There was break for people out in old city tonight. They kept their umbrellas and raincoats handy. And take look at Brigantine Beach earlier this evening. Rain wasnt the only problem there. Wind and choppy waters made eight good night to just stay inside. Unfortunately, it looks like more of the same is on the way which could change your weekend plans. Good evening, happy fry daring im dawn timmeney. Im chris oconnell. Its a busy night for the fox 29 weather authority. Lets get straight to meteorologist Scott Williams with the very latest on the weekend. Hey, scott. Hi l chris and dawn. Yeah, damp and dreary. That has been the scenario across the delaware valley. As we move toward at least the part of the weekend, more of the same. Look at ultimate doppler. We have cloud cover and we have mist and drizzle. Not lost heavy rain this evening, but were not done with the rainfall just yet. We still have that fetch of moisture moving from south out of virginia and also out of the open waters of the atlantic right toward our area, and take look at this pinwheel off to the west. Thats why we still have this stuck pattern. Its been breezy. Winds out of the east northeast 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour this evening. The Coastal Flood Advisory continues through 2 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Also, pretty gusty winds down the shore. Live look right now at Philadelphia International airport. Numerous airport delays there. 61 right now after a high look at that only 63 degrees. Well below average for this time of year. Were in the 50s north and west. Low to mid 60s in south jersey and also down the shore so for tomorrow, 60 chance for rain. A 30 chance as we move toward your sunday. So once again, diminishing rainfall chances for the second half of the weekend. Well time out more of the rain coming up. Back to you. All right, stay on top of the weather by downloading the fox 29 weather app get live radar and weather alerts sent right to your phone you can download it for free from the google or apple play stores. To developing story now. Police have a warning for parents and children tonight about threats involving clowns. Creepy clown sightings have been reported all across the country, and now the concern has finally hit our area. Authorities say some schoo schoolsare getting threats warning people dressed in clown masks with sinister intentions. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is in radnor where one School Received a frightening message tonight. Shawnette. Reporter they did, chris and dawn. Radnor Township Police say they got several calls from parents today concerned about those threats. They even sent a Police Officer to one of those schools. Someone thought they were joking but like a lot were texting their parents. Reporter 1784 old mary naylor is talking about a scary clown threat that spread on social media involving schools in the radnor township district. She is a junior at agnes irwin. The text it was hash tag clowning around and they were talking about how they were going around establish kids and go to different schools. Reporter radnor Township Police say someone spread the threats on various social media sites under different hash tags. This one Police Showed us threatens to either kidnap students or kill teachers going to their cars. Police posted on their website and crime alert page that the posts are actually a hoax. What i want to stress is everything has been unfounded in this area. Nobody has been founded but somebody playing an evil trick on people, and actually getting people legitimate upset. Reporter melanie has a 15 year old daughter in the Radnor Township School district. She says her Daughters School is safe and shes not concern. I think its sad. I think its unfortunate, and there are people out there that are looking to, you know, grab a spotlight however they can. So you know as long as they arent following through parents of children in other School Districts who also heard about the scary clown threats are concerned. Its forced officials in toms river and boyertown to issue warnings too. I think its very dangerous for the children. I wouldnt want a kid to be scared that fib would do that. Reporter and police say if you see or hear of a threat like this, dont assume it is a hoax. Call them and they will investigate each one. Dawn . All right, shawnette, thank you. Those incidents involving clowns happening in our area well as we said theyve been happening throughout the count country. So we wanted to know when did clown goss from being symbol of fun and happiness for children to a site that provokes fear and dread in so many people . Our hang flynn did a social experiment to try to fine the answer. What he found is coming up later on fox 29 news at 10 could. New night after three days of protests Police Released new video of the Deadly Police shooting of unarmed black man. Weve chosen not to show you the moment he was shot but here is what happened immediately before. This is Surveillance Video from california where you can see officer Richard Gonzales approach 38yearold Alfred Olango with a weapon. Police say oh luongo did not obey an order to remove his hand from his pock and was shot after a pointed a vape smoking device at an officer in quote shooting stance. Well tonight a lawyer for olangos family says the video shows the officer provoked him before opening fire. Happening now, new details tonight about a Police Involved killing of a man in cobbs creek. There are questions tonight about the Police Response when they went after a dangerous suspect. Police fired more than 100 shots at one suspect. You first saw this story as breaking news on fox 29. The Philadelphia Police commissioner is addressing the issue after questions from fox 29. Our Dave Schratwieser has the story. I can see the lightning from those gunshots, um, in my windows as i was sitting at my desk. Reporter still frightened over wednesday nights Deadly Police involved shooting on her block, she asked us not to show her face or use her name. But she did agree to tell fox 29 what she saw and heard. It sound like boxes of fireworks. Reporter this is the bullet riddled front porch where 32yearold Christopher Sowell was shot and killed by police after he went on violent rampage through this cobbs creek neighborhood. The attacks left two of his own children suffering from serious stab wounds and two women in this house brutally attacked and critically injured by sowell. That was a violent rampage. It was a lot of of over a hundred. Reporter fire power used by police thats now raising questions. Nine officers fired their weapons at sowell after he repeatedly ignored orders to take his hands out his pockets. Then pulled them out abruptly. After questions from fox 29, Police Confirmed 109 shots were fired. Killing sowell and rid link two homes here with gunfire. He did a bad thing. I mean i agree with the police, but at the same tone that was excessive. It is of serious concern to us the number of shots that were fired. We do not know exactly how many times the suspect was struck. Reporter police now say sowell was unarmed and may have been pulling a cell phone from his pocket. Evidence circles on the shooting seen number up to 69 with 13 more circles not numbered. They put my family in danger. Big time. Big time. Regardless of what the circumstances are, its not an indictment of the Police Officers, but it may be a significant training issue. Whether they led a hundred rounds go or 200 rounds go they fired till they thought the threat was gone. They had every reason to believe he was armed with a gun. They protect the community. They saved lives. If they fired one round, they fired 200 rounds, as long as they protected the community and went home safe at night thats all that counts. Reporter commissioner ross says this may be a case of socalled contagious gunfire by Police Officers. He says the four victims in the violent rampage remain hospitalized. John mcnesby says that since january 4 Police Officers have been shot and wounded in that district. He notes that two of them were the victims of attempted assassinations. At police headquarters, Dave Schratwieser, fox 29 news. Still no answers tonight from the engineer behind the controls in the deadly hoboken train cash. Ntsb says investigators will wait to question him because of his injuries. We still dont know exactly how fast that train was going when pitt barreled through the hoboken station injuring scores of morning commuters. Federal Officials Say theyre working to get information from the data recorders retrieved from the trains real locomotive. 34yearold Fabiola Bittar de kroon was the lone fatality killed by flying debris while standing waiting for a train. The crash putting the spotlight on positive train control. A system designed to prevent rail accidents. A system new Jersey Transit did not have. Meantime safety and structural concerns are slowing recovery efforts. Investigators will have to wait for a contractor to remove collapsed sections of that station to fully comb over that evidence. New Jersey Drivers get ready for some pain at the pump. Garden states first gas tax increase in 28 years appears to be a done deal tonight. Governor Chris Christie and leaders of both legislative chambers have signed off on the hike and bruce gordon joins us now to explain the what and the why here, bruce. Reporter for years now, new jersey residents always had a snappy come back to anyone who criticized the garden state. Yeah, well at least we have cheap gas. Well, not for much longer. Wawa at routes 38 and 70 in pennsauken township was selling regular unleaded gasoline for 1. 87 a gallon friday night. Dont get used to it. Governor christie and state lawmakers are about to raise the jersey gas tax by a whopping 23 cents a gallon. I dont like it. Reporter you dont like it . No. That sucks. Wow thats a lot. Reporter end of cheap gas in jersey. Thats true. Lucky us, right . Ill be catching the bus. Reporter start using the bus . Yes or the train. Reporter revenue from the tax hike will be dedicated to the states impoverished Transportation Trust fund to repair roads and bridges and other infrastructure. Governor christie fought against raising any taxes throughout his time in office but this one the important for the Transportation Trust fund. The compromised we reach and we need to response to finance this type of activity. Governor pitched the gas tax hike as money safer. He says better roads and bridges will reduce the likelihood of costly cary pairs, you know, fewer bent rims and blown tires due to crater sized potholes. Drivers we talk to are skeptic skeptical. Does that make it easier to swallow . No. No, it will go somewhere else. I feel like a lot of times you pay for taxes and nothing happens. Reporter now you heard governor christie talk about compromise to further soften the impact of the gas tax hike. They plan to trim the states sales tax every so slightly due away with the estate tax and create new tax breaks for veterans and the poor. All of this still requires passage by the full legislature but the headline here is clear the days of cheap jersey gas are numbered. Im Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. Services that might come in handy on rainy friday night like tonight but Ride Sharing Services like uber and lyft could be in jeopardy in the ci city. The looming deadline. A dress code an video sparked accusations of racism at one of philadelphias most popular lgbt bars. Tonight the city is taking notice. And police say theyve uncovered a pot operation in one familys home with the kids forced to sell it. The reasons the parents say they made them do it. Sean . Chris, some very unfortunate news. Sixers first overall pick ben simmons left practice earl daal with an injury. Find out what it was and how long the sixers phenom is expected to miss later coming up in sports. Dawn . Before plus the local man who dreads days like today. Nearby creek is slowly washing away his backyard. What the city plans to do about the problem. Rainy end to the week on ultimate doppler radar. The day stayed wet and we did not fair much better this evening, and it doesnt look great for the weekend either. When things will final start to clear out and dry upcoming up in your fox 29 weather authority. It is a service many of you might take advantage of on a rainy friday night like tonight. But is it going away. The state allowed certain uber and lyft drivers to operate legally before the Democratic National convention but that was only temporary. Thats the key word. The authorization is set to expire tonight. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose is live in Spring Garden to explain how this may affect your travels. Sabina . Reporter well, dawn and chris, i can tell you riders are certainly not happy come midnight that uber x youre in could turn into a pumpkin at least in the eyes of the city any way. Everyone likes it better if you listen to what the people are saying we want it. Its what the people want. Reporter call eight cry for liberty smart phone era. On this bustling friday night in physical its hard not to bump into a couple like christie ya and her boyfriend waiting phone in hand for uber x driver in center city. Im coming. Cheaper than parking my car in center city. Reporter watch out because that carriage in this case a houndy elantra may turn back into a pumpkin at midnight friday. Thats when temporary agreement allowing Ride Sharing Companies like uber x and lyft to operate on city streets expires. The deal was reached in july to get philly through the Democratic National convention and septas massive Regional Rail problems. Lawmakers have failed to extend it. Leading to some nail biting for drivers like moses. Level grand competition so its given the riders options. Good options. I think we should be supporting everyone and every business that will bring us more money. Reporter statement uber says it has made an emergency filing to extend the temporary regulation. But adds that the Company Plans to continue operating without the extension. The philadelphia parking authority, which in the past hassium pounded uber x drivers, says it will act in the best interests of the public. If the apps are still up ill still take them. Reporter and in objection, the state house is expected to consider new legislation, chris n could extend uber x into the city. Back to you. All right is that correct, sir bean in a, thanks. A suspected serial robber is behind bars. Police say thanks to an non muss tip. Dante highman was arrested this morning in north philadelphia after fox 29 and other Media Outlets aired his mug shot. Police say highman hit three West Philadelphia businesses in september. Each time flashing a gun. Prosecutors charged the 30yearold with three counts of robbery and related offenses. Well, if you bought tickets to see the philadelphia orchestra this weekend, consider your plans canceled. Musicians are on strike. The musicians of the philadelphia orchestra are members of the philadelphia musicians union. Local 77. The biggest bargaining issue for them is compensation they collectively rejected the orchestra leaderships salary offer. Negotiations will continue on october 4th meaning concerts for this weekend including october 1st and 2nd well theyre not going to happen. Happening now, controversy over a video posted online. It shows the owner of a popular philadelphia lgbt bar sank a racial slur provoking shock and out reach in community that is all too familiar with prejudice. Theres now a call for action even the city is involved. But some say an apology just wont be enough. Fox 29s Bill Anderson has the story. I mean we were absolutely infuriated. Its appalling and disgusting video. Im not surprised. Reporter the n word said repeatedly on a leaked video by the owner of icandy lgbt club here in philadelphia. Bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep. Of one of them. Reporter video has many wondering if community historically in need of protection from the dissemination needs to address their own racism. Black and brown people have been saying for very long time they are not being treated fairly. Weve built laws around protecting people but yet this is still happening. So its time for people to do the work. This shouldnt be on the oppressed to 56 the oppressor. Reporter video allegedly three years old. But was just leaked at a time when dress code and highering practices in the area known as the gay neighborhood are being called racist. Supporters of the club say it was a moment of anger from a good person whos also been oppressed. Critics arent buying that explanation. Then you also have folks think their be a solved n they are unable to be racist because they identify as lgbtx. Thats relevant. You my may experience oppression in one aspect but experience privilege in another. Reporter the owner darrell, apologized on facebook. But many in the Community Say that an apology without action just isnt enough. Were Vulnerable Community ourselves