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lady. >> reporter: it happened just after 4:00 as players approached 18th and wales will. they were attack by group of 10 to 15 teenager. one larry was knock to the ground, beat by several teens with metal bar and tase. >> we are going to get to the bottom of who was involve. if other students were involved they'll pay the price for this. >> this kid they could have injured him in much more fear way. >> the attack may have been retaliation for a fight the day before at broad and girard. thursday's brawl brought extra police to the area to gardens retaliation. >> our officers will be out there to hopefully prevent any additional incidents from taking place. >> school officials are reviewing surveillance video trying to identify the others involved in the attack. >> we don't want it to go any further. were want to get these individuals in and talk to them. figure out what is -- why they're fighting and we want to put an end to that. >> now those extra patrols will continue until this dies down. the 17 year old was charged with aggravated assault. possession of a taser and reckless endangerment unclear tonight if she will be tried as an add dull. iain? >> all right, dave, thank you. new developments tonight from the nfl and the controversial way the league has handled domestic violence cases. nfl commissioner roger good can dell making his first public statements in more than a week. this stems from rash of players being accused of domestic violence charges. the league is taken heat for not acting fast enough concerning abuse incidents. the commission are in reiterated he botched the ray rice case. rice was caught on video punching his fiance' inside an elevator at atlantic city casino and there have been several other case that is have come to light since that story broke. >> let me say it again. we will implement new conduct policies. they will have a set of clear and transparent rules for league and club personnel. owners and players. >> goodell says within the next 30 days all nfl and team personnel will participate in domestic violence education sessions. he also says he has no plans to step down. meantime, thousands of baltimore ravens fans exchanging their ray rice jerseys today. line wrapped around m and t bank stadium. rice was terminate terminate afo surfaced showing him punching his fiance'. the nfl has suspended rice indefinitely. >> students at the university of delaware are taking a stand against the school's administration. they're protesting asking for full disclosure about incidents of sexual assaults and harassment. fox 29's dave kinchen live in newark tonight. dave? >> reporter: iain, students here are lobbying the administration. they say they want the administration to change the way they respond to allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment. >> i feel as though it was sort of kept in the dark and they weren't informed and this is a situation where people would feel safer had they been informed. >> the problem i think involved with this is you don't get a lot of word of mouth after these events because they're dealt with with discretion and that's by design and that's by design for all of the parties involved. >> reporter: so this rally was hell on the steps of memorial hall. students rallying after an allegation that a sociology professor offered an aide to if he male student in exchange for sexual favors, and text messages that even led to threats. that's what the allegations say. the administration says that all they can do is evaluate these matters and they can't say much about it because of privacy rules. but the administration says there's a chance for them to work with students to improve the rules going forward. lucy. >> thank you very much, dave. sky fox over the scene of a massive warehouse fire in kensington. and you can see the damage left tonight is devastating right there from that video. 120 firefighters battling the flames. two firefighters have minor injuries and investigators say a 25 year old man has burns on 80% of his body. firefighters say he was on fire when he came running out of the vacant building on the 2400 block of north american and york streets. right around 2:30 this morning. the fire quickly spread to adjacent paper storage facility and all that fuel made fighting it very difficult. >> because paper storage that's a lot of fuel and creates another challenge. but once we were able to get enough resources on the scene the members did great job of containing the fire and putting it out. >> this afternoon firefighters have been hosing down hot spots while investigators go through the charred remains of the building to figure out what started it. >> police are expanding the search foreman accused of killing a state trooper. fbi posting hundreds of these digital billboards in pennsylvania and five other states. investigators say ambushed two pennsylvania state troopers killing one of them last friday night in northeast pennsylvania. investigators say frein is a survivalist who wants to commit mass murder. he was added to the fbi's top 10 most wanted list yesterday. the agency now offering a 100,000 dollars row ward for information leading to his arrest. a private group is offering an additional $75,000 reward. >> a call tonight for the release of the full report into a deadly building collapse in philadelphia. city controller alan butkovitz wants mayor nutter to immediately release the entire review of june of 2013 the salvation army thrift store collapsed at 22nd and mark. butkovitz says too much work was in the matter boy an independent commission for the details to stay out of the public eye. he says family, friends and the public has right to know what's in it and should not have the information come in in bits and pieces. >> the independent commission should be in charge of the commission. and now it's obvious that there are people who have an interest in getting a certain spin out of this report. frankly it is disrespectful to the dead. so disclose the truth. >> the collapse killed six people and injured frein others last year. cherry hill, new jersey, longest serving council passed away. john amato was elected baaing in 1983 and served continuously every since. they dedicated council chambers to his name. he leaves behind two daughters and self grandchildren. >> egyptian lawyer charged in the death of two u.s. embassies in africa has plead guilty. he's concerned because 54 year old a dell abdul berry at one point faced hundreds of charges. some carrying mandatory life sentences but today in new york city berry plead guilty to three charges including making death threats against americans. if the judge accepts the deal that carries a maximum 25 years in prison. though he probably get credit for the 10 years he's already been in custody. 224 people died in the bombings in kenya and tanzania intelligence experts believe berri' son bow headed american journalist james foley in syria. the judge has given both sides of berry's case one week to explain why he should accept the me deal. >> scotland's vote to romaine part of the united kingdom is sending a collective sigh of relief against europe governments and institutions. fifty two% of the electorate voted no to independence and that boosted financial markets. analyst had feared a yes plunge would have plunged scotland into economic collapse it does come a blow to separatist in movement across europe. >> president obama praising the results of the referendum in a statement he couldn't garage it laked the people of scotland for their quote full energetic exercise of democracy. rules crack down creates tension on little high school campus. that's coming up. >> and we'll show you what students and administrators did to diffuse the tension and strike a deal out of all fagged civil disobedience. >> this guy probably wait add long time to get his hands on new iphone sick. he's so excited to open the box on live tv. how the thrill of the new iphone just slipped away in a heartbeat much that's neck. >> keith. >> roger goodell spoke about how the league will try to get it right and it stall starts with him. but there's one question where he did not have an answer. what was that? find out coming up in sports. >> and coming up in weather, when to expect warmer conditions. how warm it gets for the weekend as well as our next chance for rain. >> new technique to keep you right on track. the day kids start the new school year. no more adjusting to new class rom, now teacher, new rules, all of that. tonight at 10:00 what parents call amazing. we'll show you the benefits o ready for a great career? devry university's merit-based career catalyst scholarship can help you get started with up to $20,000 for qualified new students. apply now and start working toward your career, like devry grad, shelly joseph. as a student at devry, a business career was my goal. this was my career training ground... my professors, were also my coaches. their guidance helped me find career success... at microsoft. find your success with our career catalyst scholarship. classes start october 27. get started now. visit devry.edu ♪ >> south jersey police suv slams into a dunkin' donuts. this happened on the 200 block of south white horse pike this morning. investigators say the winslow township police unit collided with another vehicle. the officer suffered minor injuries. the driver of the other vehicle was not hurt. fortunately nobody inside was hurt. police are still investigating how it happen. >> here's a lesson that could benefit all of us. peaceful protest mixed with respectful communication can solve whole lot of problems. students at kell 10 ham high school figured this out this morning with school administrators. this wasn't your typical protest, bruce. >> reporter: we've seen sit ins before but this was great lesson in conflict resolution that began with a fairly common dispute in our high schools. a rules crack down that had students all fired up. >> reporter: administrators and students met to sift through an eventful day in the life of cheltenham high. a rules crack down and the resulting protest that could have ripped this highly regarded school apart. >> we just didn't think that was acceptable at all. >> reporter: 500 students more than a third of total enrollment here walk out of first period classes for a massive sit in to protest rules tightened by the new high school principal. no eating outside. a ban on the wearing of head phone in the hallways and restrictions on stairwell use during the shortened time to get from class to class. >> they never had been enforced before. so it was a huge change every everything just happened so quick and it was the beginning of the year and we just -- we felt we weren't being heard. >> reporter: students gave administratoadministrators advaf their plans. both decides admit they could have done more talking before they blocked the hallways. >> they went from zero to 60 because they didn't know. >> reporter: the students insist the sit in was necessary but admit it got bigger and noisier than they had plan. not all the kids seemed willing to yous their ears along with their mouths. >> we can't expect change if we're not willing to listen because it's not going to work it's just like on hiv going battle in the school. >> reporter: administrators did you few the situation quickly. promising to meet with students in exchange for an early end to the protests and they did. compromising the rules with lots of input from the kids. >> it's more important that the ideas and the communication come from the students than it is from adult authority figures because at their age they're very suss spec of authority and i'm aware of that. >> i don't believe this is an end point much we'll have to keep the dialogue going and keep communication between the students and the administration. >> that dialogue continues on monday when principal parker meets with all interested students during lunch periods to further discuss their concern. parker says the rules were seeked tweak in the first place to keep the schools safe and clean but the protests and further conversation led tore tweaking. designed to make cheltenham high clean, safe and happy. iain? >> all right, bruce, thank you. >> how about this? the latest version of apple's iphone is now available and a lot of people lined up early to grab one. fox 29 found these people lining up outside the apple store in suburban square ardmore. some of these spent the night waiting to get their hands on the new gadget. apple says it got more than four until i don't know pre orders for phones wip the first 24 hours they were available. the phones they got larger displays than the 5s and the thinnest phones that apple ever made. >> that's in the all. a whole lot more. >> if you're an apple phanatic, you get the excitement of the brand newism phone. >> for one young man his moment of excitement turned into shear panic on live tv. all right. we go to perth australia. first person to get his hands on the new iphone six dropped it. the moment he took it out of the bock. jack waited in line, there it goes. waited in line overnight as showed off this new phone to a reporter, the precious bit of technology slipped out of the case and hit the ground. here's the thing, iain. >> it's tough. >> it didn't break. not own a crack. exactly. >> without the case on it. >> to your fox 29 weather authority. chill in the air. it's a little bit of a chill in the air. truth be told my producer wrote that, jackie. jackie thinks it's outside. it's below average but not by that many degrees we're talking a high today lucy of 72 degrees. the normal this time of year 77. so 5 degrees below average. but not that bad. the record high for today's date into degrees set back in 1983. no 90-degree heat as we close the books on summer this upcoming weekend. 65 degrees right now in center city. humidity at 65%. but look at those winds out of the east southeast a little breezy at 13 miles per hour. temperatures right now generally in the low to mid 60s. we have 62 in trenton. 65 currently as we move no atlantic city. upper 60s in dover as well as allentown. already into the 50s for the pocono mountains. do you have that friday din are in date? looking pretty good if you're stepping outdoors. grab that light jacket or sweater. we're looking at temperatures in the low 60s by 11:00 o'clock tonight. and we'll keep some clouds around during the overnight as well as early on saturday. high pressure stationed to the north and east of us but look at the wind direction out of the east coming in off of the ocean so that will allow for a few more clouds to move in overnight especially south jersey and sections of delaware. but during the up coming weekend, we'll be out ahead of our next weather maker that will move in late sunday giving us winds out of the south that will warm us back up to a summer like feel for saturday as well as sunday. so dry and quiet for tonight across the area. moving the clock ahead saturday morning, pretty quiet conditions expected throughout the day tomorrow. tomorrow night, a few more clouds as disturbance will move off the coast to our east keeping us dry and then as we move into sunday morning, we'll start ought with some clouds member a little bit of fog and then temperatures will sky rocket into the afternoon out ahead of that front that will arrive late in the day on sund sunday. here's sunday at 7:00 p.m. you can see a line of showers perhaps some thunderstorms that won't really arrive until the sun sets north and west. so it will be a late day shower as we move into sunday across the area. but for tonight it's mostly cloud dough, cool conditions, 50 in the suburb. 57 degrees for the low temperature in the city. and then as we move ahead to saturday, temperatures top out near 80 degrees. we'll call it partly sun into. we'll have some periods of clouds as well as some sunshine. but definitely a summer like feel. those winds will be out of the south five to 10 miles per hour. if you're headed down the shore this up coming weekend, we'll call saturday mostly cloudy, low 70s for highs. warmer on sunday with temperatures around 76 degrees. water temperatures still pretty mild right around 71 degrees. the temple gape logging from the tow good. temperatures once again tomorrow in the upper 70s. low 80s for high temperatures moving into your sunday. and then that late afternoon evening shower chance if we have that shower chance it should be after the eagles game as we move into monday, though, cooler, temperatures 10 degrees cooler than sun today only in the low 70s. we keep high temperatures pretty much the balance of next week in the low 70s. we warm up a little bit as we move into friday of neck week. back into the upper 70s. the kickoff forecast at the linc, 80 degrees by 1:00 o'clo 1:00 o'clock. call it partly sunny, warm, winds out of the southwest five to 10 miles per hour. >> it's perfect for the last weekend of summer. >> yeah it is. >> i agree. >> exactly. >> all right, keith. what you got. >> i got lot. >> yes, he does. >> roger goodell had a lot. big man promises to clean up the league in a big way, and that was the story today. the nfl commissioner sends a strong message that the league is done sitting on its happened when it comes to domestic and sexual abuse. one question that caught everyone' attention. why are some players being everyone' attention. why are some players being pulled off the field b why do we start with a kickoff special? because it's the start of the nfl season, and that's pretty special. get any large two-topping pizza for just $10. add a mega chocolate chip cookie for just $5. better pizza, better football. papa john's. ♪ >> you know nfl commissioner roger goodell said he made a mistake. he's learn his lesson. he will mandate every team take intense training seminars starting next month. now goodell was specifically asked whether sponsors pulling their funning is why several players have been pulled off the field before the entire legal process has run its course. meantime one player in san francisco who faces domestic abuse allegations continues to play. so what's the real deal? >> we need to change our polic policies and our procedures and we need to get some help in trying to identify how to do that. we have state laws that are defendant from state to state. and even locally. you're highlighting exactly the issue. we aren't -- we do not have a clear and consistent policy that will allow to us dole with all of the different issues that are arosing. >> you know the commissioner says he hopes to have his new conduct policy in place it by the super bowl. will your philadelphia eagles be there? >> they'll need better play from wide receivers. that is for sure. to prove that getting rid of desean jackson was not a mista mistake. jackson comes back to the stadium he electrified for his first 6nfl seasons. for some the reunion will be flat out weird. for nick foles it's all good. >> it will be nice to see him pre-game say hism to him and, you know, it will be great. i had great times with him. we had a lot of great games. a lot of great hook ups on the feel. so i enjoyed my team with him as teammate. it will be nice to see him but at the same time we're playing again the redskins. we'll be competing each and every down to beat them and they'll be doing the same thing to us. he'll go out there and be ready to go just like we have to go ready to go. >> do the eagles miss desean at all. >> i think they do. we debate on eagles "game day live" sunday morning at 11am. fox nfl at noon. see the game root her at 1:00 o'clock and don't miss our eagles post game show. i spoke to desean's mother and brother this week. >> you did. >> they just hope the eagles fans remember all the great things he did on that field. >> all right. i'm looking forward to it. i got my dip planned. chip and dip. >> thank you very much. >> that does it for us here at 6:00. we'll see you back here at 10:00. joan rivers' empty chair. melissa's heart felt tribute to her mom. >> we want to say good-bye the only way my mom would want us to. then -- >> the guy just shot our dog. >> the banker accused of losing it because of a neighbor's barking dog. but it wasn't molly. did he shoot the wrong dog? and, i-frenzy. hysteria for the new iphone. >> the line wraps around the block and then stretches 12 city blocks. plus, the nfl commissioner out of hiding. >> what he's saying right now about the scandal shaking football. >> i got it wrong, and i'm sorry for that. >> then, guardrails. they're supposed to

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