Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 6PM 20140810 : compareme

Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 6PM 20140810

Over there telling him how sorry i was about everything and to find out that it was him, it is, a big shock. Reporter neighbors were saddened to learned Christopher Murray was charge with the murder of his wife, connie. Then when we watch tape of the car last night after i had got that gut feeling i said why are they taking his car. Reporter investigators say Surveillance Video showed a brief conversation in christophers silver taurus as connie went for a walk around 9 00 an argument with relationship problems, sent christopher off late their night, leading him to strangle her. Earlier the next morning a passerby walking his dog discover 46 yearold mother of two lifeless body on the edge of the park near crispin garden rec center. Police told us earlier christopher followed missing persons report and went looking for his wife with one of his daughters. There was certain parts of his story that just didnt add up, didnt seem his story about his wife was missing but contacted nobody. No friends. No family. To find out if she was with them. Instead immediately went to hospitals and went to the the police station, it seemed almost a show. Reporter couple has two girls, ages 15 and 12, now one of their parents is dead and another could spend the rest of his life, behind bars. I just cant imagine, yeah, the hurt that they are feeling. It is unplea ofable, really. Reporter neighbors believe that this two girls have remaining family in the area but they are unsure on where they are staying. At for murray he has been arraigned and being held without bail. Joyce . Reporter thanks, drew. Four people are recovering, after a late night shooting in the feltonville section of philadelphia it happen on the 4800 block of tampa street around 11 30 last night. Thirty he lease say it started when two people got in the argument. One person started shooting and stray bullets started flying all over the place. In the even, four people were hit, and victims are expect to be okay and cops say they are talking to two people, right now. And police are investigating a double murder in south philadelphia, Police Say Two people were shot inside of a home on the 2400 block of hutchinson street. No word on their identities, it happened around 9 30 this morning. Police say witnesses saw two men running from the home right after the shooting. So far, no arrests. Lets get over to break news coming to us from maryland tonight. Where 24 people were stuck on that roller coaster, and been stuck for hours. It is at Six Flags America in upper marlboro. We have a live camera right now, thinks a live look as you can see they have a bucket that they are doing the rescues right now from but they have been up there for quite sometime. Thinks the jokers jinks roller coaster. They have been stranded since just before 2 30. Good news is they were rattled but nobody has been hurt and still not clear what caused that roller coaster to be stuck, in the first place. Lets get very latest on this crisis in the middle east, both israel and hamas agreed to eerie quips brokered ceasefire starting at midnight this will clear way for an even to the month long heavy fight ago long gaza strip. Foxs rick levin that you will looks at violence that took place that led to more bloodshed. Reporter heavy equipment coughs through concrete slabs and ruble trying to clear flattery mains of the mosque leveled by an israeli air strike this morning. The the the mosque controlled by hamas was used to store ammunition is a cording to the israeli military. It is one of almost 50 mosques destroyed in the month long war. 170 more have been damaged. The mosque is one of the largest in gas, sits in the middle of a refugee camp in the center of the gaza strip. The it was hit by an air strike at 3 30 this morning just 15 minutes before the morning prayer. Had it been hit 15 minutes later there could have been hundreds of people inside. As it is were told they pulled three bodies from the ruble and they are searching for at least one more the idea, says to second of the victims were hamas fighters. This man was saying he was sleeping when the the air strike jolted him out of bed. He and hundreds of locals crowded the site to watch as the the search for victims continues. That has been a difficult scene here, almost every day now for more than a month. But with both sides agreeing to a 27 hour ceasefire, there is hope for some quiet, and perhaps some compromise at the the bargaining table. In gaza, rick levin that you will fox news. U. S. Launches yet another day of air strikes in iraq. The attacks by u. S. Air fighters, and drones destroyed three armed vehicles belonging to the islamic state. President obama ordered the strikes to protect u. S. Personnel and religious minorities, facing possible genocide in the northern part of the country. Todays strikes followed four that took place yesterday. And, to keep on top of the very latest efforts by u. S. In iraq just go to my fox philly. Com for all of the latest news. There is searching for a miss ing teenager who is mentally challenge. He is 14. His name is john. He was last seen on saturday afternoon at his aunts home on the 2400 block of Fourth Street in the Strawberry Mansion section of philadelphia. If you have got any information please call the the police. And taking a look at your fox 29 Weather Authority, and the latest on the weakened hurricane julio now. Fox 29s meteorologist caitlin roth here with the impact, good news. Yeah, good news, joyce is that impact has been minimal for Hawaii Island when it comes to julio. Thinks comes after iselle brought a big direct hit to the island earlier this weekend on friday morning. Looking at radar it doesnt look like much at all, scattered showers across the the Hawaii Island but it is not uncommon. It happens almost every day. Zooming out when we see satellite very tight circulation indicating is what still a hurricane. That is julio but it is moving away from the island and did not the bring the the direct hit. Not enclose. Right now, heres what julio stand a category one hurricane, 345 miles north east, of the Hawaii Islands. It is winds that are sustain the at 90 miles an hour, it is a strong hurricane moving northwest ward at 13 miles an hour and it was a category three on friday. So even though it is still a hurricane it has been weakening each and every day and it will continue that trend for the next 24 to 48 hours. Heres hat which island. Still far south east of julios track. Thinks not like isell. That went right across the big island but instead julio by monday afternoon will be downgraded to a Tropical Storm and continues to move out to sea in the pacific. By wednesday, it has weakened 65 miles an hour wind and should not be bringing impact as far as Hawaii Islands did still see abrupt seas and high is your in that will continue for at least another day. The that is latest on the tropics, quiet and beautiful weekend back home here ill let you know how long that will last coming up in a bit, joyce and karen. For the latest on your local weather and major weather issues all across the country and world for that matter just go to my fox philly. Com. Happening right now it is quest for Little League world series. Our philadelphia taney dragons are one win from the Little League world series. They are playing right now against maryland west salisbury. They beat a team from new york on friday so if they win tonight they will head to the big game in williamsport, pennsylvania. Lets get over to Chris Oconnell who is live from center city. People are gathering right now. Big watch party. This could be a first. Reporter that is right, karen, i have been around here a long time there hasnt been this much excitement over a philadelphias sports team in a long, long time. No were not talking the phillies or eagles but were talking about the taney dragons. Were at a watch party. They are one win away from going to the Little League world series. We are here at the milk boy in center city. Excitement and tension you could cut with the knife. Dragons every playing here in just a few minutes but Little League world series against a team from newark, delaware. Jason king was a coach for taney for eight years. Tell me judge is this so special. These kids are all kids from the neighborhood, local kids, they all got together. It is so exciting. We could not have imagined that this could have happened. Were just beside ourself. We cant wait to watch this game. Reporter made up of a group of kids from all different kind of background especially talk about the lady pitcher you have on your team she has been getting headlines. She has been getting headlines. Monet throws the heat. 07 miles an hour. 70 miles an hour. The the guys, they respect her. They respect her a lot. It is a total team. It is not all about her. Everybody is contributing, fielding, all the way around. Reporter good luck. Game just starting to kick off. There is a couple hundred people here, one of two watch parties, this would be the first time anytime from philadelphia, has made it to the Little League world series and they are just one week away, you can hear the crowd. Hopefully we will bring guy news later on. You will hear a roar copping from center city in a couple hours, guys, back to you. Thanks, chris. Fingers crossed. So nice to have something to look forward to and some good news. We do so much serious news including this tragedy on the race track. This is shaking up nascar fans. Accident on the sprint car track that took a Young Drivers life and forced another driver out of todays race, that is next. Plus a ten yearold girl attacked by a shark in shallow water, the way this was described, the terrifying scene they watched unfold on a florida beach, coming up. Eagles are back at practice today and they took the team out for a little bit of a history and chip kelly talks about what the teams problems were with nick foles on friday, that is coming up in sports. A deadly car crash, is rocking nascar, racing champ tony stewart, pulls out of nasa car sprint cup just hours a crash last night that killed a fellow sprint car driver. We saw it happen at a race in upstate new york. Foxs Leland Vetter explains what happened. Reporter at first stewarts team said he would be race to go day and just a couple hours before race time reversed their decision and now the nascar star is sitting out. Crash occurred on a dirt track in upstate new york. Thinks amateur video of the event which we cannot independently confirm. However it shows what appears to be stewarts car, colliding with a car driven by kevin ward junior. Wards car, spins out, and then word gets out of his car and starts walking on the track when stewarts car comes around again for another lap and it appears that ward tries to confront stewart hurdling toward him when his car collides with ward throwing him along the track. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. It is a shock. There is enough track and everybody else for track officials to keep things safe but accidents do happen. As in any death investigation, we are going to sit down with the District Attorney and his staff and review it when the investigation is complete. People that witnessed it were who are filed. They were extremely shocked by what they saw. Reporter rest of the race was immediately canceled, nascar issued a statement saying in part our thoughts and prayers go out to the family, friend and fellow competitors of sketch ward junior. We support Tony Stewarts decision to miss todays race. Officials say stewart cooperated with the investigation last night but there have not been any final reports issued. The the Associated Press reports that the investigation so far is not, a criminal investigation. In new york, Leland Vetter, fox news. Police in lakewood, new jersey say that a group of people attacked a man moments after they say that he struck and killed a woman. It happened last night along route 88. Police say 41 yearold Sandra Martin was crossing street when a 26 yearold man driving an suv slammed into her. Investigators say would the mans brother saw the whole thing happen. That is when police say the brother and other people started beating the man. He is now in serious condition at a local trauma center. So far no arrests have been made. Missionaries who have been working with patients infected with ebola in liberia, are about to return to the united states. They will be quarantined, and monitored. Health Officials Say the quarantine will last three weeks, missionaries are with a North Carolina based organization, they will travel to the Charlotte Airport away from the public but officials are not saying exactly when, they will be returning to the united states. And a nigeria man is being tested for ebola in hong kong. He entered china on thursday and was immediately sent to the hospital. Officials say he was vomiting. The 31 yearold man is being quarantined at Princess Margaret hospital. New details of the death of the Lancaster County teen who died in the man in other pit. Police say the fiveyear old whose name is jonas king died when Farm Equipment he was operating overturn into that pit. He was strapped in and could not escape. This all happened yesterday morning at his familys farm in the 300 block of centerville road in lecock township. Police say it took more than an hour to retrieve his body. Investigators are still trying to figure out exactly how this accident happened. And to your fox 29 Weather Authority now, what a gorgeous weekend. The heres a live look at cammal Beach Mountain water park. Meteorologist caitlin roth is here to tell us just how long all this will last for us, caitlin. Joyce, at least within more day but it was a gorgeous weekend so pleasantly warm as we saw from cammal Beach Mountain which we showed you yesterday too past there. Back down the shore. Anywhere to get near water and spend time outside. It was just beautiful. Ultimate doppler showing nothing but clear skies overhead. All across the northeast we have benefited from great weather. Down toward the south a totally different story. Storm system continuing to bring clouds, showers, thunderstorms slowly going to move off shore but just stay far enough south that we didnt really see cloud cover from this storm system. Couple fair weather clouds that popped up this afternoon as we take a live look outside, partly cloudy, eight a degreeses. Wind southwest at some miles an hour. That southeasterly flow will continue overnight into tomorrow and will eventually bring a bit more humidity as we using way in to a different weather pattern come tuesday. Elsewhere we are looking at 83 pots town. Eightythree allentown. Seventyeight in the poconos. The beautiful sunday night in the week ebb. Eighty in atlantic city. Seventynine in wildwood. Well, there is a super moon tonight. If you havent heard bit, we have the the full moon that is the the biggest brightest that it can be all year long. Mostly cloudy skies, right now but we do clear out after sunset. This is great viewing conditions, and 66 in the city, 58 in the suburbs. The that is overnight tonight. Tomorrow looking great but then big changes by tuesday as some rain moves n we will time it all for you in the full Weather Authority forecast, karen and joyce. Thanks, caitlin. Still ahead on fox 29 news at six, police pulled a toddler away from a kidnapper caught on video. A very tense situation right here near st. Louis, protesters are demanding answers after a 18 yearold man is shot by police what police say happened to these angry people, just dont believe, that is next. Pets starting fires this happens more than you may realize. There the is a new campaign to keep fido from burning down the house. Welcome back. We are seeing dramatic video of police storming the car of a man who ace accused of, kidnapping his, child. Authorities in texas say, that he had just lost custody on friday as a twoyear old. He grabbed the girl from his mothers home where she was, staying. The the two hour standoff ended with the child safely being taken away. The father who Officials Say has a record is now facing charges of burglary and kidnapping. And a tour bus crashes in to two vehicles before it falls off a 30foot cliff, 44 people died. This all happened saturday in tibet, 60 miles from that countrys capitol. Eleven people from the bus were injured, and there is in word on the conditions of those and the other two vehicles. Officials say the roads were very treacherous, in mountainous regions but extremely dangerous now following a landslide in that area, earlier this week. New york city rabbi shot and killed yesterday, while visiting miami, florida. Police are searching for two suspects, in the murder of 60 yearold joseph, he was in florida, visiting relatives when rabbi was gunned down, while he was walking to the the local temple. Miami dade police say there is no indication that the murder was a hate crime, meantime people in the area say they are stunned. That is unfortunate, very sad to hear, that is about the most extreme thing that has happened in that neighborhood in the ten years i have been here. Anti Defamation League says that it has been in close contact with the lead investigators and the crime does appear to be a robbery, gone bad. The pope is calling for a stop to the bloodshed and suffering to the mid ease. During his sunday blessing he expressed his outrage over the the violence targeting religious minorities in iraq. Monday his personal representative heads to iraq to show solidarity with christians who have been the most targeted bias lamb i can state militants. He also shared his concern about the latest round of violence in gaza. Angry protesters are de

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