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Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM 20160601



so must enjoyed it. report roar neighbors say joe frequently went to the american legion and was well liked. they're shock. >> it hurts. really hurts. because he's a nice guy. it's crazy. >> reporter: patrick boards up his fathers home and is troubled in so many ways. he says his dad was jumped here by a few days earlier. police are investigating in there's any connection to his death. a big clue may be what the robbers stole joe's distinctive van. >> 2003 ford e-150 van with a pennsylvania tag of pd5338z. it's dark blue in color with white rear panel doors. >> reporter: if you know anything about that van or any 80 where it could be please call police. a $20,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction to this. karen hem fox 29 news. the shooting on the ucla campus left two dead police say it was murder/ooh side that took the lives of two men this afternoon. it happened at a small office in an engineering building. investigators say a gun was found along with what appears to be a suicide note. hundreds of police officers swarmed the campus after 911 calls reported that shots were fired. tactical teams stormed in the buildings and told students and staff to get out. >> i'm very terrified. i'm still shaking. there's not much else you can do. we were just scared that someone might break through that door and shoot us. didn't know exactly what we can do, but maybe try to take him down. >> most students or staff, new york students or staff was hurt and the campus was declared two hours after the shooting. police are still working to try and figure out what led up to the murder/suicide. things are feeling a little more seasonal on your fox 29 weather authority. while some of us have seen some rain and a lot of it, ultimate doppler radar shows a fairly calm evening. things are a hill cooler today but change they're brewing. let's check in with chief meteorologist scott williams. >> certainly as we begin the month of june, most of the area was dry and pretty comfortable lucy for today. but we do have one lone shower that's trying to rain itself out right now moving through parts of montgomery county. in fact very heavy rainfall so watching out for a flood advisory some of the urbanized areas. the poor drainage ditches as well. ambler, whitemarsh still looking at some pretty moderate downpours. this is moving to the north around 202 so just watch out on the roads for some slick spots. we'll zoom in a little close sr. right now. you can see around the white pain area we're looking at some very heavy rainfall continuing to move through parts of montgomery county. otherwise it's dry in parts of south jersey along with delaware right now. and temperatures still pretty warm. 82 degrees right now. the humidity at 52%. and look at the high. we squeaked out 90 degrees in the philadelphia area for today. we have 79 in dover. 76 atlantic city. 87 degrees right now in the lehigh valley. so if you're stepping outdoors, most of us once again staying dry that little cell in montgomery county will rain itself out. temperatures tonight around 11:00 o'clock still mild, 72 degrees. we'll talk about more temperature changes and some rainfall chances with that seven day coming up. back to you. all right, scott. thanks. developing news tonight out of delaware county. radnor police say they've arrested the man who they say had sex with a 70-year-old college student and recorded it. authorities say 26-year-old ant and two hall had a relationship with a eastern university student. the teen had a willingly relationship with haul inside her dorm room but the teen's mother went to police after she learned. relationship. officer say hall had inappropriate photos and videos of the girl and never deleted them even after the teen asked. >> at this point, he has commit add violation of law. basically under the sexual abuse of children simply now because he's in possession of a child pornography due to the fact that the victim is 17 years of age. she's under 18, and a violation of the pennsylvania crimes code. >> police say the two men on social media -- met on social immediate y hall is facing sexual abuse children and child pornography charges among othe others. the philadelphia woman accused of planning to join isis now has a date set to appear in court. key i don't know is a thomas will head to trial on objection 17th. prosecutors say she tried to support the terror organization and even attempted to travel overseas to lend a helping hand. fbi agents arrested her in the spring of 2015. they say she was head to go syria to join isis and already had a plane ticket for the first leg of her trip. all right. take look at this. this guy wanted man. police say he robbed a convenience store early this morning in felton, delaware. they say he walk into the canterbury shore stop at 2:30 this morning, demanded money and got away in a chevy s10 pick up. if you know about this, give police a call. the morning commute included a strange sight for drivers in mercer county. a woman dressed in warrior paint pulling a full sized casket along the side of the road. in ocean county restaurant owner speaking out on the sensitive subjects of mental illness, addiction and suicide. >> and she's using symbol of death to make a live-saving point that got our bruce gordon ross' attention. he's live in the newsroom with a story many families should hear, bruce. >> reporter: solving the problems of the mental illness, addiction, suicide start with talking about them. first you have to get our attention. here's one way. 48-year-old greta schwartz says her feet were blistered, her legs were cramped. >> but once i started adrenaline kicked in and, you know, kept me going. >> reporter: and going and going and going. 80 miles over three days from her home in seaville to the state house in trenton. full size casket in tow to send a message about mental illness, addiction and side. >> to not be ashamed to speak up if you have a problem and to demand that the brain be treated equally as any other part of the body. >> reporter: greta was in the audience at stockton university last november when former rhode island congressman patrick kennedy -- >> no idea how i got there, no idea how i got home. >> reporter: detailed his struggle with addiction and mental illness. that speech coupled with her own family's experience convinced greta to as she put it get loud. >> people hide. they don't tell their stories, and it's going to take everybody standing up and getting in the faces of the politicians, getting in the community and saying, yeah, you know what, our family is suffering. >> reporter: during the long trek more than a dozen people came by to add names to the casket. symbolizing those who have taken their open lives due to mental illness or addiction. >> you saw them writing those names on there. what went through your mind. >> heartbreak. heartbreak. >> reporter: schwartz says mental illness and addiction carry a stigma that keeps families suffering in silence and allows politicians and insurance companies to down play the crisis. >> if you have cancer you'll go full treatment plan. until you're cured. it should be the same for mental illness. so everybody stand up, tell your stories, demand change. >> reporter: by midday on this third day, schwartz arrives at the state house for meetings with the few lawmakers willing to hear her plea. state police tell her the casket must stay outside. but great at a and her message have made it. >> i can believe it. >> there are resources available for mental illness and addiction but to access them, you have to admit the problem. greta schwartz has begun the conversation. she wants us to continue it. iain. >> bruce, thank you. philadelphia police are investigate a shooting involving one of its off duty officers. it happened late last night near broad and eye tioga streets in north philadelphia. authorities say an officer was leaving work a car hit his motorcycle throwing him off and into the street. the officer opened fire on the driver of the car after he says he thought that person was reaching for a weapon. >> the officer believed he saw a weapon. right now we have not recovered one. they have not indicated that there was one. what they have said to be candid they did not know he was police officer. and so when they saw the gun they did -- >> police say three of the four people inside the car turned themselves in. they say they didn't realize he was an officer thankfully no one is hurt. new at 6:00 pennsylvania's governor signed off on medical marijuana but do not expect to see green any time soon. what we learned about a complicated process today. plus special graduation. these clowns are now ready to work but their mission is to do a lot more to make people laugh. we'll explain. tom? >> iain the phillies make a decision at least shore term on the future of ryan howard and a high eagles draft pick amidst 2016 better be a whole lot better than 2015. who said that coming up later in sports. you're looking at the men accused of of breaking in a police officer's northeast philadelphia home. investigators say the off duty officer walk in to his mayfair home yesterday noticed his tv was gone and heard voices in the basement when he went to investigate police say ricky mosley charged up the stairs. the officer fired his gun but missed mosley. police say mosley and ryan owe henry ran away but they were caught a short time later. the officer is on administrative duty as the investigation continues. pennsylvania secretary of health says she expects it will take as long as two years to write regulations and make medical marijuana available through retailers to eligible patients. secretary karen murphy says her agency is writing regulations and fielding calls from people interested in becoming growers or processors. governor tom wolf signed legislation in april legalizing medical marijuana. the bill set standards for tracking plants and verifying physicians and licensing growers dispensaries and physicians much at lot of work. murphy says her agency expects to have new regulations in july that would guide parents on how to bring medical marijuana legal until another -- bought legally into another state into pennsylvania. the regulations would let parents give prescription drugs to their child with a qualifying condition. lots of clowning around today at one local hospital but no worries, it's their job. >> that's right. two new clowns join the ranks of capital health therapeutic clowns. fox 29's photojournalist jim ring was there for the untraditional graduation ceremony. (laughter). >> we now have 150 active clowns, 27 hospitals throughout the united states. i was a party clown. i met another clown who started this program at cooper hospital. we're graduating two new clowns to capital health. shadow and already we see their mental and their stick film we had a half day training on empathy. >> that's what we've been doing over the course of the past few months. >> these two women have completed -- >> i'm retired schoolteacher. elementary school you want to give something back. such great feeling to connect sometimes just want to talk and you let them talk and they just need an ear. >> welcome to the clown graduation. it's not of day that clown graduates. >> i'm a real estate agent and i wantewanted to do something to e back to the community. i'm always hugging in my business and now i'm spreading smiles. >> we have our little game that is we play. people just really respond nicely to us. are always glad that we stop by. >> yay! >> children are very happy to see you and smile with you. >> we laughed with lot of patients and we go home with a full heart because we know that we've made a difference in people's lives. >> ♪ >> bumper t carrying clowns volunteer program strives that bring smiles to the hospital patients. to fan out how you can get involved head to fox29.com. to your fox 29 weather authority now. and you know what, it's been a nice day overall. but there's thunder poppers going on out there. >> i think some changes are oh the way, scott. >> that too. a lot of changes as we finally move in to june 1st. also, the official start of hurricane season. but look at ultimate doppler right now. we're dealing with some very heavy rain. this cell kind of moved out of philadelphia county and into sections of montgomery county. it's going rain itself out but it has prompted you can see an aerial flood advisory until 7:30. watch out along 202. we're looking at rain still diminishing as we move around the center square area also around blue bell moving to around bethel hill. not as intense as it was earlier but you can see it is diminishing right now and most of the area currently is dry. it was warm today. it's going to be warm again for your thursday. then a frontal boundary moves in during the day on friday. that will set the stage for a couple of scattered showers maybe rumble of thunder and it look like rain for a part of the upcoming weekend. one day looks pretty soggy. 80 right now in millville. 76 degrees in atlantic city. we have 86 still in lancaster. 87 degrees right now as we move toward allentown. a little cooler down the shore at the boardwalk in atlantic city. 69 degrees. we have 71 cape may point and 72 for folks in wildwood. so as we take look what's happening on fox future cast, what's left of bonnie still impacting parts of the outerbanks of north carolina. here's the frontal boundary still well to the west. most of the moisture from bonnie heads out to sea. so by tomorrow, we're dry, we're warm again and then look at this line of showers and thunderstorms that will be moving through central pennsylvania by dinnertime tomorrow. some of that could move to the far north and western counties as we move toward 11:00 o'clock midnight but then most of the rain will arrive during the morning rush scattered showers across the area, then with that front still around we'll still have that threat for some downpours during the afternoon and evening on friday as well but friday is not going to be a wash out. temperatures for tonight, upper 50s in the suburbs low 60s in the city then moving ahead to tomorrow mild start in the low 60s but look at noon already warm. 76 degrees. 84 degrees will be the high temperature tomorrow. we'll call it partly sunny. now, today kicks off hurricane season it runs through the end of november. take a look at some of the names for this year. alex, bonnie, we've already had that. next up will be colin followed by danielle, earl, fee own nan take a look at i name, ian. but the not spelled like iain spells his name. as far as those predictions we are looking at app average to slightly above average hurricane season. the noaa forecast 10 to 16 named storms, average is 12. major hurricanes the average is three. the forecast one to four. seven day forecast shows more scattered storms around friday with that front. sun and clouds saturday the pick day of the weekend but then sunday showers and storms it could be kind of a wash, 79 degrees and then more seasonal temperatures headed into next week. >> all right. sounds good. thank you scott. >> i would not want hurricane name after me personally. >> can we go from one to four to zero? can we pick zero hurricanes. >> 28 names on that screen or so. we got 28 in a season? i'm go gone. >> we go to the greek alphabet. >> let's talk football. the eagles continuing their ota schedule at the novacare complex and one player candidly says my performance a year ago just wasn't good enough. and this is the most you'll see of ryan howard for awhile. ahead where he's heading and for how long. ♪ phillies trying to salvage game tonight in their three game series with the washington nationals. the phillies in the middle of a five-game losing streak. it has dropped them back to 500. 26-26. ryan howard just finish off a brutal horrendous month of may. seven hits in 69 at bats manager mackanin seen enough. announce brag tonight' game ryan howard will sit for the next three or four games to quote clear his head and quote start from scratch. in other words, ryan howard got benched. >> we had a great conversation. of course he's not happy with it, but he's very -- he was very mature about the whole thing, and he gets it. he knows what we're trying to do, and he just wants to continue to have opportunities. >> it's fine. -- my head is fine. like i said, it's one of those things, i get it. i get it. i mean you guys got to perform. you got to put up and tommy will get to go play. i'll be out there support tommy and the rest of my teammates. >> tom knee is tommy joseph. how about problem nor of for marlon byrd suspended for 162 games an entire baseball season. marlon bare suspended for using a performance end enhancing substance he will not appeal. he's a second time offender. got caught back in 20 tell as well. add nick foles to the list of war backs who had their feelings hurt this off season. you might remember sam with regarded to held at the start of the eagles voluntary work outs. after the birds drafted carson wentz with the second overall pick. after the rams drafted jared gov with the first overall pick foles wasn't pleased i been a hold out for the ram off season program since draft day. eagles camp continuing this week with sam bradford and carson wentz participating. one guy who has to have a better season this year for the eagles is wide receiver nelson agholor. the eagles number one pick had 23 catches and one touchdown. how about one other number, no excuses. >> i'm a man. i've always been a man about what i do and how i perform. i would never ever say anything that i didn't truly believe. you know, i believe if i put the tape on there were times i did not seize that moment. i don't care how many times i was targeted. never came at me. if i caught every pass that came my way that would mean more than to me if i was targeted a hundred times and caught only 40% of them. >> going to play well for this football team. ryan howard a class act but it's the end. i mean when -- he can't catch up to fast balls any more. >> right. >> handles himself with such class and has for long time. there comes that point got to move on. >> yeah. father time is undefeated. we've all learned that. >> all right. that does it for us here at 6: 6:00. we'll see you right back here at 10:00v great night. inside edition is up next. ♪ it happened to them, face to face with a gorilla. >> oh, my god. >> just like the kid in cincinnati. >> mommy loves you. >> exclusive, look what a gorilla did to him when he was a child. >> teeth marks on his back. >> and her message to the mom under siege. >> i can relate to the mom. then the last selfie, the nurse who fell off a cliff. >> and her farewell note to her parents when she thought she wasn't going to make it. >> my last note said i am sorry with three exclamation points. plus, new allegations in the johnny depp divorce scandal. the exclusive photos his wife just gave "people" magazine. and hot tub arrest machine. >> he's in our jacuzzi. >> busted in a hot

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