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WTXF Fox 29 News At 6PM June 22, 2024

Orange all of southeastern pennsylvania damaging wind threat perhaps isolated tornado some small hail, downpours as well as lightning. So a lot going on in the atmosphere as we time everything out, right now north and west continueing to move toward the i95 corridor between seven eight, 9 00 oclock approaching philadelphia and moving into south jersey and down the shore between 9 00 and 11 00. Of course, continuing to follow the computer models and ultimate doppler throughout the show. Follow me on twitter as well for updates. Ill be live tweeting. Scott fox 29. Lucy and iain. Scott, thank you. You can stay ahead of the Severe Weather with our fox 29 news app. You can see live radar and get weather alerts sent right to your phone download the app for free and the apple or google play stores. Video posted on youtube shows Violent Arrest by Philadelphia Police. What it captures at least a half dozen Police Officers kicking and punching a man in the street street. Grandmom . Grandmom calling out for grandma there. Police officials launching an internal investigation into just what those officers did and what the suspect did. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is at Police Headquarters in philadelphia. Dave, you just spoke with commissioner ramsay. Reporter i just spoke to commissioner ramsay, lucy a couple of minutes ago. He confirms that internal Affairs Investigation. He pointed out that the suspect in this case has had prior contact with with police. Drug arrests and he says at this point he has no intention of pulling those Police Officers off the street pending the out come of the investigation. He down. Look how many times they beating him. Brutal. Honestly it was brutal. Reporter he watched from his second floor window back in april as police tried to arrest 22yearold tyree carol during a stop on locust avenue a few feet from his home. He asked us not to use his name because he fears retaliation. Four cops out of one car they start beating on him. Reporter the witness spoke with fox 29 after the video was released overnight sparking a Police Internal Affairs Investigation after almost two dozen officers responded to the scene to assist in the arrest that night. Making an arrest of an individual who doesnt wanting to is not a pretty sight and people need to understand that. Every time an officer uses force, it doesnt mean that its not warranted somehow. It was wrong what the cops did to my grandson. He wasnt doing anything. And they beat him. Reporter video appears to show punches and baton strikes being delivered as carol struggles with officers. Two officers were allegedly bit by carol as they repeated tried to get his hands behind his back so they can cuff him. It dont make sense. Dont make sense. Reporter his grandmother nancy carol lives across the street from where the arrest took place. Grandma carol was screaming her name on the video. Grandma they beat him terrible. And he down on the ground hollering calling me. Reporter carol was charged with laundry list of offenses including resisting arrest. Resisting arrest . I dont see that happening. That wasnt resisting at all. He didnt resist no arrest. They lied. Reporter while the gnar laying on the tape appears to indicate that carol was tased during the incident, police say he was not. And the witness backs that up. No. I didnt see a taser. The officers are still on the street. I have no intention of taking them off at this point in time unless something surface that is would cause me to do that. Reporter now police say carol was in possession of 5. 3 grams of crack cocaine. He does have prior drug arrests. Commissioner ramsay says all of the proper use of force reports were filed by the officers that night. He says he has no idea how long that internal investigation will last but he says they will get to it quickly. Iain . Ill take it back, thank you very much, dave. Seven murders in two states pennsylvania and new jersey and police now believe one man, one man is behind it all. Prosecutors charged 22yearold todd west and two others with murdering a couple in allentown. Another man in easton over the weekend but they also say west gunned down three others in elizabeth, new jersey, last month. Police say west also murdered his cousin in may. They say the same handgun was used in each of the seven shootings. Cleanup continues at a scorched upper darby business as investigators work to figure out what caused that fire. As of now fire Officials Say they do not believe that the fire at this pay less shoe store was intentionally set but that didnt stop Upper Darby Police from taking a person into custody. Authorities placing 54yearold james morris at the scene of monday nights devastating fire. Police say morris and several others were living in the building unnoticed. Morris in particular accused of scrapping metal shelves. Theres only one person that were looking looking at for anything and hes in custody. He was inside when the fire started. Allegedly this scrap per said to him, hey, the building is on fire. He said ah, dont worry about it and he walk away. Morris is not being accused of setting the fire but police are charging him with criminal trespassing and theft. Philadelphia mural featuring comedian kill bill cosby is about to come down. That word today from the citys Mural Arts Program. The art featuring the philadelphia native was part of a 2008 fathers day celebration. Already slated to come down but spokesperson for the Mural Arts Program says recent headlines will cause them to take down the mural sooner than later much we dont know yet when that will happen. South carolina lawmakers voteed to remove the Confederate Flag on the state house grounds. Jonathan serrie has more from columbia. Reporter this flag flying on south South Carolina capitol ground the subject of debate for the states general assembly. Lawmakers opening up discussions on whether the confederate banner will remain here. Its been flying somewhere on the state house property for more than five decades. We have a right whatever banner they want to put up at their house. At this state house on these state house grounds it is different. Reporter nationwide calls for the banner to go growing stronger after last months killing of nine people at a charleston church. Pastor and state senator Clem Pinckney among those murdered. President obama and South Carolina governor nicky haley among those saying its time for the flag to come down. One lawmaker says thats not why his colleagues should approve the legislation. I am asking you to pass this bill as it stands today not with the amendment for a very simple reason and its because its the right thing to do. Reporter opponents of the flag say it is a symbol of racism. But the push to relegate it to a museum is not universal. Supporters say the Confederate Flag represents southern pride. It is about our heritage much its how we were was born. How we was raised. Who we are. Its not about the color of your skin. Its about where youre from and who you are. Reporter removing the flag requires a twothirds majority vote from both houses of the South Carolina legislature. In columbia, South Carolina, jonathan serrie, fox news. Peco still trying to figure out what caught fire underground knocking out power in old city today. Smoke was pouring out of Manhole Covers after 11 30 between walnut and south Second Street this morning. About 100 customers were without power at one point. Service though no many has been restore. Sand castles come and go. The nature of the beast but this one came and went faster than Hamilton Mall than the Hamilton Mall in new jersey anticipated. What are you looking at here . This is the guy that Police Believe decided to jump a fence and destroy the sand castle. It costs 2,700 to build. Hamilton police are hoping these images of this man will help catch him. If you know who he is, give them a call. Fox 29 cameras catching unusual sight on a philadelphia schoolbus thats a parking boot the kind they put on your car when youve got too many unpaid parking tickets. Thats on the tire of that bus. The bus was parked in front of school at 52nd and pine in west philly. The School District tells us they have paid the tickets and the boot has been removed but how does a schoolbus get booted. Thats a question. We got bruce gordon on the story. Tune in tonight at 10 00 for the answer. Saving kids lives seems like a good message right. Of course. Tonight that message is under attack. The reason some are upset over the local message that you can see at chop. Plus, not even your kids stuff is safe any more. After a local daycare is robbed of some pretty expensive stuff. Howard . Phillies having a tough on the west coast but it was worse when a former teammate helped beat them last night. That and the new flyers head coach speaking about how hes settling in. Thats coming up in sports. Progressive insurance here and im a box who thrives on the unexpected. Haha shall we dine . [ chuckle ] you wouldnt expect an Insurance Company to show you their rates and their competitors rates but thats precisely what we do. Going up nope, coming down. And if you switch to progressive today you could save an average of over 500 bucks. Stop it. So call me today at the number below. Or is it above . Dismount oh, and he sticks the landing thousands of dollars of stuff stolen from a local Daycare Center ton night Philadelphia Police hope this Surveillance Video will help catch the suspect. It happened monday around 1 00 in the morning on the 3900 block of frankford avenue in the frankford neighborhood. The thief got away with a 32 and 47inch tv, xbox one and wii gaming system as well as 4dvd players. If you know who this guy is please call police. All about getting noticed right. New ones hanging at the Childrens Hospital of philadelphia have gotten a lot of attention. Not all of it good. The signs are moment to promote childrens safety. So whats got people so upset. Tonight those behind the ads say the critics just arent getting the message. Fox 29 weekends Bill Anderson in the newsroom tonight. Bill whats got everyone so fired up . Iain, victim blaming. Thats what some people are calling the ads designed to educate parents about the dangers of children and traffic. Some took the to social media to criticize new ads that simply point out what to me is obvious. Keep your children away from moving cars. Reporter somewhat surprising social media response to what honestly appeared to be a pretty standard ad put up by the Childrens Hospital of philadelphia was brought to our attention through twitter and other social media. Several people were apparently upset over an ad asking parents to look out for their children in traffic saying that its victim blaming targeting children and it should be more focused on the drivers. An advocate of childrens safety told me people are allowed to be upset but in this case, controversial or not the ads are just true. I think its interesting that it pick up in social media so quickly and with a negative type of connotation because like i said its just a fact. Reporter her Organization Kids and cars. Org uses pretty powerful imagery to hammer home their messages as well. She said its because most people just dont understand how big a risk that traffic is to children. Even the backlash is good. Because then hopefully they can educate themselves. And they can understand that pedestrian deaths is huge and its going up. Reporter reps at chop told me the point of messages were to raise awareness and they have no intentions of taking them down. The advocate followed up saying that they shouldnt and as for the people who are angry about the ads pay attention. Buck up understand that the last thing you would ever want to do as human being is to hit injure or kill a child. Reporter it is pretty obvious, right . There were honestly surprising number of people who felt like the message messages should focus on educating drivers not in their words blaming parents and children. We want to know what you think. Tweet us at fox 29 philly or comment on our fox 29 facebook page. Lucy . Youll get the comments, bill. All righty. Are you per happen headed to new york city to celebrate with the us world champions . Help is on the way to get through. Extra trains and buses are shut link vans from new jersey to the parade tomorrow. The Additional Trains will run during midday hours from newark to the World Trade Center new Jersey Transit is also adding buses on 15 routes and we will be live in new york city tomorrow morning during good day for a preview big parade which begins at 11 00. We are tracking some Severe Weather for you tonight. Scott is in the Weather Center with the latest. Scott. Thats right. The and tire area under a severe thunderstorm watch until 11 00 oclock tonight and Lancaster County under a tornado watch. You can see thats highlighted in red. As we continue to follow a pretty nasty line of showers and severe thunderstorms now pushing toward the east. They will impact the lehigh valley. Allentown youre arrival time of the storms right around 7 07. Moving toward philadelphia 7 55 and trenton close to 8 30. So this is the line that were watching as it continues to move in our direct. Likely causing some wind damage and also some gusty downpours. As we take look whats happening right now, you can see were watching that line of severe thunderstorms right now moveing through Lancaster County. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning is in effect for this line as it continues to push on off to the east. You can see that expires for Lancaster County at 7 00 oclock. And it will continue to move into berks county as well as chester county. So eventually moving toward places like honey brook and coatesville over the next hour or so. Toward sections of the pocono mountains watching some heavy rainfall Severe Thunderstorm Warning here until 7 15 and all of this continues to move toward the poconos and also the lehigh valley. So you can see the counties highlighted right here with this bulls eye in orange thats the highest risk area. Especially in southeastern pennsylvania for damaging wind, maybe isolated tornado. Some small hail downpours and lightning. As we watch all of this activity continue to head in our direction. So you can see the clouds with the satellite and radar and also as we time everything out right now its north and west. Were quiet in jersey down the shore as well as delaware but over the next couple of hours well be watching that line a pretty nasty squall line and also well be watching for a bow he can though will be indicative of some wind damage potential. So by 8 00 oclock, right over the heart of the area and then it continues to kind of move into south jersey and southern delaware by nine, 10 00 oclock tonight down the shore and then it moves out of here giving us Better Weather as we move toward friday and kick off the upcoming weekend. So the main timing north and west right now moving toward the philadelphia area between 7 00 and 9 00 and then down the shore between 9 00 and 11 00. Of course, continuing to follow the temperatures as well its been kind of warm and muggy out there. Degrees right now. Look at that humidity at if he 63 . Making it feel like 88 degrees at this hour. So as we look at those temperatures across the area, we have 81 in wildwood. 82 millville. 85 right now in wilmington. But look at the dew points. A lot of juice in the atmosphere atmosphere. Its at 77 in dover. At 74 in wilmington. So that helps to kind of fuel some of the showers and storms that will head in our direction later on tonight. So as we talk about the temperatures tomorrow, 86 degrees. Not as humid. The Severe Weather threat is out of here tonight. So looking good for the parade tomorrow new york city and as we talk about the temperatures for the weekend you can see not that bad. But it is going to be little more on the humid side of things and then the humidity will lead to more storms early part of next week as well as the middle part of next week. A lot of action going on. Yup. Its all about the dew points. It is. Im looking at them, too scott. Thanks. All right. Big match at wimbledon that may have been the best matchup so far and the flyers new head coach is settling in and tells us how hes trying to evaluate his new players. Thats coming up in sports. The phillies played their final game of the fourgame series it to tonight in los angeles much its unfair that phillies had to face kershaw last night zach again key tonight. Again key earned run average 1. 5 runs game. That was no way they were going to beat kershaw last night. But an old teammate helped things along. Lets go to dodgers stadium. Jimmy rollins is having a terrible year hitting. 200 all year but theres two on, and he hits a three run homer. You got to be kidding me. Phillies werent going to win against kershaw that. Made it fivezero. That was the end of that game. Nor flyers developmental camp practice today. The camp goes on through sunday over in new jersey at 68 zone. Their new coach trying to get a feel for

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