Transcripts For WPHL Action News At Ten On PHL17 20140928 :

Now being treated. Kenneth. And walter, this 8yearold girl lost a lot of blood. She has a number of whats called soft tissue injuries to her arm. She was flown from ai due front chop, where doctors are trying to save that arm. At the newark delaware home at councilman todd rubbingle theres signs warping outsideers but the family dog turned owe on rubbing ms 10yearold daughter. I feel awful. Police, paramedics and animal control rushed to the home 1 p. M. Where the pit bull viciously bit the child all over her body in the basement and caused a number of injuries to her arm. It was 15yearold sister who had to beat the dog off the girl and put pressure on her severely bleeding wounds. Its heroic to step in and put yourself in harms way to protect someone you love. The teenager called 911 but the dog was blocking their way out. Once officers arrived the girls escaped and police opened fire killing the pit bull. Theres no word in the councilman was at home. His wifes exhusband says his daughter was in the house at the time of the attack and shes safe. Its an american pit bull great dog. Your daughter was here as well. I was worried about both kids. I dont know. They are friends with theyearold victim of the mother worried for the safety of all the children. The dog was locked separately and they would have no contact with that. At last check the victim was listed as critical here at chop. Newark police say they are still investigating this pit bull attack. Walter. Reporting live, kenneth moton, action news at 10 on phl17. Thank you, kenneth. Charge have been filed in last nights hitandrun death of 73yearold man in philadelphias east mt. Airy section. The man just picked up his 13yearold grandson from football practice. They were driving through the intersection of east gorgus lane andardly when a suv hit the car. The driver and passenger were caught a short time later. The 73yearold man was pronounced dead at the hospital and the 13yearold is expected to be okay. Out of the new jersey newsroom a multialarm fire brought flames broke outside inside the warehouse on whiteon avenue. Tanks of molton glass ruptured. No reports of injuries. Also in new jersey a police in moorestown are looking for this man. He held up a 7 7 lech early this morning. The robber reportedly threatened the clerk with a gun and fled with unknown amount of cash. The manhunt continues today for accused copkiller eric frein is heavily wooded section of monroe county. A hard drive reveals he was plan ago tack against state troopers for two years. They also say that hard drive shows he searched for information about how to evade policeman hunts. Frein is accused of opening fire at a State Police Barracks Blooming Grove september 12 killing one troop erin injuring another. His sisterinlaw spoke with good morning america. Any idea why his brother may have shot at the troopers. We have no idea. How is michael doing. Hes in shock. That his brother would be capable of doing Something Like this. Investigators have recovered a bunch of clues within the perimeter they set up including weapon and ammunition. Theres been several sightings of person in the woods believed to be frein. An arrest warrant is issued for concierge in center city accused of burglarizing an apartment where he worked. Leonard burton was caught on surveillance camera. It happened at the west bury apartments on 200 block of south 15th street august 23. 7800 worth of items were taken. Well a peace rally took over the streets of wilmington today as dozens called for an end to gun violence there. Stop the violence stop the violence give us peace save our children members of a dozen churches and Community Groups carried tee shirts representing victims of homicide over the lasts two years. Demonstrateers pointed out 4 people were murdered in wilmington since december of 2 2012. This is an important march from folks all over Newcastle County to come out and spread a message of peace to make it clear to the people of wilmington that we care. And that we are engaged and witnessing peace on the streets of wilmington. And todays one mile peace march ended with valley at Brown Burton Winchester park. Time for a check of the accuweather forecast. Meteorologist karen rogers is here. Would you like one more. Absolutely why not . You can have one. Lets look temperatures around the region. 69 degrees right now. Not bad. Feeling all right. Temperatures short drop from 84 high today. 6 at allentown. 65 wilmington and 60 millville and mild area long the boards in ac. 67 degrees. I love this image of satellite 6 and action radar. You can not see. It it looks broken there. In fact no clouds out there yet. You have to go a little wider to see clouds in pittsburgh maybe moving way to central pa. Our region staying clear and nice in the overnight hours though we dip once again getting down to the low 50s in the west and clear skies and overnight low in the city and 51 millville and 57 cape may and watching patchy fog. If you head out late tonight in the overnight hours watch for that. Well come back to changes for the workweek. A group in Chester County is doing the part to help those affected by the deadly Ebola Outbreak in west africa. Today the volunteers received help from students at villanova. Annie mccormick reports. 70 villanova nursing students are packing to save lives filling containers with medical supplies for kupt is in need. Students, sister jacqueline miak have been in the receiving end of native ken yaxt. Mission relief headquarters is working on over time. We have hospitals where patients are just literally on the floor. So no beds and equipments are just needed but missing. We select from a wide area and build these 40 foot containers for africa and of course with ebola, its really ignited our business. Jim harrison Found Mission relief he gathered supplies from local hospitals and with the help from the organization likeville never anursing he packs the containers. He relies on donations for the 5,000 shipping costs. Funding for shipping dollars is a big hurdle this is easy part. Collecting and getting things together. The hospital wants to it dpe pendz on beds they have. Receiving one container is enormous help and packing one is lesson. And how much of an impact they have beyond villanova. It is a global perspective and what we teach now. Its not just whats happening the United States its just part of the world culture. Were part of everyone. And we do teach that in the classroom. And take a look at boxes completed with the help of the villanova Nursing Program and a Mission Relief is looking for more organizations and companies that will come out and help them sort and box forshipments they had in the future. Reporting in coatsville, annie mccormick, for action news at 10 on phl17. 95 veterans from the greatest generation were honored td at the at the glassster county and recipients included men and women who served in world war ii. They have issued more than 5,000 medals sinl the award was created in 2001. A college in texas is mourning loss of four student athletes following a bus crash in oklahoma. And also a volcano erupts in japan stranding unlucky climbers as ash spus into the sky and George Clooney takes the plunge in venice. Video of the oscar winner on his in venice. Video of the oscar winner on his way to say, i the lightest or nothing. The smartest or nothing. In venice. Video of the oscar winner on his way to say, i the quietest or nothing. The sleekest. Sexiest,. Baddest,. Safest,. Tightest,. Quickest,. Harshest. Or nothing. At mercedesbenz, we do things one way or we dont do them at all. Introducing the allnew cclass. The best or nothing. As you can see here a volcano erupted in central japan catching dozens of klipers off guard. Mount antaka spewed into the sky covering the area with ash and sending people running. 40 injured climbers are stranded. Cannot use helicopters to rescue because of thick ash. They cannot reach them by foot until tomorrow. 7 climbers are reported missing as well. Small College Community in texas is mourning tonight after four members of the School Softball team were killed in a bus crash. The crash involved a North Central Texas College Softball Team and it happened right around 9 00 last night in davis, oklahoma. A tractortrailer jumped center dive dieder and smashed into the bus. There with were no median bars years on to the the high wasnt and theyre looking into whether a barrier could have prevented the accident. Four players were killed. A dozen others were injured. These ladies are are, of course, our own and we love all of our students. The investigation includes toxicology tests on drivers involved. Things are slowly getting back to normal at parents across the country. Flights in own out of chicago and midway are cancelled and had a ripple effects on flights across the country. This afternoon 800 flights were cancelled at ohare alone. An employee attempted suicide and started fire he survived and will be charged. Damage at International Airport in phoenix today. Powerful storm forced officials to evacuate the air Traffic Control tower causing ground stoppage for an hour. High winds topleleed power lines and some falling ton cars. Cries were working to restore power to thousands of customers. Time for a check of the accuweather forecasts. Meteorologist karen rogers joins us once again. Weve been saying it what a perfect day karen. It was a perfect day, right, 84 for the high. Your weather lineup, stormtracker 6 double scan radar showing we are dry right now. This will be the best look of the rain when it comes later this week. Dry tonight. How about the temperatures. Its getting cool already. 61 in Martins Creek and 58 in quakertown already in the 50s. 60 in pottstown and st. Davids and 65 right now in chester and looking at suburbs in new jersey and delaware, 64 ewing and 64 browns mills and 65 degrees in surf city. A lot of people went down to the shore to enjoy the beautiful weather. 58 bridgeton and 6 12 in dover, delaware. Satellite 6 and action radar showing harldly any klouts out tlvrments we have a few streaming in. You see them out moving towards central pa right now keeping ion that and most clear skies tonight. Cool night tonight. Nice one. Look ago head to tomorrow morning. 58 at 6 30 in the morning if you head out early to services or visiting grandma. 56 allentown and 57 millville. Temperatures will be dipping in the overnight hours and then as we look at the day ahead on sunday 11 a. M. , 73. Feeling good already by 11 a. M. In the morning and this is a look at 11 a. M. , Lehigh Valley, 70, 72 trenton and millville and well be warming up from there it will be another day very much like we had today for beautiful weather headed your way. If you head out to ep joy and allentown mostly sunny skies, warm, 83. And down the shore if you finish your weekend off in atlantic city, you can expect lots of sunshine and nice high of 79. A lot of people in dover, delaware for the big nascar race weekend xtd we picked a great weekend for sure. Beautiful 9 a. M. 1 p. M. , 78. Walter looking good for you tonight and tomorrow. Sounds good. Thank you, karen. He once said he would never marry again. Tonight George Clooney is officially off the market. Sorry, karen. The actors confirmed the human rights lawyer amal, it was all smiles as they took the grand canal to the private ceremony. He rubbed hands in and as he disappeared into the hotels tenth covered pier. Congratulations. Chelsea clinton is now a new mom. She gave birth to a little girl last night. Chelsea announced the news last night saying she and her husband are filled with love and aw. Former president bill clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton say theyre blessed, grateful and happy to become grandparents. Cheryls other grandmom is former Montgomery County Congress Woman margie margolis. Lets look at sports after the break. He was not about to let a crippling knee injury keep them down. Crippling knee injury keep them down. In thank you cable. For the slower internet upload speeds. For making me wait longer to share my photo albums. Thank you, cable because if we never had you. We wouldnt know the incredible difference verizon fios makes. The numbers dont lie. In Customer Satisfaction studies, fios is rated 1 in Internet Speed and reliability, and hd picture quality. So join the millions who enjoy the difference fios makes and get a fios triple play online at an amazing price guaranteed for two years. Sign up now and get 300 back with a twoyear agreement. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v an incredible lesson in determination was handed down in central pennsylvania last night. Shawn smith of work revolution hit a game tying home run game three of Atlantic League playoffs and he hit first base funny and knee buckled and went down. He hopped all the way home as the crowd grew louder and louder. He shrugged off help along the way as well. When he arrived the team was there for the big celebration and turned out smith for tore his acl. He didnt have to hop any further his teammates carried him. Jeff skversky is live at the action news Sports Center with more on eagles. Tomorrow in San Francisco. Jeff. Hey, walter, after a very long six hour flight from philadelphia to San Francisco eagles coach chip kelly was so concerned about the entire team being jet lagged he had all of the guys stretching at the team hotel outside on the front lawn right by the lobby. That is not a joke. Take a look at chip kelly and eagles who are no, i rejuvenated and freshlegged. Eagles in santa clara tonight after the hotel stretch into the hotel eagles are hoping to stretch the record of 40. Beating 49ers will not be a stretch in the park. Ducis rogers catching up with the eagle snrz 12 you expect them to be desperate team. I wouldnt use the word desperate. Youre coming into their hometown in their stadium. You know theyll be eager to get a win. We have to play football. They have veteran guys and won a lot of games in the past and in the past couple years, too, im def nutly sure theyll be fired up for this one. Its football. Not a happy homecoming in happy valley for penn state. Runs for three touchdowns including this to put penn state down 140. Christian hackenburg and bill arguent sidelines. 296 the final. Worse loss at home in 13 years. Care about this team and Christian Hackenburg and playing better than anybody. I love those kids. We have to get it fixed and help them out. More College Football coming up later in sports. Well take a look at temple owls a big win for them and why aj burnett is trying aavoid a market is by steve carlton. More on that coming up later in sports, walter, back to you in the studio. Talk to you in a bit. Old friends for Old High School in philadelphia took a walk down monica malpassry lane tonight. Action cam was there at the Double Tree Hotel for germantown high reunion class of 1974. 40 years later the old classmates mingled and reminisced. Classmates mingled and reminisced. Germantown high no longer exists looking for one of these . Yoplait. Smooth, creamy, and craved by the whole family. Thats the sound of local wedding talent. Some families were told for the groom to serenade the bride before they tie the knot. Paepts of the bride hosted the party. Live dancing followed after the groom professed his love before closest family and friends this is uniquely south philadelphia italian tradition. I never heard of it. Coming up on the next half hour of action news a father from florida says a loaded begun was left inside his rental car and whats worst the 2yearold is the one that discovered it. And teenagers break out of heres some of the stories were cover fog you tonight. An 8yearold girl was mauled by family dog and it happened inside the home of counsel ill man todd rukkre her sister beat the dog off the sibling. The hunt for eric frein entererd its third week today. They believe they had contained the survivalist to a five mile search of his familys home. A hard drive search says frein plotted attack before he ambushed corporal brian digs son at the Blooming Grove barracks. Police are looking for a person that shot and killed a man in Strawberry Mansion overnight. I 30yearold man was shot once in the head west oak dale street before 1 a. M. He died at Temple University hospital. At least check police were working to identify the victim. Authorities are searching for a man from northeast philadelphia who suffer from alzheimers. Jean, juan ba teeingt was seen at his home on the 6300 block of algon avenue. He suffer from alzheimers and he speaks limited english 5 6 tall last seen wearing green shirt with black design and pants. If you see him call police. Well, police in new jersey have released 911 call after last weekends bear attack. We started running and it started chasing us. I was scared out of my mind for them. 22yearold doris patel was killed hiking with friends in the Nature Preserve last sunday. Officials say they found a 300 pound black bear circling his body. That bear was shot and killed. Patel was a senior at rutgers. They anoupsd theyre looking for two other hikeers in the area to help out about the investigation. A search team brought in k9 units with home of finding students from university of virginia that vanished two weeks ago. The 3yearold is expected in court on thursday. To face a change of abduction with intent to defile in Hannah Grahams