Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20170807 : comparemela

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20170807

It. When you look a little bit closer on ultimate doppler you can see that counterclockwise swirl creating that spin in that environment that is why were still see very heavy rain and some of those poe then shall tornadoes but nothing in our region right now. We do have flash floor warning in effect for kent and says sucks county in delaware and Cumberland County new jersey until 6 00 oclock tonight. S were he look closer 2. 4inches of rah nine dover. Over 5inches in Cumberland County where we have flooding occurring near for tess ski and 3. 6 just to the south of millville. As we widen out you can see on ultimate doppler this area of low pressure and that area of low pressure is going to continue to move toward the north and east and as it does, it will pull all of that rain along with it. But guess what . We still will have a few lingering showers this evening. It will be slow to clear across the Delaware Valley but heres the bright Silver Lining in that cloud. The weather only gets better this week. How could it get worse, right . I guess it always could. Ill be back with the seven day later on in the broadcast. Ill see you then. Love that hear that. Kathy, getting around not so much fun today. Live look at Philadelphia International airport. Remember, you can download our fox 29 weather app youll get up to the minute conditions from the fox 29 Weather Authority and turn on the notifications because youll get the latest urgent information right there on your screen. You can find the apps in the app store as well as gaggle play as well. Philadelphians are mourning the loss of phillies great Darren Daulton this evening. The iconic catch cat her had battled brain cancer sorry for four years and passed a it way yesterday at the age of 55. Being remembered all across the Delaware Valley. The player who teammates and fans called dutch was as popular to everywhere a phillies uniform as any player. Sean bell with rei frack his teammates who called darren their close friend. Sean. Reporter just sad news and dutch is one of the guys that everyone loved. Everywhere and he was the heart and soul of that 1993 team that went to the world series. Just an overall great human being. Today a bunch of his old teammates and friends reminisced on the type of guy dutch was. Fly ball deep right centerfield. Darren daulton was a lot of things to a lot of people. Its hard for me to explain it. Its just it was just a tremendous feeling he gave us all. The unquestioned leader of the 1993 phillies who went to the world series and captured the imagination of philadelphia in the process. He was the glue that kept a bunch of misfits together in 93. A leader in his own way. Wasnt a yeller or screamer. He knew how to get your attention. If he needed to have a stern, you know, talking to sometimes hed grab you and say come here. A player who held you accountable. Darren wouldnt let us fail. Inspiration to then phillies president David Montgomery who went through his own battle with jawbone cancer. The time i spent with him during the last four years the way in which he approached his challenge was just inspiring and unbelievable. Unbelievable man. He was a mans man and he was a lady ladys dream. So to speak. Thats what you hear all the time. One of my best friends. I have to say that. Like i said before changed my life. I owe him more than anything. Again just a great guy. One of many reasons he was on the phillies wall of fame is on phillies wall of fame. Later in sports more on the passing of a phillies legend. Thomas . Touched so many people. Sean, thank you. Coming up well talk about the disease that took Darren Daultons life it is the same cancer currently affecting senator john mccain. What it is in just a few minutes. Happening right now, the search is on for the driver in a hitandrun that left a detective and Police Officer hurt in camden. Police say a man was driving an atv when he hit the detective who had just hop owd the a car. This happened saturday night after police saw the driver tampering with equipment at a gas station. Lets get over to sabina kuriakose. Thomas and luce cease authorities just wrapped up a press conference here at headquarters. They are calling this the attempted murder of a Police Detective along with the serious injury of his partner. Look closely this is the video police are hoping helps them catch the man they say rammed an atv into Camden County police deck driving over his face before taking off. This could have been much worse. Like the officer is lucky to be alive at this point. Reporter it happened saturday night around 11 15 at the east coast gas station off broadway and mount vernon street. Deputy chief joseph wysoki said detective kenneth egan and his partner were investigate a robbery when they saw the atv driver messing with gas station pumps. They pulled over and approached the driver. Thats when Authorities Say he sped towards them. Striking the cruiser door which slammed into officer barrys head as she tried to get out of the car. Detective egan ran to her aid and thats when the atv allegedly sped towards him. Literally ran the officer over. The officer was not backwards. His his head was knocked unconscious and motorcycle atv went over him. Detective egan had a severe concussion and bruised ribs. Officer barry had cuts and bruises to her face. The partners were part of a plane clothed Detail Police say rogue atv drivers are a major problem in the city and the suspect was part of a group of five riders trolling the city that night. Theres no doubt in my hyped he knew that he was being engaged by two officers. Our concerns if hes going to do to do this to an officer what can dough to the public . Reporter and both officers were treated and released from Cooper University hospital. They are recovering at home. Police are looking for a black colored racing style atv. If you know anything, you are asked to call them and coming up at 6 00 well have more on that video and just who is in it that police now want to speak with. Lucy . All right. Thank you much is a bean thatch well talk to you at 6 00. Another hitandrun this one deadly in center city. Philadelphia police are hoping you can help track down the driver of the suv you see right there. I know its a little fuzzy but they say the person driving this white jeep rank blear rubicon hit 53yearold and ann rodrick before 3 30 yesterday morning. She was in the middle of the street on the 1300 block of ra race. Lets talk about the latest in philadelphias response to the exploding heroin epidemic. Cities find themselves thereofed heroin users from the conrail track in kensington and fair hill as many theyre finding many addicts set up shop a few blocks away. Basically, you rinse, lather and repeat. Bruce gordon back from lehigh and emerald where the city spent the day shutting down another growing heroin encampment. Joins us loo you have in studio. Reporter long overdue effort by the city and conrail to clean up that crack that was never meant to be a permanent solution to the heroin crisis. Today i got a firsthand look how frustrating the task of dismantling these open air drug markets may be. Reporter among the personal effects left behind, plenty of of drug needles and this 95 sheath but more than a foot long. Ready for trouble. Just up the block ang limb resident too frightened to show her face said of the cleanup its about time. I dont let my grandkids come here because of the situation. This is not a environment for children. You just dont want them coming here . No. I really dont. Reporter this was the emerald street encampment last friday. Population had more than doubled in the several days since the citys clean up dislodged them from the track bed near lehigh and gurney. Its so sad that theyre treating these people like that. Activist rosland wound hand for monday mornings rousting. She felt it was handled with a decided lack of compassion and wondering what good it will do. Theyll move somewhere else. Just like they moved from gurney street to here, from here theyll find another spot. And theyre not solving the problem by shifting these people all around the city. Reporter just up the block another sign of the heroin crisis and its impact on neighborhoods. Elvis rosado out reach coordinator for prevention point. Hes training philadelphias clip crews the folks who come out and clue up trash and graffiti covered properties to safely handle the drug needles now littering vacant lots across the city. Nerve racking for these guys to be doing this work . Yeah. It can be. I mean, nobody wants to get stuck with a needle and not know whats in the in the syringe. Or am i infected with something. By midday there was a hard al hint of thriving drug village that had been there hours earlier but no one was kidding themselves about what lies ahead. I asked that woman um the stre street. Any optimism that bridge will stay clean and empty . No. Its not. Reporter theyll be back . Yes. Reporter again the city of philadelphia never expected and certainly never promised that clearing out those tracks was a full solution to the problem. Theyre Offering Services to addicts but the addicted have to want that help. By the way theres already evidence that some of the folks who have been living at the emerald street end camp are already back. Lucy . Old habits die very hard. All right, thank you much, bru bruce. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie assigned a bill banning a dangerous synthetic drug known officially as alpha pvp on the street. Its called flack k it can cause who ha luce nations, paranoia, hyper stimulation. List goes on. Its punishable by ten years in prison or fine of 150,000. Also possessing it could lead to prison time and fines. So much for the coyote sightings on Sea Isle City beaches. Theyre not coyotes theres foxes specific al mom and her pup and they belong there by the way. Foxs are a key part of the Barrier Islands eco system. This pair though looks a little different as you can see, right. Wildlife officials believe theyve got mange its not good but it is an easily curable skin disease. So theyve set up traps to catch mom and her pup and then theyre going to treat them at a Wildlife Rehab Center and riri lee lease thm when theyre healthy in the meantime they need your help. Theyre asking to you stay away from the dunes and the traps so they can help catch the pair. Certainly catch your attention. Still ahead this evening, the city of chicago suing the federal government over threatening to remove its funding. It all has to do with sanctuary cities. Could philadelphia do the same . And meet the local men who say they started with absolutely nothing but, man, they built a whole brand and now theyre helping people in need. Plus hes the local man with a skill only a couple hundred people all across the country have. He lives right in south jersey. So i want my glasses to be unique. My girlfriend loves artists. 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. Enormous loss tonight for the city of philadelphia and really the baseball community. Right. People across our area and country mourning the loss of former phillies catcher darren dutch daulton. One of the greatest to ever play the game died after fouryear battle with brain cancer. Dutch isnt the only phillies player however who has died from brain cancer. These four other players also lost their lives. Ken brett, johnny oats, john vuk fifty seven and tug mcgraw. They were all in their 50s. Joyce evans joins us live in the studio now with more on the cancer that claimed the life of Darren Daulton. Reporter doctors say they dont expect to see that kind of aggressive brain cancer until a patient is in his or her 60s or older. Senator john mccain is among the oldest, and because our brains dont feel any pain, dramatic symptom has to present itself first before theres a clue to even look for it. So this is a large tumor as you can see. I mean this is almost the size of tennis ball. Reporter patient never felt any pain. Never felt it growing. Says penn neurosurgeon dr. John lee. John a gradual weakness in his left arm and leg. We have been very tal wrenched in what causes that. What precipitates them. What makes them and we really dont know a lot about this. Weve all heard more about glioblastoma in just the past few years. And months. Because of the famous figures who have been diagnosed and di died. Former phillies great Darren Daulton passed away after his long battle with brain cancer. Glioblastoma is our most a greg seive form. Darren daulton. Four years with glioblastoma is on the excellent end of the spectrum. Surviving a year and a half to two years after diagnosis is considered good. But most curious says dr. Lee is daultons age. As well as several other phillies players who died from brain tumors. Could there be a connection . Its really one of the scary things to think about. We know that there are many cancers that are caused by things that were exposed to. Like smoking, viruses and radiation. Glioblastoma has been a tough nut to crack. Reporter thats why he says people shouldnt be so quick to suspect a players environment or lifestyle. Yeah, i think that would be very preliminary to say that. We would have to do maybe compare who plays on astro turf and who plays on natural grass but thats not an easy study to do today. Reporter he says, earlier diagnoses quick surgery an aggressive treatments are certainly helping patients live a little longer. But it will come back almost in the same spot. All his scans looked clean clean clean clean until here. And so its basically at the bottom of where i was operating. Dr. Lee says theres a good amount of research looking into glioblastoma but they could use a lot more. He says the fact that theres such a short time period between diagnosis and death makes it a difficult disease to study for patterns and longterm results. Thomas . So difficult to deal with. Joyce evans tonight. Thank you. Happening right now challenge in court to a president ial policy. The city of chicago has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department claiming a move to with hold federal funds to sanctuary cities is illegal. Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel said the reduced fund wog hurt the citys drive to reduce violent crimes. He shouldnt have to choose between immigrant rights in a well funded police department. Chicago will not let our Police Officers become political pawns in a debate. Republicans including President Trump say cities have a responsibility to enforce the law in addition to chicago the Justice Department sent letters they could lose funding in they dont start complying with immigration laws. Now we reach out to Philadelphia City hall city spokesman tells us they are reviewing chicagos lawsuit and evaluating their options. President trump marking his 200th day in office with a new string of tweets. Which is not surprising. That as the Trump Administration tries to put pressure on north korea to discontinue Nuclear Missile testing through new sanctions. Foxs ellison barber reports. Reporter the president is celebrating a major milestone in office out of washington and on twitter. President trump on his 200th day in Office Taking to twitter to boast saying the trump base is far bigger and stronger than ever before. Despite efforts by inn culling chief of staff john kelly to reign in the president s tweets, mr. Trump again lashing out at the quote Fake News Media and calling claims of russian collusion a hoax. Meantime Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi fires back calling the president s milestone a failure saying 200 days in. The president has offered nothing but broken promises and failed leadership. This as Congress Remains on august break with lawmakers returning to their districts before the gop was able to achieve key wins in their 2017 agenda to overhaul obamacare and reform the tax code. One of the reasons why the senate scrambled so much in the last few weeks to get Health Care Reform done was to avoid this exact situation. Reporter the white house meantime scrambling to work on other matters brewing internationally creasing tensions with north korea as y yang threatens revenge after un approved new sanctions. The pentagon saying its working to help south korea put bigger warheads on missiles to handle increased threats as the secretary of state you weres russia and china to enforce sanctions to. We have to dee he is escalate this north has to be disarm. We wont be able to accomplish it without china. President trumps Approval Ratings are the same today as when took office with a third of americans approving of mr. Trump n washington, ellison barber, fox news. Former pennsylvania congressman chaka fattah has filed an appeal oh get his racketeering conviction thrown out. He filed an appeal friday arguing prosecutors used too broad definition of his bribery in the case. He says prosecutors failed to meet a standard set by the Supreme Court last year that narrowed what legally constituted as corruption. Fattah spent 20 years in congress before his convict. He was sentenced to ten years in prison. Teen who went swimming at an australian ended up with bloody feet and ankles because of a sea creature. So what was it . Every year south jersey sends more and more tax money to trenton, but gets less and less back thanks to Steve Sweeney and chris christie. Heres the sweeneychristie record eight years of underfunded schools. Huge tax breaks for themselves and t

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