Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20180223 : comparemela

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20180223

She lives just yards away. We heard sounds that sounded like explosions we wanted to come down here just in case the building would go. Reporter her first grader madison was home friday the fire forced parkland to close schoo schools. State police the pa fire marshal and federal alcohol, tobacco and firearms could be seen digging through the rubble looking for a cause. We going to pull the Metal Aluminum from the building to get it off the top so the fire marshal can do his job report rot the structure was lump nim with wood ten poles used to shield buses from the regions snow and heavy weather says the district. Drivers say block heaters were sometimes placed to warm engin engines. Its a disaster says dustin houcks whose brother got unexpected day off from school. Yeah, my step dad woke him up this morning. Said hey, youre not going to school your bus exploded and that was a pretty big shock for him. Reporter the School District hopes to reopen classes on monday. It says its leasing buses and repairing others until and tells the public its fleet is fully insured. Live in whitehall South Whitehall township, jeff cole, fox 29 news. Dawn. Jeff, thank you. Breaking news out of washington, d. C. The white house is on lock down after a vehicle hit a security barrier. The secret service says the vehicle did not breach the barrier and that no shots were fired during the incident. The female driver was immediately taken in to custody. President donald trump is hosting australian prime hipster Malcolm Turnbull at the white house. Turnbull remaining as the incident is being investigated. Two men are jailed tonight accused of stealing 52,000 in merchandise in a string of robberies at Walmart Stores all across our area. Police say five were at gun point. Investigators say 26yearold marquise foreman and 28yearold john beverly targeted walmarts in seven different pennsylvania counties beginning in july of 2017. Police say the latest occurring on january 7th of this year. Investigators say in that particular case, foreman put gun to a store employees head and demanded 20i phones in a display case. The pair got away with phones, laptops, speakers, a bed comforter and much more according investigators. They are charged with 40 felony counts of robbery with threat of serious bodily injury. Retail theft and many other related charges. Now to your fox 29 Weather Authority as we take live look at the ben franklin parkway. Wow, a damp and dreary night across the region i looks likes more wet weather in store for the weekend. Meteorologist Scott Williams joining us nouse with a first check of your forecast. Is the weekend a washout, scott . Not a complete washout, dawn. But really more of the same. Well have periods of rain. Not raining the entire time and temperatures will moderate a bit. But right now, stepping outdoors, its damp, it is chilly. Look at the current feels like temperatures. Lancaster feels like 38 degrees. It feels like 40 in pottstown. It feels like the 20s right now in the poconos and it feels like a chilly 40 degrees as you move toward wildwood. But with the fog, the drizzle we have reduced visibility outdoors so just keep that in mind some airport delays as well. Use those low beams as we look at ultimate doppler, not detec detecting a whole lot but we have patches of drizzle some steadier showers moving away from the poconos. But watch what happens as we expand the view. More rainfall will head in our direction for the upcoming weekend. So temperatures for saturday into the mid 50s. 60 on sunday and it looks like the instead yesterday of the rain for the weekend will occur saturday night into sunday morning. Coming up well time out that forecast hour by hour and talk about how much rainfall to expect. Dawn, back over to you. Thank you scott. Tonight five people charged with filing false applications and collecting tens of thousands of dollars in relief money in connection with super storm sandy. Theyre accused of receiving money from fema and other grant on the state grants that that did not belong them. 64 year david silva is from our area egg harbor township. Prosecutors say the number of people charged in these kinds of cases since march of 2014 now stands at 109. Developing to night tracking down who opened fire on a van with children inside killing the woman behind the wheel. Tonight fox 29 is obtained new video of seconds after that crash on broad street wednesday night. Lets get out to Dave Schratwieser outside Philadelphia Police headquarters. Dave . Reporter dawn, homicide detectives tell us tonight they are narrowing theyre focus as they try to track down the killers of 23yearold tyesha timmons. We do have new Surveillance Video tonight and some new details on the investigation. As the memorial to 23yearold murder victi tyesha timmons gren broad street investigators were hot outtravel her killers while trying to find out exactly why this happened. Case of mistaken identity or road rage. Were not which sure yet. Its very difficult to say the investigation still early. Reporter fox 29 obtained Surveillance Video recorded in the seconds after her van was hit by a barrage of gunfire. You can see the van careening across a median just missing another car and crashing into a building. The only thing we do know the occupants of the car didnt bring this upon themselves. Reporter her picture, candles and balloons mark the the spot where the van came to rest at a building near broad and old york road. Police say one or two gunmen opened fire striking tyesha as she drove three family members and three children through the neighborhood wednesday night. Just three young kids every kids all under the age of four. By the grace every god no one else was hurt. Reporter police have been work nothing recover video of the shooting and subsequent crash along with videos of the suspects. They do not believe anyone in the van was targeted by the gunmen. Our hearts go out to the victims family. Its terrible what happened to this young lady. It shouldnt happen to anybody. Um, its a miracle no else in the car was hit and more seriously injured. Now, captain ryan says police are still trying to determine if this shooting might be connected to another shooting a few minutes earlier at 16th and nedro short distance away. She will casings were found at both crime scenes. Police will not say if they are a match. Dawn . All right, dave, thank you. Police in mullica hill, new jersey, say this guy robbed a ups store and struggled with an officer trying to arrest him. It happened last night on bridgeton road. Police say 30yearold elias morris threatened an employee with scissors and got away with more than 500 when an officer tried to take him into Custody Police say morris resisted arrest. The officer pepper sprayed and handcuffed him. Police say morris was also in possession of packets of suspended heroin. Hes facing numerous charges to tonight including robbery and assaulting a police officer. Now to our continuing coverage of the parkland, florida, high school shooting. Teachers at Stoneman Douglas high school returning to work today. Lawmakers try to figure out how to keep our children safe. Foxs phil keating has more from parkland, florida. Reporter teachers are getting back to work at Stoneman Douglas high school. Nine days after a gunman killed 17 people in a mass school shooting. School Officials Say theyre taking their time with the reopening providing counseling and other resources to faculty and staff making sure this transition goes as smooth as can be. Folks coming together, reconnecting, and going through the healing process, um, as we open school and work to get back to some level of normalcy. Reporter a top priority for teachers and lawmakers keeping the students safe. Florida governor rick scott announcing a may your new initiative. 450 million to add mandatory Law Enforcement officers in every school and another 50 million for Mental Health initiatives. The governor also proposing a number of measures that would make it more difficult for people with Mental Health issues to get a gun. The goal of this plan of action is to make massive changes and in protecting our schools. Provide significantly more resources for hem health and to do everything we can to keep guns out of the hands of those dealing with mental problems. Reporter new gun control measures also being discussed on the federal level with the president said to meet witness nations governors on monday to discuss their options. Theres a movement on to get something done. We want to be very powerful on background checks. When were dealing with mentally ill. Reporter as for the more than 3,000 Stoneman Douglas High School Students they officially return on wednesday next week. In parkland, florida, phil keating, fox news. And back here in our area, group of local students making their voices heard when it comes to begun control. Students at the West Town School in west chester rallying this afternoon with a moment of silence for all the shooting victims in florida. You can see many of them carrying signs with powerful messages for stricter gun control measures. After the tal rally students gathering inside for an action workshop. Companies across the country are cutting ties with the National Rifle association in the wake every the mass shooting in florida. First National Bang of omaha largest privately owned bank in the country will no longer issue nra branded visa cards. Metlife Insurance Company says it will no longer give discounts to nra members. Other companies on the list include the car rental chain enterprise and the Insurance Company chubb ltd. Fox 29 getting results. A woman claims a funeral home lost her sisters ashes. Bruce gordon went searching for answers in hopes of getting the woman some closure. And a new twist to smokin sg in the bathroom. Students sneaking vaping devices into school and its getting more difficult for teachers hello, peco. Hi. Can you help me save on my energy bill . Old appliances. Like a hot water heater . Its around here somewhere. Nope. Nope. What is this thing . Sir, have you looked in the basement . Huh. Oh, yeah. No wonder. It was hidden behind all of my free weights. If youre not an expert, peco can help. We have lots of ways to help you save energy and money. Peco. The future is on. In the state with more ski mountains than any other, family fun reaches a new peak. So whether youre a speed demon or more of a snow angel, your winter chariot awaits. Pick the best peak for your family getaway at iloveny. Com new york state. Its all here. Its only here. A change on penn states campus. The university is now going to have its campus officers carry the opioid overdose treatment in a locks zen. Officers at the University Main campus have been trained on how to administer the medicine and also how to recognize an overdose. On campus paramedics also carry it. Penn state says it plans to have officers on all its campuses carry in a locks son. Fox 29 getting results in story of cremation chaos. A camden woman says her decision to have her sisters remains cream mated left her angry and confused with more questions than answers and answers she doesnt believe. Bruce gordon joining us in stewed eighty seven bruce, this is really a nightmare for a grieving family member. Reporter yeah, dawn. Just imagine its one of the most emotional decisions youll ever make. How to lay a deceased loved one to rest. Youre about to meet a woman who decided cremation was the best option. Until she says the funeral home claimed to have lost the ashes. Im at a loss for words. Reporter when she couldnt even mourn. More than three months after the untimely death of her 44yearold sister i dont know where she is. Its not my fault. I entrusted it to these people. Reporter shariff when her sister decide she went to the carl miller funeral home to lay her sister to rest. I want the a cremation. I want to do you will put her urn in my house and give one to my two nephews and that was. She received a phone call a short time later. They tell me the cremation has been completed, they said that your urns are on back order and basically just to sit and wait. Reporter and wait and wait. Frustrated over the lack of information, wine net says early this month her daughter called the funeral home for an update on the ashes and the urns. She says their response floored her. We actually dont have we cant even locate winji john john. Thats what they said. They dont have her ashes . They dont have them. What was your reaction. Disbelief. Disbelief anger, i was hurt. Thats the biggest thing. I was hurt. Reporter she and her daughter reactioned angrily. Then about a day later, she says, they received a follow up call from the funeral home. What did they say. We were looking up the wrong name. We found her. Reporter now they have the ashes . Umhmm. Reporter do you believe them. No, i do not. I dont, um, at this point i dont trust them. I dont know who ashes that could possibly be in that box. Reporter i went to carl miller friday afternoon looking for answers. Funeral home officials would not talk on camera, but did allow me to see the cream mated remains or cremains of win gee johnson for privacy sake we wont show you the actual ashes. The folks at carl miller could not explain why an employee would have said they were lost but what i saw appeared legitimate. The appropriate remains that number is 43760. Linked to johnsons account number. As for those long overdue earns carl miller says the from which they ordered them guarantees delivery tomorrow. Funeral home will hand deliver the urns with the cremains inside to why net. Dawn final smell closure. All right. Bruce. Update now on the old City Building ravaged by a four alarm fire. The city says it will be demolishing the structure on the 200 block of Chestnut Street because its dangerous. Licenses and inspections will salvage the first floor exterior which is made from cast iron. Nearby businesses and streets will be forced to shut down for at least a week. The process is expected to start on monday. The cause of last weekends fire is under investigation. Kipp academy which has seven locations in our area fires its cofounder after claims of sexual misconduct. Mike feinberg is accused of sexually abusing a student in the late 1990s. Kipp one of the nations largest and best known Charter School networks learned of this allegation last spring and began investigating. It says quote credible evidence was found of conduct inn compatible with its mission and values. Investigators also found feinberg sexually harassed an another difficult kipp alumina employed in 2004 leading to a settlement. Feinberg denies the accusations claiming they were investigated by nonbias third parties and that no one found any wrongdoi wrongdoing. Kipp has a total of 209 locations nationwide. President donald trump telling conservatives today that even Second Amendment supporters can get behind steps to fight gun violence. The president speaking at the annual conservative Political Action conference or cpac. President trump touting republican accomplishments during his fiss year in office. During his speech the president vowing to take action after 17 students and teachers were killed in the Florida School shooting while at the same time vowing to protect the Second Amendment. When we declare our schools to be gun free zones it just puts our students in far more danger. Theres nobody that loves the Second Amendment more than i do and theres nobody that respects the nra, their friends of mine, they backed us all theyre great people. Theyre patriots. The president is advocate fog several new policies after last weeks deadly floor shooting including expanding background checks and higher age restrictions on gun purchases. A Montgomery County School District is banning flash drives. The reason, district Officials Say they look too much like a popular vaping device. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson with the details. I think its the district trying to do something thats right for the. Reporter Michelle Otoole experts the upper dublin School District recent ban on flash drives in all of its schools. She has two children that attend the high school. Kids know about it. Probably deep into middle school. Reporter shes talking about vaping device called juul thats popular among teens and resembles a flash drive. In some cases students were plugging the juul vaping device into their computers to charge it. Upper Dublin School superintendent debra wheel her says in a statement, we became aware that some upper dublin students were using chrome books to charge juuling devices while in school because the nature of a chrome book removes the need for external data storage devi devices we are satisfied that for bidding their use will remove the possibility of charging a juuling device in school. The size, the conceal ability of it, you know, being able to trick the teachers that they have a flash drive right in front of them meanwhile its their vape. Reporter we talk to Steve Schmitz who owns the shop make it vape per in upper dublin he says he doesnt sell the product but thats in high in demand. I get phone calls all the time, and it seems like all of the the phone calls are from teenagers. Reporter schmitz says juul is so popular he doesnt think the district banning flash drives to remove confusion for staff is the solution. Because theyre

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