Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20170602 : comparemela

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20170602

Parents rushed to the high school to get their kids out and home. Whats going through your mind as mom when youre coming to school here . Scared. I was really scared. I dont its just too much. Reporter one woman scuffled with police and was detained. Twice during the morning, authorities prepared to lift the lock down only to quickly reinstate it when other shooting incidents were reported. Said the frustrated superintendent this wasnt just an act of violence against a student. It was an act of violence against a whole community and we cannot stand for it. Reporter teens murder was part of a flurry violence that happened so fast authorities couldnt even get through their News Conference. Oh, noh hold on we got a newe going. A man pointing a gun at a chester cop. This is when you earn your keep so to speak. Reporter back at 11th and kerlin kianna smith was in bed when the shooting happened. Shes lived in chester for more than three decades now wonders whether its time to go. The city need to get theirselves together don a little bit better and im just im scared. Really. Reporter authorities believe the teens murder was a separate incident but they fear the second, third and fourth shooting incident todays may be in some way connected. Chris, the violence is so pervasive here its literally hard to keep up. It is too much, bruce. Thank you. Happening now, three former penn state administrators will serve prison time. The three sentenced today for charges stemming from the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. Today the judge sentenced the universitys former president , vicepresident and Athletic Director for failing to report allegations against the former assistant football coach. Graham spanier, tim curley and gary schultz will each spend at least two months in prison. The judge saying their failure to report allegations against sandusky enabled him to continue molesting boys. All three apologized to sanduskys victims before their sentences were handed down. And Pennsylvania Attorney general josh shapiro releasing his Statement Today on the sentencing saying todays sentencing which landed all three defendants behind bars leaves no doubt that that are consequences for failing to protect children in pennsylvania. Also happening now, at penn state, sweeping changes coming to the greek live culture on the university campus. This comes in response to the death of a Fraternity Pledge his name was Timothy Piazza sophomore died in february after a hazing ritual gone terribly wrong. Today, the board of trustees pass add plan to crack down. The changes include the shutting down of any fraternity whose hazing involves alcohol or physical or mental abuse. The university will also now govern activities instead of the chapters themselves. Our aim is to curb destructive out comes within the Penn State Fraternity and Sorority Community with the hope that we can preserve what is good and value valuable about the greek experience and sense of community that these organizations provide. What was said was aspiration al and what was said is important, but there was not one derminative and fundamental action which was taken by the board of trustees at penn state today. The plan by president eric barron was supported unanimously by the 38 member board of trustees. Overcrowded, unfunderred and poorly managed. Those words from a report blasting delawares prison system after a deadly riot. The state report came after a correctional officer was killed during the inmate takeover the james t. Vaughn correctional facility in shin ma. Governor carney ordered the review when inmates took four officers hostage. The report considers communication could be the biggest problem at delawares largest prison. Turning now to your fox 29 Weather Authority as we take live look along the ben franklin parkway. Beaubeautiful day across the ara and much the week send supposed to be nice. Lets get a first peek of your forecast now with meteorologist scott williams. We like the sound of that, scott. Looking pretty good for this First Official weekend of june. The month of june. It is here as we look at ultimate doppler, there have been some passing clouds and a couple of isolated showers but for the most part we will enjoy a nice mild and also pretty breezy friday evening. Take a look at the current winds. These are sustained right now out of the west 22 Miles Per Hour philadelphia. 20 Miles Per Hour winds in the reading area and look at the comfortable temperatures. 78 wilmington. 79 right now in dover. 79 degrees currently in millville. We have mid 60s in the pocono mountains. Headed to the ballpark, great weather. Were looking breezy and nice by first pitch. 76 degrees but those winds could gust up to 25 Miles Per Hour. So hour by hour, by 7 00 oclock temperatures in the 70s. Looking pretty comfortable for first friday in old city. Were looking at 68 degrees by 9 00 as we go hour boy hour, temperatures will fall into the low 60s by 11 00 oclock tonight and those winds will start to di minute initiate. Coming up well talk about the weekend. Theres a chance for morning shower tomorrow. Then sunday evening showers and then a bit of an unsettled pattern chris and dawn early next week. All right. Scott, thanks. Skyfox over a fire in millville, new jersey late this afternoon. You can see the home this coming from the 100 block of dandelion road. Badly damaged from the flames. Unclear what ignited this fire. So far no injuries. Germantown principal roughed up while trying to keep the piece between students. This all happening wednesday outside the fitler academics plus school. Boone was supervising the dismissal that day when the fight broke out between students from another school. As he tried to break it up, he was hit in the face with a brick. Well tonight that principal says he has eight stitches, a black eye, the other eye swollen shut. Authorities are still searching for who did this. Meantime philadelphia councilman david oh is back at work two days after someone tried to establish him outside of his home. The councilman an army veteran was stabbed wednesday night after coming home from work on the 5800 block of Thomas Street thats in southwest philadelphia. Councilman oh says the man demanded his belongings and stabbed him in the back with a tshiffley. Councilman did need surgery. He returned home yesterday. Police have not yet made any arrests. Delaware state police have arrested millsboro emt for sexually harassing and groping a coworker. Police say Jeremy Johnson repeatedly asked the female emt to lift up her shirt and show him her chest. The victim says this happened on may second and after she denied his request, she claims johnson grabbed her shirt, pull it up on his own and groped her. Johnson turned himself in to police on wednesday charged with unlawful Sexual Conduct and sexual harassment. Next only on fox, thousands of dollars of sneakers and clothing from an olney business were fake fake. Fbi and Philadelphia Police bust a counterfeit clothing ring. We were the only station there as police moved in. Well, the story is off the corner on north fifth street. Fox 29s dave stratt wise sr. Was there during the raid and hes live at Police Headquarters now with all the details for us. Dave . Reporter dawn, this was a big take down. One investigator saying this guy had more polo than polo. They seized 300,000 in counterfeit polo and north face clothing. They tell us this guy will face charges in this case. Boxes after boxes after boxes all load flood a big truck parked on north fifth street friday as city and federal Homeland Security investigators raided one of philadelphias biggest counterfeit clothing vendors. Hes a big heavy hitter. Consumer gets hurt here because theyre buying an inferior product and a product that could fall apart in the washing machine. Reporter only fox 29 was there as Police Executed Search warrants at off the corner in the 5500 block of north fifth. The owner hasan door witch was charged with selling 300,000 in fake polo, north face and True Religion clothing. These companies who are being count fitted, they basically take that loss and they mark up their prices and trickles down to consumers who are buying legitimate items in these stores. If its wrong he breaking the law, then reporter this store must customer watch as dozens of boxes of count fit merchandise were hauled away by investigators. Got to have common sense. Its coming from the store, you know, so its not name brand. Get a good receipt guaranteed return. Wayne shops here along the busy fifth street corridor he says he wants the real deal, not a knock off. I stay away from that stuff. I would prefer to get the real stuff. Reporter investigators say this store was loaded with fake merchandise, the entire back room and a second floor apartment contained counterfeit clothing. They believe door witch also supplied a lot of Street Corner vendors. Hes probably one of the biggest suppliers of Street Vendors around the city of philadelphia broad and erie and several other locations the blackmarket economy nobody is paying taxes, and the legitimate retailers arent selling the real product because people may be spying the counterfeit product. This doesnt look right. You want to stay away from it. Reporter a lot of this counterfeit material is made in china then relabeled or embroidered here owner faces counterfeiting and trademark inn fringe many charges. Investigators tell us a lot of the money from these counterfe counterfeiting operations is used to fuel other criminal activity. Dawn . All right, dave, thank you. In delaware, police on a probation check for a man end up arresting someone else. Authorities say when police went to check on a person on dallas road in new castle couldnt tuesday, they werent home. However, 60yearold earnest anderson was. Police say they found a gun, ammo number of drugs. Anderson is facing weapons and drug charges. Hes free on bail tonight. Shes losing jobs and endorse many deals by the day but a Controversial Photo shoot isnt stopping Kathy Griffin from making fun of President Trump. Um im not a afraid of donald trump much hes a bully ive dealt with older white guys trying to keep me down my whole life, my whole career. Why griffin claims shes the victim. Plus who killed Winnie Harris . One of her friends is on the case and shes a retired cop. So she knows a thing or two about justice. And new at 6 00 oclock, Philadelphia Police are on patrol, bike patrol. A look at the special training recruits take to keep order on two wheels. Donald tmeet phil murphy,by former Goldman Sachs bankers. Another wall street banker running for governor, whose firm helped trigger the financial meltdown that put millions out of work and out of their homes. Murphys trying to buy the election, paying off new jersey bosses. My names john wisniewski, and im running for governor of new jersey. John wisniewski, the son of a millwright, who uncovered the bridgegate scandal and exposed Chris Christies corruption. The choice insider wall street politics or main street, new jersey, values. You knew when you cast it theyd lock you up. But that didnt stop you. You traveled far and wide, and others followed. Mothers, daughters, sisters, lions. And because together you roared so loud, i know my Voice Matters today. This summer, Come Celebrate new york states equal rights history. Download our guide to plan your trip. Kathy grief fipp is still feeling the backlash tonight after her Controversial Photo shoot. The disturbing photo showed the comedian holding a severed and bloody head ree so many blink president donald trump. In her first public appearance sips tuesday she gave a News Conference to explain her side of the story. Hahn nikau cryan joins us live in studio with more on this story that gets more bizarre by the day. Monica. Kathy griffin has been fired from cnns new years eve program and several stops on her countrywide tour have been cancel. But now shes saying this is all the first familys doing. They are trying to ruin her career and now shes not backing down. In a bizarre tearful joke filled press conference Kathy Griffin apologized again for the photo. I feel horrible. I have performed in war zones. The idea that this, you know, made people think of this tragedy to have been touched by this tragedy a horrifying. She claims a mail comedian would not feel this kind of backlash and that the trump family is targeting her. Theyre using me as a shiny object so that nobody is talking about his fbi investigation. In sweet to cnn donald trump, jr. , called for cnn to drop and bare grief vin from their air which they did soon after. President trump also took to twitter saying kathy grave fin should be shamed of herself its hurting his 11yearold son barron and calling their sick. Her lawyer went aft the first family calling their reaction wrong and a violation of her First Amendment rights. The message is clear. Criticize the president. Lose your job. And thats what happened to kathy and more. As a result of the first familys bullying of her, and of although she does business with mike connor from the end crowd Improv Comedy Club in philadelphia believes the photo was not funny and just offensi offensive. I dont think anybody could have gotten away with it because it wasnt clever or funny. There was no substance it to. It just sort of like a really broad obvious gesture. Others seem to agree. Griffin has the right to the First Amendment but the photo of the was just down right disturbing. I dont know if id go so far to say that, you know, her being bullied by them, because i think they have a right to be upset. Griffins attorney seemed caught off guard when a reporter asked the comedian if she thought its okay to joke about trumps son barron. She doesnt. She was forced to correct them the boy part of her act. No one a off limits. Im going to make fun of the president and ill make fun of him more now. More. So im not going to threaten him. I have no desire to harm him or anyone. She is currently being investigated by the secret service regarding the photo and her lawyers saying they will be cooperative. Back to you guy. Monica, thanks. Tonight, police have identified the man shot ten times and killed in north philadelphia. Authorities say 32yearold Anthony Lewis was gunned down last night at 24th and cecil b. Moore avenue. Police are still looking for the shooter and a motive. Tonight the Philadelphia Fire Department is making the rounds. They are spreading information about fire safety. Crews going door to door in north philadelphia today installing smoke detectors for anyone who wanted them. Todays event comes after seven people died in fires over the past two weeks. The fire commissioner says a big part of firefighters jobs is education and prevention. Were just really trying to make sure that we get out and ramp up our activities around Fire Prevention and Community Risk reduction and want to make sure that if folks dont have smoke alarm and they cant afford one were there and they can contact 311. Well there be. The red cross will be there. The Fire Department installed more than 100 smoke detectors in the neighborhood today. Months after her shocking murder friends and family are still mourning a loved and respected Community Activist. Police have not yet found her killer or killers but a close friend who knows something about justice has not lot of faith. She tells our Bill Anderson shes on a mission to find justice for goodness sake. If it was a fly in the room i would say winnie we got to get rid of this fly. She would say just open the door and try to let it out. How could somebody come in her home and take her life she wouldnt even hurt a fly. Senseless. What happened to our friend. Reporter unfortunately being loved across the city didnt say a Community Activist Winnie Harris murdered several months ago but every day her friends and family are out in neighborhoods trying to find out who killed Winnie Harris. They have not found the suspects but we do have flyers of two individuals. Reporter sandra full wood met Winnie Harris years ago much aside from being a close friend miss full wood is also retired cop. I met her she went through what has become a nearly daily search for justice. They didnt take no money new york cell phone new york nothing much the sweetest person in the world. I hope everything work out for you. I do. I pray to god, you know. Yes. Up don unthe street in various neighborhoods the greatgrandmother talks to people about her friend posts the flyers and directs people to Surveillance Video hoping that somebody knows something and is willing to put aside their concerns and come forward. Do you think that people dont know or people scared to talk. I think theyre afraid. More often people are afraid. Reporter now as former officer, she understands that even if people do

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