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WTXF Fox 29 Morning News At 5a June 21, 2024

Take numbers off for heat ape humidity. We have a heat advisory from the National Weather service because with more humidity heat index is close to a hundred. This is in effect from noon to 8 00. Right in the middle of the afternoon if you dont do anything outside avoid that time because that is the hottest with early or do it late if you have to do any outdoor activities. If you are out outside stay cool and watch these temperatures climb. They will be near one hub degrees with the heat index. Already in the mid 70s. We will climb in the 90s at least by noon, it could be 90 by noon. A quick warm up today and then we have one or two showers, or storms to watch. Not like yesterday just an isolated shower or storm north and west, heat index 95 at least, maybe close to hundred degrees. Not much relief overnight tonight, down in the mid 70s, a warm muggy night but there is rehe life from the heat in the seven day forecast, i will that have coming up bobbies on the way to Rehoboth Beach Traffic Authority updates this morning. There is a truck fire. This is right near state road and ashburner street so use caution in that area ben franklin bridge this morning looking clear, one or two trucks cars. Volume starting to increase but no slow spots on the area roads. Mass transit is okay there is no problems out there and bobbies of course on his way to rehoboth. He will start giving you traffic reports at 6 00 from dolle as in Rehoboth Beach thrashers, royal treat restaurant and fun land, coming from fun land too chris and lauren back to you. A fire burns through an Apartment Building in Delaware County. Eighty people are out of the place to stay. Lets go to Jennifer Joyce in lansdowne with more jen good morning. Reporter good morning lauren and chris. Temporary shelter has been set up to help 80 people now without a home this morning. A man passing by the Stratford Manor apartment complex yesterday was able to capture this scene on his cell phone as flames ripped through the north and South Building who were evacuated. They ran out and into the streets. Officials said one person was rescued and transported to a local hospital for smoke inhalation. People living hearsay it was tough for them to watch their home go up in flames. When i first walk out it was black smoke. Then the flames came. It rose really quickly. I saw the flames coming out of the basement. You could see it from the third floor. I just want my medicine my pocketbook and get in my car and leave. We get so many false alarms that i talk to my neighbors and they didnt come out because we get so many. Reporter in addition to the one person rescued we know a number of pets were brought out of the building as well. Other people who were not home at the time were stunned to return to a fire damage property. As many as 80 people were affect by the fire and official does not know the cause. It remains under investigation lauren and chris. 5 04. New this morning, gunshots ring out in south philadelphia. Police are looking for the shooter, of course. Police say as many as eight shots were fired on the 600 block of mifflin street h this happened around midnight. One man was hit in the leg and last reported in stable condition. Two cars were also hit by bullets. Police say they have very little to go on. In north philadelphia a man was taken to the hospital in Critical Condition, after being shot multiple times shooting happened at 11th and west ontario around 11 30, no word on the shooter in either one of these cases. New Jersey Fire Department chief locked up on charges he distributed child pornography. Prosecutors say they will review turned up 1,000 files of child porn. Fox 29s steve keeley is live in audubon park, this morning and steve, one image is bad enough a thousand, even worse. Reporter well look when the 35 volunteer Fire Fighters, last reelect a leader it was this guy four years ago. All of them here just on the new jersey side of the walt whitman bridge along the black horse pike, a two minute drive as soon as you get off the the bridge. They pick 44 yearold john terruso whom we have a picture of who is the fire chief they had in idea what lurked underneath. One of those fellow volunteer firemen is the mayor of the audubon park says terruso really had everybody surprised, that they dont even know how to describe their feelings. That is how stun and shock they were. But on the internet, the state attorney yen says terruso did not hide his graphic disturbing massive collection of children being raped abused and videotaped. Im angry im sad, im angry that somebody could do this to my fire company and my chief whom we have trusted all these years. Thinks outstanding fire Company Without standing member who volunteers day in and day out and to put their life on the line and for one individual to do an individual act to break down this entire company. Im in shock. I just cant believe it. Just wave hi, never would have imagined Something Like this oh, my god. Almost not surprised. I dont know the man personally to say some of those things you are but you hear about this sort of stuff all the time now. It is always somewhere something on the internet with that. People to have wake up and learn, you cannot getaway with this stuff and cant be doing these things and somebody is watching. Reporter terrusos Facebook Page said he went to villanova university, lives in marlton and has two sons no age known just now. He is living, new in the Camden County jail, where he is going to get lets say treated had maybe in the so nicely by the other inmates in there because he has to come up with the full 150 you this dollars bail, to get out. That is cash. Not just 10 percent. He is likely going to have his family scrambling to find that six figure cash fast because even jail inmates have their own special outrage for Child Predator charged people and they often do not wait for a conviction to carry out a punishment. So time cannot be so nice for his first morning in jail, probably didnt sleep much. Probably wont for a while steve, thank you. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey says rush to get information out on the street, of brandon taitbrown led to false information. Commissioner now saying that the police were caught between the medias demand for quick information and the need for a thorough investigation, first. Brandon taitbrown was shot and killed by police in september. At first police say he was reaching for a gun but Surveillance Video shows taitbrown was running around the back of the car when he was shot. 5 07. Thousands of dollars worth of electronics were stolen from a Catholic School in west elementary. On wednesday night Saint Ignatius elementary on the 600 block of north fortythird street had a private event. Police believe after it was over the building was lock. Someone broke the lock and took computers. They took 30ipad, three lap tops and 2i books and police say they are now priceless to students. The school doesnt have money to replace them and as School Year Starts backup in september it will be a struggle for the kid in the community to be able to learn. Computers are worth an estimated 18,000. Police say the thief will try to he will is all of it. Students in springfield Delaware County will get a New High School but the taxpayers in the town, were not going down without a fight. They argued that the renovations would cost 90 milliondollar while an entirely new school will cost almost double that 150 million. In the end the board voted eightone in favor of the building of the new school. The boards options are hoe they hope to have that school open in five years. Could new jersey middle and High School Students get to sleep in a bit later. A bill moving through state legislature having the Education Department studying benefits and issues in starting the school day just a little later. Assembly set to vote on the measure. The Senate Passed the same measure in september. New Jersey Assembly unanimously passed a bill for swatting. Those are perhaps calls nerd to get a large response to police. Measure makes swatting a Second Degree crime meaning someone convicted, could have to pay fines up to 150,000 or serve prison time up to ten years. The new Jersey Senate introduced a swatting bill yesterday, Officials Say swatting has increase add cross the state at a huge cost to municipalities. The ppa may be able to write you ticket for more than parking violations soon. That is just great. Jim kenney, democratic nominee for mayor, wants to give the philadelphia parking third the power to write tickets for littering. Dumpster violations and blocking sidewalks. In an interview with philly. Com kenney says ppa officers are valuables boots on the ground. Head of the Parking Authority agrees and says proposal is close and absolutely a good idea. Yesterday i saw a woman from parking wars who gave me my first philadelphia ticket on the prowl, jfk. Yes. I also got a ticket too by the way. How much good 36. I got one for 51 and i had the plaquard and whole thing and they still gave me the ticket. I better not litter. You pull something out of your pocket and they will be a receipt falls out and you dont even know it, they will write you up there. Unbelievable. Coming up, they are still out there search for two prisoners, are focused on the area right near prison for which they escaped from upstate new york. Hacking of Government Employees personal information goes way beyond what was first reported. Dear fellow citizen, kids are a great thing. Before you know it theyre in college. If youre lucky, they get a degree in finance and figure out how to pay for it. Could happen. But just in case it doesnt, i can help. We have new Student Loans others dont offer. Next time you have a question about how to pay for college ask me. Sincerely, Jared Duemling, fellow ninja and fellow citizen taylor swift is in town performing this weekend at the link, also across the street, Barry Manilow. You call her t swift, is that you you just call her that. Yes. I call you murph. Im not famous like her. She sold out the link, twice. That is huge. She is a big deal. She must be one of the biggest artists in the world. And from reading, pennsylvania. I think she was born in this area and moved and grew up somewhere else. Barry manilow right across the parking lot at the same time. Crazy in south philadelphia a all weekend. It will be hot even down the shore. We will be south of there in rehoboth, delaware for our spring fling on friday. Spring fling is over. Were down the shore it is still spring until the 21st. We have a few more days. That is still valid, that works. But certainly can feel summer like out there today with the temperatures climbing in the 90s. So right now upper 60s, mid 70s a very warm start. Warmer then yesterday. Even hotter day to day humidity has increased, that heat plus humidity. Your body cannot cool off like it could on a dry day. Whether he they combine it makes it feel very uncomfortable right in the afternoon. Ultimate doppler clear. Maybe some relief with the heat with a shower or then are storm not until later today and mainly north and west a long with the heat and humidity air quality issue this air quality this air quality alert has expanded now, it does include berks county and lehigh valley, that is the sunshine and that creates some pollution there at the surface. Watch that. Still a problem. Worse then yesterday. Heat advisory because heat and humidity make it feel close to a hundred. That will happen in the middle of the afternoon. Any relief will be in the form of the shower or then are storm, nothing here at noon, but maybe by about two or 3 00 we are starting to see a few showers very isolated showers north and west but it looks like that will be the main area that we see that rain. Certainly not coming down in philadelphia. Certainly south jersey inland will not get that relief. 93 degrees, that heat index is up to about a hundred, a a few showers and thunderstorms today. Heat advisory from noon to 8 00. Two to 5 00 we will see highest heat index values. Relief is what we want in the seven day forecast. We dont get that until sunday. After the shower or then are storm saturday, cloud will keep temperatures right about 90, could be a heat wave there, third day in a row no chance on sunday relief with the temperature of 84. Showers and storms monday and tuesday. Tuesday we will get hot again up to 90 and then drops down to will five on wednesday. Thursday 87 with showers and then are storm. Bobbies on the way to rehoboth. He will be there at 6 00. Ill give you Traffic Authority update now. It looks like we are at 76 at girard. Things moving nicely this morning, justin creased volume but no major problems there. Route 42 freeway all clear this morning a few cars, no major problems this morning one problem we have is a truck fire in holmesberg state road and ashburner street. Use caution in that area. Because of this they have extra subways. They have volume there around the link tonight and tomorrow, Barry Manilow as well. Busy weekend there in south philadelphia. Extra subways are running, for tonights concert and its fernrock to at t station there. They are put something extra subways in. A as we start at 6 00 bobbies in rehoboth, dolles candy landis where he is starting, they will have activities coming your way all morning from 6 00 until 10 00 oclock and chris and lauren, back to you. 5 17. Authorities may be closing in on two escaped convictness upstate new york. Officials say bloodhound pick up a strong scent that could blank to richard matt and david sweat. Governor cuomo says the law will come down hard, his word on anyone who may have help those two convicted killers escape. This is as suspicions swirls around a prison employee who may have given the pair a set of power tools they need to break out. Grand jury will deciding whether two officers will Face Criminal Charges in the the shooting death of the 12 yearold boy in cleveland. Officers timothy low man and Frank Garback were responding to a call about a man waving a gun when they spotted tamer rice. Footage shows tamer reaching for a beebee gun from his waist band when he was shot twice in the stomach. I dont think that they are terrible men. They may regret what they d maybe they didnt do it on purpose but they dit. When you make mistakes like that you have to be accountable. When you are a Police Officer and called upon a scene a man pointing a gun and then you walk up, do you ask that person is that gun real or not real. A Cleveland Court judge ruled, thursday that there is probable cause to bring charges against the officers but his ruling is largely symbolic because he cannot force prosecutors to act. A cyber hack that left millions of governmental employees personal information exposed is even worse than the Obama Administration previously admitted to. The president of the American Federation of Government Employees say hackers now have data on every federal employee every federal retiree and as many as 1 million former federal employees. Lawmakers have blamed the chinese for the hack but they have not specifically said if they believe the government is responsible or chinese individuals. New rules affect internet traffic go into effect today after federal court refused to block them in february. Fcc voted to forbid cable phone and mobile companies from slowing or blocking legal internet content so that the companies could favor web sites who pay them for more speedy access. Net neutrality that is term. Telecommunication industry and others filed a lawsuit to appeal the ruling saying the rules are burdensome and violates federal law. Pentagon has released numbers on the huge amounts it is costing the u. S. To fight isis. The price tag so far 2. 7 billion, that is an average daily cost, of about nine milliondollar to fight terrorist group in iraq and another use. Cost includes daily combat, aircraft flights and special operations, congress has debated and reject legislation that would have banned spending on the combat operations until lawmakers pass a new war powers resolution. Happening overnight authorities in road island arrest a third suspect in connection with the boston terror plot. Nicholas was taken from his home in Warwick Rhode island it comes a week after rahim was shot by, terrorism investigators. Officials say he and david wright had planned a imminent attack on quote boys in blue. David wright was arrested last week on charges of conspiracy with obstruction of a federal investigation. A virginia teen pleads guilty in federal court to helping isis. Seventeen yearold faces up to 15 years in prison. He is accused of helping another person travel to syria to join isis and to support the terrorist group on line, via his blog. And twitter. He also allegedly provided Financial Support for isis through on line Banking Systems and his sentencing hearing is scheduled for late august. Prosecutors released new information about the pilot who purposely crashed that germanwings plane in the side of the f

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