Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20150116 : vimarsana.

Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 20150116

Hour. Its been shut down now for nine hours after that nasty accident investigators with the Pennsylvania State Police Accident Investigation Team still in the northbound lanes now taking measurements and investigating this crash that killed one and had thousands of commuters searching for detours. Crews removing whats left of an 18 wheel tractor trailer. The truck hauling scrap metal overturned in a fiery crash in the northbound lanes of i95 in bensalem. The crash killed the driver, five other vehicles were also involved. Then the white car hit the truck and then the black car hit that. Reporter Latisha Pratt says if she was driving 30 seconds earlier she would have been in this wreckage. Instead she and other drivers were stuck on the shut down highway for hours. Eventually leaving her car and walking down the street road offramp. I was sitting there 12 30 to 3 00 oclock. Reporter you just your car. I just left my car. Reporter when are you going to get your car. Whenever they clean this up. Reporter state police say this tractor trailer started the sixvehicle Chain Reaction crash by rear ending two cars driving north near street road. Thats when the scrap metal truck owned by Sims Metal Management swerved to avoid the others. But it collided with the other 18 wheeler over turning spilling metal all over the highway. The driver who died has been identified as 58yearold paul marias of trenton. Sims metal says hes Longtime Company employee who was traveling to the companys morrisville facility at the time of the crash. Really bad. Reporter 95 northbound was shut down through the afternoon rush and into the night from skyfox. You could see the traffic stretched for miles as commuters were delayed for more than an hour trying to get home. Take like an hour to drive around. Drive back on 95 from street road going through stuff youll youlling stuck. Reporter so far no criminal charges have been filed but they may be filed after investigators come up with an official cause of the crash. Iain . All right, chris thank you a freak accident in center city tonight. A temple student fell from a building at 15th and chestnut landing on a woman below. That student was killed. This all unfolding during the busiest time of the night when sidewalks are packed with people people. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live near the scene at 15th and chestnut tonight. Shawnette . Reporter well police say that preliminary reports indicate that it was an accident when an 18yearold fell from a dorm room window above this h and m store behind me. However, at this hour they stress its still unclear whether she actually fell or foul play was involved. In the meantime people walking by are stunned at how this all played out. You only ever hear of this in a movie. Crowds of people stopped and stared at 15th and Chestnut Street in center city. After hearing an 18yearold girl fell out of a window and landed on top of a woman walking by. The 18yearold suffered severe head injuries and died. Real tragedy that Something Like this could happen. Reporter police say around 6 00 oclock this evening they got dozens of 911 calls reporting what happened. They say they saw preliminary information the 18yearold girl whos a student at temple was visiting two male friends who live in the Art Institute of philadelphia dorms. Investigators believe the girl was sitting on the ledge possibly leaning out of this eighth floor window taking a picture when she fell. Im not sure. Im not sure at this time exactly where the phone was but the officer who at Jefferson Hospital with her did recover a cell phone from her. Because were getting some reports that she possibly may have been taking pictures from the eighth floor window. Were not 100 sure of thats what occurred. Reporter these are pictures of the 44yearold woman the girl fell on being wheeled along by medics she was walking along 15 many street when it happened. Shes at Hahnemann Hospital with fractured neck certificate bray and missing teeth but in stable condition. Dennis dupree works in a building nearby. An accident. Something that just happened that shouldnt have happened. You know what i mean . It could anybody to anybody. That person was walking by i hope they survive it. Reporter im told that investigators with central detectives right now trying to get a search warrant for in dorm room. Standard procedure im told since someone has died also Police Say Two male students who were in many room and a woman are being interviewed still at this hour. Back to you. All right, shawnette thank you. On your radar tonight it will be dry and gusty on friday so scott will be a little chilly. Iain, were looking at temperatures tomorrow around average but when you factor in that wind it will feel a little colder right now its 30 degrees the wind not that bad. The feels like temperature in the low 20s. And heres a look at the forecast out the door tomorrow morning. Temperatures in the low 30s but when you factor in those winds its going to feel like the 20s so dress for that. As far as those future wind gusts by 7 00 a. M. You can see were looking at winds gusting to 25 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. Wilmington up to 29 by 7 00 a. M. And really throughout the day tomorrow, winds gusting over 20 Miles Per Hour at times up to 30 more than throughout the and tire day so hang on to those hats and also because the temperatures are going to be right around average its still going to feel a little colder. Blustery to start on your friday but it will be dry and high temperatures once again near average. But for a part of the upcoming Holiday Weekend youre going to need some rain gear. Ill have the timing of that system as well as more temperature changes as we take you into the Holiday Weekend coming up. Iain and lucy. Talk to you then scott. Fox 29 is uncovered exclusive new details about the murder of 56yearold kim jones who was just waiting at a bus stop when man walked up to her then shot and killed her at 12th and jefferson streets. It happened tuesday. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is just back from a Memorial Service for jones. Hes live at Philadelphia Police headquarters. Dave . Reporter lucy that vigil for murder victim kim jones wrapped up about an hour ago at her church in north philadelphia. We were there as friends remembered her as a very special person. While that vigil was going on homicide detectives were busy trying to track down a coldblooded killer. The only thing that i can think of about kim when i think about kim is the word goodness. Goodness and love. Reporter thats the way kim jones was remembered thursday night during a vigil at her church. The church of the advocate at 19th and diamond. Kims footprint her hand her love is all over this place. She was special. Reporter a few blocks away a small make shift memorial mark the spot where the 56yearold jones was murdered tuesday morning. Homicide detectives now believe the gunman was actually lying in wait for jones right across the street from her home near 12th and jefferson. He was lurking outside of her house. Probably about an hour beforehand much she comes out of the house. He follows her. Reporter video from the city Police Camera shows the gunman approach the victim at the bus stop. It pans off before the shooting then shows the victim on the ground and the shooter calmly walking away. Westbound on jefferson. He was very calm, cool and collected. Which is even more disturbing after what he just did to her. Reporter jones was a well wellliked child advocate for a center city Agency Police are convinced this was no random killing. We dont know why but she was targeted. Reporter investigators pulled video from dozens of surveillance cameras that captured the gunmans escape on foot. Sources say he made his way through the neighborhood, passed this Shopping Center then oh and to temples campus. Then used septa subway at broad and cecil b. Moore to make his get away. Sources say he exited the subway at the hunting park station and vanuatu initiate. What does that tell you about this kind of guy. Hes cold and well get him. Tonight investigators continue to pour over hours of Surveillance Video from literally dozens of cameras. They are expected to release some of that video tomorrow. Iain. All right, dave, thank you. Two men bust into an old city pub and they walk out with an atm and a couple of flat screen televisions. Surveillance cameras at pattis bar caught the pair in the act. Investigators say these guys spent about an hour and side the race street bar early monday morning. If you recognize them call police. To a developing story right now in belgium. A authorities are searching for clues tonight after a thwarted belgium Charlie Hebdo attack. Two suspected terrorists are dead after a fierce gun fight with police. The suspects start the firing when Police Closed in on them near a train. The raid is the culmination of an Investigation Underway for week. Police say the suspects were heavily armed and planning to attack Police Stations and the next couple of days. Investigators say theres no link at this point to the paris attacks. Aside from the two suspects killed Police Arrested a third. Back here in the states House Speaker john boehner says a Controversial Surveillance Program thwarted an ohio mans plot to bomb the us capitol. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act lets investigators spy on americans under certain conditions. Yesterday the fbi arrested 20yearold Christopher Lee cornell. The Justice Department says cornell is an Islamic State sympathizer who talked about carrying out jihad on social media. The government began tracking him last summer. Doctors clear former Television Sports personal Don Tollefson to resume his trial tomorrow. A health scare forced the judge to sent jurors home and tollefson to the Doylestown Hospital today. Tollefson defending himself against theft charges prosecutors say he pocketed 300,000 in Sports Charity schemes. Tollefson said he made bad business decisions. He has type two diabetes and his blood sugar levels were off. The attorney acting as his stand by counsel says part of the problem may be stress. The beginning of the day he seemed a little off to my eye and told me that he needed to check on his diabetes every half hour the blood sugar he reason add few witnesses after he presented those witnesses he took his blood test again and it was like off the charts. Doctors have cleared tollefson for court tomorrow. The case could go to the jury next week. Parents trusted this woman to take care of their children. What police say she did to a toddler landed her in handcuffs. What officers found on surveillance cameras that will make any parent cringe and oh, bleep. Oh bleep. Truck loses control slams into two squad cars. What that driver is accused of of doing moments before the crash. And a pregnant woman stranded on the side of the road but it was not what it seemed. How she used the bible to rob a Good Samaritan. You know what, you see these things everywhere. Skinny jeans leggings, tall boots. Why these popular trends are behind more and more women going under the knife. Plus youve seen the pictures all of that could be growing on your cell phone. Disgusting right . Get ready. The other items you water mains are popping left and right in philadelphia. Youre looking at at least the ninth break in two days. Northeast philadelphia the scene along grant avenue there. You saw it here breaking at 10 00 last night. It took crews until this morning to stop that 200foot geyser in part because one of them got hurt and is now in the hospital in serious condition. So with that geyser left behind is all of this. Flooded roadways and frozen trees that just couldnt hold the weight of the ice and toppled over. The water Department Says this was one big job to tackle and very dangerous conditions. Winter is a toughest time of the year. Winter time is our most difficult season for water main breaks. Youll see the highest volume of breaks during this time of year. Water temperature air item which are play as factor into it it. The ruptured Fire Department service line sends water for a Sprinkler System to near boy business. The break did not affect any homes. A new jersey man is in jail accused of murders his wife. Police searched his parents home. Kyle cross bow is charged with killing his 26yearold wife. Shes been missing since new years eve and authorities have yet to find her body. Last night investigators searched crosbys parents sicklerville home and also removedrow achild from there. Police have not said what they were looking for in the home. This now fired bucks county daycare worker is under arrest. Charged with violently assaulting a twoyearold boy. The incident was all caught on Security Camera video and police say theyve never had a problem before with the lower southampton daycare as bruce gordon explains last wednesday morning something terrible happened. Reporter a figurative cloud hangs over the sunshine daycare as parents learn of the arrest of a daycare workers 11 violent treatment of a twoyearold boy. I took my second child here because it was the safest place around im very sorry to hear about that. Reporter Lower Southampton Police tell us 38yearold natalia mensick under arrest charged with simple assault and other offenses after parents noticed minor injuries to the little boys body and asked him about them. The involved child had some injuries parents talk to the child, decided it was best to come to the Police Station and talk to the police about it. Reporter they went to the daycare and searched Security Camera video. There it was just after 11 a. M. Last wednesday images of a boy playing with friends on the floor of his classroom. According to arrest documents mensick is grabbing the child from before and throws him across the floor. Seconds later the child is dragged an extensive distance across the room by the hood of this sweatshirt. How clear is that video in terms of its very clear. Reporter what does she actual dollar in that video. Drag the child by the hood. Drags him across the room. Sits him in the corner and screaming from him you can tell from the video. Had minor injuries on his neck. Reporter in fact the arrest documents say she appears to have briefly choke the boy. Facility own are in director natalia would not talk to us on camera but told me she willingly showed authorities the security footage and was shocked by what she saw. Said the owner quote it was very unpleasant to look at. Mensick is out on bail and appeared to be home when we arrived at her door. But there was no response. Daycare own are in describes mensick as long hiv Time Employee with a spot less record of child care prior to last wednesdays incident. We were not able to make contact with the little boys parents but were toll his injuries are minor. In the newsroom im Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. Caesars entertainment filed for bankruptcy but gap less probably wont even notice that is good news for atlantic city. The casino giant owns caesars and ballys on the boardwalk and after several casino closings last year, two more could devastate ac. Caesars Officials Say this is all about restructuring and it will be business as usual at all of their properties. The operating division of the Company Hopes to shed 18. 5 billion in debt. Another major live victory for former penn state Football Player recovered from a devastating spinal cord injury noun hes headed to new jerseys state house. Adam taliafaro won the Democratic Party endorsement today. He succeeding Outgoing Assembly woman celeste rile until south jersey. Riley stepped down to serve as Cumberland County clerk. Taliafaro was paralyzed in 2000 sand during a penn state ohio state game while making a tackle and doctors told him his chances of walking again were slim. But he recovered in four months. Voters elected him to the Gloucester County board of freeholders in 2011. So congratulations to him. Great story g new jersey girl shows the exact reason why you should get your eyes checked every single year. She could have gone blind. A wal mart eye physician saved her site one year ago today and possibly her life. Carlis family is celebrating her recovery a party held in williamstown, new jersey, family teachers chop and wal mart employees by her side then and now. Routine eye exam at wal mart found carlis operate tick nerve was severely swollen. She had excess fluid surrounding her brain and if it was left untreated she could have gone blind or worse lost her life. She considers her recovery amirra kell. Im perfectly fine no

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