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Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20170704

We hold these truths to be self evident that all men all men are pree created equal. All right. Thats what i was talking about right there. Boys two men. Also today free admission to the National Museum of jewish history and Philadelphia History Museum a lost stuff going on in philadelphia and towns throughout our area. Have been holding celebrations for the fourth of course from parades to bike races folks putting their own twists on americas birthday. Fox 29s joyce evans live at pennsylvania lapping. Shes hasnt Party Hopping all day long. Joyce, you actually started your day in evesham, right . Reporter i actually did, right across the Delaware River here from penns landing whereas you can see behind me the part of the big party is still going on on this river bang. But i got to tell you while theres a huge and very dramatic kind of thing going on on this side of the river, on the other side, there is nothing quiet as quaint as a small town parade. It had every site and sound you cant expect from an old small town main street parade. Happy fourth of july reporter except 15, 20 yards behind them all right. Reporter hes the mayor of evesham. Red, white and blue, happy fourth to you. Reporter hes not riding inside a fancy convertible with a bunch of dignitaries. Ive never ridden along. I stand at main and maple and directly wheat parade. Ive never actually seen the parade. Mayor randy brown cant help himself. The first nfl winning kicking coach cant stand on the side line. Once football coach always a football coach. I dont care if youre the mayor or youre a coach. I love it. Just see the smiles on the kids faces why we do it. It takes up all my attention like i cant even take my eyes off of it. Reporter little ones cant standstill. With all the bands passing by. You like the music . Yes. Coming every year. Enjoying the sights, sounds. This is probably of the best time you can come out and meet anybody. Reporter neighbors, people about town and big city new yorkers. Quiet impressed by small town nj. Thank you for your service as always. This is the best part. I get to interact with everybody right here. Reporter its definitely a Contact Support for the mayor but he can get too pumped up. The band through me out. They wouldnt let me start dancing theyre afraid their big tuba was going to run me over. Reporter even the mayor gets called bad play. Is he heard my oh motions through the mayor off the para parade. Reporter he got over that very quickly. A lot of fun out there. We had and then later in the afternoon we came back on the pennsylvania side of the river and we went to a parade that was full of symbolism and spoke with some people who put their lives on the line for our freedom. Thats coming up at 6 00. Lucy. Cant wait to talk to you. Thank you very much, joyce eva evans. Back to the part parkway Joanne Pileggi joins us. Happy fourth of july to you, joanne. I see you got like probably hundreds of thousands of your closest friends with you. Reporter thats right, lucy. They will be hundreds of thousands of my closest friends as you said here we are along the parkway. The stage, the big stage tonight about 100 yards away from me and im going to be joined by some horses and some Police Officers thats great. Everybody is out here. If you take look, there are crowds gathered behind the barricades over there. Those are the early birds. Trying to get the best seats for tonights celebration. There are actually barricades up for blocks. No one but official vehicles and officials can come into this zone around the parkway and around the stage. But as i said many people started lining up hours ago in advance of the show which starts around 7 00 oclock tonight. Some of the big names boys two men, philly pops and of course mayor j. Blige. The head lining act tonight. Again the concert starts at 7 00. The fireworks start around 9 30 tonight. It will be an absolutely Wonderful Party here Independence Day celebration. Wawa welcome america Independence Day celebration and well be back in about half an hour to give you a little more flavor of the scene. We were just over there by the stage a few minuting a getting a sound check. Its exciting. Its great to be here. What a better place to be. Well be back in about half an hour and again at the top of the 6 00. See you then. Fantastic. How is the weather out there, joanne. Can you see like the makeup is already sweating off of me. I know its hot. I was just out there, too. Hot on the pavement. But it will be a great celebration. Thank you so much. It is. Thank you very much, joanne. Joanne talked about it. It is hot, fox 29 Weather Authority right now this is the greatest place to be. Ocean city, new jersey, the beach has a lot of folks there ready to rock and roll for this fourth of july. Weather is perfect for the kerth. Monica cryan whats in store over the next few hours . Well, good thing it looks like most of us are going to stay clear you may notice a little bit more cloud cover but at this point many of us are rain free. Here we are looking in old City Temperatures like we were saying well reelly warmed dawn. Your high 89 just shy of that 9. Were at 88 degrees. Those winds out of the southeast about 5 miles an hour. 77 in millville cooler Atlantic City ya 82 degrees. Allentown 86. But heres what i was talking about. Notice most of southeastern pennsylvania and into south jersey are dry. But we do have some showers and thunderstorms starting to pop up near dover and into milford, delaware. So some of us are seeing some wet weather and then as we head through the next few hours, were talking your fireworks forecast. We are going to continue those i lated shower and Storm Chances. But isolated is the key word for that. So make sure to keep track of your radar. But i think weve got a nice firework forecast especially here in philadelphia for the big firework and concert display that we have the ben franklin parkway. 82 degrees around 7 00 oclock. Now notice, 9 00 oclock, 10 00 oclock, as we get those fireworks going, well be into the upper 70s. Low 80s 76 degrees around 11 00 oclock as people are starting to leave all of the activities. Ive got a look at your full forecast coming up in just a bit. Sounds good. Mon any cash a lot to talk about. Well talk to you soon. Live look at row hoe both beach from our camera there always filled with action if youre still looking for something fun to do this evening very easy. Check out fox 29. Cot follow for a full list of activities. Developing story out of north philadelphia. Maybes found a child sized coffin along the 3,000 block of west clearfield street. The discovery is unsettling enough, right, but its what was inside that little coffin that has police on the case. Fox 29s dave kinchen is live in north philly at the scene. Dave . Reporter lucy, this case is very bizarre. Quiet frankly its making headlines around the country, and again these details may be a bit unsettling for people watching us tonight. Lets go to some video here. This is video taken by a person on facebook showing this white coffin partially wrapped in a garbage. Discovery was made 9 00 oclock last night on west clearfield street in normal philadelphia. And cops working with the medical Examiners Office say two involved organs belonging to an under fan or small child were in the coffin but they say there was no body inside. Nobody, no skeleton remains of any kind. It was found across from the Mount Vernon Cemetery so police launched a chopper to check from the air using a search light looking for disturbed or doug up graves from that cemetery and another one. They did not find anything cadaver dog was brought in to examine the area but again nothing unusual found by police. But no one knows where this coffin came from. Police are working with Funeral Homes in the area to see if they may have any kind of insight here so this Investigation Continues at this hour. Lucy . Thank you very much, dave. Well check back in with in you a little bit. Tonight the coroner in Lancaster County released the name of the utility worker killed natural gas explosion over the weekend. The Coroners Office says 54yearold richard bolder from east lampeter township lost his life while responding to a report avenue gas leak. Two other ugi employees are injured. New jersey is back open for business. Early this morning new Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed the states final budget after a three hiv day government shut down. The governor signed 34. 7 billion budget agreement. The deal included reshaping the state Largest Health insurer horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of new jersey which covers 4 million people. Allstate parks and beaches reopened for the holiday marine nass all that stuff after they closed during the impass. As millions head to big celebrations across our nation, police are stepping up patrols to keep it safe in one big city drones are a key line of defen defense. Police in germany uncovered a huge stash of weapons ahead of the g20 submit what they think this may have stopped as International Leaders prepare to gather. And [ applause ] huge day, congratulations to group of young new americans. A local naturalization ceremony has just made them citizens. Another live look at the ben franklin parkway. Mary j. Blige set to entertain the crowd tonight. Happy fourth of july to you. Not much is left of a home in Delaware County after a fire overnight. Flames broke out just past 1 30 this morning on bonsall avenue in alden. No injuries reported and its unclear if anyone was in the home at the time of the fire. Investigators are looking into what started it. In philadelphia, crash on i95 sent two people to the hospital. It happened right around 1 00 near front street. Not a lot of information on what happened here but traffic is back to normal now. A special fourth of july tradition in philadelphia. Its all about being american. Actually its about becoming american. [ applause ] welcome to americas newest and youngest citizens. They rang the bell today at the betsy ross house in old city. This incredible tradition the childrens citizenship ceremony happens every year on Independence Day. 13 children became american citizens and you know that number is no accident. It represents the 13 original colonies. I was born an american. My mother did most of the hard work. When it came to my american citizenship but you actually and your families have chosen this country and chosen to work hard to become citizens and the really wonderful part even though i was born here as citizen you and i are equals now. Were equal. You have every single right that i had born here. Youve earn it. Congratulations so great. Congratulations to all of them. Large cities are beefing up patrols to keep the nations biggest fourth of july celebrations secure. Laura inn gill has whats going on. Reporter thousands of firework loving rebellers filling the seats and sidewalks all up and down new yorks east river tonight to see that spectacular show in the sky and as their eyes are gazing upward, the nypds eyes will be everywhere else looking and making sure this event stays safe. New yorks finest are constantly updating adjusting security measures for every day and big event protect. This year the nypd will assign several thousand uniformed officers on patrol. Equipped with Radiation Detector force big back searches people will notice large trucks blocking streets. Something new this year will be utilizing over 100 block of vehicles and almost 20 sand trucks. Counter terrorism offices will be working theyll have Radiation Detection devices on their person. Explosive detecting detective k9 will be deployed. Nypd started using these trucks for parade routes and other public gatherings aft laughter year bastille day massacre 86 people were killed by a terrorist driven truck in nice, france when it ran in a crowd viewing firework. This will be a works for firework show in the big apple. All of our specialized commands will be out in force. Even though there are no specific threats were dealing with youll see and tell all new yorkers to be ready for this and see this as a good thing. You will see well armed Police Officers with long guns. Youll see vapor wake dogs. Reporter vehicle related attacks have been a priority and security planning for other cities as well. In washington, d. C. Large fences have been placed around the National Mall for the firework show tonight and in Boston Police there will be deploying a tethered drone for the first time to keep an eye on thing. Despite all the stepped up efforts, police around the country remind us all if you see something, say something. In new york, laura ingle, fox news. To germany now where ahead of g20 Summit Police may have just prevent add violent situation much police say they seized arsenal of weapons including throwing knives precision sling shots and chemicals. They found them in hamburg during a raid of two homes and believe the plan called for using the weapons and chemicals for acts of violence during the g20 summit. The summit will bring together President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin for the very first time and then theres north korea and its inter continental Ballistic Missile aspirations. Leaders are reactioning quite strongly to the countrys test firing avenue missile capable of hitting the United States as in alaska and hawaii and it happened monday night. Foxs Lucas Tomlinson has the latest from the pentagon. Reporter north korea taking a big step forward with its Missile Program on monday night. The pentagon confirming the north carried out its first suck suss fell test of inter continental Ballistic Missile. Russia and china are stepping in with a proposal. We agreed to active vol develop our mutual initiative based on russias step by step plan. At the same time freezing the Nuclear Capabilities of north korea and large scale military exercises by the United States. Reporter but that offer isnt sitting well with lawmakers on capitol hill who say President Trump needs to take an harder stance again the north pointing out this latest missile could potentially reach hawaii or alaska. The greater the capacity with their missiles, the more danger american interests are obviously the continental u. S. Eventually. So its a huge problem. Test is another sign of king eighty one uns evident to develop a missile capable of hitting the u. S. Weapons program is geared toward keeping kim in power. Not carrying out first strike against the United States or its allies. There can only be one out come , end of north korea. Its not something he wants to see happen. Reporter russia and china also pushing the United States to remove the anti Ballistic Missile system from south korea the military says it needs to guard against threats from the north. At the pentagon Lucas Tomlinson, fox news. On this long holiday week went the party is going on sometimes having designated drives status is not the most fun thing but now one family rewarding those who step up. And we keep hearing selfdriving cars are set to take over the streets of america. Coming up we jump behind the wheel for a test drive. And the thought of growing older is not something most people really relish. But these super agers show us all how to head into our golden years with grace and dignity. If youve got a life, you gotta swiffer a lot of folks enjoying all the festivities that go along with the fourth of july and undoubtedly some will unfortunatelunfortunately over. Each year we hear stories of people driving under the influence of alcohol with tragic results. Our Bill Anderson spoke to family who notice this all too well. But theyre using their experience to save others. This is john saying hi from the academy. 17 years ago we lost our son to drunk driver. He had just graduated from the United States Naval Academy with honors. Coming home for his mothers birthday. And was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Roar report many of the fourth of july weekend is about celebrating independence. To others, its about the beach or grilling but at least one group wants to us recognize that you can still celebrate the fourth of july weekend and do it responsibly. We created Hero Campaign as a way to save lives by promoting designated driving. If the person had that hit him had just had designated driver that night, our son would be alive today serving his country. Reporter hero cam pin is reminder that unfortunately too many people over do it with the alcohol and then try to drive. In Atlantic City they tried to make being the designated driver fun. Its moc mocktail challenge s not alcoholic for designated driver. Reporter bartenders from throughout the area presented their best nonalcoholic drink. Little spice to it. Reporter to many of the bartender us what just a fun competition, but to at least one, it took on a much

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