the family of a police officer shot in the line of duty. announcer: nbc 10 news starts now. a fight leads to shots fired inside a philadelphia police officer s home. the victim is the officer s relative, and he s in critical condition. good evening. i m jacqueline london. the shooting happened inside the house on taunton street in northeast philadelphia. nbc 10 s brandon hudson joins us live. brandon, police will only say the officer s gun went off. reporter: that s right, jacqueline. but they won t say how it fired. that officer is being questioned. detectives are in front of his house. you can see them right there. the crime scene unit is here. that means forensic investigators are inside the house as we speak. police say this started as an argument and then escalated quickly. philadelphia police cars and crime scene tape surrounded a home on taunton street where nbc 10 learned an off-duty cop s family member was shot. police say it began as an argument between the re
latest. it is still spinning off our coastline, slowly trying to move back in our direction. it s not going to move on land, but as it does so and gets a little bit closer, the winds will be increasing a little bit today and we could see some showers along some of our shore points. they re not going to swing farther inland, though. here s a live look, a little bit closer. here you see those areas of clouds moving into ocean county. and we could see some rain around later on today. but the other big threat that this is still causing for us is the rip current threat. this is going to go through this evening. the entire jersey shore, the delaware beaches, high risk of rip currents, rough seas. so if you are still at the shore today, this is not a day where you want to be getting in the water. conditions through the rest of the area, pretty nice. 81, philadelphia. 83 degrees in wilmington. our shoretowns, though, right around 80 at the moment. 80 degrees, ocean city. 82, cape m
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 they ll 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 media s handling of their claims. the time has come for somebody somewhere to shine a spotlight on the trampling of this man s 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
anyone he s the guy he ll get through this. he s going to recover. reporter: cross and chisholm captured after intense manhunt following the shooting. investigators haven t said who shot the officer. a nine year veteran of the force. pba president matt rogers praised officer vadell for his bravery in the line of duty. we re human underneath all of this, and unfortunately he became the victim of very violent crime and he s on the road to recovery. now the pba says officer vadell is improving. gofundme page set up to help him with his medical expenses has now surpassed $52,000. dawn? all right, thank you, dave. philadelphia police have launched an eternal inch affairs investigation to determine if an officer will be charged for shooting a relative last night while the officer was off duty at his home on taunton street in northeast philadelphia. after an argument police say the officer fired his gun at least two times. the relative who was hit was last listed in crit
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. it s call part of a national movement to get more dads involved in their children s lives. good evening, i m dawn timmeney. lucy is off. i m iain page. organizers say it can help inspire countless children to do great things. fox 29 s shawnette wilson is live at city hall tonight. shawnette. reporter: it s a powerful thing happening tomorrow. fathers all over the city plan to walk their children to school then join o
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, i m iain page. lucy is off tonight. it s heated issue as you can imagine. fox 29 s chris o connell 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 10-year contract. but the majority of residents here are vehemently against the move. many of them making their presence known at the council mee
about $2 million over the course of a 10-year 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 part-time officers and its full-time police chief a very contentious meeting on a very passionate issue. if you take them aware what s 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 don t have a lot of room left to increase tacks. we just recently had a pretty big tax increase on our residents so we re already straining them. reporter: there are a couple poli
local kids just went back to school tis week. it will be a short week. the week getting shorter. early dismissals. our karen hepp shows us how things are too hot to handle for schools in the city. here at rhawnhurst school one of the many that does not have central air. a lot of kids are happy about having half day tomorrow. many of the parents are not. the kids have extra big bounces in their steps but for the parents who just got the children back to school and in routines, they re scrambling. now i have to figure out how to get out of work early, come and pick them up. because there s no after care when they come out early. reporter: leka minute ski teaches after care. her program has to get extra people for the extra hours. we find so find a sub to come in we re only staffed for our ratio. we have to we ll have to get somebody to come in and cover. reporter: one look at these cute smiling and sweaty faces you can see the problem it s really hot in schools wi
about? moisture wrapped air mass here, it feels so steamy, currently in the low 80s in philly but actually feels like it is flirting with 90 already. now, as the day progresses, with that heat, humidity, still baking up here at the surface, we expect to hit 93, that s awfully close, to the daily record. and it may feel as hot at 103, 104, and the bottom line, yes, you have bad enough temperatures on thermometer, but my advice is that you just tack 10 degrees on, that s how it will feel. now, coming up: there is another shot for us to see some wet weather in the forecast here. so we are going to be tracking another more potent cold front, another higher risk to tomorrow, specially, so we track that for you later in the show, meantime we also talk about the heat advisory in effect until 6:00 tonight, meisha. yikes. thank you. looking outside, speaking of yikes, delaware state line around 95 southbound, so, we ve got live chopper three over us right now showing you some of the
clearfield streets when police officers tried to pull over the suv that was reported stolen, the driver quickly pulled away and as it was fleeing police it rammed a police officer s car and then started flying flew the streets of port richmond. police opened fire on the suv. but it continued driving. now, police initially started the pursuit but then backed off moments later. they followed the car to ann and richmond streets here where it crashed into a cub curb it looks like a philadelphia police transport van tried to put a pull a pitt maneuver and that was successful. that suv crashed. a woman who was driving was taken into custody. witnesses explain what they saw. that car had just been thrown up in that position right there, and i was behind about five police cars right here right on that about 20 feet behind the car. and what was on my mind thank god the police didn t end the chase and they got this person who was obviously completely reckless and looking to harm