Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. We start tonight with fire down the shore. Skyfox over the scene earlier. You can see the flames engulfing a familiar bridge. Anyone who uses the garden state parkway to get to the southern shore points probably remembers the beasley point bridge. Parkway now runs right passed it all toll bridge caught fire around 7 30 tonight. No word yet on the extent of the damage or how it started. Dads all over the city are getting ready for a very special walk with their children tomorrow morning. Its call part of a National Movement to get more dads involved in their childrens lives. Good evening, im dawn timmeney. Lucy is off. Im iain page. Organizers say it can help inspire countless children to do great things. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live at city hall tonight. Shawnette. Reporter its a powerful thing happening tomorrow. Fathers all over the city plan to walk their children to school then join other men for a march and to
And for the Justice System to deliver. Hes a strong kid, a tough kid, a hell of a cop. This could happen to anyone. Hes the guy, because hes going to get through this. Reporter one police officer, i can tell you, who was not here in the courtroom today was bidels partner who his family has credited with being a hero by firing back and saving both of their lives. He could very well be called to testify once, if and when this case moves to trial. Cydney long, nbc 10 news. Turning now to our first alert weather. A nice start to the work week. It was warm and sunny on this Independence Mall this morning. Of course, labor day has come and gone, but summer is still on. No question about that, when you step outside. First alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is here with the details. Glenn, yet another heat wave. How many times have i said that this summer . At least a half a dozen i would say. Maybe this will be the last heat wave of the season. But its going to get really hot.
What to do. I was scared. Reporter gabby was shot in the back of the head. The bullet went straight through her blaine. There was nothing doctors at the hospital could do. She was pronounced dead two days later. Gabby likes so we went in there and it was like oh, my god. They had Justin Biebers baby song going. Now its my favorite song. And i was like i got to get out of this door. Reporter though the emotional support from the community has been overwhelming, its not translating into calls to the tip line despite a 76,000 reward. If it was me and i knew something, im snitching, because thats an innocent child. Reporter i did talk to police chief earlier today, and he said officers are working night and day, but they really need the community to step up and speak up. Well have more on what he has to say coming up on action news at 6. Reporting live in camden, jeanette reyes, channel 6 action news. Back to you inside, alicia. Thank you. An emotional and powerful interview. Lets hope we
Of heavy publicity. Prosecutors made clear they will fight that attempt. I just finished up a case that was pretty high profile here in pennsylvania. We were able to get fair impartial jury and we were able to get the justice in that case. So we plan on doing it in this case also. Reporter cosby accused of of molesting dozens of women over many years all of the other cases are in civil court. But prosecutors in this criminal trial now say theyll attempt to bring 13 other accusers to the witness stand to establish a pattern of bad behavior by cos cosby. The defense did not take questions but in statements made after the session blasted the string of accusers and medias handling of their claims. The time has come for somebody somewhere to shine a spotlight on the trampling of this mans civil rights and that time is now. Smart man a long timing a said in injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Those words were true when they were spoken and they are true today. Victims of Se
I walk in, im color blind, i shea color is that . She goes lilac. Whats lilac. It is like purpose snell. Like a shade of purple. School is back in session, philadelphia student, we want to see your pictures of your kids dress in the lilac or fuchia. Send them to us using social media fox 29 goodday. All right, sue serio, a better day of kids back on the bus. Thats right. Philadelphia public schools, it is their first day of school today. So big day in the city. We still have the storm swirling off shore. It is not officially hermine any more. We still call it hermine, but her kahn center not issuing any more advisories on the storm. It is weakening but it is still there. It did spread couple every showers into the shore points over night. Well keep an eye on. That will dry, still breezy in philadelphia, temperature walking out the door if you are right now, few folks Walking Around there, 74 degrees, 68 relative humidity, a 9mile per hour winds out of the north northwest and sunrise ti