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WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 September 3, 2014

Reception. And chilling 911 calls moments after a nine year old accidentally shot her instructor with annoys see. Hes having convulsions. You need to send ems right away. What that little girl told her parents about the sub machine gun she was holding. First to your weather authority. Tracking heavy downpours and lightning tonight. Take look at old city right around 8 00. In cherry hill a huge branch came down along route 70 eat of ponzios its almost blocking two lanes of traffic. The radar is lit up right now with those same storms. Good evening im lucy noland. Im iain page. Lets get right over to Scott Williams tracking these storms. Scott. Hi there. Not out of the woods just yet. Weve been monitoring some violent thunderstorms moving through the area. Take a look at ultimate doppler. You can see it started from the west continued to move into sections of south jersey and thats where we have some of the heaviest rainfall right now in Salem Cumberland county, also a section of gloucester county. Well zoom in closer right now where you see the yellows and orange and the red vineland, millville looking at very torrential downpours right now. Also, toward the surf city area but not only are we dealing with the heavy rain, take look at all of the lightning within that bock seeing over 100 lightning strikes. So thats been one of the calling cards with this system tonight as well. Look at the clouds associated with that front thats been moving through our area. Late this evening temperatures were in the upper 80s and low 90s helping to fuel some of the thunderstorms that developed. Take look at this twitter picture. Very ominous thanks so much to ken out of west chester. That is at 202 and 926. Its a shelf cloud basically its the leading edge of that squall line, that boundary between the up draft and the down draft reuniting the very heavy downpours across our area this evening. What to expect over the next 12 hours. Leftover scattered showers and storms. Temperatures still pretty warm over the neck several hours but lowering humidity once we move beyond 1 00 a. M. And wake up weather by 7 00 a. M. Temperatures will in the low 70s but its not going to be as humid. Well talk about the expected High Temperature for tomorrow and also when to expect a more fall like feel lucy and iain coming up. All right. Scott. Thank you. Happening now, a packed vigil just come to go close in bucks county. Thousands filed in to Council Rock South to remember the three teen boys killed in that devastating car crash. The suv they were in flipped over. Investigators now revealing another teen was behind the wheel. Not open old enough to drive t night that devastated Community Came together to grieve. Chris oconnell is live at the school right now. Chris, just a tough tough night night. Reporter very emotional night here for this Council Rock South community lucy. More than 2,000 people come out here tonight to remember the three students who died all too quickly and were supposed to start their sophomore year tomorrow morning. I was in disbelief at what happened and i was just its terrible. Reporter flood of family, friends and faculty arrived to say goodbye to three lives gone too soon. Its going to be hard for lot of people. A lot of people are very, very, very close to these guys. Reporter the gym at Council Rock South was packed to capacity to pay tribute to cullen keffer, ryan leather and shamus digney. Were family people. They made all their friends laugh and feeling better. They always had smiles on their faces and they were great kids to be around. Reporter the Three Friends can willed saturday morning while coming home from breakfast in the poconos. 2001 chevy suburban they were riding in flipped on a rural wayne county road. Three other teens were also injured. Officials say one of them, an unlicensed 15 Year Old Girl from new york, who was behind the wheel when it lost control. All of the victim whos were killed were wellliked student athletes excelling in soccer basketball and lacrosse. Our kids are about to go through something that we dont even know how to manage. Reporter School Superintendent mark klein says the deaths of the three students during the opening days of school is overwhelming. But so is the support for the victims families. Some who attended the vigil that was off limits to the media. I cant even understand how you would cope with this loss. I know that we have reached out to them on a daily basis. We have told them that whatever support is available through the School District through the community were willing to offer at a moments notice. Reporter the wayne County District attorney tells us tonight there is a good chance that 15 Year Old Girl will be criminally charged in that crash. Meanwhile three funerals are planned over the next three days for these victims. Iain. Chris, thank you. Developing story now. Has it happened again . The terrorist group isis says it has be headed other american journalist. Internet video post dad appears to show the beheading of Steve Sotloff by the militants and sotloff had not been seen in syria since august of last year. White house says it cannot confirm the authenticity of the video but if it is real, its the second gruesome murder of an american journalist by isis in just the past two weeks. I ask you to please release my child. Steven has no control over the actions of the u. S. Government. He is an innocent journalist. That was mess is that video taped by Shirley Sotloff last week after her son steven appeared for the First Time Since his abduction. Ed in video clip showing the beheading of american journalist james foley. The terrorists had threatened sotloff would be next if the Obama Administration did not end its air strikes against the group in iraq. The strike doctors not end. On tuesday came the release of the second video. Titled a second message to america. In it the same british accented man clothed in black with a knife in hand speaks directly to the camera. Im back, obama he says, im back because of your arrogant Foreign Policy towards the islamic state. Seconds later he murders sotloff. Late tuesday afternoon the state department offed the First Official comment on the video. The Intelligence Community will work as quickly as possible to determine its authenticity. If the video is genuine we are sickened by this brutal act taking the life of another innocent american citizen. Our hearts go out to the sotloff family. And we will provide more information as it becomes available. When that information does become available, we will have it for you on air and online at our website myfoxphilly. Com. A father is sitting behind bars accused of leaving his baby in a car while he gambled in a delaware casino. Police say 26 year old Justin Middleton left his 14 month old daughter in his car outside the harrington raceway and casino. It happened yesterday afternoon right around noon. Patrons noticed the car running saw the baby inside. Police arrested middleton. When he returned to the car about an hour and a half later he is facing several charges including recklessly endangering a child. A nine year old boy is recovering tonight after a bullet grazed his head. Now it happened in the tacony neighborhood of philadelphia this afternoon. Fox 29s dave kinchen is live outside northeast detectives and, dave, what a horrifying ordeal for that little boy. Reporter it really is. Police tell us this all started out with some kind of a beef between two different groups and then gunfire around 3 20 in the afternoon in the middle of the day. Sending a boy to the hospital. Sir, please dont let me die. Reporter augustine says thats what a nine year old boy told him after being grazed in the head by a bullet in tacony. Hit by gunfire as he was leaving the library with his sister and mother. Shes putting her four year old in the car when shots rank it the corner. One shot fired i took cover. The next shot that was fired hit the child. He was yelling and screaming he felt something. Reporter witnesses sat the boy in the car and applied pressure to his wound while calling police. Just said to him everything will be all right boy. Help is on the way. It was very moving moment. He is special toll me. Im a dad you know. I got boys, too. Reporter the boy treated and released from the hospital and police say he was not the intended target. From what we understand there were guys in a car behind me and shooting across the street. Reporter vest gathers searching for the shooter who could have made things a lot worse. Total disregard for human life. This is a very busy stretch of the neighbor. What are we doing here . This is brotherly love, for real . Reporter Philadelphia Police did speak with the mother when she came back for her vehicle. In the meantime police are look looking for Surveillance Video if you have any information call 215686 tips. Lucy . Thank goodness that little boy is okay. Thank you very much, dave. Here we go again. Another possible credit card data breach and this time its home depot investigateing what happened. The atlanta based company is working with banks and Law Enforcement to figure out if indeed hackers have struck. Home depot says it will let customers know right away if their perm information is now compromised. Several banks believe the breach may date all the way back to late april or early may. Now an expert says if thats the case the impact could be larger than what happened to target last year. And that is hackers stole 40 million credit and debit card numbers across three weeks. Atlantic citys trump plaza is given final approval to shut down in two weeks. Trump plaza will close its doors on september 16th. It will be the fourth casino to shut down this year alone. The Atlantic Club shut its doors back in january. The showboat shut down sunday an little more than two years after opening with high hopes of being the savor, Atlantic City was waiting for revel closed its doors for good this morning. At 5 25 the remaining gamblers were ushered off the casino floor. The who tell part of the resort closed yesterday. Revel costs 2. 4 billion to build. Construction on revel started just before the recession. Hit the company took on so much debt it never managed to turn a profit. With three as casinos closing within three weeks 8,000 people will be out of work. We have good news for catholic parishioners in philadelphias manayunk neighborhood. Every effort will be made to renovate saint john the baptist church. Parishioners have been worried structural problems would force the closure of the more than Century Old Church called by some the cathedral of manayunk. The Church Officials decided to try to renovate the structure. And now comes the tough part. Raising the several Million Dollars needed for the repairs and the church think that is will take many months. Young mother pulled over and thrown in handcuffs with her young kids in the car. Her six year old walks out with his hands in the air. But it was all a mistake. Her car the wrong color make and model. Why police say its not their fault. And a teacher fired from her school all because shes having a baby. The one rule her school says she broke that left her without a job. Heartless crooks rip off students with special needs. Thousands of dollars of important teaching equipment stolen. Why the school says the loss is irreplaceable. And she took her eyes off the road for only a second to read a text. She ended up impaled by a pole. Shes okay. But it was a struggle just to get her out of that car. Tom wolf. Hed be a different kind of governor. He served in the peace corps in india. And then got a phd from mit. And as a businessman he gives between 20 and 30 percent of his profits back to his employees. When he served as pennsylvanias secretary of revenue. He turned down the perks. And donated his government salary to charity he refused take a state car, he drove his old jeep instead. Cant argue with that. Tom wolf. Hed bring a fresh start to pennsylvania. Police on the hunt for cold criminals tonight. Its a story youll see only on fox. Sometime over the weekend thieves broke into Hill Friedman World Academy and they made off with thousands of dollars in electronics meant for students with special needs. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser has been talking with the heart broken teacher teachers. Take that away from the students is its heartbreaking. Reporter when joe moore arrived at the Hill Friedman World Academy monday morning to get his classroom ready for school next week, he made a startling discovery. Walk into a robbery where you know some of our equipment was taken. Reporter gone were two big flat 15tvs 2wii gaming consoles and two interactive play station consoles that moore uses to teach children with complexion needs at the school. The kids hop on bike or interact with the dance dance revolution and the wii and they really get into working out and burning calories and having a great time with some of this equipment. Reporter the burglars didnt stop there. They enter add classroom just down the hall and stole six specially a capped Laptop Computers that teacher Courtney Barrett uses to teach her students with autism. How my kids communicate with me, you know, they just its just how its essential in our classroom with my kids being nonverbal. Reporter Police Arrived at the school looking for clues or evidence left behind by the burglars. They suspect the break in occurred over the weekend. The total loss was close to 25,000. But the loss to the students here is immeasurable. Theres going to be large group of kids about 80, newspaper kids super frustrated with not having the opportunity to experience this equipment. Why would you do that to children . Like, its a shame. Reporter Dave Schratwieser fox 29 news. New Castle County Police released a sketch of a man want wanted for rape. They say it happened last wednesday behind a home on the 1600 block of Coleman Street in wilmington. A 29 your old woman says a man attacked her just before midnight. She says the man took off in an older model silver car with temporary delaware registration. Residents of a building for seniors in the disabled take to the streets of philly. They staged protest saying that their worried for their safety. They say the philadelphia house Housing Authority is taking aware their Armed Security guards and replacing them with unarmed ones. The jacobs Senior Development is in the 1100 block of fairmount avenue. A statement the pha says its hiring more Police Officers and has to eliminate or reduce the number of regular security guards at nine developments. At those nine sites the pha promises to increase police patrols. A bitter controversy drawing National Attention comes to a head tonight. The decision whether to rename the old Kennedy High School in willingboro in honor of president obama. Opinions about the name change have been all over social media. Huge crowd turned out tonight to weigh in. Fox 29s Lauren Johnson is live in willingboro with what went down. Lauren . Reporter hey there lucy. People did show up in big numbers here at this Community Center and they thought they were coming to weigh in on that debate. Its a president ial debate. Would it be kennedy or obama . Cars crept into the parking lot. This is not what we need. Packed with passion people. I think its very many supporting school pride. Im a class of 74 graduate. Inside a hot gym. It didnt come about with the intention of disrupting a community. For an important meeting. Turned out not to be such a great idea. Started as an idea for a former school now a Community Center to undergo a name change. This has been jfk high school now jfk center. Resolution by councilman anderson to rename the Kennedy Center the obama center. You just dont eliminate someones name like that. I take ownership and not thinking it through. Tuesday night a vote was set to happen. But the Willingboro Township Council did Something Else. We rescind the name change of the jfk Community Center. applause . People married to heritage the people have spoken. And history. We were here to preserve it tonight and we were victorious. Were pleased with their decision. Reporter everyone here tonight agreed that this was not app issue of race or politics just really history and heritage heritage. The Township Council agreed tonight that they would not do anything like this again until the public was fully aware. Lucy iain. All right lauren, thank you. A big day for students in many parts of our region heading back to their first day of school. Young minds eager to learn reported to Hb Wilson Family School in camden and to welcome them the mayor superintendent and police chief.

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