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
To sea, thats when well see things heat up. This is margate showing you a view of the shore right now. We still have a rip current threat and the skies are getting a little darker with rain off in the distance. That is one thing were continuing to watch for the rest of the day, high risk of rip currents through this evening because of hermine just sitting off the coastline. The winds are still a little breezy because of this. Mostly the north wind direction, in philadelphia and wilmington, 17mileanhour winds in Atlantic City. Breezy for the rest of this evening. Our temperatures today, though, 86 degrees right now in philadelphia. New jersey coming in mostly mid to low 80s. Lehigh valley about the mid80s. Things are heating up. If you look at the sevenday scrolling right at the bottom of your screen, youll see we have a stretch of 90s in the forecast. Another heat wave. So summer is not officially over yet. Well take a closer look at the heat wave coming and whether that will last into
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
About 2 million over the course of a 10year contract. But the majority of residents here are vehemently against the move. Many of them making their presence known at the Council Meeting tonight. Many want their local police force patrolling their streets. Their Police Officers about 150 residents stuffed inside this tiny Borough Council chambers. Windows had to be opened so people could watch from the outside. The plan is to disban the department of 10 parttime officers and its fulltime police chief a very contentious meeting on a very passionate issue. If you take them aware whats going to happen our little town penndel, the drugs come in. The guns come back. People are going to be robbed and stealing. Where is everyone going to be. The borough is kind of up against financial straits. We dont have a lot of room left to increase tacks. We just recently had a pretty big tax increase on our residents so were already straining them. Reporter there are a couple Police Officers right now st
Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11. The future of a local Police Department is up in the air. The Small Department is fighting to survive as town leaders propose disbanding them to save money. Good evening, im iain page. Lucy is off tonight. Its heated issue as you can imagine. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell live in penndel, bucks county. Chris this department has got a lot of community support. Reporter yeah, this is a major controversy in this small buck county borough of just 2400 residents, iain. Borrow council tonight is poised to vote on firing its entire Police Department. Borrow council telling me tonight here in penndel says the Police Department just costs the borough too much money, and cracking with nearby middletown township could save the borough about 2 million over the course of a 10year contract. But the majority of residents here are vehemently against the move. Many of them making their presence known at the Council Meeting tonight. Many want the