What happened inside this Delaware County home, thats the question Police Family members and loved ones are asking after a mother was found dead in a bedroom. Good evening, im karen hepp. Police are already working on some clues in this case. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in upper darby tonight with the very latest. Chris . Reporter karen, upper darby mother of two is dead tonight, and police are saying it is suspicious. Investigators want to find the boyfriend of this woman they are calling a person of interest in this case. That was my everything. You know what i mean . Thats my everything. I can call my mom, everything. That was my everything. Reporter youre hearing the raw pain of a son losing his mother. I feel like i dont no soul no more. Reporter crime tape covers the front door. On the second floor bedroom is where they found the body of mosoka griffin, the 38 year old had just graduated from Delaware County Community College with a degree in nursing. She was a wonderful, loving person. A child of god. God first and for most in her life. She loved her kids. She loved her family. She loved her career. Police were called here to check on griffins welfare early sunday morning. But when they got here her body was found with a towel over her head and her gray dodge gone. Source says, the body may have been there for up to three days. Friends say police have been called to the home numerous times for domestic disputes. In fact griffin just gotten a restraining order against her boyfriend. Police say they have yet to find him. Not going to get this go. You not going to get away with it. Justice will be served for my aunt. Reporter i spoke with an Upper Darby Police supervisor. They say no arrests have been made to locate griffins boyfriend they have yet to say exactly how she died. Meanwhile, theres a candlelight vigil in her honor outside her home tomorrow night. Karen. Thank you, chris. Captured on individual a car crashing into a building in oxford circle. Would you were you watch that cell phone video right there. Thats the car striking the building at cottman and oxford avenues earlier this evening. One person was over to the hospital. Were working that learn how they are doing. Officials say there was only minor damage to the building. No word yet on what caused that crash. Tonight a father is charged in connection with the death of his own two month old baby. Police say 20 year old Brian Armstrong is responsible for the injuries to little hassan armstrong. The child was rush to the hospital on friday with rib and head injuries. The baby died today. The father is charged with aggravated assault. No word yet on whether those charges could be upgraded in light of the babys death. Turning to your fox 29 Weather Authority right now. Live ultimate Doppler Radar shows a weekend thats finally starting to clear out, and dry out right now. A little bit disappointing, caitlin. But maybe the week will be better. It really will be. Well get the sunshine back and warmer temperatures, too, this weekend didnt feel like summer. It was cloudy, cool, we had on and off rain. At this hour we are still seeing showers even lightning moving through southeast pa down through northeast maryland. Some of the rain making it into Lancaster County but thats about as far east as any of these showers that formed in central pa have made it down 81 83 towards baltimore, townsend maryland and northwest of washington. Were seeing lightning. If this holds together it will cross the chesapeake and then maybe make itself into delaware. Not out of the question for northern central delaware to see some rain. Or possibly even some lightning before the night is over. Otherwise big story how cool it was the past couple of days. All of us today stayed in the 70s. No one across the area reached the High Temperature above 77. And right now, its 72 in philadelphia. 69 in pottstown. 73 in allentown and 70 in wilmington. So with all that leftover moisture weve had rain both saturday and sunday morning. We are expecting some fog to develop late. Closer towards dawn so that could be an issue for the drive in depends how dense it is. I dont think it will be too widespread. Showers west of us skate in the city and 63 in the suburbs. Much more on your monday morning still ahead. Karen. Thank you caitlin. Of course you can stay up to date any time on your weather just by coming to our website myfoxphilly. Com. Click on the weather tab at the top of the home page. Youll also find the latest forecast information and live radar images. Happening right now, the search for a suspect who opened fire at a cook out. Three people were injured in the shooting. This all happened just before midnight on 3300 block of smedley street in north philadelphia. Witnesses say there was an argument that starts when gunman inappropriately touches a woman. Another woman sees this. She comes up to try to resolve the situation. Witnesses say that is when the suspect punches that other woman in the face and starts to fire off shots from weapon. There is a 25 year old woman in the hospital in stable condition. Were working to learn how the others are doing. A Philadelphia Police officer is dragged through olney while trying to nab a suspect overnight at meadow and widener streets. The officer was responding to a robbery call. He reportedly notice add man in the area and asked him to stop but that person didnt. Police say thats when the suspect jumped into a car and pulled away with the officer Still Holding on. The officer did free himself and he suffered some minor scrapes. The suspect is on the loose. New jersey investigators say a deadly fire that killed a woman. Its not suspicious but they still dont know what caused it. The body of 65 year old grasmere kell discovered early on saturday morning inside of her brick ocean county home. The fire started about 3 30 on dock road quickly brought under control. Nobody else was hurt. Developing right now, the bowl la scare hits closer to home. One of the two americans infected with the potentially deadly ebola virus is now back state side and doctors say he is improving. Meanwhile more efforts are being put into stopping the virus from spreading any further. In at least three african countries foxs jane meltzer has the story. Reporter dr. Kent brantly landing safely in georgia saturday afternoon walking into an atlanta hospital to be treated for the potentially deadly ebola virus. Very exciting to watch on tv as he came and walked out of an ambulance and i think everybodi spear witnesses were up lifted to see that. Reporter his wife amber also releasing a statement through the Christian Charity he was working for. Saying she was able to speak to him, and he is glad to be back in the us. Cdc director tom freed den says, brantlys prognosis is looking good, but experts need to get to the heart of the issue. The plane fact is we can stop it. We can stop it from spreading in hospitals. And we can stop it in africa where it is really the source of the epidemic. Reporter outbreak has been centered in three african countries liberia, guinea and sierra leone. While theres no known cure for ebola, free den says its possible to contain the virus keeping it from spreading further. Were going to put 50 staff on the ground in these three countries to help stop the outbreak in the next their days. Reporter people in liberiass capitol were seen protesting demanding action from the Health Authority after several horse of botched practice for victims. The mortality rate for ebola is extremely high. If not properly treated more than hedge seven hadnt dread people have succumbed to the virus. Meanwhile the nurse who had been treating patients in liberian hospital is expected to arrive in the us early tuesday. Jane meltzer, fox news. Countdown is on. Our bids getting ready to take the field. Were just five days away from the eagles first preseason game of the 2014 season. The fans could not be more ready to heat things up right now. Our drew dickman went to the second open practice at the linc today where fans got a sneak peek at the birds in act. Reporter the 2014 Philadelphia Eagles took the field to a armory september from the fans during a free open practice at the linc. Eagles reporter before the gates opened some fans made parking lot pigskin to prepare. This group prepped in a different way beginning their tailgating at 6 00 in the morning. Were ready for the season. Were ready for super bowl. This year is the year, right boys. They couldnt wait to introduce their 14 month ol 14 n eddie. The philly faithful fill the link with formers of current eagles greats. Many flocked to more memorabilia of their favorite team. The linc has has a new look. They installed brand new hd video boards and bridges connecting the upper deck. Its amazing. Everything they did a lot of hard work went into it and its going to pay off in the long run fans are hoping the new additions on the fans will be worth the investment. They look really good. We got to see them play together much thats why we coming out. Reporter its a new season and everyone is a contender. Fly eagles fly, on the road to victory eagles true dickman, fox 29 news. Sounds good. All right. Its been two years but tomorrow the girard avenue bridge will be reopening finally. The newly rebuilt bridge is over aramingo avenue at i95 in port richmond. Its been closed since may of 2012 because of structural problems. The contractor fixed its concrete deck and steel beams. The construction is part of penndots multi Phase Program to rebuild and improve on 95 and nearby streets. Family feared their beloved cat may have been gone forever after a devastating house fire. Tonight, they could not be more thankful. How the cat found its way home. And a car goes crashing through a liquor store. The driver says she has a simple explanation of what went wrong. And later, their called hood pranks. They hugh mail 88 people and go viral. The creator says hes not going to stop. First weekend in august but didnt feel it. Both days High Temperatures in philadelphia of 77. 10 degrees below the normal. Well got closer to normal but no major heat in the seven day forecast. Well show you that and your first look at the monday morning forecast next in your wake up weather. Montgomery county two, 17 year old boys stand accused of breaking into a home and baking drug laced brownies. Pot brownies. Police say this burglary happened late last no in perkiomen township. Officers say the boys were found with Drug Paraphernalia and more than 2 pounds of the unspecified drug they used to make the bunnies. The boys have been charged in Montgomery County juvenile cou court. Taking a look at your world headlines tonight. A frantic search for survivors is underway after a massive earthquake rocked surgeon china already more than 360 people have been confirmed dead. The magnitude 6. 1 quake leveled thousands of homes in that area. It was the worst earthquake to hit there in 14 years. Meanwhile investigators are doing their best to find remains of personal items of those on that downed malaysian flight 17. The search goes on despite fighting between pro russia separatist rebels and ukrainian forces. The recovery workers are searching for the remains of 80 victims. To hundred have been transferred to the netherlands for identification. The flight was shot down july 17th killing 298 people on board. Big developments tonight regardinregarding the danger ine middle east. Israel withdrew most of its Ground Troops from the gaza strip today. In an apparent winding down of the nearly month long operation against hamas. Nevertheless, the fighting continues with even more people being killed in gaza. Fox news correspondent Connor Powell has more from gaza city. Reporter a chaotic scene outside a United Nations school near gaza city. Where displaced palestinians were being housed. Parent israeli rocket strike hits a building sunday killing at least 10. Some u inform officials in disbelief as where the rocket strikes keep landing. The locations of all of these installations have been passed to the Israeli Military multiple times. They know where these shelters are. Reporter these attacks come just one day after the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahou suggested troops would scale back and reassess operations. The Israeli Government announced a missing israeli soldier killed in battle and not captured by hamas as previously report the. Militant groups say israel used the mans death as and excuse to break a 72 hour cease fire. We believe israel committed a war crime by shelling a school and the un is further legitimizing the israeli attacks on gaza. Reporter as the world watches the conflict unfold many believe the complexities of the situation wont allow for a simple resolution. If hamas hides among the innocent the innocent are going to get killed, because israel just does not have any choice but to stop people firing hamas firing rockets at their citizens. Reporter nearly 70 israeli troops and more than 1700 palestinians have been killed in the nearly four weeks of continuous fighting. In gaza city, Connor Powell, fox news. Closer to home, dont drink the water thats what folks in toledo ohio are being told. A state of emergency has been declined because of high toxin levels in the water supply. In fact people are being told not to use the water for any reason. Samples of the water show elevated readings of toxin algae from lake erie. Using the water can cause issues particularly for those with medical conditions. People that have very sensitive skin may not want to shower the this point because it can be irritating and the only other recommendation we talked about it earlier because this toxin may cause liver issues. More tests are being run at the state and federal levels to see what can be done about that water. It was an mazing error but it had nothing to do with baseball. There was a mets fan visiting citi field in queens tumble out of the stands and fell about sentence feet to the field blow. He broke his arm. Officials say he was reportedly trying to get the attention of a giants outfielder who had just caught a fly ball. Out of tragedy comes a sign of hope. Huge fire on gesner street in south we have philadelphia. Killed four little children and wiped out close to dozen homes. Now, theres a small reason to smile for one family that thought they lost almost everything. They are beloved cat was gone forever they thought but its not the case. Lets get over to dave kinchen in the newsroom much nice to have happening ending, dave. Reporter it really is. Karen. Hard time for Tina Marie Shaw and her familiar physical rebuild following the horrible fire on guess are in street. Especially because big part of the family was missing but it turns out, he didnt go very f far. Jumps around like a normal house cat without missing a be beat. Hes stress reliever for me. I mean, his purchasing and him loving on me all the time. Reporter stress was high tour tour tina last months devastating fire on gesner street in southwest philadelphia separated blake from his family. Thats all ive been talking about since we, you know, lost our home or whatever. I just wanted my cat back. Reporter tragic fire took the lives of four children and destroyed several houses including tone in a maries. It bust through the window and the dining room and went straight out the back like just like a bomb. She got her family out safely but could not find blake anywhere. That to me is one of my kids were lost. You know, and i couldnt find them. Like my baby. Reporter a couple days ago she was on speaker ton with old guess are in street home when blake popped up on the neighbors porch. I was calling him. He could mimi wowing and im like, mommy, come to get you. She contacted Red Paw Relief Team which gave blake a look. We got him up to date on vaccinations. Got him general wellness. These pictures were snapped when red paw returned blake to the gang. This is one of the longest missing animals that has come back. The shaws are now in new home and can truly begin again. My family is complete, you know. Until basically he was back. Reporter the Red Paw Relief Team believes blake may have hung around stray cats in the neighborhood to survive. Its one of the longest times a pet has every been separated from an owner. Karen. What great story. Thanks, dave. Another good story. Another win for the Taney Dragons Little League team. Today they won their second game in the regional tournament beating delawares Newark National eight to four and if they make it to the Little League world series monet davis the pitcher will be the 17th girl to ever meet the tourname tournament. Caitlin roth will knock it out of the ballpark with our forecast for the week. I will try, karen. It will be better than the weekend. It wasnt too bright out there but it will get better. We do have showers and thunderstorms moving across the baltimore Washington Area right now. Pointing this out because if they do hold together across the chesapeake and into delaware we could see pockets of rain and lightning across delaware and then maybe if it holds together across the delaware bay into south jersey. Fox future cast does show this area of rain making it into dover and central delaware at 3am where were sleeping. A couple of patchy showers north and fog developing. Moisture to play with. I think by early tomorrow morning all the rain gone but we are left over with some fog possibly dense in spots. This is tomorrow morning. Your seven day wake up Weather Forecast 70 in the city, 66 in the suburbs. Still mild and kind of sticky out there with that fog it should, though, give way beautiful monday and then really nice week ahead. All those details still to come in your seven day forecast. Karen. Thank you caitlin. Tightrope walker celebrates his birthday with a stunt hundreds of feet above the ground. It lands him in jail. Faith rewarded at a North Carolina restaurant. What diners get for praying carolina restaurant. What diners get for praying before thehe here in york, pennsylvania weve built the largest distributor of Kitchen Cabinets in the nation. Weve got americanmade products that are beating out chinese imports. So, i know pennsylvania can be a leader in manufacturing and we can make things again. But we have to invest in education and a Skilled Workforce today. Im tom wolf and i have a plan. We can do great things, but we have to think ahead. Tom wolf for governor. A fresh start for pennsylvania. Suv barrels through a liquor store in kansas and everybody survives. The driver was just a few feet away from plowing into several people. The woman says she meant to press the brake but instead she hit the gas. Causing her to drive right through the store and as bad as it looks a worker says it could have been lot worse. That can be replaced but if anyone got hurt or anyone got possibly even killed, the amount of force you can see was a big possibility. Thank god that issue wasnt there because that would not be standing here talking to you right now. Despite the damage the store owner roped off that area and plans to be open while things are being fixed. A mans extreme actions on his birthday land him in troub trouble. Tightrope Walker Benjamin levites and he decided to celebrate his 21st birthday 270 feet above the ground in portland, oregon. Officers say he tried to cross the cables on a steel bridge. Officers were not amused and weighed for him to come down. He is now facing trespassing and Disorderly Conduct charges. Prayer is rewarded at least one restaurant in north caroli carolina. Patrons who pray before the meal will get 15 off. News of the discount went viral after recent customer who got a discount posted her receipt on facebook despite the criticism the owner says this isnt about religion. A lot of people on the internet right now have a lot of negative things to say about it. Christian its not. Its just an attitude of gratitude. Attitude of gratitude. Restaurant says up to each server whether or not they give the discount. The own are in says some choose to gift discount other dos not. Aft the break the pranks that humiliate innocent bystanderbystanders and all ove. Why the creator says he wont stop. Caitlin . And karen as we round out the weekend a little bit of rain showing up on ultimate doppler who this could affect tonight and what the rest of the week brings. Not too much rain and not too much heat. Nice days ahead as we head into the first week of august. Well show you all of that coming up. Have you heard of these, theyre called hood pranks . They may people think their waiting a crime happen right before their eyes and they humiliate innocent bystanders but theyre not funny. Why are they get millions of views on youtube. Heres fox gina silva. Reporter it looks and sounds like a real drive by shooting. The guys in this neighborhood run for cover. But its really just pranksters shooting a video hoping it will go viral. It did more than 6 million hits. Its a new trend. People harrahsed and terrified and its all caught on video. Their called hood pranks. Today is your lucky day bro heres 100,000 right here. All right . All yours. Transaction complete. Reporter josh is one of many people producing these types of videos. He gets millions of hits on youtube. I got lots of support and also some haters but i like it. Reporter josh and codey often Work Together on their pranks. Here codey goes up to man asking for a kiss. Can i get a kiss . If you search on youtube for pranks in the hood, hundreds of videos come up. Some asking if they want drugs. This video more than 5 million hits. You want a little boost of cocaine . You want cocaine. Here this guy pretends to be stealing gas. More than 10 million views. Bleep. Bleep. My first reaction was its not funny. Reporter dave chilling is a writer with vice media. He says these pranks in the hood videos are stupid, dangerous and racist. Its perpetuating stereotypes much it is people saying black people are stupid. Lynn says thats not his intention. He says he shoots his prank videos in mostly africanamerican communities because white people wont have a good reaction. People are in the hood they react big time. But they are also cant take a joke in the hood they laughing after we tell them. Reporter bottom line, he says many of his videos go viral and hes making good money. But chilling shes it differently. In a lot of ways society only encourages success and they dont encourage social responsibility. I hope society starts to see that these things are damaging to Race Relations in the count country. Theyre damaging to just our souls. Im gina silva, fox news. Lynn tries to post one video week usually gets up to 100 to us hits on the first day. Hes got no plans to stop. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority right now. Caitlin roth we need something better. Dreary i think the number one complaint for the weekend. It really was. Felt like it rained all weekend. Kind of cloudy and really even cool for august especially. We do see improvement in the seven day which is great. Even starting tomorrow, karen. Well turn things right around. Good. August is here. Weve got four weeks until labor day. Trying to make the most of it. Shocking to you. Its so sad. August can be a great month. Lets take look at radar right now we are still seeing some showers out there. Mainly just southwest of philadelphia. Theyre moving through the baltimore Washington Area pretty decent movement, too. There was some lightning that was showing up on ultimate doppler right now it looks like its kind of fading. But some of that rain is making it into Lancaster County. Theres that lightning right there moving through washington now. If this holds up it looks like it will cross the chesapeake move into sections of delaware could bring a little bit of rain and lightning before the night is over. Otherwise its just in our western counties that have seen some of these showers most of us have been dry today we saw rain early this morning. Most of the day as we said was just cladism lets go to the tropics where we did have news starting friday morning. Second Tropical Storm of the season bertha. I do not choose these names. Tropical storm bertha 95 miles east southeast of san salvadore. Winds sustain at 45 miles an hour. Bertha has had the same speed back on friday. It will move northwesterl northe caribbean. Head towards the bahamas into early tomorrow morning. Then it will take more northeasterly jog across the atlantic good staying out to see not affecting rt u. S. Mainland. It could strengthen into a category one hurricane that. What means little to no impact for us. The only impact will be rough surf. That could still ab big impact if its your week down the shore it make those rip tides stronger out in the water. 77 was the High Temperature here in philadelphia today. 87 is the normal thats halfway between our low of sketch the normal low. 69 so unusually cool couple of days who are for the beginning of august in philadelphia. 73 right now here in the city. 69 in pottstown. 71 in trenton, and 68 in wrightstown new jersey. Not bad kind of mild but it is a little humid out there and weve got enough moisture i expect fog to develop overnight. Visibility lower in lancaster probably due to the showers. 8mile visibility in pottstown. But we could see them fall and a lot of fog out there early tomorrow morning. Fox future cast showing some of that rain moving through washington baltimore thats crossing straight through dover 3am. Downpours in the out of the question. Spotty showers north and west. Then we see a lot of clouds and fog to start quickly burns off decent amount of sun tomorrow. Especially in the early afternoon. Still a chance of an isolated shower out there. Cant ever seem to really completely rule it out. And thats the case for tomorrow. Into tuesday, the same situation. Nice night a lot of sunshine expected the models showing showers i really dont think thats going to happen on tuesday. But there is still a chance maybe a thunderstorm for tomorrow. Showers west fog developing late tonight. 68 in the city. 63 in the suburb. Your forecast for tomorrow, monday 86 degrees this is certainly warmer with a mix of sun and clouds and feeling more like summer a nice day. The shore cast temperatures also on the rise into the upper 70s beach winds northwest at five to 10 miles an hour. Surf temperature 70 degrees water is warm, its been warm rip current risk is moderate Pay Attention to that all week long with bertha crossing the atlantic. 86 for tomorrow. 88 on tuesday. Nice warm day with some sunshi sunshine. Chance for showers Late Wednesday as a cold front crosses the area. 84 there on thursday with sunshine. Into that next weekend it looks good for now. Phils are back in town all week theyll have great weather. Temperatures in the mid 80s with sunshine. And real quick, its the music fest up in bethlehem started this weekend cheryl crow is in town tomorrow. Your forecast looks 80 at noon and temperatures into the 70s by 8 00 oclock tonight tomorrow night. Good weather for no matter what you want to do. So much better. At least this week much thats good. Thanks, caitlin g way to start our work week. That will do it to tonight for the fox 29 news at 10 00. Keep it right her for sports sunday. And there is lots to go over on sports sunday. Tiger woods has withdrawn again in the fourth round of a Golf Tournament pga championship in question and did chill chip kell val a problem with Carey Williams about practice with the patriots. 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