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WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 July 20, 2017

Also breaking right now, right here. Another woman shot in philadelphia, one of eight violently attacked in just the past week. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Breaking tonight. Stunning revelation about senator john mccain. Doctors have diagnosed the Arizona Republican with brain cancer. Thanks for joining us im iain page. Im lucy noland. That diagnosis comes after mccain after they removed is blood clot from mccains left eye right above it. The Mayo Clinic Hospital in phoenix says he has a primary brain tumor known as glioblastoma. Mccain of course has served in the senate since 1987. He was in congress for two terms before arizona voters elected him to the senate. John mccain of course an American Hero, a legend, he was a navy pilot when he was shot down in vietnam. Vietcong held him as prisoner of war for more than five years until his release in 1973. He was also the gops president ial nominee back in 2008. Losing to president obama. The senator most recently made headlines while questioning former fbi director james comey. Some started to question the 80yearold Republicans Health after this exchange. You reached the conclusion that there was no reason to bring charges against secretary clinton so you reached a conclusion in the case of mr mr. Comey, you president comey no, sir. In the case of President Trump. Dr. Mike is standing by with more on this diagnosis. We will talk to him in a few minutes. In a statement mccains daughter meghan said the diagnosis has shocked her family and they are anxious about whats to come. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are turning to social media to send their support to the longtime senator and former president barack obama, his rival in 2008, took to twitter tonight to call mccain one of the greatest fighters ive ever known former president adde add that cancer doesnt know what its up against. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says the senate looks forward to seeing mccain an American Hero again soon. Thats not the only breaking news we are following tonight. A woman shot in kensington part of a disturbing trend in philadelphia. A surge of violence against women. Eight women in just seven days. Violently attacked many also shot. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser live in kensington where it happened again. A short time ago. Dave . Reporter lucy, first the breaking news here tonight. A Police Involved shooting after that woman was shot. Well get out of the way here and show you investigators still on the scene here on the 400 block of somerset street around 7 30 tonight. Police called here to the scene. Reports of a man with a gun. They arrive on the scene. A guy is on the steps racking a semiautomatic handgun and then pointing it at police. Seven officers opened fire. Four Philadelphia Police officers, three septa officers who were wearing body cameras from what were being told. The man was critically wounded taken to temple. Two doors down, police found a woman shot in the chest. She was also critically wounded and taken to temple. It is the latest in string of violence against women. Police say it is unexplainable and unusual. It was horrible. I didnt know what to think. Reporter haiti roman never saw a tragedy on p unfold on her block like she did one week ago two young women were gunned down sitting in a truck on their own block. One was 35. The just 19. I couldnt understand i could understand maybe a car accident or something, but sho shooting women, its not, you know, im not used it to. Yeah. Its scary. Reporter Celia Estrada sadder on their front porch a few feet away where a 25yearold woman was executed shot seven times in the growing string of violence against women in the city. I hope they looking for the lord. Because really police say the victim was shot multiple times in the middle of the street. Just hours earlier, a 42yearold woman driving to work in logan was critically wounded by what Police Believe was a stray bullet intended for another target. Particularly violence against women is particularly agregious. I mean we all have mothers. Many of have wives, sisters, daughters it does hit home. Police confirmed in the past seven days, four women have been murdered, three more critically wounded. First it was the murders on lawrence street. The same day a 57yearold woman was stabbed and struck with a hammer. She died. Her daughter was critically wounded in the hammer attack. The detectives are working around the clock. Homicide detectives and divisional detectives to see if we can get to the bottom it. Its like new news, we never saw that before. Reporter hail of over 30 bullets fired on germantown avenue last week also left a 22yearold woman critically wounded. Another 22yearold woman was shot three times on polaski avenue in tioga tuesday night. It makes me feel scared. Sometimes i walk to the corner. You dont know when they go to shoot there. The 48yearold female victim in this shooting is in Critical Condition at temple hospital. The 38yearold suspect is also in Critical Condition. No Police Officers were injured in the shooting. Again police at this hour do not know exactly how many shots were fired but they do say those septa body cams could provide a lot of information. The investigation continues. Iain . Dave, thanks. Happening right now, a Community Mourning a little Girl Found Dead in a home in camden. Her mother is the one in jail. Prosecutors have charged that woman in connection to her daughters death. That little girl was just four years old. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live in camden. Shawnette, this is just tragic. Reporter yeah, iain. You know the community describes this little girl as a loving child who loved getting dressed up and having her hair done and tonight they are waiting for justice and answers about exactly what happened. We love you natalie. Reporter grieving community gathered to say goodbye to a fouryearold camden girl who died yesterday. I say i love you. I love you too. Im going to miss that. Were not going to hear that any more. Reporter familiar of the little girl who named natalie mikayla held vigil outside her home on south ninth street this evening. The news of her death is devastating. Her mother has been charged. A child so young it just was like crazy. It was a big shock. I mean i didnt know what to think then i just kept crying and stop crying and kept crying again because im like, you know, she really didnt get to live her whole life. Reporter according to the Camden County prosecutor office, the girls mother 20yearold lucy gunter is charged in her death. For failing to seek medical attention for signs of injuries to her daughter. This is cell phone video sent to us when paramedics and police went to the home after a 911 call around 8 00 yesterday morning. They found the little girl unresponsive with injuries to her face. She died soon after at the hospital. Jessica, says she helped raise gunter and her daughter. Shes not a clean bill of health. Everybody goes through something in their life. She was just in a place where she she thought as though she grown she didnt need any help. At the same time she needed her family. Reporter the crowd lit candles and shared words about the little girl as they struggled to make sense of what they believe happened. I really think for all the support that you know were getting right now and, um, all the love that she shed upon us, in many ways. James gunter also has a message for his sister now in jail. I do love you. Do anything, any mistakes that you make something is going to come out of the this and you need to speak up. Speak up. Reporter now it is still unclear who made that 911 call. Gunter will be in court on friday to determine if she gets bail. Lucy . All right. Thank you much shawnette. Developing right now teenaged boy has lost his leg in train accident. Police say the 14yearold was playing on the tracks when a Freight Train hit him in kensington. It happened right around 5 00 this evening on the 3600 block of castor avenue. His injuries are very difficult to hear. He lost a leg. Right now, 14yearold is in surgery. Doctors are trying to reattach his leg. And stabilize him as best they can. Police are interviewing an engineer who witnessed what happened from another train. The accident stopped down septa trenton line earlier this evening but its now back on schedule. Now this is the second child to lose a limb playing on train tracks in less than two months. In june, a train ran over 11yearold siena ward in southwest philadelphia. She lost both of her legs. She had been throwing rocks with her friends and slipped. We spoke to her mom several weeks after the accident. It was like someone just snatched my breath away. No, not my baby. Its a life or death thing. Im like take it. Id rather have her here with me than worry about, you know, a leg thats potentially killing her. Siena was an avid dancer who is now dealing with a new norm shes done with surgeries for now and is now out of the icu. Friends and family of thomas meo gather to do night in torresdale. Hes one of the four men murdered in bucks county earlier this month. Meanwhile, tonight were learning new details about his confessed killers past. Cosmo dinardo. Investigators are still untangling this case and tonight were getting a look at a graphic picture he shared on social media. Our dave kinchen is live in doors down where my yos viewing finished within the hour. Dave . Reporter thats right. Its hard enough for family and friends to grieve but now theyre trying to figure out these very disturbing details regarding the confessed killer. Hes a good kid. Always a good kid. Ed finley new 21yearold thomas meo ever since he was little. Wednesday night he paid his respects to his family he ran into him a month ago. He said i just wanted to i just wanted to apologize for being such a rough kid. I said you arent a rough kid at all. He was always a good kid. Reporter meo and three others were murdered by Cosmo Dinardo we continue to learn more about. Fox 29 obtained this nap chat picture showing dinardo covered in blood with a message saying whoever jumped him was a dead man. The snap reference as fight at a strip club but says little about when it happened or why. Finley says, he saw dinardo with meo once. He told me, said this guy is little bit on the hes a little off. Fox 29 has also confirmed that dinardo a 2015 graduate of hopely ghost prep in ben same let me was escorted from campus after being disruptive by stopping by an open house for Prospective Students in 2016. School officials confirm Bensalem Police were call to the incident. Dinardo attended holy ghost with future victim jimi patrick. Its just horrible. Just really horrible. Our community is just devastated over this. Reporter fox 29 has also learned that dinardo is being sued for his alleged role in a car crash. Meantime investigators continue to sort through this confession. Back to you. Lucy. All right, thank you much dave. On your radar tonight you probably notice noticed its a d sultry night. Temperatures are still in the upper 80s and weve got no relief coming any time soon as we take live look at wilmington. Kathy orr is track wagon could be the hottest days of this heat wave. You and i were out there in the middle of all of this this evening. Umhmm yeah we had ice cream for dinner. Why not. Yes, we did this is the time of do you that type of thing. Down the shore even warmer with that southerly wind. 81 in ocean city with huge story is the owing. Ocean water temperature 79 degrees. Its going to stay pretty warm. Even though the next couple of days. Excessive heat warning in effect beginning tomorrow at noon and it continues through friday evening. It will feel like its over 100 degrees in the philadelphia area and its suburbs in pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. The humidity will sky rocket. It will be oppressive and were talking about a sevenday heat wave with temperatures in in the upper 90s. Feels like readings well over 100 and of course the air quality will be poor. Well talk about how long this is going to last and how quickly well catch a break in your seven day forecast. All right. Kathy, thanks. In one minute you see this, no seriously, look closer. Those are roaches. All right, a guy says they were crawling out of the walls in a local restaurant. Skyfox over a water main break in bustleton. 50 people have no water and they can blame the 12inch pipe that broke earlier this evening. Thats the mess right there at bloom field and verree streets. Crews are making repairs right now and hoping to have the water back on by the morning. Caught on camera, this is not something you want to see while youre eating. Bugs roaming around at a local restaurant. A customer found cockroaches he says at the ruby buffet in penns landing. And he posted about it on facebook. Now a lot of people are disgusted theyve seen the video fox 29 is that so bean in a kuriakose drives us live from live from penns landing. You talk to the Restaurant Owner tonight. Reporter i did iain and lucy. Restaurant was open. It was actually busy today. Tonight the owner is apologizing and we talked to the city. They said they had seen the video turns out their inspectors had passed the restaurant just four days before the video was taken. We want to warn you this video stomach turning. We hope youre not watching this on a full stomach. Steve took this skin crawling video just after he feasted at the ruby buffet on columbus boulevard monday night. Roaches just started scattering out. So like i was disgusted. Reporter he says he was outweigh friend when they noticed the bugs scurrying around him. To top it off he says when he alerted staff, they discounted him just five bucks and asked him to delete the video. Instead steve posted it online and it has gone viral. With tens of thousands of people watching in horror. He says, just imagine how he felt. It was horrifying. You know, i mean i just had a nice full bell ill thought i had good meal and, you know, you look and you just see all these roaches controlling out of a hole. We apologize for that to all our customers. Jay lee at the owner of ruby buffet. Shes mortified and wants to make it up to steve offering him the full refund she wishes staff had given when it all went down. Lee says the Family Restaurant has been open for 12 years with never any problems like this. She call exterminator and showed us where they patched up the hole. She made this pledge. We will keep the restaurant nice and clean and fresh. Reporter fox 29 reached out to the City Health Department because, get this, their inspectors were at the restaurant just four days before steve sat down for dinner. And Officials Say they found no evidence of an infestation. I dont know how they didnt catch that. I guess they werent looking in the right places. Reporter Health Department says its gotten numerous complaints since the video was posted, and a spokesperson even called it shocking. But the city says, it doesnt plan on taking any action to which steve replies go back. Thats what ill tell them. Go back. Reporter and we reached out to the city several times to see why they werent going to go back to the restaurant even after seeing the video to assess the situation. Tonight, iain, no response. Back to you. All right. Sabina, thank you. Skyfox over a Police Investigation in Camden County. Earlier today someone found a body along noel run drive in blackwood around 4 00 this afternoon. Reports say the body was found in a pond and we are awaiting for more details from police. They have not yet released the identity of the person who died. Developing to night, some of president trauma pops closest advisers better start getting ready to talk about senate committees. Donald, jr. , and former Campaign Manager man any fort before appear before the Senate Judiciary committee will testify about russian head link in the us election. Jared kushner will appear before the Senate Intelligence committee on monday ton night in an interview with the new york times, President Trump said he would never have nominated attorney general Jeff Sessions if he knew he would recuse himself from the russia investigation. Back to the other breaking news on capitol hill senator john mccain is battling brain cancer. The diagnosis comes after doctors removed a blood clot above his eye. The 80yearold republican has what is called glioblastoma. Youll find a huge outpouring of support for senator mccain on social media. Let us bring in fox 29 medical contributor dr. Mike cirigliano, and dr. Mike, break down what this particular cancer is. Well, basically, lucy, it is a very aggressive brain tumor, and senator mccain went to his doctor, complained of a little bit of double vision and by published reports ended up getting a cat scan and thats when they found the tumor. This is something that is very rapidly growing. They quickly did an mri, and felt that he needed surgery. We know that he had a blood clot near that area which is sometimes a sipe of cancer. And basically had that tumor lee second it was taken out, and by again published reports it looks like it was all taken out, and he is recovering and he is a strong titanium kind of guy. You know, dr. Mike, whats the prognosis for this because we know its a aggressive and recurring. The same thing Darren Dalton had. Darren dalton, ted kennedy, theres some conjecture beau biden may have had this kind of a tumor. The issue is in older folks they dont tend to do as well as younger folks. But it all has to do with their performance and if they are able to be in good shape and take care of themselves, like this man their prognosis is better i hate when people ask me, how long does someone have. Sure. Basically its anywhere from three to four months up to even over a year. But i can tell you, iain, lu

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