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WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM June 22, 2024

Through a 24 hour online lotte lottery. All day monday folks can ebbed enter with their choice of outlying stations and a time window for entry into a predetermined city stop. Theres a 10 pass maximum per customer and so far the average entrant is asking for about half that number. Thats good news. Suggesting few are trying to gobble up extra passes for resale at scalpers prices. Septa says it will keep an eye out for mass purchases or any other attempt to game the thursday. On entrance theyll be notify if they want the lottery. We want to make sure these passes get in the hands of feeble who want to see the pope or need to come down to go to work. Reporter speak of going to work, none of this helps reverse commuters those who live in the city and work in the burbs. Septa trains are inbound only during the papal weekend. Which means guys like micah mcgraw ask for days off. I just am flashing back to big snow days and stuff when all hell breaks loose and its just like septa can get pretty helped up when, you know, when a big event happens. Reporter about 42,000 people buy septas monthly pass but there is no special consideration being given to those core customers. Instead theyll be asked to join todays lottery just like everyone else much the good news at 350,000 passes for sale and average customer asking for five a piece that means this lottery should be able to handle and satisfy around 70,000 customers. Well, at latest check a little while ago just over 27,000 people have entered the lowry so that hourly rate holds it look like about everyone who wants one of these passes should be able to get their hands on one. Guys . All right, lets hope they got it right this time, bruce. Thanks. We have continuous coverage leading up to the popes visit on myfoxphilly. Com. Look for a special section through the link on our home page. Right now arc heat wave is still gripping our area. This is the longest stretch of heat this year at seven days and counting. Will we make it for an eighth day . Chief meteorologist Scott Williams is outside our studios in old city with that answer. Certainly was a hot one today, scott. It was. The official High Temperature, dawn, 93 degrees. Making it day seven as you mentioned. It looks like well see day eight as well of our third heat wave of the year. Just take look at that string of 90degree or better temperatur temperatures. It continues to roll on. It look like well continue to fine those temperatures over the next day once again right around minute degrees. Its 90 still in philadelphia. 88 millville. 85 right now in allentown. Ultimate doppler writ tee quite a couple of pop ups showing off far north and west. When i come indoors well talk a little before the about that system that will bring cooler relief our way. Guys, back to you. All right, scott. We want to update you on breaking news we first brought you coming out of the citys kensington second. Skyfox was over a brush fire moments ago. Philadelphia Fire Department telling us the fire is still not under control. Crews were called out to the scene just before 5 00 you see smoke and flames. This was happening near richmond street and lehigh avenue. No word right now on how that fire started. A big scare in old city this afternoon. Flames scene pouring from a fivestory building on third and arch street just after 1 00 this afternoon. The fire was eventually put out. There were no reports of injuries and no word on a cause tonight. Police are on the hunt for the driver who they say hit a 584 old little girl and just kept on going. It happened last night in north philadelphia. That little girl is going to be okay but police and her family want that driver to come forward. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live in north philadelphia tonight. Dave, are police any closer to finding who was behind the wheel . Reporter well, dawn they have a possible tag number and vehicle theyre looking for but they have not found that vehicle at this hour in the the in the meantime the victims familiar is asking that driver to turn himself in as they wait for her to come home from the hospital. I love her. I hope shes all right. Neighbors and family members offered well wishes and prayers monday for fiveyearold carli green after the little girl was struck by an suv sunday evening while she was playing outside her aunts home on north lambert street. Just a freak accident. The only thing about it, you know, he didnt stop. Just kept on going. He should have just stayed and see what happened. Everybody got family so i mean its not right to hit somebody and he shouldnt be flying down the street. Even if it wasnt his fall he should have stopped. Reporter family members say relatives and neighbors raced to the little girls side. A Police Officer arrived. Scooped her up and raced her to pep temple hospital. He kind of got there her to the hospital as fast as he could. And im grateful for that. I dont even know how we can thank him any more than what we did. Reporter witnesses say the driver of the suv stopped brie briefly them backed down the block to dauphin and headed ea east. An accident is just an accident. When you leave thats when it becomes something different. Reporter carli suffered a mild concussion, bumps and bruises. She stayed overnight at the hospital for observation. Police did get a possible plate number from witnesses jsg6673. Neighbors and family members are hoping the driver will come forward. Automatically. Yeah, because hell get caught no matter what. You know, suppose it was his child. Turn yourself in and get it behind you. You know what it mean. Its an accident. Reporter carli is improving and may return home as early this evening or first thing tomorrow morning. Police say if you know the whereabouts of that light colored jeep suv, you should get in touch with them right away. Chris . Thanks, dave. Us congressman shock at a fattah says hes innocent despite a federal racketeering indictment. He talked to reporters in the area today for the First Time Since that indictment. Hes accused of engaging in fraud and bribery involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. Today fattah spoke with the media after an event in delaware county. The 11term democrat says he hasnt been involved in the miss appropriation of funds. He says he still focused on doing his job. Im not distracted at all. Im going to do my work on behalf of the people who elected me. And i am going to be a candidate for reelection in my district neck year. Um, and the continue to do my work in the congress. Congressman fattah scheduled for a Court Appearance in about two weeks. A delaware Police Officer is injured while arresting a man after a reported shootin shooti. Wilmington police say 20yearold Robert Dunham struggled with an officer while being taken into custody yesterday after police were call out to a report of shooting on the 1100 block of kirk wood street. As officers were escorting dunham to a police car they say he kick the officers hand into the door handle. Not only fracturing one of the officers finger but damaging the car. Police were eventually able to restrain dunham. He is now in jail faces mull pell charges including resisting arrest with force. Police say they also recovered argonne loaded with six rounds of ammunition from the scene. A would be robber comes up short after trying to rob two businesses in the same night. The first try happened at the Little Caesars pizza on the 200 block of oregon avenue in south philadelphia back on july 11th when he demanded money from an employee she took off running. He chased her hoping to get some cash. But came up empty handed. So he tried again. This time an hour later at the Dunkin Donuts on the 2600 block of south 18th street. Once again, the man chase chaser an employee that did not get any cash. Some residents in southwest philadelphia woke up to quite a headache this morning. Their tires slashed on nine vehicles. Tonight Philadelphia Police say theyve arrested a 29yearold man for those slashings. It happened in the 1,000 block of elsworth street. Police were called after someone reported seeing the man vandalizing the cars. The persons name has not yet been released. What would you do if you saw someone attacking another person . Would you try to stop them . There was no hesitation for one Camden County Police Officer. What he saw as he swung into action to save a woman being attacked while he was on his vacation. Howard . Another good day at eagles Training Camp without any players taking shots at the head coach. But positive signs in an area that was weak for the eagles last season. Ill talk about it coming up in sports. Breaking news out of the brewery town section of philadelphia. Skyfox live over the scene of an apparent shooting. This is on the 2700 block of cab bot street. Theres no word yet on whether anyone is injury. We have crew headed to the scene and well bring you more information as we get it. Tragedy in kansas. A nineyearold boy dies after hes hit in the head by bat at a baseball game. Kaiser carlisle was hit by a follow through swing near the on deck circle on saturday. He was wearing a helmet but still suffered massive injuries. The tragedy is scaring a lot of parents. Fox 29 weekend anchor Bill Anderson talked to professionals about what can be done to keep children safe. Bill . Reporter its a tough situation, dawn. For certainly as long as i can remember, young kids have wanted to be on the baseball field and being a bat boy for many was a childhood dream. But after the tragic accidental death avenue nineyearold, some are woning if this childhood dream is just too dangerous to continue. Reporter after nineyearold bat boy in kansas tragically died after being hit had the head by a player warming you parents were send about the safety of their children at baseball games. Few other near tragedies most notably during professional game giants manager dusty bakers young son ran on the field so this is a concern on many leve levels. I came to a camden river sharks game to learn about safety procedures they have in place. Theyre bat boys must be at least 16 years of age and they are extremely focused on safety here at campbells field. We also as you can see have them weeding in the waiting in the dug out. Theyre not right there if a foul ball comes or line drive they can react to it. Duck to keep them safe. Reporter the game was very Family Friendly and some of the rules probably seemed a little bit excessive but after a tragedy those same rules make a lot of sense. During batting practice been the game, the bat boys arent out there and actually the only people that are out there is the Baseball Team itself and the coaches. So that way everyone is aware and if a foul ball does come we have the cage behind them. It wont come back if it does go out that way the only ones on the field are the players themselves. Reporter Keyser Carlisle was wearing a helmet and was apparently viewed as a little brother by the team. So it doesnt appear to be any fault but still the gm here told me theyre doing everything in their power to make sure Something Like that cant and wont ever happen here. I do think thats just a tragic event and obviously any safety precaution that is we can take we will to make sure Something Like that doesnt happen here. Reporter reminder the river sharks were not involved at all in kaisers death but creed agreed to share Safety Policies to inform others. League in kansas where kaiser did die has decided not to use bat boys for the rest of the season. We just found out when coming on the air that the city of wichita is Still Deciding whether to further investigate his death. Dawn. So sad. Thank you, bill. Weve all heard the saying a Police Officer is never off and that was definitely the case for a Camden County Police Officer vacationings in new york. Officer brian did you biehl was in the city to seat 9 11 memorial this weekend, and thats when he says he saw a homeless man attack a woman. The officer says the man through the woman to the ground and put her a choke hold and thats when he says he jumped into action saving the woman by using a new technique used by his police department. I kind of soft fend my voice when i realized he was complying. I didnt continue to shout at him. He seemed alarmed by hi surroundings any way. I took my voice down a second and said just relax, just relax. I was using my voice as a tool instead of my firearm at that point. The woman was taken to the hospital with scrapes and bruises. But the good news is shes expected to be okay. Her alleged attacker were told is known to police. Get ready, philadelphia, and dawn timmeney. The nations largest apartment store chain now offering same day delivery. Starting now you can shop online at either macys. Com or bloomingdales account. Com now get the option of same day delivery. Both stores are owned by macys all part of the companys plan to compete against amazon. The company says its high end bloomingdales chain will expand fast delivery. I like it. Back to your fox 29 weather authority. I know people are really liking this heat wave that is day seven now, scott. Hopefully its over soon. It look like dawn and chris we have one more day of 90degree or better temperatur temperatures. But today, yes, 93 degrees was the High Temperature. The normal this time of year is 87. The record its safe, 98 degrees set back in 2006. The sun will set this evening at 8 13. Current conditions right now, its still 90 degrees but thankfully the humidity making a big difference out there. Its at 37 . So the feels like temperature is the same as the air temperature. Also, we have a bit of a breeze. Winds out of the southwest anywhere from about 10 to 16 Miles Per Hour currently in philadelphia as well as dover. As we take a look at the temperatures across the area, the cool spot right now a pair of sevens in the pocono mountains. 88 in millville. 89 right now in dover. And as we look at the dew points any time its above 60, it startles to feel sticky and then into the 70s more oppressive. So you can see the higher dew points are farther south and east of philadelphia. So down the shore, atlantic city, 72 dew point. Low 70s in dover. Lower dew points north and west. Take a look at the humidity right now. 67 . In atlantic city. 62 in wildwood. But once again only in the 30s from philadelphia as well as in the trenton area. Pretty quiet conditions as we look at ultimate doppler. There is a front well off to the north and west thats the same front that brought the Severe Weather across places like michigan and also illinois and chicago yesterday. That will stay out to the west. But there have been a couple of isolated pop ups far north and west that 10 could continue throughout the night. Otherwise it stays warm, muggy, again, for your tuesday out there. So tomorrow similar to today. As fares the sky conditions. Also the temperatures. But the latter part of the week, well watch a disturbance that will be impacting our area mai mainly thursday overnight into friday with bouts of heavy rain and that will put an end to the heat were talking the hottest weather expressed off to the south and west and that dip in the jet stream will mean clouds cooler conditions as well as some rainfall. It might even turn cool for some should have that jacket the latter part of the week into the first part of the weekend. Upper 60s, low 70s for tonight. Maybe isolated pop up farther north and west. Then, yes, it looks like day eight tomorrow of the heat wave. You can see 1 00 oclock temperatures tomorrow 88 degrees. A High Temperature right around 90. That seven day forecast shows upper 80s so still kind of hot. Wednesday and then thursday clouds start to roll in. Thursday night into friday were watching for bouts of rain. Temperatures on friday only 79 degrees. Rain tapers early saturday and then the weekend right now partly sunny with temperatures below average. In well take it. All right. The birds are back in town. Well, we have sports back in town. I hate to be so blunt. I dont hate to be so blunt much thats me. Day two of eagles Training Camp the players that are there still happy and ill look at what was a weak area of the Team Last Year a look at why players and coaches think that area will be better this year coming up in sports. We got the new tempurflex and its got the spring and bounce of a traditional mattress. You sink into it, but you can still move around. Now that i have a tempurflex, i can finally get a good nights sleep. vo change your sleep. Change your life. Change to tempurpedic. Day two of eagles Training Camp. We have moved on from sam bradford knowing hes now healthy. Moved on from that ridiculous comment by Brando Boykin so today ill take look at an area of the team that was really weak at the end of last season. The defensive secondary was really weak especially those last few games they got tortur tortured. Many believe that will change with all the players the eagles have pick up through free agency and the draft last year. Byron maxwell and Walter Thurman were the free agents but many came in through the draft. So how do the coaches get them reps at practice with so many to look at . Cep chip kelly system because its a no huddle offensive system means the volume of reps you get per practice are much higher. Ive calculated two to three times higher per practice. With having all those off season reps which is way more than you get anywhere else, our backups and our younger guys get nor and more our new guys get more and more than if you were somewhere else nothing like rep of practice rep on the field to train somebody. I think all those off season reps let the new guys and the young guys be better prepared to come out here and compete in the preseason and compete for roster spot. 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