When his helicopter went down. Witnesses describe a fiery and frightening scene. It sounded like a missile coming in. It was weird. You know, i just all die was duck. I was like, you know, didnt know where it was coming from. Reporter john hughes had just pulled into the Industrial Park on quigley boulevard in new castle to do some i. To work at a business here. Thats when he heard a loud noise from behind and witnessed a medical helicopter take a knows dive. Sounded like the propellers werent moving. Like it was struggling and kind of looked up and i seen it like going straight down, you know, at the last minute. Big explosion, names, felt, you know, the heat from it. Kind of just shocked. Reporter chopper went down in Drainage Ditch behind the us postal facility. Dominic kara bellow works across the street. The way it took this building and it rocked it. So i thought it was going we started running out this way when we look across we saw that big ball of fire and the smoke. Reporter Marian Williams was just leaving her business in the Industrial Park to meet her husband for lunch when she heard a loud noise. I was walking down the back ramp and i heard this noise and then i looked up in the sky. Reporter when he she saw a huge plume of black smoke and heard an explosion before the chopper burst into names. It was terrible. It still s im still shaking. Because i know theres a life there and its gone. Reporter marian and her husband jay raced over to see if they can help, but immediately knew it was too late. It was just horrendous. Reporter 37yearold pilot from franklinville, new jersey, was pronounced dead at the scene. Those who witnessed the crash still shaken by what happened here. Very scary. It was scary. Terrible tragedy. Reporter now no one on the ground was hurt. Considering their a lot of businesses around here and it was lunch time, that is a blessing. One witness believes that the pilot actually knew he was in trouble and intentionally tried to crash away from buildings and people. The ntsb is due here in about an hour to begin its investigation along with the Delaware State Police and the faa. Lucy . Thank you, dawn. Crews are still on the scene what was a gas leak in new jersey. This morning a rail car started leakinleaking propylene in Logan Township near the pure land Industrial Park. It forced 1900 people out of businesses in half mile radius. So frightening, actually. Could smell a little bit of fumes. Two people ended up at the hospital. Crews are staying at the scene through the evening just to monitor the air quality. To your fox 29 Weather Authority now. As we take live look at Rehoboth Beach a lot of people going to be headed there this weekend. Take live look outside of our studios here in center city, though. Because we need to get through all kinds of rain and hail. Did you hear that thunder clap overhead. I did. Yeah. Scott williams talking about all of this right now. Thats right. Lucy and iain, as expected, round two moving in right now for your evening rush. Heavy downpours, lightning, gusty winds and, yes, even some small hail being reported through a part of the area but look at ultimate doppler right now we are dry down the shore. Dry for much of the delaware. But salem conte, gloucester county, moving through Center City Philadelphia old city looking at some of moderate to heavy rainfall. Piles grove thunder and lightning. Moderate to heavy rain just north of the bridgeton area. As we zoom in, the conshohocken curve moving toward lower merion, looking at some of that heavy rainfall center city now moving through the area from south to north. But this is the hail track and you can see where the darker purples and also that green that is indicating small hail across the Center City Area so just be mindful of that. All of this in association with an upper level low off to the south and west. That has yet to move through. So pinwheeling thunderstorms later on this evening. We do have that marginal risk for severe weather. Currently no severe thunderstorm warnings but those storms still packing a punch downpours, ponding on the roads. Also, watching out for gusty winds and that small hail. By 9 00 oclock, were watching that line move up from d. C. Back into south jersey the i95 corridor. By ten, 11 00 oclock, tonight were still looking at that threat for some thunderstorms. So right now through seven storms popping up and once again we still have the opportunity through about 11 00 oclock midnight for scattered showers and storms. The main threats gusty winds and hail. Coming up, well talk about more storms potentially for a part of that holiday weekend. Back over to you. Sounds good, thank you Scott Williams. As we take live look at center city remember you can get real time information from our fox 29 Weather Authority by downloading the fox 29 weather app for your smart phone or tablet so you wouldnt get caught in all this hail coming down right now for instance. Look for it in the apple and google play stores. Happening now police are looking for killer hes wanted for gunning down a man while he played in the street with some kids. The victim remembered as just all around good guy. Leaving the community confused as to how this could have happened. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live at the round house where it is pouring down rain. Dave. Reporter no doubt about that, lease see. Police tell us tonight this entire excuse style murder was caught on Surveillance Video and they say those children who just a few feet away from the victim when he was gunned down. Bennie was nice wonderful kid. We know him for more than 15 years. Reporter candles line the front porch thursday where 23yearold benjamin drains lived after he was gunned down in this alley just around the corner tuesday night. While tossing a football around with young kids. Unidentified shooter wearing a gray hoodie, blue sweat pants walked past him, turned around and basically executed him. In front of the kids. . In front of the kids, yes. Reporter memorial to drains who friends called bj went up at second and nedrro where he collapsed after being shot eight times in the alley across the street. Good guy all the way around the board. I cant say nothing bad about him. Just good kid. Never been in trouble a day in his life. We really dont know what this is about. Reporter captain clark says the execution style murder was caught on nearby surveillance cameras. He says, the boys tossing the football with drains ran for their lives when the gunman opened fire. You can see their initial responses they jump, then they run and actually cowering like in a corner hoping they dont get shot. Reporter clark says drains work for the city water department. His father who passed away several years ago was a Philadelphia Police officer. He also has other relatives on the police force. Thats a tragedy. Why they got to do Something Like that to kid like that . He dont bother no body report rt no respect for human lives. These individuals who are doing this we got to do our best to get them off the streets. Reporter no one else was injured in the gunfire. There is a 20,000 reward being offed in this case. Lucy . Thank you much, dave. Get back inside. Jurors holding the fate of south jersey dad accused of killing his little boy are taking another look at evidence. In the second full day of deliberations jurors listened to a conversation david creato had with his son mother a mother after authorities found brendans body. He did not know she was recording the call. And she asked him if the door to his apartment the night their theeyearold disappeared was lock. Creato said the door did not lock properly was easy to open. Now, jurors also listened to Police Interviews with creato and the 911 call. Prosecutors have admitted all they have is circumstantial evidence and creato has maintained brendan must have wandered out of his Haddon Township home in october of 2015. Deliberations resume on tuesday. A new jersey doctor just got his license pulled for over prescribing opioids he is the first doctor cited under a new law. Its part of the garden state fight against opioids. Jeff cole had a little talk with the doctor today. Hes here with the story. Reporter i did. Dr. Joel b. Glass being put out of business by the authorities temporarily. Theyve grabbed. Closing his practice and giving his name to the public all because of opioids. Dr. Glass, can i talk to you real quickly . No. Reporter psychiatrist joel glass hustled back into his marlton, new jersey, office when fox 29 tried to question him thursday afternoon. The 74yearold scene here on his web page tieing his practice is in big trouble with the state attorney general and medical board. Theyve pull his medical license and accused him of writing prescriptions for tens of thousands of opioids for several patients. Dr. Glass, the state says you written a large amount of opioids to people and taken your license. Can you tell me at all about it, doctor . No. Reporter the region is being battered by a deadly opioid epidemic. Law enforcement believes the drugs like oxycodone and die as is he pan are landing on the streets in part because doctors are prescribing massive doses of them. Glass is accused of exactly th that. And then failing to check a new jersey database set up to keep patients from getting too much of the powerful meds. The road to recovery starts now. Reporter governor christie has turned fighting the crisis into a crusade in the final months of his term. He called for more treatment and a get tough approach in philadelphia thursday. Always be jail cells available for those people who poison our kids and damage our neighborhoods. Reporter gas must close his practice and stop advertising. We watched a worker spray scrape his name from his door thursday afternoon not long after we tried to talk with him. Is it unfair claim . Doc, unfair claim. I can comment. Reporter can you talk to me a little bit about it, thou though. Doctor . Doc, you can talk to me about it, cant you . Reporter the actions against glass are administrative not criminal nevertheless hes accused of gross negligence and endangering the life and safety of a patient. Im jeff cole, fox 29 news. Lucy. All right. Thank you jeff. As people start to think about the shore, the change is soon coming to wildwoods beaches. Get ready to pay more for mass transit when september is raising its rates and how much more money youll have to pay. Sean. Phillies finally got some luck after getting destroyed by the rockies the last three games they come that was in extra innings. See how they got it done. Thats coming up later in spor sports. Mother nature getting it done in old city right now. Lets take live look outside. The rain has been pouring down. We also had thunder collapse overhead and hail coming through but you know our fox 29 Weather Authority said it was happening and theyve got more of your forecast straight ahead. Tech when your windshield needs to be fixed. Trust safelite autoglass. Our exclusive trueseal Technology Means a strong, reliable bond. At safelite, we stand behind our work. Because the ones you love, sit behind it. parents whisper jingle safelite repair, safelite replace. Ride septa because youre going to have to pay for for your fares really soon. The Transit Authority is increasing fares across the board. One way quick trips will be a quarter more at 2. 50. Monthly passes go up by five buck. Septa says its to help fund every day expenses. Now these changes begin jul july 1st. For a meet list check our website fox29. Com. Speaking of traveling if youre traveling for the weekend plan accordingly because everybody else will be traveling. Exactly. In fact iain state officials are expecting more than 2 million drivers will hit the pennsylvania turnpike alone. Over the weekend. Thats a lot. Yeah. Officials say the busiest time for travel is friday afternoon and monday night. So to make things a little smoother the turnpike suspending Maintenance Work which is mighty nice, right. That is nice. Common sense opening all lanes friday morning through tuesday night. So there you go. If youre heading to wildwood, no smoking allowed. Officials have just voted to ban smoking on the boardwalk next year. While it doesnt take effect until january 1st, officials plan to ask folks to refrain from smoking this year just to kind of get you in the mood for thing. Town officials are concerned about possible fires and of course second hand smoke. Wow. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority. As we take live lock at reading this thursday night new york city doubt people are looking forward to that holiday weekend. But first we got to get through tonight. Fox 29 meteorologist Scott Williams lets us know what you can expect in 15 seconds. Its been a family thursday early this morning was round o one. We saw half inch to an inch of rainfall. Round two moving that was right now. In fact we have some video of the heavy rainfall. The downpours ponding on the road even reports of some small hail across the area. So making for a wet thursday evening commute allow extra travel time theres some of that small hail being reported with the thunderstorms that have been popping up this thursday evening. Back to ultimate doppler right now, its lit up right around center city as you move north and west as well. Well take tour. You can see right now, moving through chester, piles grove, deerfield right now looking at some of those downpours. This will likely dump another half an inch to an inch of rain. Well zoom into center city, west philadelphia, east falls, kensington, port richmond, looking at that red. That is some very intense rainfall. This is lifting on off to the north. Now take a look at the hail track on ultimate doppler. Indicating some small hail moved newest deptford moved right through the Center City Area were talking about pea size to do dime sized hail. But certainly those thunderstorms packing a punch. Well go hour by hour and watch the clock. By eight, 9 00 oclock were looking at more activity rotating up from baltimore and d. C. Parts of south jersey the i95 corridor. Tepp, 11 00 oclock, were still looking at some of those downpours across the area. Temperatures today made it into the upper 60s for philadelphia below where we should for this time of year right now rain cooled in the low 60s. And as we take look at the temperature spread across the area only in the 50s for the poconos. Low 60s in pottstown. Low 70s right now in millville. So heres the bottom line for tonight. Grab the umbrella. Scattered down pours. Gusty wind. Small hail. The main threats upper 50s. For tomorrow, friday, a lot of folks getting that head start on the holiday weekend. 76 degrees. Thats average for this time of year. So a seasonal day but it will be breezy westerly winds gusting over 20 miles per hour. So the memorial day weekend break down. Were talking about 77 degrees on saturday. Thats the pick day of the holiday weekend. Only a 10 chance for hate showers sunday a 50 chance and then a 40 chance on monday. Down the shore, saturday looks great. A 40 chance for some evening popup storms. 66 degrees upper 60s on monday. Water temperatures will be in the upper 60s. So once again, dry friday, saturday and then a little unsettled but not a wash out sunday into monday. Back over to you. All right. The phils just able to get one in before the rain. Good thing it was day game this time. I was going to say. Ed in the morning. Rain at night. Perfect timing for those guys. Everything has been bad. Theyve having one of the worst months in baseball ive he have seen. We caught up with former phil and hall of Famer Mike Schmidt he talk about the mindset of this team. The day game went to extra innings. See if they can finally get a wip next in sports. Every day, youre thankful for the ones you love. And every day you promise to protect them. Off is here to help with proven protection against mosquitoes. Trust our family to protect yours. Sc johnson, a Family Company when you you act fast. Er, boo. So do we. Raid kills roaches seven times faster than the next leading ant and roach spray. 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Batting. 226 on the season. In the seventh the rockies trying to lay down a bunt. Pat with the diving catch and then was able get up and get the out at first. Now bottom of inning the phils down one to zero not any more. Tom knee joseph with 428foot bomb to tie the game. This thing would then go into extra innings. And then in the 11th joseph at it once again clutch rbi game winning single the phil within twoone ending their fivegame losing streak and, boy, did they need this one. Its been a rough may. That was only their tim win of the month. Tim win of the month. Earlier today we caught up with hall of Famer Mike Schmidt and he talk about why this team is just struggling. All the oneonone competitions that we have in baseball game, pitcher, hitter, base runner, catcher, um, wer