Maybe school or quick meeting. You come back out to your car and find its been towed. Tonight theres a push to stop that from happening so much. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Also tonight the owner of one of the citys biggest towing companies is setting the reporter straight. Our Chris Oconnell in Spring Garden tonight with the story. Chris . Reporter guys, if you know if you drive anywhere in the city chances are you are very familiar with signs like these all over the place. Park here you will be bet towed but some people call those people predators. Some are calling them cheaters. Well torque night, the Philadelphia City council is trying to reign in what they call rogue tow Truck Drivers. Mitchell kirschner watches where he park these days. You should. He remembers last month when his roommates car was about to ghettoed. He had to pay like 250 for them to not tow it. To not tow it . Yeah. They were like 250 or were together it. Remember back in august when fox 29 told
Without a fight when shes attacked by two robbers. Those men were after her purse. They got away and theyre still on the run tonight. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Thanks for joining us that woman actually apologized to one of the guys. She told our fox 29 Shawnette Wilson exactly what happened. Shawnette. Reporter the suspects did get away with her purse. It had several hundred dollars in it. The victim says was for her christmas shopping. She is lucky she escaped with only pain and no major injuries. I started kicking him and punched the stomach and other one grabbed me. Woman attacked and robbed in this Surveillance Video describes fighting back against two men who ran up to her around 7 15 last friday night. Were not identifying her for her safety. Just give me the bag, give me the bag. Give me the bag. Reporter thats what the suspects said as they began punching the 53yearold victim. She just left work in the area of north 68t 68th street haverfd avenue in overbrook
Safe tonight after scary few minutes. Skyfox was over the scene near frankford half and hellerman street. A woman was driving with her child when she stopped to get money from atm. Officers say that is when someone else jumped in the car and drove off with the child still in the back. That person dropped off the child a few blocks later. Then ditched the car short distance from there. Police are looking for the thief but the child is okay. Happening now a crushing blow to a piece of history. If you spent any time in center city, youve probably fair familiar with the union League Building ton night its a crime scene with its stairs in peaces. Such a busy part of the city. You might wonder how this happened and how nobody witnessed it. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Police are get something clues from Surveillance Video and fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is in center city where the investigation is underway. Dave. Reporter iain, police still looking at that Surveillance Video try
Night of protests once again. People taking to the streets in philadelphia tonight and around the nation upset about president elect trump. Heres live look from skyfox at the crowd in center city. They are at 18th and 59. They have thinned out little bit tonight as you can see still out there. On this night, groups of women raise their voices and fears about the future on the same day that president elect donald trump stepped foot in the oval office. Donald trump finally won arizona with the votes finally counted to days after the election. Good evening, im dawn timmeney in for lucy noland. Im iain page. The last emotions are running high but the protests have remained peaceful so far. Dave kinchen has been with the demonstrators all night and joins from Philadelphia City hall. Dave . Reporter iain, these protests bring out very Diverse Group of demonstrators, but we spoke with a group of women who say they never thought theyd protest. In fact they really never done this before. Tonigh
Going to land around edison avenue and then around erie. It landed in ken sipping ton. Thats where we find shawnette wilson. Must have been one sight. Reporter it was quite a sight. Because its not exactly what neighbors expect to see here hot air balloon landing on this baseball field behind me. I tell you what there was a lot of commotion in the beginning. We saw people tweeting about it. Tweeting pictures of this balloon. We arrived on seen to find the owner on the field with police. The owner tells us that he has a hot air Balloon Company out of pottstown, and that they came from pottstown here. He claims that it was a planned landing. He says there was no malfuncti malfunction. That they had actually planned to land here at this spot. So he says apparently what he thinks is that some neighbors probably saw the balloon. They saw flames and they thought there was a fire and call police. Turns out he says, those are the flames they use to keep the hot air balloon going he is special