He came face to face with gunman this morning trying to rob him and he says an angel saved him. Tonight, hes telling his story from a hospital bed. Thank you for joining us at 11 coliseum lucy noland. That man was on his way to his job as a septa bus operator. When a man shot him. Our Dave Schratwieser is live at septa head quarter its. Dave this isnt the only Armed Robbery police are investigating in the area. Reporter theyre looking at a couple more lucy. Robert wouldnt gus is resting in the hospital awaiting surgery tomorrow morning to repair a fractured leg that was caused by this shooting. He says he was walking to work at 4am this morning when a gunman approached him, demanded his money and then shot him when he tried to get away. Im hanging in there. Everything is sore but iming in. From item tell University Hospital bed wounded septa bus operator spoke out tuesday night over the phone. Telling fox 29 how a would be article robber opened fire on him on his way to work. Demanded
Im hanging in there. Everything is sore but iming in. From item tell University Hospital bed wounded septa bus operator spoke out tuesday night over the phone. Telling fox 29 how a would be article robber opened fire on him on his way to work. Demanded everything i had and i seen the car coming down the street, i decided to just run for tour the car and thats when he started shooting at me. Reporter 47yearold wongus who usually drives to work walked Tuesday Morning to this bus stop around 4 00 a. M. Because his car was in for repairs. He was shot in the leg and left bleeding in the middle of the ridge avenue when a driver pulled over to help. He was my angel. This morning he was my angel. Like i said god wasnt ready for mow because im sure if he was, the guy could have took my live at any time. We heard like three shots. Oh, my gosh whats that. Reporter police are trying to determine if the shooting here in the 3100 block of ridge was part of a pattern of gun point robberies in the are
To his families back and forth to the mansions. Slim calls the president shady during the bet hip hop awards. Good day philadelphia, 5 00 a. M. , starts right now. It is straight up 5 01, thank you so much for waking up with us, joining us on this very early wednesday. Half way through this week. Good morning, gang. Really doesnt feel early here at 5 01. Guess what today is . What . National take your par dont lunch day. Oh, goodness. For my kids, im wait willing, i have my phone right here. First one in get the best appointment. I have a feeling we may be waiting. Waiting, waiting. Good morning, sue. Oh, wow, my moms in baltimore, thats going to be a long lunch trip. An hour drive . Right. Just be prepared for the windshield wipers, little later on today, because we do have rain in the forecast for today. Lets just say, were beginning an unsettled stretch of weather for the next couple of days. Six out of ten today, with bus stop buddy. Hes got the rain gear with him. The possibility
Bruno . Look at all of that gold. Yep, he brought the 24 car al gold tour to philly. Did you see it . What did you think . Highlights from the show coming up. Hey, if you went last night and you got all dressed up whatever in gold, show us some pictures, sends it to us what, whats our hashtag again . Fox 29 goodday. Ya. We did see some creative outfits, though. Good day to you, it is wednesday, october the 11, 2017. Many things to get to. So pictures of that. And i know we have to talk about, whats it called, the lightning fly . Lantern fly. Lantern fly bugs. If you have pictures on your trees, sends those in, too. Theyre taking over, sue. Yes. Welcome back, alex. Welcome back, alex. I think shes a little sleepy. Went to see bruno mars last night. Yes, all good. Six out of ten today. We have rain in the forecast, get ready for it, bus stop buddy is. Our temperatures are mostly in the 60s. Not as many 70s as we saw this time yesterday. So here is some rain to the south of us. Here is so
Afghanistan with Operations Commander general john campbell. On newsmakers this week, we are joined by congressman adam schiff of california. He is the top democrat on the house Intelligence Committee. He also serves on the House Select Committee on benghazi. To help with our questions, we are joined by Niall Stanage, associate editor of the hill newspaper, and ryan lucas, intelligence reporter with cq roll call. Ryan lucas has the first question. Congressman schiff, thank you for talking to us today. I wanted to start off with the announcement from the white house that it was essentially scrapping the train and equip program for syrian rebels. Instead of training and equipping them, they are going to essentially provide information to vetted insurgent leaders and then small packages of equipment to then send back with them. So that they can kind of be force enhancers in syria. Is this plan the way that the white house has outlined it is this something that you think would be more effe