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Store up to 200 hours of entertainment in hd. Plus watch live tv anytime with the fios mobile app. Redefining what tv can be. Thats powerful. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of aweso awesome. Right now on fox 29, a developing story. A gunman storms local businesses and police are worried hell strike again. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Im dawn timmeney. Im iain page. The armed robber has hit three local businesses in one week. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose is live at southwest detectives to night. Sabina . Reporter two pizza shops an Grocery Store all just blocks from one another are robbed at gun point, ton night police are hunting for the man responsible. This man bought rubellas in may. Six weeks later he was robbed at gun point. That was last friday. It was kind of scary. You know, it was kind of scary. Family, kids, you know, this guy he was kind of shaky. The they have stole about 400 bucks from the register held a gun to the employees and robbed them. Hes angry but he says it wont scare him away. Not going to scare me. Its not going to stop me. You know. Its not going to stop me from what im doing. Reporter Surveillance Video shows the suspect robbing Grocery Store on thursday the latest in a string of robberies within the last week. Two pizza shops and Grocery Store all win a two block radius of each other. Police believe one man is responsible for all three robberies. He take money from the register and check everybodys pockets and took all the money. Pete pizza on 54th street was robbed on tuesday. The manager says he hopes police catch the suspect so his employees can feel safe coming to work. Make us feel uncomfortable working. Try to do the best thing for them and hope they can catch him as soon as possible. Reporter and again, tonight that suspect is still on the loose. So if you know anything, call southwest detectives. Iain back to you. Sabina, thank you also developing to night crews battling fastmoving brush fire in fairfield, california. The flames spreading to homes and forcing people to leave the area. The fire is causing serious traffic issues along some major highways. Its not clear how this started but firefighters say it shows no signs of slowing down. Bensalem Police Arrest a boyfriend and girlfriend in connection with a deadly hitandrun. It happened on one of the townships busiest roads. Police say the woman behind the wheel was driving with a suspe suspended license. Fox 29s drew dickman is live at the Bensalem Police department tonight with how Police Tracked down the two. Drew . Reporter iain, police say they received an non muss tip that officers followed into philadelphia. It turns out that tip was pretty credible and now this couple is facing serious charges tonight. Where did you take the car . Melissa and Steven Pagano you dont know why youre being arrested. Nothing you think. Reporter had mixed reactions to our questions as they made the walk from the Bensalem Police department into court to face a judge. I dont even know what youre talking about. Reporter rachel is charged with accidents resulting in death and operating a vehicle without a valid license and her boyfriend pagano faces one count of tampering with evidence. At this point it appears they hid the vehicle from our site that night. They then took it to location in philadelphia where they did some other things i really cant get into right now. Reporter rachel was behind the wheel of 2003gmc pickup truck when she struck 61 year old vincent per receive philadelphia. Perry was walking along the southbound lanes of the 4100 block of bristol pike when he was hit. He was found lying on the shoulder of the busy street around 6 45 yesterday evening. Up to seven minutes after he was struck. Perry later died at the hospit hospital. As far as no one seeing it, im shocked by that. It is a heavily congested area. No one reported seeing it. People did locate him very quickly and they did render aid as much as they could. So were thankful to those citizens that did stop. Reporter investigators swarmed the couples home on the 700 block of bridge water road this afternoon. Looking for more evidence in the deadly crash. Sergeant bill mcveigh says things could be different if the couple stayed at the scene of the accident. We like to see people that night get their side of it. To see if alcohol play as part in it. Mainly talking to them at the time when theyre truthful. They dont have time to hide anything, conceal anything. Reporter police say that drugs and alcohol do not appear to be a factor in this crash. Rachels bond was set at 750 those thousand dollars tonight her boyfriend paganos bond was set at 75,000. Both have previous run ins with the law, and both will be back in court in two weeks. Dawn . Thank you, drew. Police are looking for two men who they say tricked a woman into opening her door and gotta with with half Million Dollars in jewelry. This is a sketch of the primary suspect wanted in that haverford township robbery. It happened last week on the 600 block of fox fields road. The victim says she partially opened her door foreman saying he represented a natural food company. The suspect walked the victim to her second floor bedroom and made a phone call and then another suspect showed up and began ransacking the home. The thieves took off with 500,000 worth of jewelry. And happening now, summer starting in less than 12 hours. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams is here and, scott l it feel like summer . Tomorrow it will actually be a few degrees below average. So summer beginning a little cooler than we typically see this time of year. No complaints this friday evening. Beautiful weather. Look at the temperatures 78 degrees and that humidity comfortable at 32 . Those winds out of the west northwest at 9 miles per hour. But as we look at the satellite and radar, you can see increas increasing clouds and this is the disturbance were watching that could bring a spotty shower our way for the first part of the weekend. Well roll the clock, clouds on the increase but it stays dry and then tomorrow morning 7 00 a. M. , looking to the south and west, a few pockets of some light showers, by 10 00 a. M. Mostly cloudy skies. And you can see into sections of south jersey, central delaware and dover there could be some light showers not a wash out by any means. So the forecast for tonight, those clouds continue to increase. But we stay dry. It will be a nice night on the town if youre stepping out a little later on tonight. And then for your saturday, summer officially arrives at 6 51 in the morning. It will be cloudy and once again there could be a spotty shower. So coming up, well continue to countdown to your summer and are you making plans for several of the festivals events taking place . Well have the forecast for several across our area. Plus a look at were to expect down the shore and for the pocono mountains all coming up with that seven day forecast. All right, scott, thank you. Skyfox is live over i95 whereas you can see traffic is moving slowly southbound tonig tonight. Thats because of ongoing construction between aramingo avenue and the vine street expressway. Drivers are dealing with traffic pattern shifts and lane closures. Its all part of that nearly 40 million project to rebuild parts of the highway just south of girard. A worker becomes trapped and dies in a parkly demolished building in south jersey. The three man crew was working along route 38 in cherry hill to bring down an old store this afternoon. Authorities say one wall was left and it collapsed crushing the man. Rescue crews spent hours trying to dig the victim out. They say he fell in head first and was covered with heavy metal Authorities Say he passed before they arrived. Looked like he was on the outside when it hit him and kind of knocked him into the hole type of thing. We just had to do recovery here. Its difficult. Had it happened when this building was just starting you may have had many more workers here. You know, you dont know. Authorities are looking into the contractor mancuso of berlin, new jersey. Another crew member was taken to the hospital. He is okay. Two people are dead including a four year old little boy after a violent accident on the Atlantic City expressway. Medic rushed several other people to area hospitals. That crash shut down the expressway for more than five hours. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser tells us what witnesses say they saw right before that deadly crash. Reporter skyfox was over minute after this white pickup truck crashed into westbound lanes of the Atlantic City expressway and flipped over sending six people inside flying on to the roadway. One man was killed. Five others were injured. Did get a call that came in describing that vehicle that did turn over. That it was driving erratic manner. Reporter plea helicopters landed on the highway to evacuate the injured. State police say 35 year old passenger james dennis father of three from philadelphia was pronounced dead at the scene. The others were taken by ambulance to an Atlantic City hospital or airlifted to cooper hospital in camden with serious injuries. This vehicle occupied six passengers. Three of which were in the bed of the pickup truck. Reporter the crash shut down the expressways westbound lanes for over five hours while rescue crews tended to the injured and the new Jersey State Police Fatal Accident Team investigated. Being that all six passengers were ejected from the vehicle, its safe to say that they were not wearing their safety their safety belts. Reporter state police say the driver 45 year old rosslyn corn gay of philadelphia was medivacked to cooper along with a juvenile who was in the rear bed of the truck. 19 year old Brian Gregory and 18 year old, shaniqua abrams was taken to the hospital. A little boy died at cooper hospital. Whether that vehicle was driving fast or swerving all over the road is unknown. Dave schratwieser fox 29 news. A car smashes into a house in camden county. Skyfox over the scene around 5 00 oclock tonight. This happened on the 600 block of fifth avenue in lindenwold. No word on exactly what happened here. The good news, though, no injuries reported. After five years on the land police final have serial bank robber behind bars tonight. 43 year old joseph, wanted in connection with seven bank robberies. Police say he started his spree five years ago in greenville, delaware, and it ended in 2011. A joint investigation between police there and in pennsylvania led to his arrest after detectives say they received a tip. The crisis in iraq continues to deteriorate hi by the day. U. S. Is preparing to send 300 special Operations Forces to iraq but not before some legal paper work is signed. The pentagon says a written agreement is needed with the iraqi government. Thats to make sure the special forces will have a appropriate legal protections. Iraq would not sign it before that led to the complete withdrawal of forces back in 2011. Iraqi military forces have been fighting back against isis a Group Islamist militants attem attempting to take over baghdad. Youve seen the amazing vid video. Now hear what this motorcyclist was thinking as he flipped through the air. He describes how he managed to walk away unhurt coming up. And a man is accuse evidence harassing couple because he believed their car was a spaceship and the driver an alien. What police say was fueling his outrageous paranoia. A little boy set up a free library in his front yard to share his passion for reading with his neighbors. But city officials ordered him to take the down. Why his family says this fight isnt over. Plus only on fox, a local contractor already accused of ripping off his victims for more than 1. 6 million is facing new charges. The reason the latest alleged victim came forward. And happiness, relief and total terror. One familys experiencing it all as they pray for a second miracle for a young woman. Fox is there as prayers for a miracle for a young woman. Fo[ gecko ] what a lovely night in philadelphia. Look at all these people. Imagine a world where they all switch to geico. A world full of savings. Imagine. Hold on, still imagining. All right, im done. [ male announcer ] geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. People in Montgomery County need to find alternative routes to get around because a second bridge connecting to perkiomen and skippack townships is out of commission. It closed on thursday and fox 29s thalia perez spoke to people who arent too happy about the situation. Its drastic. Reporter its the first full day since the graterford road bridge over the Perkiomen Creek has been shut down. And john ski roll lee a local Business Owner is worried that its already impacting business. Im actually very angry over this, because its really affecting business. I mean its friday here quarter of 1 00 and usually we used to have every seat filled in here and now with the traffic being rerouted its, you know, its just non existent. Reporter 60 year old bridge connects gravel pike road and Perkiomen Creek road. It was shut down last night after Officials Say it failed an inspection. Youre looking at a large fall area with the rebar showing and you can see severe rusting of the rebars. Reporter lee from penndot also shares photos of the weathering. Probably end up replacing the whole bridge. Right now theres no timetable. I cant give you a definite time on when the bridge will be replaced. Reporter one alternate for drivers is the arcola road bridge but its also shut down for repairs leaving drivers to weigh their options. Nobody is pleased. I mean, its theres not lot we can do about it. As you probably seen, how many cars are trying to get up here, theres million workers up here at graterford, and how are they going to get back and forth . So the other two roads down each way traffic is going to be a nightmare. Reporter thalia perez, fox 29 news. Nearly two weeks after crash that seriously injured tracy morgan the comedian is head to do a rehab facility. Morgan suffered a broken leg and broken ribs in a crash on the new jersey turnpike. Another man was killed in the accident. Spokesperson for morgan says the actor is improving but still has long road to a full recovery. Pennsylvanias attorney general said she plans to release a report into how police and prosecutors handled the Jerry Sandusky case. Kathleen cain vowed to look into the child molestation case running for office back in 2012. She suggested then general and governor tom corbett had political motivation to slow the investigation while he ran for governor. Corbett has denied those claims. Sandusky of course was convicted of 45 counts of child sex abuse. Kaness report is expected mond monday. A methodist minister defrock after officiating at his sons same sex wedding is appealing the churchs decision. He says his defrocking was illegal because it was based on an assumption that he will break church law in the future. Schaeffer is one of hundreds of methodist ministers who spoke out about the churchs stand on homosexuality. The church allows gay members but prohibits them from serving as clergy and prohibits ministers from perfor performinx same sex marriages. A bucks county contractor is in more hot water tonight. Only on fox 29, bruce gordon has been following the allegations against 58 year old john succi for more than a year and a half and hes here with the latest chapter. Reporter mr. Succi, any comment about these allegations the man says you took his money and never finish the work . Nothing to say . Reporter john succi was tight lipped after making bail and pleading not guilty to these latest charges. Prosecutors say the yardley based contractor accepted more than 34,000 for a roof replace many on this tullytown commercial building late last fall. But they say succi did only part of the job and left the roof exposed. When snow and ice hit that open building, 200,000 worth of personal and tenants property inside was destroyed. Second contractor had to be called in to complete the job. Prosecutors say succi never applied for nor received permits to do the work. His lawyer blames old man wint winter. Mr. Succi did take money, had signed contract and he was to do work. He did work and then i think the inclement weather came in and really caused a major fiasco at the project. Reporter back in february, succi was charged with cheating eight other customers out of more than 1. 6 million for jobs in which prosecutors claim he took money and failed to do the work. We told you the story of cindy ross of levittown. She says she paid succi 86,000 bucks. Claims he worked without permits, gutted her home then abandoned the project. My house is destroyed. My house is destroyed. Reporter Court Documents from that february case describe succis bank records showing quote large and frequent purchases at Atlantic City casinos and Jewelry Stores and atm withdrawals at gentlemens clubs. The paper work suggests you were living high on the hog while all these people were not getting their work done. If hes had couple bad cases then thats something that has to be resolved. But it doesnt appear to be a pattern. If hes done this for 32 years and people have been satisfied with his work for 32 years, i dont think you want to guy a guy under the bus for 10 bad cases. This new case came about when the alleged victim saw our coverage of the february arrest and charges and notified authorities. If there are still other cases out there, other alleged victi victims, prosecutors want to know about them. In the newsroom, im bruce gordon, fox 29 news. Lets check in with your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Beautiful day for all these music fans in dover, delaware, enjoying the fire fly festival which continues through the weekend. So what can they and the rest of us expect. Heres chief meteorologist Verizon Center<\/a> for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of aweso awesome. Right now on fox 29, a developing story. A gunman storms local businesses and police are worried hell strike again. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Im dawn timmeney. Im iain page. The armed robber has hit three local businesses in one week. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose<\/a> is live at southwest detectives to night. Sabina . Reporter two pizza shops an Grocery Store<\/a> all just blocks from one another are robbed at gun point, ton night police are hunting for the man responsible. This man bought rubellas in may. Six weeks later he was robbed at gun point. That was last friday. It was kind of scary. You know, it was kind of scary. Family, kids, you know, this guy he was kind of shaky. The they have stole about 400 bucks from the register held a gun to the employees and robbed them. Hes angry but he says it wont scare him away. Not going to scare me. Its not going to stop me. You know. Its not going to stop me from what im doing. Reporter Surveillance Video<\/a> shows the suspect robbing Grocery Store<\/a> on thursday the latest in a string of robberies within the last week. Two pizza shops and Grocery Store<\/a> all win a two block radius of each other. Police believe one man is responsible for all three robberies. He take money from the register and check everybodys pockets and took all the money. Pete pizza on 54th street was robbed on tuesday. The manager says he hopes police catch the suspect so his employees can feel safe coming to work. Make us feel uncomfortable working. Try to do the best thing for them and hope they can catch him as soon as possible. Reporter and again, tonight that suspect is still on the loose. So if you know anything, call southwest detectives. Iain back to you. Sabina, thank you also developing to night crews battling fastmoving brush fire in fairfield, california. The flames spreading to homes and forcing people to leave the area. The fire is causing serious traffic issues along some major highways. Its not clear how this started but firefighters say it shows no signs of slowing down. Bensalem Police Arrest<\/a> a boyfriend and girlfriend in connection with a deadly hitandrun. It happened on one of the townships busiest roads. Police say the woman behind the wheel was driving with a suspe suspended license. Fox 29s drew dickman is live at the Bensalem Police<\/a> department tonight with how Police Tracked<\/a> down the two. Drew . Reporter iain, police say they received an non muss tip that officers followed into philadelphia. It turns out that tip was pretty credible and now this couple is facing serious charges tonight. Where did you take the car . Melissa and Steven Pagano<\/a> you dont know why youre being arrested. Nothing you think. Reporter had mixed reactions to our questions as they made the walk from the Bensalem Police<\/a> department into court to face a judge. I dont even know what youre talking about. Reporter rachel is charged with accidents resulting in death and operating a vehicle without a valid license and her boyfriend pagano faces one count of tampering with evidence. At this point it appears they hid the vehicle from our site that night. They then took it to location in philadelphia where they did some other things i really cant get into right now. Reporter rachel was behind the wheel of 2003gmc pickup truck when she struck 61 year old vincent per receive philadelphia. Perry was walking along the southbound lanes of the 4100 block of bristol pike when he was hit. He was found lying on the shoulder of the busy street around 6 45 yesterday evening. Up to seven minutes after he was struck. Perry later died at the hospit hospital. As far as no one seeing it, im shocked by that. It is a heavily congested area. No one reported seeing it. People did locate him very quickly and they did render aid as much as they could. So were thankful to those citizens that did stop. Reporter investigators swarmed the couples home on the 700 block of bridge water road this afternoon. Looking for more evidence in the deadly crash. Sergeant bill mcveigh says things could be different if the couple stayed at the scene of the accident. We like to see people that night get their side of it. To see if alcohol play as part in it. Mainly talking to them at the time when theyre truthful. They dont have time to hide anything, conceal anything. Reporter police say that drugs and alcohol do not appear to be a factor in this crash. Rachels bond was set at 750 those thousand dollars tonight her boyfriend paganos bond was set at 75,000. Both have previous run ins with the law, and both will be back in court in two weeks. Dawn . Thank you, drew. Police are looking for two men who they say tricked a woman into opening her door and gotta with with half Million Dollars<\/a> in jewelry. This is a sketch of the primary suspect wanted in that haverford township robbery. It happened last week on the 600 block of fox fields road. The victim says she partially opened her door foreman saying he represented a natural food company. The suspect walked the victim to her second floor bedroom and made a phone call and then another suspect showed up and began ransacking the home. The thieves took off with 500,000 worth of jewelry. And happening now, summer starting in less than 12 hours. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams<\/a> is here and, scott l it feel like summer . Tomorrow it will actually be a few degrees below average. So summer beginning a little cooler than we typically see this time of year. No complaints this friday evening. Beautiful weather. Look at the temperatures 78 degrees and that humidity comfortable at 32 . Those winds out of the west northwest at 9 miles per hour. But as we look at the satellite and radar, you can see increas increasing clouds and this is the disturbance were watching that could bring a spotty shower our way for the first part of the weekend. Well roll the clock, clouds on the increase but it stays dry and then tomorrow morning 7 00 a. M. , looking to the south and west, a few pockets of some light showers, by 10 00 a. M. Mostly cloudy skies. And you can see into sections of south jersey, central delaware and dover there could be some light showers not a wash out by any means. So the forecast for tonight, those clouds continue to increase. But we stay dry. It will be a nice night on the town if youre stepping out a little later on tonight. And then for your saturday, summer officially arrives at 6 51 in the morning. It will be cloudy and once again there could be a spotty shower. So coming up, well continue to countdown to your summer and are you making plans for several of the festivals events taking place . Well have the forecast for several across our area. Plus a look at were to expect down the shore and for the pocono mountains all coming up with that seven day forecast. All right, scott, thank you. Skyfox is live over i95 whereas you can see traffic is moving slowly southbound tonig tonight. Thats because of ongoing construction between aramingo avenue and the vine street expressway. Drivers are dealing with traffic pattern shifts and lane closures. Its all part of that nearly 40 million project to rebuild parts of the highway just south of girard. A worker becomes trapped and dies in a parkly demolished building in south jersey. The three man crew was working along route 38 in cherry hill to bring down an old store this afternoon. Authorities say one wall was left and it collapsed crushing the man. Rescue crews spent hours trying to dig the victim out. They say he fell in head first and was covered with heavy metal Authorities Say<\/a> he passed before they arrived. Looked like he was on the outside when it hit him and kind of knocked him into the hole type of thing. We just had to do recovery here. Its difficult. Had it happened when this building was just starting you may have had many more workers here. You know, you dont know. Authorities are looking into the contractor mancuso of berlin, new jersey. Another crew member was taken to the hospital. He is okay. Two people are dead including a four year old little boy after a violent accident on the Atlantic City<\/a> expressway. Medic rushed several other people to area hospitals. That crash shut down the expressway for more than five hours. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser<\/a> tells us what witnesses say they saw right before that deadly crash. Reporter skyfox was over minute after this white pickup truck crashed into westbound lanes of the Atlantic City<\/a> expressway and flipped over sending six people inside flying on to the roadway. One man was killed. Five others were injured. Did get a call that came in describing that vehicle that did turn over. That it was driving erratic manner. Reporter plea helicopters landed on the highway to evacuate the injured. State police say 35 year old passenger james dennis father of three from philadelphia was pronounced dead at the scene. The others were taken by ambulance to an Atlantic City<\/a> hospital or airlifted to cooper hospital in camden with serious injuries. This vehicle occupied six passengers. Three of which were in the bed of the pickup truck. Reporter the crash shut down the expressways westbound lanes for over five hours while rescue crews tended to the injured and the new Jersey State Police<\/a> Fatal Accident Team<\/a> investigated. Being that all six passengers were ejected from the vehicle, its safe to say that they were not wearing their safety their safety belts. Reporter state police say the driver 45 year old rosslyn corn gay of philadelphia was medivacked to cooper along with a juvenile who was in the rear bed of the truck. 19 year old Brian Gregory<\/a> and 18 year old, shaniqua abrams was taken to the hospital. A little boy died at cooper hospital. Whether that vehicle was driving fast or swerving all over the road is unknown. Dave schratwieser fox 29 news. A car smashes into a house in camden county. Skyfox over the scene around 5 00 oclock tonight. This happened on the 600 block of fifth avenue in lindenwold. No word on exactly what happened here. The good news, though, no injuries reported. After five years on the land police final have serial bank robber behind bars tonight. 43 year old joseph, wanted in connection with seven bank robberies. Police say he started his spree five years ago in greenville, delaware, and it ended in 2011. A joint investigation between police there and in pennsylvania led to his arrest after detectives say they received a tip. The crisis in iraq continues to deteriorate hi by the day. U. S. Is preparing to send 300 special Operations Forces<\/a> to iraq but not before some legal paper work is signed. The pentagon says a written agreement is needed with the iraqi government. Thats to make sure the special forces will have a appropriate legal protections. Iraq would not sign it before that led to the complete withdrawal of forces back in 2011. Iraqi military forces have been fighting back against isis a Group Islamist<\/a> militants attem attempting to take over baghdad. Youve seen the amazing vid video. Now hear what this motorcyclist was thinking as he flipped through the air. He describes how he managed to walk away unhurt coming up. And a man is accuse evidence harassing couple because he believed their car was a spaceship and the driver an alien. What police say was fueling his outrageous paranoia. A little boy set up a free library in his front yard to share his passion for reading with his neighbors. But city officials ordered him to take the down. Why his family says this fight isnt over. Plus only on fox, a local contractor already accused of ripping off his victims for more than 1. 6 million is facing new charges. The reason the latest alleged victim came forward. And happiness, relief and total terror. One familys experiencing it all as they pray for a second miracle for a young woman. Fox is there as prayers for a miracle for a young woman. Fo[ gecko ] what a lovely night in philadelphia. Look at all these people. Imagine a world where they all switch to geico. A world full of savings. Imagine. Hold on, still imagining. All right, im done. [ male announcer ] geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. People in Montgomery County<\/a> need to find alternative routes to get around because a second bridge connecting to perkiomen and skippack townships is out of commission. It closed on thursday and fox 29s thalia perez spoke to people who arent too happy about the situation. Its drastic. Reporter its the first full day since the graterford road bridge over the Perkiomen Creek<\/a> has been shut down. And john ski roll lee a local Business Owner<\/a> is worried that its already impacting business. Im actually very angry over this, because its really affecting business. I mean its friday here quarter of 1 00 and usually we used to have every seat filled in here and now with the traffic being rerouted its, you know, its just non existent. Reporter 60 year old bridge connects gravel pike road and Perkiomen Creek<\/a> road. It was shut down last night after Officials Say<\/a> it failed an inspection. Youre looking at a large fall area with the rebar showing and you can see severe rusting of the rebars. Reporter lee from penndot also shares photos of the weathering. Probably end up replacing the whole bridge. Right now theres no timetable. I cant give you a definite time on when the bridge will be replaced. Reporter one alternate for drivers is the arcola road bridge but its also shut down for repairs leaving drivers to weigh their options. Nobody is pleased. I mean, its theres not lot we can do about it. As you probably seen, how many cars are trying to get up here, theres million workers up here at graterford, and how are they going to get back and forth . So the other two roads down each way traffic is going to be a nightmare. Reporter thalia perez, fox 29 news. Nearly two weeks after crash that seriously injured tracy morgan the comedian is head to do a rehab facility. Morgan suffered a broken leg and broken ribs in a crash on the new jersey turnpike. Another man was killed in the accident. Spokesperson for morgan says the actor is improving but still has long road to a full recovery. Pennsylvanias attorney general said she plans to release a report into how police and prosecutors handled the Jerry Sandusky<\/a> case. Kathleen cain vowed to look into the child molestation case running for office back in 2012. She suggested then general and governor tom corbett had political motivation to slow the investigation while he ran for governor. Corbett has denied those claims. Sandusky of course was convicted of 45 counts of child sex abuse. Kaness report is expected mond monday. A methodist minister defrock after officiating at his sons same sex wedding is appealing the churchs decision. He says his defrocking was illegal because it was based on an assumption that he will break church law in the future. Schaeffer is one of hundreds of methodist ministers who spoke out about the churchs stand on homosexuality. The church allows gay members but prohibits them from serving as clergy and prohibits ministers from perfor performinx same sex marriages. A bucks county contractor is in more hot water tonight. Only on fox 29, bruce gordon has been following the allegations against 58 year old john succi for more than a year and a half and hes here with the latest chapter. Reporter mr. Succi, any comment about these allegations the man says you took his money and never finish the work . Nothing to say . Reporter john succi was tight lipped after making bail and pleading not guilty to these latest charges. Prosecutors say the yardley based contractor accepted more than 34,000 for a roof replace many on this tullytown commercial building late last fall. But they say succi did only part of the job and left the roof exposed. When snow and ice hit that open building, 200,000 worth of personal and tenants property inside was destroyed. Second contractor had to be called in to complete the job. Prosecutors say succi never applied for nor received permits to do the work. His lawyer blames old man wint winter. Mr. Succi did take money, had signed contract and he was to do work. He did work and then i think the inclement weather came in and really caused a major fiasco at the project. Reporter back in february, succi was charged with cheating eight other customers out of more than 1. 6 million for jobs in which prosecutors claim he took money and failed to do the work. We told you the story of cindy ross of levittown. She says she paid succi 86,000 bucks. Claims he worked without permits, gutted her home then abandoned the project. My house is destroyed. My house is destroyed. Reporter Court Documents<\/a> from that february case describe succis bank records showing quote large and frequent purchases at Atlantic City<\/a> casinos and Jewelry Stores<\/a> and atm withdrawals at gentlemens clubs. The paper work suggests you were living high on the hog while all these people were not getting their work done. If hes had couple bad cases then thats something that has to be resolved. But it doesnt appear to be a pattern. If hes done this for 32 years and people have been satisfied with his work for 32 years, i dont think you want to guy a guy under the bus for 10 bad cases. This new case came about when the alleged victim saw our coverage of the february arrest and charges and notified authorities. If there are still other cases out there, other alleged victi victims, prosecutors want to know about them. In the newsroom, im bruce gordon, fox 29 news. Lets check in with your fox 29 Weather Authority<\/a> now. Beautiful day for all these music fans in dover, delaware, enjoying the fire fly festival which continues through the weekend. So what can they and the rest of us expect. Heres chief meteorologist Scott Williams<\/a>. A lot of folks down in dover, delaware, this weekend. Some changes for tomorrow. We are looking at more in the way of cloud cover as well as the threat for a few spotty light showers moving through. Keep that in mind. Otherwise temperatures tomorrow 80 degrees on sunday. Sunshine, low 80s. Beautiful weather for the festival. In the meantime we continue to countdown to summer hours away now. The summer solstice begins tomorrow at 6 51. It will be the longest day of the year and the shortest night. The weather were looking at cloud cover on the increase as we move into the overnight time frame. As we look at the satellite and radar you can see some high clouds, sirius clouds moving overhead across our area in advance of this disturbance. Most of the Energy Moving<\/a> into sections of virginia, but dont be surprised to see a spotty shower during the day tomorrow across our area in particular south and west of philadelphia. 65 in millville right now. 70 degrees in allentown as well as reading. What to expect over the next 12 hours as we take you into the start of summer. Those clouds, they increase. By 7 00 a. M. Temperatures right around 66 degrees. 70 degrees by 10 00 a. M. And once again there could be a spotty shower. Well have more on the timing of that rainfall threat for tomorrow plus the entire weekend forecast. All right, scott, thank you. A police chase moves on to a crowded golf course and there were near misses and a lot of damage left behind. What the department is doing to figure out if the wild ride was worth the risk. And a man is accused of harassing a couple because he believed their car was a spaceship and the driver was an alien. What police say was behind this outrageous paranoia. And its been an incredible week at the Special Olympics<\/a> in new jersey and it came to an end tonight with the closing ceremony. Why the athletes say theyre taking away so much more than medals. Flames tear through a private garage in yonkers, new york. Check out this video showing the fire destroying the roof. Plumes of black smoke there. Portions of the building did collapse but there are no reports of any injuries. We also dont know what sparked the fire. A bus makes an unexpected stop. Check this out. This ohio metro bus got trapped by a six by 8foot sipping hole thursday night. Repair crews were called out right before the accident happened to fix the buckled pavement but it was too late. The bus driver drove right into it. He was the only person on board. He says hes okay. Just shaken up. The bus was lifted and towed away. Well not exactly where youd expect to see a police chase. Investigation is now underway after officers chased down a suspect through a crowd the golf course. This happened in minnesota tuesday. Police say they tracked down suspect. Look at this who led them on high speed chase throughout a golf course. Golfers as you can see force to do run and take cover as cop cars were sipping by incredibly no one was injured. Living around here you dont see Something Like<\/a> that every day. Should have been on the driving range. The suspect was eventually arrested in north dakota. As for the officers, the department is now reviewing their decision to chase the suspect across a crowded area. Well youve seen the amazing video. Now hear what this motorcyclist was thinking as he flipped through the air. He describes how he managed to walk away unhurt coming up. Plus a convicted felons mug shot goes viral and leaves ladies swooning. What he has to say from his jail cell about his new found fame. And its been an incredible week at the 2014 Special Olympics<\/a> in new jersey. The athletes celebrating at closing ceremonies tonight. Why they say these games are about so much more than winning. Police in cherry hill are looking for this family. They say theyre wanted for theft at the is a roar key store at the cherry hill mall. Happened back in may. Its not clear what theyre accused of stealing from the store. Incredible video. A motorcyclist slammin slammingr at a florida intersection. The impact flipping him into the air and miraculously he gets right back on his feet. We first showed you this clip last night. Yeah torque night that biker is talking about what went through his mind as he flew through the air. Foxs evan axle bank has the story. Reporter without the video youd never believe Michael Smiths<\/a> story. Yeah, yeah, he said he flipped. Wahoo now that you can actually see the footage, d a. M. N, what he was saying was the truth. Nobody cared. I was like i could honestly be dead. Reporter may 24th he was headed up belcher on a motorcycle like this. He says the light was yellow. But alec hall thought it was red and made a left. I had to brace for impact because i knew there was no way i wassing it. Theres no laying down the bike. None of them. Impact and left off. I felt like morphius off of matrix. Youre in the air and what you were thinkingly. I was upside down and had my shades on like yo, i can land on my feet or my head right now. After i got done thinking that landed on my feet and get up hes being humble about the landing. After his feet hit, he did another flip and then walked around. The star of the intersection. Everyone else was frozen. Im walking to make sure everything is cool, you know, im like, that was real. You know what i mean . What just happened was real. My bike Lindsay Lohan<\/a> is down. Reporter lindsay was totaled. The side of the car dented. Everybody just runs out their car like what was that . Reporter that could have been the end for michael. He wasnt wearing a helmet and was cited for not having a motorcycle endorsement. He promises to get one before his court date. Hes just glad he has a court date. You cheated had death. Yeah. I got eight more lives left. Death is nowhere near right now. I used one that day. Reporter evan axle bank, fox news. He is one lucky guy. Now the other driver was cited for making an illegal left turn, and having a suspended license. In arkansas man is in a lot of trouble. Hes accused of harassing a couple because he thought their car was a spaceship and that the driver was an alien. Police arrested 44 year old james bush heart after they found meth in his car before the arrest cops say he was bothering a couple over their car. Police say he was making threatening gestures and demanding the alien take his spaceship back to where it came from. That was my biggest problem with what was going on was just how upset he was, i guess, in reference to the vehicle. That was the only thing i can think of. I was a little upset about that mostly because his a passenger with me. I was concerned for her safety as well. According to police, bush heart claimed he was curious about the car because quote it looked like a futuristic machi machine. The special Olympic Games<\/a> coming to a close but these games were about more than just athletecism and competition. As fox 29s shawnett shawnetn these games were also about inspiration. We got gold for soccer at villanova. Thats how we got here. Reporter brandon is proud of his week here at the special olympic held in new jersey. His team won a gold medal on the state level to make it here to the national games. Yeah, its a big deal. They treat us like royalty here. Reporter competed soccer on the Lehigh County<\/a> team for team pa. We played against maryland. Texas for a prelims and then new jersey. And from this weeks competition, brandon proudly shows off silver medal. You got to Work Together<\/a> as team. Friday night more than 3,000 athletes gathered for the closing ceremony at the sun center in trenton. Reporter they celebrated in style with entertainment and praise from professional athletes. It was a big party after a week of competition and a variety of sports athletes from all over the united states. What we saw was their passion, their dedication and we revealed americas champions this week. Reporter brandons mother and his girlfriend alley will for support. Joan says its been an exciting journey for her son who has also competed in aquatics, gymnastics and basketball since he started the Special Olympics<\/a> at just five years old. Its very emotional to see what all the athletes accomplished. Theyve come a long way. I know because ive come along way with my son to get him to this point. Reporter athletes say building friendships is a big part of the Special Olympics<\/a> the theme this year was inclusion and friendship. Shawnette wilson fox 29 news. Our Special Olympics<\/a> coverage continues online. For a look at some of the athletes that we have profiled, you can check the special olympic heading under our home tab on myfoxphilly. Com. What great night for run. Folks lacing up tour are for the annual media five miler. It brings the entire town together. There was one very special run. Fox 29s own chris oconnell, congratulations to chris and all of those. I didnt know he could run that far. Good job job, this of chris. This convicted felons mug shot has ladies swooning and everyone talking. What he has to say about his new found fame next. Little boy sets up a free library in his front yard and city officials order him to take it down. Why his family says theyre gearing up for a big fight. And starbucks is raising its prices starting next week. How much you might be paying for your favorite it is a mug shot gone viral. We first brought you this story last night. 30 year old jeremy meeks was arrested wednesday on multiple felony charges. Tonight were learning more about him. His mother tells tmz meeks is being stereo typed because all his tattoos including one of a tear drop which often means a person has killed someone. In an interview from jail, meeks told a news station his wife told him that he quote blew up all over facebook. Meeks also told the reporter hes no longer a gangster but police say meeks is a member of the north side gangster crypts. He is in jail on 900,000 dollars bail. Speaking of money taking a look at your money tonight. You might be shelling out a little more for your tall grand day and vendy because starbucks is rigs the prices on some of its drinks by five to 20 cents and youll pay little more at the super mark for that packaged coffee. That will go up 1 dollar. The increase will kick in tuesday and varies depending on the region, the good news is drinks like tall brood coffees and frap cheap those wont see higher prices in most place. Harley davidson is going green. Newest endeavor is an electric motorcycle. The revolutionary new ride headed by a project will not gear shift but said to contain immediate acceleration and have a distinct side. Product on the bikes prototype is already been completed. More and more people are ditching cereal. New report shows sales have dipped some 13 over the last year. Many customers cite changes in society and diet as well as time restraints as reason for their drop in cereal consumption even though with a drop in sales cereal remain the number one breakfast food. It started out as thoughtful full mothers day present. But it quickly turned no a nine year olds first run in with the legal system. Spencer collins of lee wood, kansas set up the Free Little Library<\/a> to honor his mother an elementary schoolteacher and fellow book lover. The cabinet like structure at the end of the familys driveway invited people to swap out their own used books and pick up a new one but after a week of display the city ordered the family to take it down because of an ordinance that for bids structures outside of Single Family<\/a> homes. It applies to any structure. So we arent targeting the little library. You couldnt put a book case out there or you couldnt put couch out there or any items like th that. I think its unfair because its really good to the community. Spencer plans to address city council in its meeting and hell work with his dad to figure out what he wants to say. A mechanic goes after a pet python stuck in a dash of a car. How he managed to get it out, and how the snake got there in the first place. Next. And family feeling relief and total terror at the same time. They are praying for a second miracle for young woman. Fox is there as prayers for a new heart are answered. Scott . Iain, right now cloud cover continues to stream in across the area. Find out when to expect potential for few spotty showers find out when to expect poten[ male announcer ]y showers tvs come a long way. From color. To the remote. To flat screens. Now its taking a quantum leap. Introducing fios quantum tv. Record up to 12 shows at the same time. Store up to 200 hours of entertainment in hd. Plus watch live tv anytime with the fios mobile app. Redefining what tv can be. Thats powerful. Call the Verizon Center<\/a> for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v mechanic in florida gets quite the surprise. The hissing coming from his customers car was actually a snake. The pet snake start the out in the passenger side floor. It was headed to the pet store for a checkup but then slithered away disappearing into the dash. It took the mechanic about 30 minutes to pull the python out through the airconditioner and radio. Wow well, about 2,000 americans undergo a heart transplant each year, and while their new hearts can buy them years many will need another transplant down the road. Women galvin followed young georgia women waiting for a second miracle werent there when her prayers were answered. Reporter goodbyes are hardest part. After two years struggling with a failing heart doctors have finally found 23 year old Kayla Montiel<\/a> a new one. Shocked. Many different mixed emotions. Happiness. Relief. Nervousness. Emotional right now. Trying to keep my head going. Reporter for the past 37 days, kayla has been here at Emery University<\/a> hospitals icu. A 1a so critically ill she was placed at the very top of the transplant waiting list. She was just a toddler the first time she received a donor heart. Doctors thought that would last five to 10 years. Its been 22. It lasted me all throughout school. Through high school, everything. It just gave me Second Chance<\/a> at life. And now im lucky enough to get a third. Reporter this time kayla doesnt just need a new heart she needs a kidney too already it feels like a door is opening. Im finally getting out of this bed but finally starting my life. I know she has purpose or she wouldnt be given this chance. And im not going lie, every night i cry. Reporter today more tears. As kaylas family and boyfriend head to begin they are wait she is headed to the operating room. Cardiothoracic surgeon dr. Jeffrey miller who knows kayla and has operated on her heart once before will be her surgeon again and he is bracing for a long night. So shes had three open heart surgeries so this will be her fourth. So getting in, getting back into this chest will be a challenge. But weve done it before and i think it will go just fine. Reporter its dark by the time the donor heart finally arrives. Given anonymously by another family in another hospital letting go of hope. My biggest thing is for the donor right now actually. I have no words. I dont even think thank is you enough. Reporter report in the or kayla is placed on a heart lung bypass allowing the team to remove her stiffened heart and carefully taj the new one. Theres a risk of bleeding or her new heart may mott work. But she pulls through and this is just the beginning. Kayla keeps me going. Shes my hero. Shes my strongest shes my strongest. Reporter after few hours of rest, round two. The kidney transplant. Kaylas new kidney is also from her heart donor. Her kidneys were damaged by years of taking anti rejection drugs so she needs this to start feeling better. Youre doing great. Three days later in emerys cardiac icu better still feels pretty far off. Kayla is in pain and has a sore throat from being intubated. But she does thank everyone out there and her voice is kind of small right now. Reporter when shes stronger kayla mon feel hopes to one day say her own thank you to the family whose gift gave her this chance. That was beth galvin rt reporting. Kayla will be carefully monitored for any signs of rejection or if he can. Once she recovers she hopes to begin studying to become a nursely. Great story. Good luck to her much. Lets check in on your fox 29 Weather Authority<\/a>. Were getting close to the First Official<\/a> day of summer. Summer arrives tomorrow morning across our area. And temperatures tomorrow will actually be a little bit below average. The High Temperature<\/a> today made it up to 82 degrees. Thats 2 degrees below where we should be for this time of year. Lets talk a little bit about what to expect as we move into the overnight. Those clouds continue to roll in, but it stays dry tonight. If youre stepping outdoors, nice, late night evening on the town across our area. And then for saturday, the summer solstice is at 6 51. Cloud cover will be around during the day tomorrow and there could also ab spotty shower across our area. Moving into sunday, the sunshine it returns across our area. Were looking at seasonable temperatures. So all in all the weekend not looking too bad. More clouds than sun tomorrow and then more sunshine than clouds on sunday. How about that . The satellite and radar showing the increasing clouds. Heres the disturbance off to the west that could bring a spotty shower our way especially tomorrow morning. Lets watch the clock how things play out. You can see mostly cloudy skies across the area for saturday morning. And then all in all were just looking at a few spotty showers across the area. It doesnt look like a wash out. Dont cancel any plans for the upcoming weekend by any means. 78 degrees right now. Humidity comfortable at 32 . Temperatures still pretty comfortable as well 60s and 70s. So increasing clouds. It stays dry. 50s in the suburbs. Still pretty pleasant as far as those temperatures. Low 60s for tonight in the city. And then looking ahead to your saturday, look at this. Temperatures a few degrees below average. 79. Mostly cloudy and once again there could be spotty shower. Lets talk about those events across the area. The manayunk Arts Festival<\/a> the 25th anniversary were looking at 79 on saturday. Mostly cloudy. There could be a spotty shower. Sunday more sunshine. Down the shore, for that weekend get away, were lookin looking e clouds around for saturday. A spotty shower. Look at the water temperatures climb to go 70 degrees. Beautiful on sunday with a lot of sunshine. Saturday in the poconos, low 70s. Beautiful weather. Upper 70s. Sunshine as we move into your sunday and then as we talk a little bit about the forecast over the next seven days, you can see 79 degrees for the High Temperature<\/a> in philadelphia tomorrow. And then moving ahead to your sunday, beautiful. Its going to be a 10. The sunshine returns and then as we move into early next week, warmer, more muggy and then better chances for the scattered showers and storms arriving by the middle and latter part of next week. Weekend looks pretty good all in all. Few more clouds around tomorrow but not a washout by any means. Beautiful because earlier in the week it look like it was unsettled. Now its good. All right. Thank you, scott. Tom. Shredder. Guys, who are these phillies the team we counted for dead the hottest team in baseball right now. They have a four game winning streak. Tonight trying to do something they havent done since 2012. And eagles head for down time. Wide receiver Jordan Matthews<\/a> has open the eyes of his coaches. You might be surprised with what how about the phillies starting the night with four game winning streak just four games out of first place in the east. Win against the cardinals tonight would give them their longest winning streak since back in 2012. Had 50 minute rain delay in sane lewd. Was that shot worth it . Looks pretty in st. Louis. Phils down one to nothing in the fifth. How about aj burnett helping himself out. This rbi double to center will score john mayberry, jr. Ties it at one. Next batter jimmy rollins. Down the third baseline. Fair ball. Burnett will trot in. Phils take the twoone lead. Theyre in the sixth right now. Phils looking for five in a row and they lead it three to run. Onely. The next five weeks the eagles on vacation. Nice break for them considering after that its training camp. Then the 16 game regular season. So mark your calendars. Opening weekend just 11 weeks away. One of the players that has really stood out this off season how about wide receiver Jordan Matthews<\/a> the eagles second round draft pick out of vanderbilt. It will be tougher for matthews when the pads go on at camp. Learning curve always gets tougher for Wide Receivers<\/a> in year one. But Jordan Matthews<\/a> has done everything hes been asked to do. The reviews from the coaches have been positive, and simple. The game makes sense to him first off, and so he knows knows where to line up want to do. Um, hes learning how we do thing which is important. And then he catches the footba football. You know, i think thats first the most important thing. And hes a great finisher. Hell catch the ball and run through the fence with it, you know, hes just hes got all the things youre looking for. Hes young. He doesnt totally know everything were doing yet, but he work extremely hard to pick it up. All right. Another fascinating week in sports. The spurs win their fifth nba title. Clayton kershaw throws no hitter and 11 year old shoots 78 in a major and oh, yeah, we end the night with moments to forget. Lets start it out with clint hurdle of the pittsburgh pirat pirates. Missed the top step there. Watch this again. You stumble you look back and say, who put the step there and then you walk like nobody saw that. Im good. How about adam jones and baltimore orioles. Take out the umpire along the way. Watch it again. Hes worried about boom. Takes un. Once more. Bang right there. Approval comes from the dog in San Francisco<\/a> who was all smiles wearing his mets cap. Week in sports guys. It has been a crazy week. Great thing about sports. Always something. You got it. Laugh or smile. Have fun about. Thank you very much. Final check on the weather. Looking good, right. More clouds than sun tomorrow. There could be a spotty shower out there but all in all the weekend looks pretty good. Seasonable temperatures, too. Thats what we like to hear. Thanks for spending your night with us much the fox 29 morning news will come your way on monday so enjoy your weekend. Take care. Thanks for watching. Warner bros. 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