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radar. you can see the heavy stuff coming in tonight. glenn hurricane schwartz here with us. glenn, it s going to be a soaker tonight, isn t it? yeah, tonight and this is just the beginning of a very wet pattern. we ve had a couple of weeks without any rain and now we re going to catch up in a hurry. over the last couple of hours we ve already seen some showers move through the philadelphia area and now up toward the lehigh valley and the poconos. some of this on the heavy side right near allentown now, i-78 headed up towards the poconos, but that is nothing compared to this area that is going to be moving in later on tonight and perhaps into first thing in the morning. now we can see as we go through the evening we re going to be seeing some scattered showers and maybe a thunderstorm. this is the rainfall rate, obviously, when you get into the oranges and the reds, that s the heaviest stuff. and we re generally talking after midnight for the worst of this. at lea ....
right not disturbing act of animal cruelty. neighbors call horrifying backyard in philadelphia s loy began section. now, police want to find out who is behind it. good evening, i m iain page. i m lucy noland. we do want to warn you the details of this one are very hard to hear. fox 29 s jennifer joyce is live at the philadelphia spca tonig tonight. jennifer, this is just rocking the community. reporter: it is. it s absolutely horrifying, lu lucy. pennsylvania spca says that a five-year-old dog was murdered and two of her pups were stolen. they re still missing tonight. i m just hurt. my stomach is flipping. reporter: devastating 36 hours for tanya thomas. yesterday she says her five-year-old female pitbull named mamma and her two puppies sheba and marvelous were stolen out of her backyard. tonight ya ll ready. she showed us where mamma was found dead hanging by her own leash on the back of her neighbor s fence in the logan section of the city. i don ....
five-year-old female pitbull named mamma and her two puppies sheba and marvelous were stolen out of her backyard. tonight ya ll ready. she showed us where mamma was found dead hanging by her own leash on the back of her neighbor s fence in the logan section of the city. i don t know why did you this to my dog. that s cruel and it s not it s nothing in it. why would you want to hurt the dog. reporter: george bengal of the spca says the hanging was intentional. the way the animal was put up on the fence there was no way the animal jim jumped and hung itself. reporter: bengal says the dog had no other physical signs of trauma. no blood, and no bruising. i can t imagine why someone would do what they did here. whether this is a revenge kind of thing, you know, if there s a neighbor dispute going on here, i don t know about. no stranger will walk up to her. it s somebody she knows. reporter: thomas didn t hear anything, bengal thinks someone else did. ....
suv kind of smashed up. we do know the officer was taken to temple hospital. but we do know their condition right now. wild scene played out at philadelphia holmesburg neighborhood. police say a driver slammed into several squad cars. you can see what happened there. good evening, i m lucy noland. i m iain page. thanks for joining us. let s get right out to fox 29 s dave schratwieser life at the scene at rhawn and torresdale tonight. dave? reporter: iain, wild scene out here in holmesburg tonight on torresdale avenue. this starts at torresdale and cottman where a mercury marquis was being pulled over by narcotics officers from the 15th police district. as they approach the vehicle, the vehicle rammed into a car behind them. then allegedly tried to run into one of those plane clothes narcotics officers and took off. the car blew out front tire as you can see at the front end of this. as they were chasing it down torresdale avenue past bleigh street. here towards r ....
narcotics officers from the 15th police district. as they approach the vehicle, the vehicle rammed into a car behind them. then allegedly tried to run into one of those plane clothes narcotics officers and took off. the car blew out front tire as you can see at the front end of this. as they were chasing it down torresdale avenue past bleigh street. here towards rhawn street. collided with a philadelphia police car here 1512 and another car behind that. took off a second time. officers finally slowed the car down. they pulled over as if they were going to get out as they got out the car took off again and hit this 1512 car yet a second time. police were able to stop the car here at torresdale and rhawn street. both suspects got out a 51-year-old driver and 30-year-old passenger. during this pursuit police tell us the suspects were tossing drugs out of the vehicles. according to chief inspector scott small, they were pills and what they believe to be crack cocaine being ....