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ties. fox 29 spoke to his grandfather tonight about his family s devastating loss. good evening thanks for joining us. 19 year old quinn lucas shanks man the only american aboard the plane. his grandfather is visiting relatives in south jersey. fox 29 s shawnette wilson talk with him tonight. shawnette. the family as you can imagine is hurting to night. the victim s grand fat held back tears when i spoke with him he still cannot believe the same tragedy he learn of on the news also claimed grandson s life. as a grand parent you just hope 91 of your children or the grandchildren go before you. and now it has happen. this is the first time it s happened in our family. reporter: ronald is tearful and heart broken after learning his family is one of many tragically touched by the downed malaysian airline jet in ukraine thursday. his 19 year old grandson quinn was killed in the only american on board. enormous. he didn t understand it. it s so useless. it s so sens ....
bells of marmora swimming shore. coast guard and state police immediately launche launched a e operation. bittle operating a pan toon boat when it struck buoy. both men were tossed overboard. one of the boat crews did recover a shoe that is believed to be from the owner operator. 25-foot was focused on the icw the inland waters. and the 47-foot lifeboat concentrating in the areas around the inlet. reporter: staff at his marina too upset to talk. they re holding out hope for the experienced boater and racer. god bless and him and his family at this point right now. reporter: new jersey state police are leading this investigation. they ve already interviewed the survivor trying to figure out how this accident happened. lucy? thank you very much, sabina. happening now, boosted security at citizens bank park. phillies fans are seeing something little different as they head into it to into toni. chris o connell live at citizens bank park tonight. how goes it, ch ....
heard a big thud and then i heard, um, help, help, help! screaming i knew it was somebody in the water. eyewitness describes the frightening moments after a boat struck a buoy in longport catapulting two men on board into the water around 11:30 last night. coast guard officials identify the boat s operator as 44 year old andrew whittle egg harbor township scene here on his company s facebook page. he s still missing his passenger 23 year old justin bells was able to swim to shore and call police. one of the boat crews recovered a shoe believed to be from the owner operator. people experience him as an experienced boater. staff at the marina are holding out help. it can be strenuous and tiring when you re trying to search for that long. and that focused but that s we re trained to do. reporter: now new jersey state police are taking the lead in this investigation. they say they do have the pontoon boat that bit physical was operating and they re checking it f ....
the only real takeaway is that we re nowhere near a deal. hence why the market nose dived. dow plummeting 185 points. nasdaq falling 1.29%. why ticktock portfolio? because it s becoming evident that we don t have just one traumatic worry ahead of us, the fiscal cliff itself, but a second one, which is that time s not on the side of the compromisers anymore. there s just too much going on in washington to presume that even like-minded people can wrest the debate from the partisan extremists of either party, those who sink below and not rise above. even if you re confident that a deal can be reached someday, you had to have your breath taken away by the first question from the press after the president gave an impassioned statement about the need to avert the cliff that s going to raise everybody s taxes and just cause such havoc. that s because the question was about general petraeus. not the financial time bomb facing us. oh, no. petraeus? petraeus? don t you know this ....
did you sexually abuse him, sir? no. did you make an admission to his mother that you did? no. tonight fox 29 investigates. a teen is left bloodied and battered by a bar cued today that jumped into his boat. the nightmare he never dreamed he s survive. stormy wednesday night lightning and rain sending baseball fans running for cover at citizens bank park. forcing a delay and the park came out and now the storms are threatening other parts of our area. good evening, i m lucy noland. i m iain page. let s get right over to chief meteorologist scott williams. what busy night it has been. take look at ultimate doppler. still lit up across the area. showers and thunderstorms moving through producing heavy rain. vivid lightning as well as gusty winds right now heavy rain in cherry hill, moving toward bensalem also we move toward the pocono mountains lehigh valley a little bit of a break but some trees reported down around the jim shore area with that squall l ....