So after repeatedly declining our requests for on camera comment we caught up with the mayor outside his office. Come on. Chester mayor Thaddeus Kirk lapped responding to concerns from neighbors and Community Leaders all wanting to know why city officials have seemingly kept a low profile after an 11yearold boy was shot by a stray bullet while he sat inside his home over the weekend. The shooting comes as chester faces another round of gun violence. Its 20th homicide happened hours before the child was struck. We dont rush to the scene because theres some persons that like rushing to the scene and being seen and want to know where mayor and council are. Mayor and council, we have a Police Department and what we do we try to stay out of the way so that our Police Department can do their investigation. The mayor taking issue with Community Members like pastor Calvin Williams who told us people here have been upset their elected officials have not been publicl publicly addressine violent
Farm in Lehigh County and continues to burn more than eight hours later. Were live. A new year brought a wave of retirements for the Chester Police department while residents are concerned city Officials Say they are not short staffed. Prepare for a windy wednesday and then accuweather says get ready for an arctic blast later this week in may come with some snow. Well, lets find out more about that. Well go over to dave murphy. Hes got accuweather and karen rogers has a look at your traffic. Good morning. Off to a somewhat cloudy start and some of you might run into some patchy fog early this morning. You can see there are some breaks to the clouds to the west and were going to be dry dan it does look like we will return at least some sunshine into play as we go through the morning and afternoon. 44 degrees currently in philadelphia. 44 in wilmington. Similar to yesterday. 42 degrees in allentown and reading though and thats a little bit milder than yesterday. 44 in millville. Notice h
Girl has been hurt there. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. She wants something done to keep her baby girl safe. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson has been talking with that mom live in hunting park right now. Shawnette. Reporter lucy, so the first thing we did was we contacted the daycare. They referred us to their corporate offices. We left a message but have not heard back from them yet. In the meantime, this mom has taken her child out of the daycare. She says this is not the first time Something Like this has happen. You dont expect to pick up your kid from child care and see their face beat up like that. Reporter take a look what has this mother so upset. Her one and a halfyearold daughter savannahs face bruised she says another child at the daycare bit her daughter repea repeatedly. As severe her bite marks are he bit her and latched on to her face. Dont know exactly for how long but it wasnt like a close and open. Veronica says staff at bright side academy on front and erie ca
Repeatedly. As severe her bite marks are he bit her and latched on to her face. Dont know exactly for how long but it wasnt like a close and open. Veronica says staff at bright side academy on front and erie called her tuesday to tell her what happened. She says she was shocked to see the bruising when she pick up her daughter. I was already upset. I want an explanation. Reporter she claims it happened three other times over the past two months. She had one bite on her finger. One bite on her finger. One on her arm and one on her arm again. The last time was last week. Reporter this is an incident detailing the last incident. It states that savannah was bitten by another child when they were both reaching for the same toy. Veronica doesnt feel the daycare is taking the issue seriously. The child is one years old. You know, i dont have an issue with the child. Kids do bite. You know, im not upset with the mother neither. Shes not the one watching my child. Im upset that these people get