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WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM October 18, 2017

Guess. This guy can be any w look at the states. We have new jersey, pennsylvania and maryland in such close proximity of wilmington and how quick did he get from edgewood, maryland, took about an hour drive to get here. So he can be anywhere but, you know, we have technology were seven searching to see if that plate crossed anyplace with, you know, ez pass or red light technology. Reporter now police now are working on the biggest clue to help find this guy. They say he was last seen driving a 2008 black gmc acadia with the delaware license plate pc64273. Now, police call prince armed and dangerous and desperate from records he is now, f what we understand a long criminal history including 15 felony convictions. If you see this man, you know where he is, youve seen this car, please call 911 immediately. Iain. Chris, thank you. Skyfox over Brandywine High School earlier today where several delaware schools were locked down for a time as authorities were looking for that gunman. Wilmington police say they are leaving it up to the individual School Districts to decide whether to stay open or close during the manhunt. Heres another look at the suspect and the car he was last seen driving. If you have any information at all, authorities have set up two tip lines. They are at the bottom of your screen. Still ahead a live report from that maryland business targeted later in the news raft of cast. Jerry sandusky will not get a new trial on child sex abuse charges a judge today denying the former penn state assistant football coachs request. Was wrongfully convicted for sexually abusing young boys. He argued that he had ineffective counsel. He also claims prosecutors should have disclosed more details about changes in victim stories. The judge says the bulk of sanduskys claims lacked merit. He is serving a 30 to 60 year prison sentence. Parents in coatesville Chester County are worried and mad over what they say are a series of racist incidents. Some choosing to keep their kids home from school even marching to the school in protest. Our jeff cole talked to some parents and students at coatesville high school. Reporter the display of the lynching of a black child found in the high school here last week drew a loud protest today. Some parents say they want action. The School District says its doing just that. Not far from School District grounds protesters urged motorists to blow their horns against racism. They say theyre outraged over an ugly display depicting the lynching of a black child found in the High School Locker room. It was disgusting. It was a little girl doll being hung. It was unbearable. Reporter School District says the doll hanging from the ceiling which fox 29 will not show was placed there by a member of the Cross Country team later images appeared online of pumpkins carved with kkk and swastikas with what appears to be students in the background. Fearing racial tension in the High School James king kept his son shaheem home wednesday. I kept him home because im worried about him. Im worried somebody might do something to him and if he tries to retaliate or defend himself, hell be a victim. Honk against racism reporter the group of about a dozen protesters marched to the school where is about 200 students joined them in a loud but ordinarily rally in seeing things like this goss going on its not us. This not what we do. This is what we do. We come together as one. Reporter some parents charged the district has under played the incident and failed to quickly act. The superintendent says theyre talking to students about race and investigating the doll incident. These acts will not define us. Racism will not be tolerated in te coatesville area School District. And we will continue to spend of day and educate students, staff and our community to make sure that we have a school that is inclusive and tolerant of the difference that is we value. Reporter district says its asked police to determine whether this is a hate crime, Cross Country runners say it was not. What seems clear is that racial tensions exist here. In coatesville, im jeff cole, fox 29 news. A new jersey man caught in a statewide child pornography sweep learning his fate today. Judge sentencing 56yearold bruce davis to five years in jail. Davis was arrested in 2016 as part of operation statewide which traced child pornography files shared on peer to peer networks. Police say they found more than a hundred miles files of child pornography on davis laptop. New Jersey State Police arrested 40 men last year as part of that operation. Skyfox over a lock down at overbrook my school earlier this morning where a teacher heard a loud noise sounded like gunshots in the hallway. Another student says he saw a student running out of the building with a gun. But Philadelphia Police checked out the school and didnt find anything. The lock down was lifted about an hour later. Police in chester investigate a possible shooting earlier today. Skyfox over the scene on the 1200 block of clover lane about noon today. Police still not releasing any specifics. Well, Philadelphia City officials are taking action tonight to prevent crimes on one of the citys most popular jogging and biking paths. This is after a series of Violent Attacks as well as sexual assaults along a Schuylkill River trail. Our bruce gordon joins us live tonight at the entrance of the trail at 25th and locust. Bruce . Reporter iain, the trail along here, the Schuylkill River trail, may not be any more dangerous than a typical philadelphia neighborhood, but the assaults, the attacks that have taken place along this stretch of as fall got a whole lot of attention and so city officials needed to act. When the sun is out the Schuylkill River trail through center city is a beehive of activity. But when darkness decedents on this trail most folks steer clear. You wouldnt like to be out here at night. No. Just in general i dont like going out at night too much on the trail you never know whose here. Reporter half dozen Violent Attacks or sexual assaults some guy gangs of kids on bikes over the past two years have pushed city officials to act. First they repaired and replaced broken lighting along the trail. Then they installed clearer mile markers eye so crime victims could more accurately report their location. And on wednesday, work crews were busy installing the first of 21 security cameras along the trail. To better keep an eye on things. The City Council President s office will share the 150,000 price tag with the office of district councilman kenyata johnson. If youre outside enjoying yourself, any public space here in the city of philadelphia that you should feel safe. Reporter camera installation will take about two weeks. Longterm the city wants to install call boxes along the trail. The type scene on college campuses. We want to have call boxes because oftentimes if youre out here running and you dont have a cell phone, we dont want a person to be stranded when it comes to calling the Philadelphia Police depth. Reporter joggers we talked to had mixed feelings about the arrival of new cameras. Between that and the lighting, you know, its been proven that makes people feel safer. Who is watching the security cameras would also concern me. Like a lot of places have security cameras. It doesnt mean its safe. Reporter well, at first at least these new cameras will not be monitored in real time by police. The goal, however s to have them linked to police so that they can be alert to do crimes win seconds at worst minutes of the them actually happening and put those cameras to use to see if they can find the bad guys high tailing it out of here. Again, everything thats being done can be done to try and put turn up the heat on the bad guys out here make things safe. Iain. Bruce, do you understand good. Thank you. Now to your fox wine Weather Authority. As we look at center city tonight. Really kind of nice day out there today. As we close in on the end of october we know it cant last too much longer. Meteorologist kathy orr joins us now with a first check of your forecast at six. Kathy, iain and i are enjoying this weather. It is sure pretty out there, senate . Yeah. With temperatures going well above normal. Were looking at Washington Square mall. This of course is in cape may where its just a beautiful day. Wall to wall sunshine from the north to the south and look at these temperatures. Very uniformed. The Lehigh Valley berks county, allentown and reading in the lower 70s. Philadelphia the same. Atlantic city 71. Trenton 72. Wilmington 71 degrees with sunshine, dry air low humidity and not much wind. Right now everyone in the 60s the poconos 62. 66 in wilmington. 65 in millville. Down the shore, really pretty day with a southwesterly wind the ocean water temperature down to 65 and air temperatures in the mid to upper 60s. Just a pleasant day indeed. Overnight tonight, low temperatures are going to fall back into the 40s but it will be much more comfortable come tomorrow morning. 45 in the poconos. 49 in philadelphia. Millville 47 and dover 47 degrees. Now as we go hour by hour tonight. If youre going out this evening skies will be clear temperature around 69. Humidity will be low. There wont be much of a wind. So no wind chills. Very pleasant. 9 00 oclock temperature 62. We dont really fall back into the 50s till about the 11 00 oclock hour at 59 degrees. Coming up well talk about temperatures going even warmer for this unusual october. And then how quickly theyre going to fall. Well take a look at the extended forecast coming up in just a few minutes. All right, kathy, thanks. Coming up, a shocking crime. Targeting churches in north philadelphia. Whats being done to stop the thieves before they strike aga again. Kristen . Nba is back and its time for the 76ers to start backing all that talk. Hear from the team on how they plan to live up to the expectations set for them ahead in sports. Paulsboros a very proud community. Its been on the decline with the closing of the refineries and theres no jobs in the community. If theres no jobs, theres no education, theres no food on the table. Whats important is the children. Steve sweeney. He fought for em. This is where hes from. Steve sweeneys been here since the beginning. Steve spearheaded the whole project and really brought it to fruition. It wouldve never been done without steve. It was a pride in building this port and then knowing that were coming back. Could thieves be targeting churches on a busy strip in in north philadelphia. Joyce evans spoke to parishioners in the area who feel burglars are zeroing in on them. Reporter breaking into somebodys prompt is really bad. When you steal things, thats worse. When its a church, come on. But when you see how the thieves broke into this place and what they bagged up, how low can you go . That shiny but theyre not worth anything. Reporter this pack as much as they could using the churchs collection bags. They didnt actually get away them because we up to them outside. They didnt get these. They tore it apart just looking for a few dollars. They caused a lot of damage cleanup and repairs to saint holmesburg that like many churches cant really afford extra expenses. Burglars just hit the Parish School last may stealing money and breaking the kids trophies. Im thinking maybe this is where they went in because this lock was snapped. Reporter but first charge maintenance supervisor joe says testified that window with a rock. Reporter to make sure no alarm would sound. Once inside, joe says the crooks wound their way through the basement cat at a combs. They rivaled through the building. The sanctuary, even the church choir loft. I dont know what they were looking for up there but they were up there. Reporter so the thieves were done rummaging and pillaging the church but they just couldnt resist trying one more door. When they broke the glass, they were able to put their arm inside and open the bolts. The alarm went off. Reporter the thieves dropped everything and took off. A few days later,. Down towards that fence there into pennypack park,. Land scape stumbled across cases of wine. Saint dominic communion wine. That would be the wine that you drink the blood of christ. Reporter between the repairs inside the church and Security Systems being installed stalled, thieves have set back Saint Dominic tens of thousands of dollars at least. Still father says pray for them. Lets pray for these people actually that they get caught, um, before something bad happens. Reporter or something worse. In holmesburg, Joyce Evans Fox 29 news. Delaware county has a message for amazon them want to be the home of the companys Second Headquarters. Today county officials announced that summit add proposal to serve as a sight for the company. City of chester joining a number of other towns in cities across the country and right in our area in the competition local Officials Say chesters location between new york city and washington, d. C. Is one of the many reasons why its the perfect choice. They say this could transform the entire community. In this area is ripe for develpment. We have a diverse and highly skilled and educated labor for force. Were Business Friendly Community and Delaware County is on the move. Amazon plans to invest 5 billion in construction for its Second Headquarters and create 50,000 new jobs. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. As we take live look at Rehoboth Beach in delaware. Actually wasnt bad day to hit beach a little chilly maybe. Maybe but we know this cant last. We hope it will, though. Kathy orr. Its unbelievable. Im soaking it all in because as many people have said, we know whats coming. Yeah. Dont we . Behind me were looking at the bay side in cape may and you can see it looks like a painti painting. Sunset getting closer and closer with very pretty colors being scattered tonight. So youll see a lot of those oranges and reds. Temperatures right now still in the 60s. Winds out of the southwest at 7 miles an hour. Temperatures pretty uniform in the 60s with that nice southerly flow on this objection afterno afternoon. Pottstown 66. Trenton 69. Wrightstown still at 64 degrees. Comfortable night. Mild for now, but getting pretty warm over the next couple of days. Not just 70 or 71 into the mid 70s. This week will be very dry. Thursday, friday, saturday, sunday dont even worry about rain. Were going to be just seeing dry conditions and plenty of sunshine. But we are going see a pattern change. The coldest air so far this fall was a little bit earlier in the week. Well see another shot of that. A series of cold fronts will be moving through early next week and this is just a little bit of a preview. A big pattern change. So were in the 70s now. That will last through at least monday. But after that, the big chill moves in. Temperatures will be falling. Mondays high 76. Tuesday 69. Wednesday 62. Next thursday only 58 degrees. Thats where some of our lows have been as of late. So the cool air is coming. The end of october around the next couple of weeks into halloween below average temperatures expected after the first half of the month running about ten to 15 degrees above normal were going to get the balance at the end of the month and once that cold air comes in, i do fear that it is going to stick. So enjoy these 70s while we have them. 40s overnight tonight. 45 in the poconos. 43 in pottstown. 49 in philadelphia. 52 in wildwood. That station at rio grant. During the day tomorrow, 69 in pottstown. 71 in allentown. Millville 72. Wildwood 70. A really nice beach day and in fact i think friday will be and saturday will be and sunday will be as well. Why not . Head down the shore. Friday, 73. Saturday we have the walk to end alzheimers thats in wilmingt wilmington. Its going to be spectacular around 60 late morning and then the afternoon 73 degrees. To 75 degrees in philadelphia. Sunday 75. Monday the eagles play monday night football the afternoon looks nice. Rain begins on tuesday. More clouds on wednesday. And thats the start of the decline in temperature but it will feel more like fall and its supposed to. Feeling more like football weather. What do you think, chris tepp . Definitely does. You know where the weather doesnt matter, though, is inside. Nba finally starting back up. Weve talked so much this week about minute restrictions and matchups. Enough its time for the sixers to actually play tonight. Hear the team talk about why youth and High Expectations go hand in hand next in sports. When youre a doubledipping pensionpadder like steve sweeney, its important to maintain a certain. Lifestyle. Thats why sweeney spent over a hundred grand of his Campaign Funds on highpriced meals and other gifts. Were talking fine cigars, fancy watches, pricey restaurants, and expensive wines all to charm the type of folks who helped him raise your taxes 145 times. Too many in south jersey are struggling. But steve sweeneys looking out for himself, not for us. Like paperless, multicar, and safe driver, that help them save on their car insurance. Any questions . Yeah. How do you go to the bathroom . Great. Any insurancerelated questions . Mmhmm. Do you have a girlfriend . Uh, im actually focusing on my career right now, saving people nearly 600 when they switch, so. Wheres your belly button . [ sighs ] ive got to start booking better gigs. Its time. After some diss appointing seasons, the 76ers are buzzing. Their moment is now. This program finally has some real expectations surrounding the team. Now its just time to deliver. Head coach brett brown set the bar for this team high. Their goal to make the playoffs. Its d

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