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WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM September 12, 2016

Its more about, you know, making sure that your design is right and that everything is good. So in this case it doesnt sound like it was, though. It wasnt. It looked good on paper. Reporter back in youll septa took 120 silver liner cars about a third of its Regional Rail fleet out of service. When hairline crack was found in the beam beams of the trains undercarriage even with cars leased from other transit agencies, septa had to reduce schedule trains have been packed all summer. Now, the repaired train cars are back on the disabled list. You know, its tough because it was nice to have more cars. Reporter septa justifiably proud of its 50 jump in Regional Rail ridership since 2,000 but this summer of screw ups has led 10 to 20 of their customers to find other ways of getting around. And those who have stuck around are plenty annoyed. Its unbelievable. No way to rhawn wail road. Absolutely not. What are you going to do . Were stuck. Reporter well, even with this latest set back, septa believes it can get back to its normal fullblown schedule come october. The longterm challenge is convincing some of those rider whos have left the system to come on back. Theyve would have this summer of screw ups play out. That may be ease sorry said than done. Lucy. Thank you very much, bruce. A handful of injury nursing injuries after a bus crash in bear, delaware. Sky fox over the intersection of the rue 896 and bream man boulevard where a truck an schoolbus collided. It doesnt appear medic had to take any children to the hospital. Last check, some lanes were still blocked as crews cleared the scene. Happening right now in bucks county, a community is in shock. A twoyearold boy has died after getting shot in milford township this evening a mid all of the heartbreak a search for answers goes on. So why did this happen . Could it have been prevented . Jennifer joyce is outside the milford township home where the tragedy happened. Jennifer . Reporter state Police Troopers have been here at the scene all day long. You can see walking in and out of this home. Searching for evidence right now they cant confirm how the shooting happened. All they can say is a twoyearold boy is dead. He suffered a single gunshot wound. It is very upsetting. Reporter people who live along the 2100 block of sad and stunned to fine out a twoyearold boy was shot and killed inside this home around 11 00 oclock this morning. His father was the only person that was home at the time to our understanding the. Reporter police say the toddler was transported to st. Lukes hospital in quakertown where he died. The child was identified by police as Benjamin Austin smith. Investigators say the boys father Nicholas Wiley is cooperating with police. Theyve been combing the property for evidence. Well go in and collect evidence in the house and crime scene examiners will process the scene and at that point determine what was in the house, what time of firearm it was. Reporter police say the twoyearolds grandparents own the home but werent there at the time of the shooting. Fox 29 cameras were rolling as they pulled up to the scene and learned the tragic news. Its he can treatmently difficult the fact the trooper on scene had a twoyearold and we all have children so Something Like this is that much more difficult. Reporter police say the twoyearolds mom lives out of state. Managers here at this company nasg say she was actually living in that same house throughout the summer working for them full time. However, she left abruptly in july. Reporting in milford township, im Jennifer Joyce fox 29 news. Investigators in bucks county are peacing together a double stabbing that left one man dead. It happened along the 6200 block of foster drive in the morri morrisville section of falls township. It was just before 4 30 this morning. Police say a man was stabbed in the neck and died in a mobile home. A woman was stabbed in the hand. Authorities tell us the stabbing may have been triggered by some sort of domestic dispute. Fall comes err until your fox 29 weather authority. Were enjoying Cool Temperatures today even though we still got several days of summer left, dont we . After the heat wave we just experienced most folks are not complaining. Lets check in with meteorologist kathy orr in old city, soaking in all of this gorgeousness. You know what, lucy, theres no other place to be but outside today. What a Beautiful Day an lot of people outdoors just enjoying it. It looks like a summer day but as we know, fall is soon approaching. Everybody still in their short sleeves and their shorts why not. Temperatures today soaring above average. Not the 90s but the 80s. Take look at these High Temperatures for the day. In philadelphia we made it up there. The High Temperature 84. 82 in wilmington. Trenton 81. 80 in reading. At the ac airport, 80 degrees in the poconos feeling like fall with temperature of 72. Right now temperatures have fallen slightly. 70 in the poconos. 79 in reading and allentown and lancaster 75 in millville at this moment. You can see clear skies over the Delaware Valley from the northeast through the mid atlantic heading toward the tennessee valley. The air is so dry it is very difficult even for clouds to form. You have to love that. So 7 00 oclock temperatures will fall into the mid 70s. By about nine, clear skies and comfortable. 70 and crack the windows tonight no need for airconditioning by 11 00 oclock it will be sketch with temperatures falling back into the 50s in most of the suburbs overnight. Dont get used it to. Temperatures will be soaring near record heat coming our way this week. Then a dramatic drop in temperature with a cool change and we could see rain. We definitely need it. But that will be over the course of the weekend. So terrible timing. Im calling in my friends over here much this is matt and his buddies. And i asked you, how is the weather . The weather tears the type of days you hate working inside honestly. Its so nice out. Very cool. All right. These guys temple grads. Yes. First job out of school . Yes, it is. Youre loving it. Loving it so far. So far. Its alpha. Everyone. Good luck. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. You got to love it he has a smile on his face. Well send it back to you in the studio. Kathy, thanks. Tonight investigators are trying to figure out how a truck brought down power lines that ignite add home on fire. Firefighters worked all angles to contain this two alarm fire in sharon hill on cal kin hook road. Crews were able to get it under control final about an hour and a half and the good news no one was hurt. Still no word on what started a two alarm fire in cinnaminson, however, this fire ripped through an auto shop on route 73 this was about 6 30 this morning it left a lot of damage. The fire completely destroyed four cars and heavily damaged four others. It took about an hour for firefighters to put it out. Again, no one was hurt. You decide 2016. Hillary clinton is spending a couple of days off the campaign trail after stumbling yesterday at 9 11 memorial in new york. Her doctor advised her to rest today and tomorrow. Video emerged online showing the former secretary of state appearing to have trouble standing before her handlers had to help her into an awaiting van. Just yesterday, clinton doctor announced she had diagnosed clinton with pneumonia on frid friday. Well today her running mate tim kaine hit the campaign trail as donald trump wished her well kaine tried to put to rest any rumors of a Bigger Health concern for clinton. I hope she gets well soon. I dont know what is going on. Like you i just i see what i see. The coughing fit was a week ago so i assume that was pneumonia also. Ive just been on the campaign since july 22. Hillary clinton has been on the campaign trail for 18 months. Her energy staggers me. I have a hard time keeping up with her. The Clinton Campaign says sundays episode and sewed is not related to a 2012 concussion it plans to release more of the candidates medical records this week. Meanwhile, trump will hold a private event tomorrow in aston, Delaware County. Its a good day for philadelphias economy. Fortune 200 company has decided to keep its Global Headquarters right here in the city of brotherly love. Aramark will stay in philadelphia mayor jim kenney and Governor Tom Wolf both making the big announcement today. The company which is worth about 15 billion will move to a building on 24th and market in center city. They had been at 11th and market. Aramark is of course a Global Leader in food Facilities Management and youll forms p mayor kenney emphasized the company does a lot more than just provide jobs. Theyve been great Civic Leaders most recently they were key partners in bringing the Democratic National convention to the city for that historic event. They also made it possible a year ago to put phl on the world stage sponsoring the world meeting of families papal visit. Aramark is considered a cornerstone in our community. The companys annual Economic Impact in pennsylvania is estimated at 500 million. Symbols of hate we are choosing not to show you on television. This is a third time in recent weeks theyve shown up in a local neighborhood. What heel who live nearby are saying. Plus officers run towards a burning car. Inside, four people including two children. Crews got them all out and they also got some special help from a surprise source. Sean . Dawn, Carson Wentzs performance yesterday kind of overshadowed how good Doug Pederson was. The players talk about what made pederson so on point later in sports. Pat toomey started his career as an investment banker. Then, a wall street wheelerdealer, overseeing stock trades in new york, london and tokyo. Next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. In the senate, its no surprise toomeys been siding with wall street. Voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. Pat toomey. Hes for wall street. Not Us Senate Majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Fourteen americans killed in a San Bernardino mass shooting. But after this tragedy when pat toomey had the chance to ban suspected terrorists from buying guns he voted against closing this loophole for terrorists and with the gun lobby. Katie we have to do everything in our power to keep guns away from terrorists who threaten our way of life. Im Katie Mcginty and i approve this message because we cant risk our families safety on a loophole. Big oil polluters. They have a friend in pennsylvania. Millionaire pat toomey. Toomey voted to protect their special tax breaks. Saving Oil Companies twentyfour billion dollars. And Big Oil Polluters have given toomey seven hundred thousand dollars in campaign contributions. Tax breaks for them. Campaign contributions for him. Pat toomey. Hes helping Big Oil Polluters and millionaires. Not the rest of us. Lcv victory fund is responsible for the content of this advertising. Two sheriffs officers in maryland helped save four people including two children from a burning car. The video is just amazing. The officers battled to to put out the fire and pull the victims at the same time from the crash. The impact ejected a third person from the car. Officers say someone who lived nearby jumped in to hand them a fire extinguisher. All five victims are in the hospital tonight. Two are in critical condition. We do not know what went wrong. Develop to go night, signs of hate in haverford. Police are trying to figure out who is leaving swastikas around Delaware County township. The most recent was left right outside haverford high school. But the hateful markings have been popping up around town before and township officials want it to end now. Fox 29s Bill Anderson has been covering this story all day. All right. Bill, phil us in. Reporter its been going on for about a month. Normally three cases of graffiti in township in a month wouldnt seem like that big a deal. But when the images drawn and painted have the history of hate and intimidation of the swasti swastika, people appropriately are concerned and looking for answers. Always going to have some level of hatred no matter what you do. The Community Rallied around and showed a level of support and unity that i think is tip calf hard forward township. Reporter hate and one of its universally acknowledged symbols the swastika has been seen at least three times recently in Delaware County. The first was the now famous trash can incident. The second occurred at haverford high school. There was an image of a swastika on their tennis court and the third that was in the Library Bathroom two swastikas were drawn at swath mr. College. One positive in all three cases the Community Responded positively including one where neighbors came together and painted their own trash cans with symbol of love to try and count the hate that their neighbor received. The entire community turned what was a very hateful incident of a swastika painted on trash canoe something that became internationally celebrated. Reporter i asked the Anti Defamation League how many hateful acts in small area does it take before we should be concerned . There is no question that one is too many as i said and three is three times too many. Reporter police are currently investigating all of the cases and so far they have no leads. But everyone that i spoke to says that at a time in history where were unusually divided, we need to be as outspoken in support of each other as the hateful people are in trying to divide us. We see it all the time, you know, you look at the businesses here. Theyre not all, you know, theyre in the a cookie custer own are in ship. Theyre from different countries, different races and thats thats what thats the image that i like about havertown. Reporter as you can see we dont show swastikas. We believe theyre too offensi offensive. Occasional vandalism in haverford township isnt that unusual. Swastikas are. The township and adl want to fine out who is responsible if its a child it could be a teachable moment. But if its an adult trying to intimidate, dawn, this has got to stop. Absolute. Bill, thank you. Back to your fox 29 weather authority. I think today is perfect 10. On concur and thank you very much, ms. Orr. Youre welcome. You wont be thanking me in february. Probably not. You look behind me at the airport. I just want to show you how you can use a picture to tell the weather. You can tell theres not much wip. Lock that smoke stack. That smoke is going just due north. Not much wind, no humidity. The air is so dry you can form a cloud. Not cloud in the sky today. Just a picture perfect day and thats why, yes, we give an official 10. 81 the temperature right now. The high today 84. The wind is calm. More comfortable weather coming our way friday and saturday in the 90s. We ended the real heat wave yesterday on sunday 85. Today 84 degrees. Still pretty mild well above normal the normal being 80 for this time of year but wide range of temperatures. 70s through millville, wildwood and ac even dover a little bit of sea breeze front moving toward the inland areas. You can see to the north allentown 79. 80 in pottstown. 80 degrees in wilmington, trenton 78. Down the shore it is cool. Ocean water temperatures in the lower 70s and because of the sea breeze youre seeing lower temperatures right now. But pretty nice when you consider this time of year. And this type of season. A noticeable change in our weather as this front moves offshore. High pressure builds in. The flow around it right now coming from the north and as the high builds off the coast, we get in what we call a return flow. The clockwise flow around it pulls up a little bit more warmth and humid area so tomorrow little bit milder than it was today. The peak of the warmth will be on wednesday. And then well watch this front move through with much cooler air anticipated after that. So overnight, 62 in the city. 55 in the suburbs. Really comfortable night to let that fresh air in during the overnight and even during the day tomorrow the high 85. A touch warmer than today. Southerly winds build in not a lot of wind. Plan your day tomorrow breakfast 63. 79 by about the noon hour. The afternoon after school time period 82. So still warm. And then during the evening the temperature around 78 degrees. Challenging record heat for your wednesday. The record is 92 set back in 1995. Were forecasting a high of at least 91. Your extended forecast shows the peak of the heat, the surge on wednesday, then cooler for thursday and friday. A pleasant saturday. A chance of a few showers on sunday. Monday a morning shower is possible. Shore temperatures in the 80s. And also the 70s. But very comfortable for the extended season. Which now even goes into october. If this weather continues. Ill see you tonight at 10 00. Sounds good, thank you so much, kathy. All right. Sean bell. How about those eagles . How about those eagles . Im still flying high. Nothing bad that you can say about these guys right now. Nope. Everyone is excited about the 2016 version of andy reid and donovan mcnabb. Carson wentz, Doug Pederson looking like theyve done this forever. No nerve, no pressure. The players talk about what was so impressive about both of those guys coming up next in sports. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Donald trump says he alone can fix the problems we face. Well i dont believe thats how you get things done in our country. It takes democrats and republicans working together. Thats how we got health care for 8 million kid

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