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WTXF FOX 29 News At 11 August 25, 2017

Chat. 24yearold mason mallon is facing some serious charges. The Camden County Prosecutors Office said today that authorities arrested him last saturday at his grand parents home in gibbsboro and charged him with sex assault. It doesnt surprise me. Investigators say a girl called them after seeing mallon snap chat post on social media. The girl says she saw her 18yearold friend on mallons post and that she looked unconscious. Gibbsboro police went to the home on the 100 block of west clem men tone road where they found the victim in mallons bed raul disorien disoriented bruisd covered in blood. Kathy, lives next door. Mason has been in trouble before but his grandparents are totlly good people. Theyre just overwhelmed. Reporter i talked to mallon grandparents but they didnt what want to speak on camera. They told me they didnt hear anything unusual coming from mallons bedroom the night this happened. His grandmother added she heard mallon tell investigators when he was being arrested that they were quote just trying to become famous on snap chat. And the suspect im told has a hearing in court next tuesday. A judge will decide then if he gets bail. Lucy . All right, thank you much, shawnette. Quick phone call might have saved a womans life. Police in bensalem got 911 texts from a woman saying a man had just sexually assaulted her. Now the dispatcher toll the woman hiding in the closet at the time to call 911. Just keep that line open so police could track the call. Bensalems director of police Say Technology and the dispatchers quick actions helped find the woman fast. Dispatcher took it to that next step, and got her to make that 911 call and leave the phone off the hook so she didnt have to talk but got us there. Smart move. Police arrested 23yearold Christopher Hannigan on numerous charges. He is in jail tonight on a 10 million bail. Happening right now, concern in one bucks county town tonight after a racist message of hate showed up and that of all places elementary school. Why police are now after the person who did it tonight they gave neighbors an update. Our dave kin can chen was there joins us live from langhorne. Dave . Reporter and lucy, those words of hate appeared on a school sign and also School Windows and tonight residents got together to get information but to also take a stand. He doesnt see black or white. He just cease people. Reporter Adrian Collins had the difficult task of explaining to her grandson the words of hate graffitid on the marquis at Herbert Hoover elementary where he goes to school. Parents made the disturbing find last weekend. I had to put it in terms that he would understand. Reporter town hall meeting hosted by the grass roots activist group the piece center bringing together concerned residents with Public Officials to address the matter. In order to fix this well have to show up. Well have to speak up. Reporter Middletown Township Police chief shared what he could about the Ongoing Investigation and the search for the racist vandal. Weve gotten some good, credible tips and information from the public that were following up on, and, um, i think were pretty encouraged by the leads. Reporter parents scrubbed off the racially charged misspelled graffiti but it was enough to shock livelong bucks county residents. Ive been in middletown, penndel, hulmeville, langhorne, and this just just took me completely by surprise that someone would do this. To think thats okay. Signs denouncing hate have been posted by the school marquis in recent days. At the town mall strangers worked together in small group every resurfacing again. I really do believe and im really hoping that its just someone that was just messing around, you know, but with all the tension in america today, you never really know. Reporter Police Believe the same person actually deface add series of apartments scribble blink male genitalia on windows there. Police say theyre looking for white teenaged male who was wearing a gray sweatshirt and black pants. Also, carrying a book pack. Lucy . All right. Thank you very much, dave. Fox 29 Weather Authority right now. A picture perfect thursday. Meteorologist kathy orr is back from down the shore. Oh, wow. What great day to be there. It was picture perfect and another coming tomorrow and another and another if you picked this weekend to go down the shore or do anything, you pick a good one. It will be a great weekend to be outdoors. Outside right now looking great on the parkway. Little bit busy on this thursday night. Everyone out and about enjoying the weather. Someone is the temperature. Due point temperature 53. That means that air is bone dry. Its going to be another Beautiful Day tomorrow. Pottstown 62. Comfortable in allentown 62. 65 in wilmington. 67 in dover. With low humidity crack the windows let that light breeze in. That northwesterly breeze in hammonton. 60 degrees. Sea isle at 70. The ocean water temperature still warm at 74 degrees. Our current setup shows a few spotty showers west of harrisburg. Could make it into berks county and allentown through the Lehigh Valley but just a few spotty showers that would be about it. High pressure really dominating our area. Over chicago now the flow around us clockwise thats why were gettingetting that northwesterly component to the wind that means Cool Temperatures over the next several days. Thats a good thing it will be very good sleeping weather as we say. The big weather to talk about is Hurricane Harvey right now maximum winds at 85 miles an hour moving northwest at ten and the latest track moves this inland Early Saturday Morning near Corpus Christi then it takes a little bit of a loop and goes parallel to the texas coast heading toward houston. A very unusual path and this would mean days of rain in this region over a large swath. If this storms makes landfall as major category three, it could mean 20, 30inches of rain. Well keep a careful eye on this. It could be devastating to this area of texas. Very serious storm. So next 24 hours will be critical. Overnight, in philadelphia 63. 57 in pottstown and allentown. 61 in wilmington just a really pleasant night and during the day tomorrow deep blue skies the high 80. Mostly sunny skies and that trend is going to continue as long as that High Pressure system really controls our weather. Friday, 81 down the shore. Saturday 76 degrees. Beautiful. Rip current risk will be low to moderate. It was low today. On your seven day forecast from the Weather Authority, saturday and sunday highs in the 70s. Same monday. Low temperatures in the 60s. Our suburbs in the 50s. Tuesday 77. Wednesday parly cloudy 78. Next chance of a shower will got to watch next week, lucy. E because originally the remnants of harvey looked like they could move toward you. Right. Toward the Holiday Weekend but now its spending so much time in texas we dont know whats going to happen. Heres the deal. My daughter is next text i got a phone call today many. She says mom im okay we went through the whole list dork this, do this, do this theyre boarding up right now. So its incredibly scary. So praying for everybody in the storms path. Like you said im going to recap little bit of kathy was talking about. Were talking 125 miles an hour winds here. 3 feet 3 feet of rain. Thats what forecasters like kathy are expecting from that looming Hurricane Harvey. Projected to hit texas land by tomorrow night. Government officials ordered all seven coastal counties texas to evacuate all seven of them in the governor of texas declared a preemptive strike arc declaration of disaster in 30 counties. Forecasters predict that storm could be a cat three by the time it storms a shore. National Hurricane Center says harvey would be the first major hurricane to hit the United States in 12 long years. All right. Back here at home, stealing from habitat for huma hugh in the. Really . It happened in gloucester county. Nonprofit helps first time homeowners and now it needs help from its own from police or maybe you to track down the thieves. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell live in deptford township. Chris . Reporter ill tell you, us will see, the hits just keep coming for habitat for humanity here in gloucester county. Two homes being built. Three burglaries and construction isnt even finish yet. Sometime early this morning, thieves busted into this department for township storage trailer filled with expensive power tools. The trailer and tools owned by habitat for humanity of gloucester county. Its the third time in three months its happened. We still havent replaced the tools that were stolen the first time or the second time. Reporter first theft was back in april when crooks broke into a bedroom window to steal tools. Then the trailer was hit back in june. Thats when habitat engraved the tools with serial numbers and took pictures. Well sometime thursday morning, it happened again. Nail guns arc compressor a table saw and other highend tools gone. Total loss, 5,000 bucks. So here it is. This is my new home. Reporter tiara ratliffe is one of the two homeowners. The excitement over moving into her first house with her sixyearold son has been overshadowed by the thieves targeting her property and the volunteers helping her build the three bedroom rancher. It makes me want to cry. Its sad for our kids. Reporter both new homeowners are also single moms including rosa, a marine machine gunner who served four tours in afghanistan. Habitat says the stolen tools wont delay the move in day for the families. In the meantime, workers posted this note to burglars. What would you say to the people who are stealing from this organization and you . I would say stop stealing because we worked hard for this. If you want it too, you can do it too. Reporter now Deptford Police are hoping with those clear pictures and serial numbers someone out there may recognize those stolen tools. I can tell you tiara and her testing. Ment. Testing. Testing. Lucy . All right. Well that is will be a big day. Thank you much, Chris Oconnell. 14 years old. Some 70 pounds. Vicious . Well thats how his hes label in his yearbook. His yearbook of all things. The schools fix its going to sound like a joke, and no one is laughing. They are ancient treasures chinas famous tara cot at a warriors and these magnificent pieces of history are coming to our area. Its a big deal. How you can see these wonders. All paws on deck for a special celebration. Ahead of National Dog Day thinking you might just want to see this call the dog days of summer. The hotel monaco in old city through this event benefiting the rescue save me. Dogs walkin walking by got a frh to cool off from the heat and their owners got a sample rita ritas. An artist created fabulous sketches of pups and their owners. Good stuff. Tonight a local congressman says septa should shut down the high speed line. The statement comes as crews continue to investigate why a train crashed in upper darby on tuesday. Congressman bob brady is calling for the norristown high speed line to stop running during this investigation. Brady says instead septa should use shuttle buses until the National Transportation safety board pinpoints what exactly went wrong. You know only a week and a half after the violence in hay dread in charlottesville racist images appear in wilmington. A woman posted pictures you just saw on facebook and people have shared them more than 1,000 times. Police are investigating trying to find whos behind this. Fox 29s dawn timmeney has more from wilmington. It exists. Its here. It exists in america. Theres nothing you can say to describe how that feels. Reporter taylor is referring to racism. Images like this posted on a local womans Facebook Page that have been shared thousand of times. He has no words for the hateful antisemitic and profanity laced messages spray painted all over his brothers car. The mini van parked on the 600 block of bayard avenue in wilmington vandalized, sometime in the Early Morning hours on wednesday. Its ignorance. Not not knowing. Nothing having knowledge of thats what ignorant means. Reporter Bobby Mccormick lives right across the street and was surprised and saddened to see the vile vandalism. Swastikas and the words kkk and go back to africa spray painted on the navy car in white. You walk out the door and you see Something Like that it really just hit me like a ton of bricks and like oh here . Very hurtful. I never expected anything to happen like this. I never thought anything would occur like this in my neighbor. Never. Reporter donny hamilton was walking by yesterday morning and says she is disgusted by the racist graffiti. Shes just glad the car has been taken away. My six and my eightyearold be out here playing so im glad they dont have to look at it and read it and ask me wait means. Reporter the car owners family says while this type of hate cannot be tolerated, they just want to move on. Anything that can stop it is if we stand together as people, you know, rise above it. Reporter Wilmington City Council issuing a Statement Today denouncing the vandalism calling it caw wardly and reprehensible. Council says one of the citys greatest assets is its diversi diversity. Anyone with information is asked to give police a call or delaware crimes stoppers. In wilmington, dawn timmeney, fox 29 news. And police are on the hunt for the teens who they say through an explosive into south philadelphia restaurant. You see it going on right there. Police say the teens in that video went to new dragon city at fifth and washington. One of them it will then tossed the device ran away all of them. It happened about a week and a half ago but police have just released the video. Neighbors cant believe it. We just heard a loud bomb and everyone came out the shop and seen a bunch of kids running down the street. I feel bad for them. We come in here every day, you know, they know everyone around the neighborhood. The heating elements, gas, things like that there was glass canes many which could have ended causing fragmentation. But thankful no one is hurt. Store does have damage as you can imagine. Police arent sure if the device was a pair of say powerful m80 type firecracker or something even bigger. You know whats supposed to be all about good memories turned into anything but for a philadelphia boy. Inside his yearbook. Nasty words written about him. What his mom is describing as an act of bullying. Its in print. Our bruce gordon has the story youll see only on fox 29. Reporter 14yearold eric staley newly graduated from eighth great got his first look at his Baldi Middle School yearbook on the last day of school back in june. It was kind of surprising and, um, uncalled for. Reporter didnt like it . Not really. Reporter it was there in the section where kids explain how their chase wouldnt have been the same if. If eric wasnt so vicious. Not the right forum to tell me my child is bad thats not his nature. Reporter never heard any complaints from anybody. Not one. Reporter linda staley complained to the principal who wrote back offering sincerest apologies explaining that this was a student designed yearbook and admitting that the school must do a better job of vetting yearbook posts. I paid you literally to call my son a name. You got to do better than this. You go to the fix this. Reporter after fair amount of arguing over what to do about the offensive description, the staleys received in the male a second copy of the yearbook along with strips of paper with a more complimentary description of err are ick. I assume to take these little stickers and go to our neighbors and friends and put them on to their year books . To cover vicious. To court wore vicious with if eric wasnt so caring and funny. Reporter if eric wasnt so vicious. Does it sound like a fair description of you . No. Reporter for the record a half dozen other baldi students were called out for criticism in this yearbook using descriptions like loud mouth, childish and money hungry. The school says anyone offended by their yearbook will get a brand new one with the appropriate descriptions free of charge. At School District headquarters im Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. All right. Soon youll have a chance to witness treasures from ancient china. The terracotta warriors are come to go Franklin Institute thousands of years ago the around 8,000 live sized clay warriors guarded the tomb of china first emperor each as unique as individual people. Their horses the same. This clay army is just phenomenal. Amazing. Some of the statues coming here include a general, an archer an musician. The ten full sized warriors are undoubtedly the stars of the show but i think its the 164 other art facts in the exhibit that really help anchor us as a science and technology exhibition. If you havent seen this exhibit, go its amazing. You can catch it beginning september 30th it runs through march 4th. All right. So sean bell eagles playing tonight, right. Played tonight and listen as far as preseason goes the eagles played their only game that really matters tonight. Its the only game that will look Something Like the regular season. Ill tell was i liked want i disliked from this game. Thats coming up next in my sports commentary. Sean bell is talking about what to like and dislike from tonig tonights goals preseason game. His commentary is 15 seconds much tonight the eagles wrapped up their only preseason game that looks anything like the regular season. The starts usually play into the second half of the third preseason game but they only played about quarter in this one, because thats a

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