Right now, hes already out inside the decision to send Anthony Scaramucci pack brag he officially started at the white house. And what were they thinking a horrific case of animal abuse. A baby alligator force to do drink alcohol and smoke. Well now Animal Rights advocates want answers. Now, fox 29 news at 10 00. We begin tonight with that awful case of animal cruelty. All caught on camera. In the video, a group of friends appear to be laughing it up while torturing a small alligator. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. In that video you can hear the guys saying they hoped would it make him famous. Well now theyre infamous. Our Chris Oconnell joins us live from the pennsylvania sp ca in north philadelphia. Chris . Reporter lucy, one of our viewers was so disgusted over that video they contacted us to try to get some answers. And we do want to warn some of our viewers about this video. Some find it disturbing. Butter it also is prompted a criminal investigation. The video posted on snap chat and captured by one of our fox 29 viewers shows alcohol being forced down the throat of two small alligators. Another clip shows the reptile being pick up by its tale with a burning cigarette shoved in its mouth. We want to find out who these individuals are. Reporter we showed the video to the director of Law Enforcement for the spca who has already launched an animal abuse investigation. A source tells fox 29 the video was taken in a basement avenue home in bustleton where one of the guys lives. Were also told hes the son of a Philadelphia Police detective. Were not showing you the guys faces since they havent been charged with any crimes. Yet. It happens too often. There are too many times we see this kind of cruelty, and, you know, thats parks, row of the just for show. Just for show. Reporter spc has seen a spike in animal cruelty cases simply because many times the incidents like these are posted on social media. One guy even started bragging about the gator games tweeting, how are me and my friends not internet famous yet . Well, guys, thanks to your video, consider it done. Now the spca says the own are in of that alligator and those who took part in the video could be facing misdemeanor charges. But under a new pennsylvania stiffer state law, lucy, i know your familiar with umhmm. Soon those next month that could be felony charges for animal abuse cases. As well it ought to be. Chris oconnell, thank you much. Live there in north philly. Happening right now, Feltonville Community is worri worried. Six suspects in shooting and barricade situation are gone on the streets and police cannot find them. They say those men are dangerous and some of them might be armed. Neighbors are worried about even more violence. Our Dave Schratwieser is on top of the story and joins us live from east detectives in juniata park. Dave . Reporter iain, those neighbors on b street worried about two things tonight. Retaliation and more gunfire after a hail of bullets early this morning sent one, 17yearold to the hospital with a gunshot wound and neighbors ducking for cover. We hear all the shots. We think was firework. Reporter cindy, was still shaken up monday night as shell casings littered b street near her home. Gunfire riddled cars and struck houses here monday morning. Piercing windows and striking a 17yearold in the chest while she watched tv in a front bedroom. Shot went through the window. Went through the window. Yes. Reporter where did it go. To the wall. Reporter she says one of the bullets traveled down the street through her window and hit the wall above the bed where her fouryearold daughter was sleeping. Her husband was standing right in front of that window seconds before. My husband just standing up exactly in the line with the shot. Just a second and going to be die maybe. I dont know. Somebody hated end Ricky Gonzales had brand knew rav four suv blocked on the block. It was struck by gunfire twice. One in the door handle the second pierced his license plate. He found the bullet inside. He worries what could have happened if the bullets took another path. My family or the neighbor. I mean thats too much. 17yearold was treated and released from the hospital. She did not recover return to this home monday. Neighbors on the block were too terrified to talk after bullets flew from both ends of the blo block. Its horrible. Too close, right . Yup. Now i feel really afraid for my daughter, yeah. Reporter neighbors still scared out there. No motive non suspects to night. There were so many shots fired, we found three shell casings still on the ground hours after detectives left they were under parked cars that had been moved. Tonight police pressing their investigation hoping to make some arrests. Lucy . Thank you, dave. Were now getting a look at the man who Philadelphia Police say killed his next door neighbors after a long running dispute. Prosecutors have charged Kenneth Hoyle with murder. They say the 69yearold shot and killed his frankford neighbors after they tried to jump his fence during an argument. It happened about two weeks ago. On the 4700 block of james street. 45yearold bob depaul and his girlfriend 42yearold august democracy died. The cleanup continues tonight in new jersey after that heavy rain left quite a mess. The storms left a lot of destruction and were not just talking about the shore. In vineland, cumberland county, the rain actually destroyed part of a road. Our Shawnette Wilson has the story from vineland city hall tonight. About 100 yards wide and about two and a half feet deep going right across. Terrible. Reporter tom decribes the hole in the middle of panther road in vineland thats halted traffic since late friday night. Its a big problem for this community. Farmers here and we cant pass the road. Reporter he himself is a fourth generation farmer. He knew it was a problem when he saw it for himself after heavy rain over the weekend washed out the road causing it to buckle. This is what it looked like that night. Today, panther road remains blocked off between genoa and if he zen see avenue. Now we got to go around. I got farm on the other side over there. Luckily my other farm butts up against the back so we can go around it. Reporter vineland mayor told me on the phone that the area took in tremendous rain. More than six and a half inches and so fast the ground couldnt absorb it. He says, crews worked till 2 00 a. M. Saturday morning to secure the road which was already on a list of repairs including its underground infrastructure. Rick is the city attorney. He also lives near the intersection where the road is now blocked off. I guess the size of the pipe was not large in you enough for it was clogged, and so the water was not running underneath the road and started running on top of the road. Filled up and ultimately like a stream wash out the road. Reporter he hopes the city can do something and fast. Because he says in his Business Time is money. Take us longer to get to the farm. Longer to haul the produce back. Just a very very epp convenience for everybody. Reporter the mayor says budget for road repairs so he says that will jump start the process until other sources of funding come in. In vineland, Shawnette Wilson, fox 29 news. New tonight army corps of engineers is heading to margate tomorrow to deal with big problem with its controversial dune project. It tells Us Contractors will pump water out of the basin tomorrow. Over the weekend the project ended up turning a swath of margate into you can see right there a bit of a lake because of heavy rain. Neighbors are worried about Public Safety risk such as the quality of all that standing water. Its something those against the project have been warning to happen. City officials are holding a meeting wednesday at city hall to consider legally challenging those behind the project. Now to another big story making headlines tonight is the white house in turmoil after another day of staff shake ups after less than two weeks on the job White House Communications director Anthony Scaramucci is out. Today, President Trump removed him before he even officially started the job. It. Happened on the very same day that retired marine general john kelly took an oath as his chief of staff. And the president is apparently already heeding his advice. Foxs Rick Leventhal is live in ew york city with more on this latest shake up. Rick. Reporter lucy, iain, this was shockingly short stint for scaramucci who apparently sealed his own fate with an expletive filled interview he claims was off the record last week. In any case the new boss wanted to start with a clean slate. So general kelly is in and scaramucci is gone. Generallgenerally kell has tl authority to carry out business. The former Homeland Security secretary was sworn into office first thing monday of the of morning and shortly after news broke that scaramucci was done. Look the president certainly felt that ant thees comments were inappropriate for a person in that position. And he didnt want to burden general kelly. Reporter President Trump optimistic suite tweeting monday evening arc great day at the white house. The president full of praise for the four starry tired general lauding his performs leading the department of Homeland Security. You look at the border, you look at the tremendous results weve had and you look at the spirit and with a very controversial situation theres been very little controversy which is Pretty Amazing by itself. Reporter some suggest general kellys appointment signals a decisive move toward a more orderly white house. As we have laid out general kelly i think will bring new structure to the white house and discipline and strength and were all really excited to work with him. Reporter well one lingering question. What happens now to former Communications Director sean spicer who is still at the white house . Word is he will likely still leave even though the president has reportedly asked him to stay. Lucy, iain, back to you. Rick leventhal life in new york city. Thank you. The husband of a murdered radio host is not going anywhe anywhere. The decision to keep him behind bars on other charges. And the hottest app out there its so hospital popular but it could destroy your kids parents. Listen up. Skyfox over steadily crash on the Atlantic City expressway this was the seep on the highway in Hamilton Township around 2 0. Police say only one car was involved. Three people were inside. One person died. Medics did take the others to the hospital. We do not know how theyre doing tnight. A crash involving Philadelphia Police sent three people including two officers to the hospital. The officers were responding to call around 12 45 this afternoon when police say they crashed into a car on 59th and market. Both of the cars had damage but all three people are in stable condition. Developing right now, a controversial app is raising a lot of concerns tonight called sorarah it lets you give honest feedback. But theres already been reports of bullying as it becomes more popular with teens. Our dave kinchen joins us now outside the studio and dave you talked to some parents expense about this new hot app. This happen has become popular virtually overnight as millions of teens hook it up to snap chat accounts but parents are becoming quite worried. Its scary. Its a bridget feels about the brand new app the latest in the world of anonymous messaging tech. She wonder ifs it will contribute to the Cyber Bullying epidemic as she watches her 11yearold son andrew play baseball in northeast philadelphia. My son is very sensitive. I feel like for his age. Hes always worried about what people think of him. And he always wants to, you know, be friends. As coach, i dont tolerate anything. Okay. I do not tolerate it. I think its 100 wrong. Reporter it is arabic for captor or openness and shot to the top of apples app store and google play. It started as middle east website for workers to anonymo anonymously critique their companies but its rising in popularity amongst kids using it to rate each other on everything from appearance to their latest social media post. The app has even been reportedly linked to harassment online making kids vulnerable to digital bullying. Theres no room for the Cyber Bullying. Theres no room for bullying in general. Were not end of the development of all of this stuff in the 21st century. I mean this is century of enormous change. Reporter dr. Frank farrell system a Temple University professor and past president of the American Psychological association. He says parents need to be tuned in. Go online and, you know, take look for teenaged depression, suicide ideation and suicide indicators and as a parent get on top of that. In this era, you have to. Reporter app asks people to write constructive messages it has filters so people can decide who can actually write to them but as of now, you cannot reply to the messages. We reached out to the creator of the app for a comment. We have not yet heard back. Iain . All right. Dave, thank you. Tonight the husband of a slain radio host remains in jail. New jerseys Appelate Division up holding a judges request to keep James Kauffman detained ahead of his trial on weapons charges this comes after kauffman allegedly waived a gun and threatened to commit suicide when Law Enforcement officials attempted to enter his office with a search warrant in june. Kauffmans wife april was a popular radio host murdered back in 2012. That crime remains unsolved. Police have arrested a man for an Armed Robbery in an applebees parking lot in newark, delaware. 40yearold thomas else we are bee robbed an applebees employee walking to his car Early Saturday Morning he ended up shooting the employee whos now at christiana hospital in stable condition. Cleanup on the heroin haven philadelphias most neuter russ drug haven is about to be a thing of the past. City officials hope so because they today helped clean up conrail that track bed in kensington and fair hill which for years heroin addicts used it as a place to buy, and awful often overdose on drug. And the city of philadelphia and conrail have had enough. It has been described as hell on earth. A conrail track bed stretching from second and indiana to lehigh and aramingo. Where heroin addicts like 31yearold jillian go to feed their sickness. Its a shooting gallery. Its absolutely ridiculous. Reporter jillian injects heroin into her feet to hide the marks. She took to prostitution to make the money needed to shoot up at the tracks. Im guessing you want to quit or do you not want to quit . I never want to keep using it its to the point where i dont even get high any more. I just maintain. Reporter now hope. Conrail and the city began monday to clean the tracks removing mountains of trash including thousands of drug needles and hacking down vegetation in which junkies would hide. The scope of the mess makes it clear this problem was years in the making. We have done numerous cleanups in this area over the years. This is the first time where weve really had comprehensive plan that gives eight chance of sustaining itself. Reporter city Officials Say addicts driven off the track bed will be offered social services, help with addiction homelessness, job searches. Today we are taking a big step in what will be a very long journey. Reporter the area will be fenced off, sealed and patrolled by police. If the demand for the drugs are here, then the supplies will be here. If we can get the people to help they need the demand will go down and the supply will go down. Reporter but addicts driven from this area will in the short term at least flood surrounding neighborhood bringing their problems with them. I mean theyre most certainly going to end up in our neighbor in the surrounding neighborhoods. I mean they have to go somewhere. Reporter jillian agrees. Wherever i have to go, ill go. So get kick out of one place youll go to another . Right. Reporter the physical cleanup out here is expected to take about a month with conrail incurring most of the costs trying to figure out whether all of this work actually puts a dent in the heroin crisis in this city. That will take whole lot longer. In kensington im Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. Bombshell claim against Philadelphia Police officer. Her Attorney Says he has the video to back it up. Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. And with the new fios gigabit connection. You get our fastest. Internet ever. With download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people have. Switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for the first year. Plus hbo for one year and multiroom dvr service for two years, all with a twoyear agreement. And switching has never been easier. Get out of your contract with up to a 500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. Go to fiosgigabit. Com we have roar rd a lot on the Opioid Epidemic affecting its country. Some are fight back in the courtroom. 25 state, cities and counties in the process of suing open unite united manufacturessers with various claims including deceptive marking. Downplaying the risk of addiction and overstating the benefits about chronic pain. State lawsuits include ohio, missouri sorey and mississippi. A woman dropped a claim against a Philadelphia Police officer. She says that officer sexually assaulted err and made racist comments. Jeff cole has the story. Re