Whats that smell . The mystery hitting parts of the city and into the suburbs. Tonight, we track down where its coming from. And robbed at gun point on the way to work. Septa workers say enough is enough. Theyre tired of fearing for their lives and now they want protect. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. We begin tonight with breaking news. A double shooting in south philadelphia. And two, 16yearolds are dead. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im iain page. Im dawn timmeney. Those two boys died at the hospital. Our Dave Schratwieser is live at the scene with the breaking details. Dave. Reporter dawn, real tragedy here tonight at 12th and ritner in the heart of south philadelphia around 8 30 tonig tonight. Gunshots at least three were heard here on the corner. Two, 16yearolds were shot in the chest. They were race to do Jefferson Hospital by police. Ill step out of the scene. You can see very active crime seen a half block down here at 12th and ritner. Police, homicide detectives, crime scene unit
The scene with the breaking details. Dave. Reporter dawn, real tragedy here tonight at 12th and ritner in the heart of south philadelphia around 8 30 tonig tonight. Gunshots at least three were heard here on the corner. Two, 16yearolds were shot in the chest. They were race to do Jefferson Hospital by police. Ill step out of the scene. You can see very active crime seen a half block down here at 12th and ritner. Police, homicide detectives, crime scene units still on the scene here. We have some video from skyfox, i believe, were showing you right now. This was earlier around 8 30 tonight. Both boys were raced to Jefferson Hospital. Both were pronounced at the hospital according to police here on the scene. Both died from gunshot wound to the chest. We just spoke to chief inspector scott small. Heres what he had to say about what led up to the shooting. Preliminary information theyre both shot one time in the chest. Now, were getting information from witnesses that there were two group
A good thursday morning. Voters in montana head to the polls in just a few hours but the leading congressional candidate is now facing charges after allegedly assaulting a reporter. He is Republican Greg Gianforte who is accused of grabbing the reporter by the neck and slamming him to the ground overnight. At least three newspapers pulling their endorsements. Its a closely watched election where the Trump Administration campaigned for a win. Chaos on the eve of an election. You just body slammed me and broke my glasses. Reporter the republican candidate for montanas congressional race accused of body slamming a reporter from the guardian newspaper. In a recording of the alleged assault ben jacobs can be heard asking candidate Greg Gianforte about health care and then a scuffle. The cbo score. As you know youve been waiting to make your decision about health care until we saw the bill well talk to you about that later. Yeah, but speak with shane please. Im sick and tired of goos. The la
The child gave birth to other children through an inappropriate relationship. And do you know who these other children were in the home, these other 12 children . Were still investigating that. Bucks children and youth are investigating that along with some other agencies trying to identify their genealogy and who the parents are. As far as i know we havent been able to locate birth certificates. Multiple times ive driven by this house and seen young girls of various ages, children dressed mostly in amish clothing. Often afraid. They would look like once he would come out of the house like the male would come out of the house they would go running into the house. And you know, other neighbors are telling me that these girls would usually not talk. They were very scared. Some of the other little girls in this neighborhood would come and try to play with them but they would refuse and run back into the house. Police are now investigating whether any of those other 11 girls inside the hom
But just got thicker in mount holly and wrightstown. Toms river, zero visibility at this hour. 37 in pottstown and doylestown in the 30s. 45 at philadelphia international. It looks like roxborough at 45. Chillier northeast philadelphia. Chillier this morning, but a warmer afternoon. A quick warmup. 47 at 8 00, add 10 to that for 11 00 and by 2 00 this afternoon the southwest wind, some sunshine warming us into the 60s. Topping out near the record of 65. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when im back in 10 minutes. Jessica boyington is watching your first alert traffic. Were on 309 now. This is around susquehanna road. You can see no problems either direction. Drive times are down. And still down on the majors around philadelphia. 95 and the schuylkill expressway heading into center city no problems right now the blue route is great southbound from the schuylkill to 95, all the average speeds are late 50s and up so everybody is still moving along nicely. No probl