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WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 July 26, 2014

Carjacker crashes into a fruit stand. Their mother and the carjacking victim are in critical condition. The carjacker and his accomplice are still on the run. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland this story we have been on top of since it began this morning. Reward for information leading to the carjackers is growing and right now it has topped 100,000. Our Live Team Coverage begins with Shawnette Wilson at Philadelphia Police headquarte headquarters. Shawnette . Reporter tonight the fraternal order of police added to that already existing reward bringing the total to 110,000 as you just mentioned. They want the men in custody by noon tomorrow. In the meantime, three children were killed in this tragic cra crash. They were right there. They said hi, they were getting ready to sell something. Police surround adversary overturned table and broken fence next to a fruit stand where mother and three children were hit friday morning while selling fruit and water as witnesses say they do every day. Every morning. Every morning. Thats sad. It happened on the corner of germantown and allegheny in north philadelphia. It was a mother. She was packing unpacking something ton leave and come back and learn that this is them Police Say Two men who carjacked the 34 year old woman on the 600 block of cumberland street are responsible. The woman is a realtor who had just finish showing a house police say when two armed men forced their way into her white suv. And took off with her inside. They were driving at an extremely high rate of speed. At some point the tire blew out and they were probably trying to make that turn from germantown on to allegheny, lost control of the vehicle and then ultimately ran up on the sidewalk. Reporter the men jumped out suv and ran off. The mother was taken to the hospital. Her 15 year old daughter, 10 year old and seven year old sons all died. 65 year old woman identified by relatives as thelma brown was helping the family at the fruit stand and was also hurt. Along with the carjacking vict victim. Somebody hit them kids like that and just keep on going doesnt make sense only thing im saying turn yours in. There are no words to describe how i feel right now but we do need to find those people and that needs to be our focus. Reporter police are reviewing Surveillance Video from cameras in the areas of both of those scenes. In the meantime, the three remaining victims are still in the hospital. Lucy. All right, shawnette. People in the neighborhood know this fruit stand well. It is a summer weekend tradition ton night they are stunned, they are incredibly sad and they are anxiously awaiting word of an arrest. Fox 29s thalia perez is live at the scene of the tragedy. Thalia . Reporter lucy, well take you right to this growing memorial behind me. A steady stream of neighbors have been stopping by lighting candles and leaving stuffed animals as you see there. Im told that this family was a staple in the community. They were well known for having built a Beautiful Community garden just right around the corner, and today they were doing what they typically do on friday selling fruits and vegetables from their stand right here at this corner. When this unspeakable tragedy occurred. When will this stop . I hope these guys have a heart. Turn yourself in. And let this community rest in peace. Reporter neighbors are speaking out at the site where three children were killed earlier today. Stuffed animals and candles make up the growing vigil. Surrounded by other things like this table and bowls. A stark reminder that the victims were selling fruit and vegetables from the table to raise money for their Community Garden and church when this tragedy took place. Police say an out of control suv barreled into them at the intersection of germantown avenue and west allegheny. Just after 11 00 this morning. Stephan benson lives next door and he says he spoke with the victims just before it happened. Ive been crying all day and i just i dont want to cry. I dont have the energy to cry. Reporter benson says the victims were seven, 10 and 15 years old. Their mother he says survived but was critically injured. Turn yourself in now. And spend the rest of your life seeking redemption for what happened today. Reporter police are hunting for the driver and the passenger of the suv who they say carjacked a woman shortly before the crash. She was also critically injured. Neighbors say they are now left to pick up the pieces but dont know how theyll move on. And thats crazy that, you know, people come and do this dont have no heart. No feelings. Reporter youre looking live again at the memorial here at the corner. Im told from neighbors that there is talk of creating a permanent memorial either right here or at the Community Garden that would include a mural. Lucy . All right. Thalia, and for continuing coverage of this developing story, go to myfoxphilly. Com. It is right on the home page. Happening now, a possible break in the fighting in the middle east. Israel says a 12 hour humanitarian seasoner in gaza will start tomorrow morning but israel says it will respond if terrorists choose to he can polite the law. Secretary of state john kerry says talks towards a truce will also resume tomorrow. Israeli strikes intensified today with one shell killing 33 people. Todays violence pushed their number of palestinian deaths past 800. A cop who almost lost his job over a controversial video comes to the rescue in a row home fire in south philly. Three people had to jump to escape the fire on segal street this morning. Medics took a young girl and two adults to the hospital. Lieutenant Jonathan Josie saw the fire, called it in. Then kick in the front door. He says he saw someone throwing a fire bomb at the house. Suspicious at this point. Went up rapidly and we need to determine what caused it to go up so suddenly. Investigators say man is in custody tonight and charges are expected soon. Lieutenant josie lost his job over a viral video that showed what lock like him slapping a woman after the puerto rican day parade few years ago. Philadelphia Police Reinstated him last year after a judge cleared him. Delaware county officials expect to are a rain 49 year old richard plots on monday. They say he remains unconscious at the hospital of the university of pennsylvania. Hes cued of carrying out a deadly shooting in a hospital campus on thursday. Police say he killed his caseworker and injured his psychiatrist. Our karen hepp has more on what is believed to be the motive. Reporter this is the face of a troubled and disturbed man. Investigators say richard plots was agitated, armed and wanted to kill his dr. Lee silverman when he arrived early for his psych appointment. No one saw his 32 till he pulled it. He removed the gun from his waistband area and started to rant. Dr. Silverman immediately started to back up. However, what happened next was horrible. Inside these offices investigators say, he turned and pointed his weapon at his caseworkers head theresa hunt was killed instantly. On her quiet Port Richmond street today, her friends are devastated. Im shocked. It was like everything inside you feels like its going to fall apart. We all start crying because we fell like who killed her . We feel like she was our family. Family. Report why is there a motive . Investigators say plots was angry about a no weapons policy at the hospital. Investigators say dr. Silverman has every legal right to carry a concealed weapon and is a true hero. Grazed in the shoot out and rattled, he was not up to speaking when we visited his home. Today we learned about two more heroes. Dr. Jeffrey deckert and another caseworker john dlonzo. He was able prior to the shooting to open the door, look in, see mr. Plots with a weapon and call 911. After he heard the shotting fired, this caseworker then went back into the room and engaged in a wrestling match with mr mr. Plots. He was then helped by dr. Deckert of the fitzgerald mercy staff. They were able to sub die him on the ground and take the revolver away from mr. Plots. Reporter karen hepp, fox 29 news. Were going to have to wait to see if pope francis comes to philadelphia for the world meeting of families next year. Catholic news service reported archbishop Charles Chaput made the announcement that the pope was coming while north dakota but the archdiocese cautions those comments were not official. Vatican spokesperson says the holy father is willing to attend pope francis has yet to visit the u. S. In a statement archdiocese says in part there has been no official confirmation by the vatican or holy see of pope francis as 10 dance at the 2015 world meeting of families in philadelphia. We still expect that any official confirmation will come approximately six months prior to the event so mark your calendar. A nasty dust storm hitting phoenix night. Take a look at this incredible video. Pretty wild. Its actually called a haboob. Big dust storm. A wall of dust. After several days, of extreme temperatures, thunderstorms are forming and theyre blowing over the desert creating dangerous driving conditions right now although there have been no reports of any injuries. A local graduate student accused of hiding video cameras in restrooms on a local campus for two years. Its kind of sick like someone just like was stockpiling all these images and stuff over such a long period of time. How police say the student was finally caught coming up. A 13 Year Old Girl wakes up to find her cell phone smolders inches from her head. What happened and why youll want to check your childrens bedroom before they go to sleep tonight. A little dog is snatched right out of its own yard. His owner watched it happen. Why she says theres nothing she could do to save her precious pet. And mystery solved. Cops say they know who left porcelain dollars on the porches of several families. Coming up, was it creepy or an act of kindness . Scott. Iain, its been a beautiful friday evening across our area, but some changes ahead for the upcoming weekend. The timing of warmer temperatures, humidity, even the threat for showers and storms. University of delaware grad student is behind bars and police are pointing at his extracurricular activities. They say he actually put hidden cameras in campus bathrooms and this has been going on for two years. Students there as you can imagine cannot believe it. Our drew dickman is live in newark tonight with their reaction. Drew . Reporter iain, the students learned about the arrest and their invasion of privacy today. Following a month long investigation. The news as you can imagine has several students on campus tonight shaking their heads. Thats gross. Why would you even want to see someone using the bathroom . Its weird. Reporter students reactioned as they read the email sent by the university of delaware. Alerting them hidden cameras were discovered in campus bathrooms. The fact it took them two years to notice this is a little ridiculous. I think theyre handling it well. Reporter woman found a video camera the size of pack cigarette hidden inside a female bathroom dispenser. They uncovered recordings of bathrooms in several buildings. Suspect javier worked. The 38 year old grad student from mexico faces 21 counts of criminal violation of privacy. Its pretty disturbing knowing he did it more than one bathroom and like you had to take the time out to plan all that stuff out. Its really scary. Reporter University Officials already have 40 victims. They expect more to come forward. And more charges for soto. Investigators say they confiscated 1500 video files. But they say those videos werent shared and line or with others. Its kind of sick that like someone just like was stockpiling all these images and stuff over a long period of time. Its good they finally got him. Thats the important part. Reporter 23,000 schools come back to school this fall theyll return to more security procedures including random checks of all restrooms. The universitys expect tiff director of public and Campus Safety doesnt want the campus to go through this again. Its very discouraging much this was a really serious crime, um, not just for the victims and we have several several victims but for the university of Delaware Community as whole. I mean somewhat feel violated somebody would do something hain yous like this. Reporter soto has had his visa revoked and is being held behind bars to it in without bail. The university is Offering Counseling to students and also set up a special hotline through University Police for any more victims out there. For that information, head to our website myfoxphilly. Com. Iain. Drew, thank you. A traveler had more than a laptop in her computer bag when she arrived at new yorks kennedy airport. Custom agents thought the woman was acting a little strangely so they searched her carry on computer bag and found a white powder that tested positive for cocaine. More than 4 pounds worth. She was arreste arrested on drus and turned over to hem land security. French military released photo showing wreck casm of algieri airline that crashed in northern mali. Crews one of the two black boxes but no survivors. The plane had 116 people on board. Less than an hour into the flight the pilot asked to change course because of bad weather. The plane then disappeared from the radar. Hundreds gathering to mourn the loss of the 298 People Killed in last weeks malaysian plane crash in Eastern Ukraine. There were tears and prayers during the multi Faith Memorial Service in kuala lumpur. Monday the mourners colleagues of the Malaysian Airlines flight attendants. Theres no words can express what im feeling inside. Its really, really its not easy to i just want to say so sorry for the loss of their loved ones. Flight mh17 was shot down over Eastern Ukraine while the Investigation Continues the Dutch Safety Board which is leaving the probe to public factual findings soon. We cant to follow new developments in the israel hamas conflict. The Israeli Military says it has agreed to a 12 hour humanitarian cease fire in gaza beginning tomorrow. But for now, the fighting rages on. Foxs Connor Powell has the very latest from gaza city. Reporter as israeli and hamas Decision Makers spent the day reviewing a us backed cease fire proposal with international negotiators the fighting in gaza showed no signs of letting up. Israel continue continued its bt of militant position killing a Senior Leader of jihad the hamas allied Group Announced a missing israeli soldier hamas claimed to have captured was in fact dead. Efforts to end the violence seemed to have collapsed tonight Israel Security cabinet rejected secretary of state john consider rows cease fire proposal. The temporary agreement would have stopped fighting for a week and allowed israel to keep its truce in gaza. Israel wants to continue the process of destroying hamas tunnels. A condition that hamas would likely have rejected. Reporter in recent days the raid rate of rocket fire has slowed down from gaza. More than 2,000 rockets have been fired at israel. Israel has targeted dozens of hamas launching sights and says it killed many of hamas fighters and is in the process of demolishing 31 tunnels israel says were going to be used for infiltration into israel to attack civilians. But it is Palestinian Civilians who have paid a high price during the one 8day conflict. At least 848 people have been killed in gaza. Mostly civilians, many children. The violence also spilling over into the west bang where thousands of palestinians took to the streets protesting the Israeli Military operation in gaza. At least five people were killed in the demonstrations. For now, the fighting continues as does the effort to end it. Its not clear how long this humanitarian cease fire will last or when it will start on saturday. But israels dee finance minister is warning that after it, the Israeli Military may extend expand its military operations here in gaza so there is the potential that the fighting could even escalate in the coming days. In gaza city, Connor Powell, fox news. Tense moments 200 feet above ground as firefighters work to rescue a trapped construction worker in houston. Really scary stuff. Authorities say the crane operator slipped during a shift change fell and got stuck way up there. So far up it made it very tough for rescues we are to get him back down but hes safe tonight. His co work workers say he has serious injury. Good news about big pat that loving horse we told you about last night. He lost his sight and was beat up after years of hard work and then neglect. So far, an online fundraiser rounded up 1,500 to help pay for the horses treatment. Big pat is getting a Second Chance through an operation to restore his sight. His own are in abandoned him at Lancaster County auction house. But now thanks to kind hearts and skilled hands big pat has gone from ban don many to hope. 1,500 is fantastic. Its just a fraction of how much it will take to restore him totally and that surgery was like 10,000 or something. If youd like to help we made it easy for you. Head to our website and click on the as seen on tv and you can help. All right. Lets get you right over to chief meteorologist Scott Williams now for look at your saturday morning forecast. Hi, iain and lucy. Today was a Beautiful Day but can we do it again tomorrow . Well, all in all looking pretty good. 75 degrees right now. Humidity still from the tee comfortable. Wake up weather for your saturday morning, temperatures in the city in the mid 60s. Low 60s in the suburbs so looking good for that morning jog. Pe

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