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WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 August 20, 2014

Mone the golden girl is a Little League world series is taken the country by storm. Why her big brother is taking some of the credit. And a car barrels into cobbs creek. The driver stuck inside. The moment three witnesses turned in to lifesavers. First though news breaking oversees american journalist possibly be headed in iraq. A horrific development in the case of american journalist james foley who disappeared in syria nearly two years ago. A team of media specialists within the u. S. Intelligence community is right now analyzing a video that reports to show foleying execution by the terror group as the Islamic State or isis 40 year old was snatched in syria in november of 2012 and he has not been seen since. The video comes a mid a campaign of u. S. Air strikes against the Islamic State in iraq and forces are telling fox news that isis has kidnapped other american journalists. Stay with fox 29 and myfoxphilly. Com as that news continues to come in. Meanwhile happening now, a local driver is in the hospital alive thanks to the fast action of witnesses. Skyfox over the scene earlier tonight. Her suv flipped into the water trapping her inside. Three people jumped in to save the driver but their heroics didnt end there. Shawnette wilson spoke to one of those Good Samaritans. Shes life at the hospital tonight. What are they telling you report roar first of all that woman was rushed here in Critical Condition were told tonight she is stable. In the meantime police say she is alive likely because of those Good Samaritans who did everything they could to save that womans life. Mangled car from cobbs creek after the rescue of a woman who somehow drove off the road and wound up in the water. When i got over there i seen that the car was submerged in water. It was upside down. Some people was trapped inside. Reporter marcel port is one of three people in the area of cobbs creek parkway and greenway avenue when it happened. They immediately went in to help. Iran down there, but i didnt know people was inside until i seen like her feet dangling inside the water. And then i broke one of the windows tried to open the door. That wouldnt work. We tried to flip it over that. Didnt work. Reporter they were able to get the woman out and perform cpr until she started breathing again by that time Police Arrived and joined the Good Samaritan in the rescue until medics got there and took over. It was horrible. Horrible. Water submerged up to her neck. The vehicle submerged undernea underneath. Trees falling on top of the vehicle. We to hold up the tree to pull her out. Reporter Police Credit the three people who rescued the woman with saving her life. Marcel didnt stop for a second to them just did it. I just thought somebody was in there and i just wanted to help. Reporter and back here live tonight, Police Continue to investigate the cause of this accident. But theyre looking into whether this woman may have a medical condition that contributed to it. Iain . All right, shawnette, thank you. Skyfox over the scene of a deadly accident in montgomery county. Rescue crews on the scene in Huntington Pike and spur road this evening in lower mooreland. Two cars collided causing one to overturn. One person was killed. Two others taken to the hospital. Theres no word yet on the cause of the crash. A water main break leaves 60 homes and businesses without water. Skyfox is over the scene at lardner and farnsworth streets in northeast philadelphia. This happened just after 6 00 tonight. The Water Department is working on a temporary fix to get customers some help. Us attorney general eric holder is headed to ferguson missouri. Hell be meeting with the fbi while urging an end to the on ongoing violent protests. Lets take live look right now as dozens of protesters hit the streets again tonight. Demonstrating in the aftermath of the shooting death of unarmed teenager michael brown. Cops arrested 78 people last night and on top of all of this, that has transpired another Police Involved shooting happened today in st. Louis. Police say a 23 year old robbery suspect lunched at them with a knife. Officers opened fire killing the man. Not long after that shooting, protesters hit the streets of st. Louis. Hands up, dont shoot protesters chanting there dont shoot, hands up which has become the rallying cry in ferguson. Michael browns funeral is set for next monday and fox 29s dave kinchen covered a local rally tonight and he joins us live from West Philadelphia. Dave, a peaceful demonstration here. Reporter very peaceful here but they were also very clear in their message tonight. Its time to step up. Reporter diverse crowd of dozens packed into a corner at 52nd and market in West Philadelphia Holding Signs pledging solidarity with ferguson, missouri condemn wagon they call the Police Brutality that killed unarmed 18 year old michael brown. We can no longer appeal to a broken system that has never been set up for justice. Were tired of this. Were living in something in condition that is weve never seen before. Reporter the rallys Organizer Says the shooting of brown is a row minder of problems at home. Were in solidarity because Police Officers in philadelphia kill our brothers and sisters every day, every so often, and so we can be ferguson today or tomorrow if they mess with the wrong person. It needs to stop. This needs to stop. This needs to stop. Reporter Danielle Crowley spoke to the crowd saying her brother was wrongly killed by a cop three years ago. Im over top him crying trying to stop the blood. The rally came as Philadelphia Police commissioner Charles Ramsay wrapped up a Conference Call with the us attorney general representing the major cities chiefs association. Looking to restore peace in ferguson. People are getting shot as a result of this. Businesses being burned and looted. I moon it just has to stop and we got to figure out a way to do. Well see how major city chiefs can help if at all in this situation by providing support and some advice. Reporter commissioner ramsay also had a separate phone conference with Law Enforcement members in st. Louis county. Lucy. Thank you very much, dave. Lets right now go back to ferguson live and see whats going on. You see again another bunch of protesters out tonight. So far it looks peaceful. Our coverage of the crisis in ferguson continues online. Go to myfoxphilly. Com to see the pictures, the video and whats happening as it happens. A cease fire between israel and hamas comes to a violent e end. The area was supposed to be under a 24 hour he can tension of temporary cease fire but today hamas militants fired rockets toward the israeli town. Israels military retaliated with palestinians saying israeli rockets then hit gaza. Israel immediately recalled its delegation from the peace talks in egypt. The fighting has been going on for more than a m. Nearly 2,000 people have died since the start of the conflict. This is the mug shot of Texas Governor rick perry. The states longer serving governor turned himself in police on abuse of power charges though he is free. Hes been mulling another run for president in 2016. But this week, a grand jury indicted him for threatening to veto funding for the states Public Integrity unit. Now it investigates wrongdoing by elected officials and its run by the Travis County District Attorney office. Perry threatened the veto if that countys da refused to resign following a dui conviction. Perry calls the charges politically motivated and says what he did was not only lawful and legal but right. Police are looking for the gunman in a liquor store hold up it appears even the robbers were surprised by what happened. So this is it. The scene a town liquor on route 130 in florence township Burlington County on sunday. As two robbers held up an employee she screamed and the gunman fired a shot into the wall behind her and you see right there, his partner seemed shocked when the gun went off. He took off when another employee came out from the back room. Both robbers ran away. Close call for a Philadelphia Police officer out of the hospital after being hit in the head by a bullet during a shootout with suspect. You can see the damage from the gun fight in the tacony section of philadelphia. The Department Says the officer is very lucky has fox 29ss Dave Schratwieser reports, the shooter who is now dead had long rap sheet. Reporter the Street Corner where veteran officer stephen korpalski could have lost his live Tuesday Morning a gun battle with an armed suspect. The suspect was shot to death. The officer survived with graze wound to the head. Another half inch or so even fraction of an inch and wed be having a different discussion. Reporter 14 year veteran was responding to cull about a man with a gun when he and his partner spotted the suspect. They got out of their patrol wagon order the the suspect 29 year old david ellis to show his hands. Ellis opened fire emptying his six hot 32 caliber handgun. The officer was hit in the left side of his head and raced to einstein. Were he can treatmently gratified that this officer was able to return home to his family. Reporter the 29 year old ellis has long history of arrests at least eight for robbery, drugs, Sexual Assault and weapons offenses. People that are given zen tesss like that with a history like his should do the full amount of time. Reporter ellis was sentenced to four to 10 years in april 2009 for 2007 arrest on conspiracy, drug and gun charges. He was turned down for parole twice and released in augus august 2013. Why is it that these violent criminals are still out the street . Donna, brooks pharmacy on the corner. One bullet went through her front door, the Lottery Machine on the counter arc pegboard board and into a rear wall. It went past right where i stand to fill prescriptions. Dave schratwieser fox 29 ne news. Lunch time crowd sent running for their lives after the roof caves in at a Queen Village restaurant. Authorities say it was a close call but no one was hurt. It happened at the restaurant for petes sake at front and christian. About a dozen people were inside having lunch but they made it out safely. We have learned that work was being done on the second floor. No official word though yet on cause. Any hin of a School Shooting prompts immediate action. That is exactly what happened in the Los Angeles Suburb of south pass dino and two students are under arrest tonight. School officials heard the plot and immediately told authorities. They say the pair planned to kill three staffers and begun down as many students as possible. Police say the 16 and 17 year old boys did not have weapons but they were searching on the internet all about weapons and explosives. We have seasoned detectives and they just the word they used is chilling. Chilling the way how matter of fact and how willing they were to kill people. Both teens now face charges of making threats and conspira conspiracy. Remember her name. Philly native mone davis the first Little Leaguer ever on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Shes real tough. I call her tom boy of the neighborhood. Her big brother could not be prouder. Next, why hes taking some of credit for her success. And not the encounter you want waiting for the subway. Look what came scurrying on to the platform. What this massive rat did next that has this guy behind the camera shrieking. Sleeking, nice. Plus, punish many gone too far . A mom accused of kicking her 12 year old out of the car at 10 30 at night. Where cops say the boy turned up more than 20 miles from home. Caitlin. Lucy, were in the middle of a stretch of very nice and sunny weather but we have some rain on the horizon. Our next chance to see some showers plus will we see another blast of unseasonably Cool Temperatures . Thats all coming up in your Weather Authority forecast. Shes everywhere. It seems like everyone knows her name. Now taney dragon super star mone davis is on the cover of latest edition of Sports Illustrated. Quite the cover. Its the national sism cover by the way. Miss davis is the first Little Leaguer ever on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Fox 29s drew dickman spoke to her family about mone mania. What did they have to say. Reporter they never expected mone to get this much attention this fast and never dreamed she would even make the cover of the biggest sports magazine in the world. Her mother always thought her daughter would become a famous athlete, but not through baseball. By playing College Basketball at uconn instead. Shes breaking all kinds of records. Like she is really make history. Reporter move over lebron, tiger and peyton. Another athlete known by their first name is front and enter is the cover of Sports Illustrated. Mone. I guess she upped it with lebron and kobe and right now she like the hottest thing around. Reporter the cover states, remember her name as if we could ever forget. A familiar phrase to the star pitchers mother. That always was my hash tag. Remember her name. Reporter mone davis is the first Little Leaguer ever to be on the National Cover of si. Im the reason shes tough. Her older brother experienced number three celebrity long before she made history. When i was that way in sports, i got everybody asked me can i sign her autograph for me. Im like im not mone. Lesean mccoy was on the cover of Sports Illustrated and beginning wednesday much like mccoy her face will be on the cover and be sold at newsstands across the can untree. I know one thing. Ill get a thousand copies of it. Davis mom says shes creat creating a scrapbook of all her daughters chief manies. She says mone enjoyed all the extra attention at first, but now prefers to focus on baseball and her teammates. Like she said before, you know, this is not her, its her team. But she she just want to be a 1384 old child. Again the cover hits the stands tomorrow. The same day mow thai will likely tow the rubber against Little Leaguers from las vegas in the us semi final. Iain, i know were all rooting her on. Oh, we certainly are. Drew, thanks a lot. Great story fox 29 will be live from william port tomorrow starting on the fox 29 morning news that comes your way at 4 00 a. M. I495 bridge closure could soon cost two companies in delaware some big bucks. Delaware environmental regulators have sent the Dupont Company and Alma Properties sweeping violation notices. The companies own the land around the bridge. Though the state is not specifically blaming them for damage to the bridge, it is claiming illegally stock piled dirt on the land damaged it. The various fines could cost the company 2,000 each every day. The bridge closed in june. The southbound lanes reopened july 31st and northbound lanes should open right around labor day. Smoke and flames penns landing skyfox over the scene this morning. It was a septa bus as you see that was on fire. Mechanic was working on the bus when fire started in the engine compartment. No pass injuries were on board and that mechanic is just fine. In the wake of the chaos in ferguson, missouri one Delaware County community is working to bring people together. The Upper Darby Police department giving out free water ice to people at the playground at second and ward and what great night to catch a movie outside. They played lego the movie for the kids and families to enjoy. Police say they want to build a sense of Community Back to their streets. Its a homerun. Its homerun with all that you see going on across the country today, especially in ferguson, missouri, this is our way of kind of reaching out to the community and interacting with the community. Police say they spent a lot of time at the second ward street playground and wanteed to something nice for People Living in that area. Good stuff. What would you do if you found a bag of money that fell off the roof of an armored truck . Guess they forgot to put it in the truck when they drove off in Atlantic City. 21,000dollar were talking about and the press of Atlantic City says the money was the soon to close revel casino if the kaseen 93 hasnt lost enough money. Surveillance video shows the bag with the truck actually on the truck its not clear where it fell but did it happen on august sickth. The Armored Truck Company is working with authorities on the investigation. Revel closes on september 2nd. And all bets are off august 31st when the showboat casino closes its doors. New jersey regulators say it

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