterday. No one knew what happened. Police now think the boy was playing tug of war with the dog when the dog grabbed the scarf and pulled it. Cutting off the childs air supply. Hes under heavy sedation at chop tonight. Upper darby daycare worker accused of shoving fouryearold girl down the stairs goes before a judge. Sarah gable is answering to this incident caught on Surveillance Video. Child care of the future daycare center. Today the 52yearold waived her right to a preliminary hearing leaving Court Without comment. Gable is now scheduled to be arraigned on april 12th. On to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. As we take live look at the pocono mountains. A lot of snow up there, and even some potential that skiers up there who are going to like it could see some more. Lets get more on that to meteorologist kathy orr. Kathy . 2 feet of powder isnt enough in the month of march, right . Right. Ill tell you, iain, this month has been one really incredible month. Because its been even colder than it was in february. You can see the winds continue out of the northwest and they will be subsiding this evening and late tonight. Temperatures mainly in the 30s. Popping up to 40 degrees in dover. But the wind still strong gusting to 32 in philadelphia. Gusting between 20 and 30 miles an hour everywhere and that is putting a serious chill in the air only feels like 28 in philadelphia. 27 in wilmington and in the poconos it feels like 18 so overnight tonight winds ease but guess what . That skies will be clear and temperatures will fall. The morning slow in philadelphia 23. 19 in allentown in the poconos 16. And pottstown it will only be 1y morning. Coming up well take look at the forecast for st. Patricks day and talk about weekend snow and rain. Its going to all depend on where you live once again and why watching a coastal system fit comes close enough some of us could see additional snow on sunday. Well talk more about that with the seven day later in the broadcast. I cant wait for this month to end. Im tell you, kathy, all right, thank you. More than 48 hours after the major sleet and snow fell trenton still covered in the longer those near freezing temperatures last kathy just talked about the worst slippery conditions are going get as we take live look outside of our old city studios you can see the Lasting Impact for drivers and if youre walking out there were talking falling ice, slippery sidewalks, curbs that are blocked and roads just little difficult to navigate. Walking really anywhere can be tricky. Slipping, falling or being hit by something from the sky theyre all very real concerns out there right now. Fox 29s dawn timmeney is live in old city, dawn, this affected one of the peoples whos job it is to keep us safe from ice in the city. Reporter yeah, believe it or not the director of communications for licenses and inspections slipped on a slick sidewalk and then theres this. Big chunks of ice falling on to the sidewalks from Tall Buildings. Signs warning people are all across the city right now. Im watching it fall down and its like zooming through the air and then when it hits the ground its like all over. Its real dangerous. Reporter nadin tucker keeping a close eye to the sky as she tries to avoid the chunks of ice flying off philadelphias high rises. One lady and her husband were walking passed right there, and they had to run from it a big piece came down and almost hit them. Reporter thats exactly why licenses and inspections along with the Streets Department are out surveying any site that is could be problematic. L and i issued a directive to the owners of Tall Buildings to address any icing that could turn to trouble. Were asking Business Owners to do a visual inspection of their building and if they have a concern to be proactive and close off the sidewalk before something can go wrong. Reporter police cordoned off parts of 12th and market at the loewes hotel while crews broke up the ice on top of the building with what looked like a wooden mallet. It was quite a site for those passing by blow. Im kind of looking up a little bit just to see how bad it really is. Reporter it was raining snow and ice at 18th and jfk boulevard. As maintenance workers there up tension alley pushed the frozen stuff to the ground. This all in an effort to avoid a precarious situation. Its unpredictable when and how it will happen but sometimes pretty big chunks of ice will fall off of the buildings. Reporter nicole works at one liberty. She narrowly missed falling ice while stepping outside on break. Its its very scary definitely. I mean i guess any little bit of ice can hit you and hurt you pretty bad falling. Reporter of course, just falling and slipping is also a big worry for people navigating the slippery and sometimes snow covered sidewalks and crosswalks. The city says it will fine those who dont clear the snow but its most interested in compliance. It matters a lot including me because i fell on the way to work yesterday as i told you. Um, that you keep your sidewalk clear and just meet your responsibilities. Reporter now the fines for not clearing your sidewalk are 50 to 300. So the city is really serious about this. But the main goal is just to get people to do their part, to be conscientious and keep everyone safe during this cold spell. Iain. Good advice, dawn. Thank you. As we mentioned, packed down snow on the streets and sidewalks really causing lot of problems out there. Our cameras caught people all across the city trying to get around places werent shoveled at all or they were not shoveled very well. And forget parking in parts of center city. A lot of metered spots are still full of snow. Remember you can always take live looks at ultimate Doppler Radar and get up to the minute forecasts on our website just head to fox 29. Com. President trump first 100 days the gops plans to repeal and replace obama care moves a step further in the house. That is despite opposition from win the Republican Party as the president s Budget Proposal looks to beef up defense and strip money from other parts of federal government. Foxs joel waldman is following it all in washington, d. C. We love ire lapped. While President Trump lurched i irish leaders they were dee gisting the white house new budget. It will hurt people opportunity to get ahead report roar among the biggest gripes, massive cuts to Big Government agencies including the state department, the Environmental Protection agency and health and human services. All facing cuts between 18 and 31 . The white house also to go cut funding altogether the Global Climate change initiative, the National Endowment for the arts and the corporation for public broadcasting and thats not all. The trump budget cuts education by 14 . Reporter new budget blueprint is said to add 54 p oil billion dollars not military and while the white house is also looking for 1. 5 billion for a border wall, its defending the deep federal cuts as way to keep the deficit in line. This budget simply rielle low indicates and row prior advertises spending as any family or business would do. Reporter the House Budget Committee meanwhile narrowly passing the gop backed American Health care act. House Speaker Paul Ryan down playing growing republican opposition. The president of the United States is the one bringing people together sitting around a table hashing out our differences so that we can get to consensus document. Reporter also today, Top Republican and democratic members of the Senate Intelligence committee putting out a statement saying theyve seen no evidence to support President Trumps claim about being wire tapped. In washington, joel waldman, fox news. Devastating blow for President Trumps second attempt at a travel ban. Two federal judges temporarily blocked the order just before it was set to take effect. Judges in both hawaii and maryland are rejecting Trump Administration arguments that the new ban was different from the first. It would have blocked travel from six majority muslim countries. Some Public Officials and legal experts are applauding the ruling, but others say the courts over stepped. This doesnt make america safer. And it doesnt make our democracy any better that is why judges republican appointees and democratic appointments are striking it down. To try and look for statements made by 15 months ago is beyond the scope of what a judge should be doing. The Trump Administration calls the ban search for protecting the public against terrorism and says it will appeal the ruling all the way to the supreme cou court. Mayor jim kenney responding to the federal Court Rulings on the revised travel ban. He said today in part, the latest travel ban would have hurt the citys economy and be trade our founding principles. I applaud the courts for hating it and you were the white house to put aside once and for all attempts to single out particular religion and ethnicities. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson and his first trip to asia what may be need to be done to deal with north Koreas Nuclear threat. Youre an artist. Money is not your thing until property rise rising property prices become a thing. New development is helping a group of artists say in eighty four home sweet homes for goodness sake. A tree stump giving lessons about life. The book this piece of wood is channeling. A happy reunion for a second grader and his father. Air force major who just returned from overseas. How the dad and the school teamed up for the ultimate surprise. vo want to be happy with your next vehicle purchase . At enterprise, we guarantee it. Head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Change your thinking about buying your next one. Were following developing story out of france this evening. Three people in the hospital after a shooting at a high school in the southern part of the country. Police say a student at the school opened fire injuring two students and the principal. Officers arrested the suspect and investigators dont know the motive yet. France of course remains in state of emergency after those deadly attacks in 2015 in paris also in france an explosion at the International Monetary fund in paris. Letter bomb threw blew in the hands of a staff causing some minor burns and investigator sauce its not clear who accept the letter. Imf staff left the building and military officers secured the area. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is on his first visit to east shaye since taking office trying to address mounting tensions with china and north korea. He met japanese officials in tokyo saying the Trump Administration wants peace with the north but after 20 years of failed diplomacy he says a new approach is needed tillerson also calling on china to put pressure on north korea to end its missile and Nuclear Progra programs. We will be having discussions with china as to further actions we believe they might consider taking that would be helpful to bringing north korea. Meanwhile north korea continues preparing for another possible missile test while also calling for an end to joint military exercises between the u. S. And south korea which the north says pushes the region to the edge of a nuclear war. Canadian minister trudeau and first daughter ivanka trump on broadway. Evan at a blue to new york to city trudeau introduce the play come from away celebrates canadian compassion in welcoming u. S. Travelers in the wake of 9 11. Trudeau praised the long history that continued between the United States and canada. Un ambassador nicky haley was also in attendance. You hear a lot of sad news these days but our Bill Anderson always looks for the good and tonight he introduces to us group of frustrated neighbors getting forced out of the community theyve actually help build. Tonight theyve got a new place giving them hope for goodness sake. I looked at a house for rent it was 2,000 a month. Im like what . Reporter its double edged sword of development particularly around philadelphias universities. We all want to see communities developed, but that development often leads to longtime residents being priced out. A lot of developers in this community right now hig highine and high rates. Reporter rebecca rosa what many would describe as struggling artist. You may have seen one of her pieces at the intersection of 40th and lancaster. The neighbor shes lived in for years. But now shes one of the first tenants of an Affordable Housing complex designed to allow those who help build the culture of a neighborhood stay there as Property Values increase. Enter my comfortable a body. Reporter its called the 4050 apartments a lowincome building developed and funded by the Peoples Emergency Center and several other organizations and the concept is simple. The community of West Powelton believed that artists are important parts of the community so if they were below a certain income, they received preferen preference. Artists are part of the identity of community. When price home prices are going up, rent is going up how do we make sure we dope lose this part of our community. Come on in. Reporter as i toured her new apartment she was clearly excited and inspired by the design and the space. Theres a lot of space up here. I know, right. Wow. I know. Thats the master. The master bedroom for the artist. We were struggling starving artists. Reporter you dont want to give up your dream . Its your life. No one wants to give up your dream. Create beauty, to be inspired. Reporter so far the concept of low income artist paying 30 of their income to live at 4050 apartments its working as planned. Theres photographer, core graphs, theres poets, theres dancers. Reporter and theres an appreciation that the peoples emergency sent and partners are trying to hear communities that are looking for consideration as development makes their longtime neighborhoods unaffordable. Artist coop places, artists get together and try to make an opportunity for them self but to have an institution help you. Reporter 4050 is an opportunity to color ways for pec to continue their work and in some small way show that in cases of Massive Development the community can and should have a voice. While its maybe not as visible as old city or some other neighborhoods in philadelphia, theyre here and the community recognizes them as an important part of what makes the neighborhood special. Reporter first 20 apartments are full but hopefuly the concept of working to provide opportunities for communities to experience growth and success together that continues to expand for goodness sake. Im Bill Anderson. A man finds a box of kittens and tells someone in the neighborhood. What that person did that left the guy shocked. Could protecting yourself from the sun be as simple as taking a drink . One man thinks so. Why critics though say not so fast. Real live willie wonka the candy maker trying to revolutionize sugar in new york city. Verizon store no new york got cleaning up to do after a car went flying through the front of the business. Police say both vehicles were rear ended and then they went airborne. One of the cars flew into the fence and a

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