Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20151125 : vimarsana.c

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20151125

Suspect whos tried to get away. Just a reminder how intense it became. Trooper caseys car was rammed by the suspects vehicle, and at some point the suspect car became alongside the troopers car and the suspect began firing from his car at trooper casey. Reporter suspect now ided as 17yearold jianne knee cato crashed his car into schoolbus and continued to Exchange Shots with police. Thats when casey was hit. The vehicles burst into flames cat tow took off but pick up by cops. What goes through your head. You know when it happened youre upset but you get over it. Trooper caseys parents taking him home from hahnemann shaken by the inn her rent consuming danger of their sons profession. What are you going to do if your kid wants to be in the army he wants to be in the army. He wants to be a cop. We know we we put on the uniform gone to work we could run into anything at any time. Patrick were happy youre okay. How are you feeling. Im feeling much better. Thank you everybody. Reporter police are loo looking to talk to this man. His name is cameron lewis, 19yearold. He was also in the car when it was first stopped. Police say state police say he is not under arrest they would just like to talk to camera lewis about the incident. Police traced the gun they believe was used in the shooti shooting. Well have more on that at 6 00 oclock. And also 17yearold Giovanni Cato has been charged as an adult with attempted murder. That is the latest were live at Hahnemann University hospital. Joanne phil pileggi fox 29 news. Back to you in the studio, iain. Joanne, thank you. Hang now, travel delays on one of the busiest days of the year a lot of drivers can expect delays when he they hit the roads tonight tax ick a train may not ab whole lot better. Fox 29ss chris oath cot 30th street station in philadelphia where some could feel the effects from 48 train derailme derailment. Chris . Reporter yes, some effects of that just mainly impact Holiday Travel the lines are long but they are moving here at 30th street station. Take look. Despite the delays a lot of happy faces here today because people are either coming home or going home for the holidays. Yeah, the lines are long. You see this one going down he here. That train actually delayed a little bit going to new york just a few minutes. Lets take look at the big board here at 30th street station. That old time amtrak train information. If you see there are some dela delays. 40 minutes coming from boston. Another hour and 15 minutes going to or actually from miami. But the big delay is here. Lets show was happened earlier today about noon inside, n harrisburg. The city of harrisburg. Norfolk southern Train Derailment happened. Delaying cars here on the amtrak tracks here in philadelphia. The amtrak train from harrisburg, we understand, is going to be two hours late. One single train is late for this, but we understand that is packed. So the train that should have been coming about right now from harrisburg will be coming in about two hours late. Now, lets bring you back out here live. Something weve been seeing the past couple of days. You see right in front of me. Amtrak police. Youre going to be seeing a lot of those guys especially here at 30th street station. Youre going to see a lot of police and vapor wake doing. I dont know if we could see any. Theres some around here martin if you can see theyre basically explosive detection dogs. Every passenger that goes on a train, every passenger that comes into 30th street statio station. You will have those dogs be waived right near your bags for explosives. So heightened security, of course, were still under that Worldwide Travel alert by the state department but once again, guys, most people happy they are coming home. Were seeing lots of hugs, lots of emotion this Holiday Travel season. Of course, well bring you back to 30th street station coming up at 6 00 oclock. Iain . Chris, thanks. Check in with it then. Well nearly 50 million americans expected to travel over the thanksgiving weekend, the growing threat of terrorism remains in the forefront of a lot of minds. President obama met with his National Security team to discuss what measures are being taken as we head into the Holiday Season. Today the president said theres no specific Security Threat to the country at this time but he also urged americans to be vigilant. In the wake of the heightened Security Threat around the world prompted by possible terror attacks by isis. Its understandable that people worry. Something similar could happen here. Watching the events in paris made the threat feel closer to home. So as we go into thanksgiving weekend, i want the American People to know is that we are taking every possible step to keep our homeland safe. The president s message to reassure americans comes more than a week after an isis terror attack killed 130 people and injured more than 300 others in paris. Clear skies and a warmup for your holiday. Heres live look right now at Philadelphia International airport. We had a cold start today, but things are getting a whole lot better. Meteorologist kathy orr with your first look at your holiday forecast. Thumbs up, kathy. Dawn, what a day. 20degree temperature swing. Take a look at the morning lows. Philadelphia 33. But in the suburbs the 20s you felt it this morning. 23 in pottstown. 24 in allentown. 28 degrees in wilmington and wrightstown 25 degrees. This afternoon, we jumped up into the 50s. Pretty much everywhere. The high today in the city 55. Temperature right now is 50. So it will be comfortable this evening. Some 40s to the north and west also to the south and east. Philadelphia still mild you can see in dover its 48 and pottstown 44. 47 degrees in allentown. Ultimate doppler showing a clear sky tonight. We have the full moon we call it the frosty moon. The night before thanksgiving. This evening for last minute preparations mainly clear, 49 at 7 00 p. M. By 9 00 a light wind, 45. And then high clouds by the 11 00 oclock how and a temperature of 43 degrees. We know its an important day as everyone comes home for the holidays. Coming up well have your Holiday Weekend forecast. Ill see you later in the broadcast. Kathy, thank you. Fire rips through three homes and now fire officials are trying to figure out what caused it. Skyfox over the 900 block of west seltzer street in the fair hill second of philadelphia just after 9 00 this morning. As you can see, smoke was pouring from one of the homes. Firefighters attacking the fire from on top of the buildings and on the ground. No one thankfully was hurt. Police are investigate a possible abduction that took place in philadelphias Oxford Circle neighborhood. This is Surveillance Video from the Wells Fargo Bank on the 6600 block of castor avenue. Police say the man with dread locks punched another guy and forced him inside a silver mini van. Witnesses say the victim said i dont want to go with you police dont know hoot suspect are victim are. Effort to remove Pennsylvania Attorney general Kathleen Kane from office is moving forward. Today a state Senate Committee recommending the full Senate Hold Hearings on whether kane can do her job without her law license. The committee made the recommendation after hearing from district attorneys across the state and from kanes own staff on how her lack of a law license is impacting their cas cases. Ag kane was stripped of her license while she awaits trial on charges of perjury and obstruction tied to 11 leaks of grand jury information. Now, kane responding today saying a handful of senators sought to substitute their judgment for that of more than 3 million pennsylvanian whos cast their vote for the duly elected, independent attorney general. Kane also pledging that next week she will announce a team of special prosecutors to definitely further into the scandal over pornographic and offensive emails that end snared state judges and prosecutors. Philadelphias mayor elect is promising to fix the citys badly broken department of license and inspections. For years l and i a source of bitter complaint by philadelphia homeowners. Bruce gordon live in the newsroom now. Bruce, jim kenney naming a new l and i commissioner. He did indeed. The current streets commissioner david perry will take over l and i come january. Kenney promises a new l and i will be more responsive, more transparent and most important will keep philadelphians safer. Ken he said the infamous botched demolition at 22nd and market that led to a Building Collapse that killed six people symbolized how the city had quote lost its way regarding license and and inspections. He promised new letter ship in the form of david perry a licensed engineer and veteran of City Government will improve what he called a badly performing department. First and for most, people need to be safe when theyre walking down the street, working in buildings h theyre walking by demolition sites, when theyre its just safety is it. Its the most important thing. Reporter my fox 29 getting result stories so the city is in dire need of help in demolishing thousands of long vacant building, commercial and residential, that sit crumbling for years, even as the city describes them as eminently dangerous. And so i asked the mayorelect. Is it possible to get thousands of buildings knocked down without ing. Probably not. But well have to try to fine out what they are, what the co costs are address the problem. Reporter among the problems, a patchwork of rules and laws that prevent the city from taking fast action when a vacant building threatens neighboring prompts. And so i asked the new lism commissioner,. How do you begin to dig into all of that . Thats one of the discussions were going to be having with the Law Department to figure out how to short circuit that process. And get to the point where we can take effective action and not just wait to try to fine out who the responsible owner is. Reporter the City Controllers Office has put together a list of 100 particularly dangerous buildings. Kenney says hell use that as a starting point to prioritize. As for the current embattled l and i commissioner carlton williams, kenney called him a good Public Servant but said that job was not a good fit for him williams will return to the streets department. Dawn . All right, bruce, thank you. Unwelcomed surprise for people in a local neighborhood this morning. Car windows destroyed. Police say with a special kind of weapon. The clue they hope will lead to break in this case. Robbing anyone is bad enough but this couple is accused of of doing it to a little girl for just five bucks. What police say they found on the two could explain a lot. Plus, taken too soon. A young woman who worked so hard to help others loses her fight with cancer. How you can help local police and firefighters honor her memory. This cloud has been creeping around a wisconsin neighbor a lot of people arent too happy about it. Some are even scared. But police say they know who is doing this and why. And coming up all new tonight at 6 00 oclock with every black friday comes exam but this year things are a little different. The new weapon Authorities Say crooks will be using this time around. Were watching the roads for you tonight of the one of the biggest travel days of the year of course. Drivers headed out of town for thanksgiving holiday. Here as life look at i76 and 676 in philadelphia. Looks not too bad. Well keep an eye throughout the evening. Unexpected surprise this morning for dozens of People Living in fishtown. Imagine walking out to your car this morning to go to work or to school and you see this. Your car windows busted. Tonight police need your help tracking down who is responsible for all of this. Fox 29s joyce evans joins us live in the studio with more. Joyce. Dawn and iain, it has happened to me before. I got to tell you this is one of those surprises nobody wants to find. At least 20 people now have to go get new car windows because somebody decided to just smash them out. It all happened sometime overnight in the 1800 block of memphis street. Police say the car windows were hit with beebee or some type of pellet gun. Fox 29 viewer dawn, called to us let us know about it. She has lived in fishtown for several years now, and she cant believe that somebody would do Something Like that especially around this time of year. It was really disappointing to see what had happened, because you know its right before the holidays a the will of people in this neighborhood are young families that are, you know, have children and its just such bad timing and its just unnecessary damage to people who dont deserve it. Reporter what do the vandals get out of all of that . Not much was taken if anything at all. Police are currently looking to see whether Surveillance Video caught whomever did this. If you know anything about it, call police right away. Dawn . All right, such a shame. Thank you, joyce. For so many Families Police families specifically in our area, the holidays like thanksgiving they can ab reminder of what theyve lost and thats why the fraternal order of police hosting a special breakfast this morning. The organization cop wheel serving breakfast to the families of fallen officers at the fop lodge in northeast philadelphia. Organizers say their goal is to make thanksgiving as normal as possible for these families and show them they have the love and support of their community. Were not going to be able to replace a loved one, but this little, um, display of honor today for them it means a lot. It goes a long way. They get together amongst themselves and they share that common bond that myself, you, nobody else knows about. So it helps them to ease the pain during the holidays. Brings a little smile to their face, and were able to provide a dinner and again, were only a phone call away. Such a nice effort. Group delivering thanksgiving dinners to the families of the fallen officers. A highly regarded paramedic in Burlington County put up one courageous fight against Breast Cancer but now shes gone. She passed away less than a month ago and just this past friday new jersey state ems honored the late Rebecca Scott as the outstanding paramedic in the state in 2015. Her family accepted that honor and as fox 29s Shawnette Wilson shows us now her community is honoring her life in another very special way. Devastated. Really devastated. Even from the initial diagnosis, the anxiety was just awful. Reporter bill scott describes the heart ache he felt when his daughter rebecca learned she had Breast Cancer in may of last year. Shortly after found it was metastatic. It had traveled to her liver. Reporter the following 18 months bill says rebecca got treatment with medications and chemotherapy and fought a tough fight. But at 28 years old, she lost her battle. She died october 27th nearly a year and a half after she was diagnosed. And less than a month before her november wedding to her love matt. It was very rapid. It was very aggressive form of Breast Cancer. Bill members his daughter for her carrying spirit love of family, the Philadelphia Eagles and her sense of humor. But what stands out most is the love and dedication she had for saving lives. Rebecca was a paramedic from mansfield ems and virtue ya health in Burlington County. Somewhere about 12 days before she passed she went in to go try and cover her shift and made it through half a day. She wanted to work so bad. She was very dedicated. Job was very important for her. Reporter rebeccas death hit hard for others she came in contact with on emergency calls. We work with her in our town frequently. She came to lot of our squad calls. Um, we know that she was outstanding proud paramedic. The reason the Burlington City Police Department is honoring her with no shave november. Officers and the fop donated money to participate and their selling these t shirts ahead of a benefit this weekend. Money goes into a Scholarship Fund in rebeccas name. To get people who are inspired to be paramedics and future emts through schooling with that money. Well do a big photo shoot. Celebrate her life and go about all the good things that happened while she was working here in town. Reporter for information on how to donate to the fund or to attend the benefit in beckys memory log on to fox29. Com and look under seen on tv. In Burlington City, Shawnette Wilson, fox 29 news. A local family says an area builder took their money and ran. He has ties to a music mogil. Fox 29 investigates is digging into this one and jeff cole is in our newsroom with a preview of his story coming up tonight at 10 00. Jeff. We reported on many contractor nightmares over the years this one ended with a family home actually becoming a pile of rubble. Hueys of north 29th street in the city put down 60 grand as a first installment for builder to repair and remold dell their house after a fire. The work started but city inspectors say no permits were pull. They stopped the work and the hugh hueys claim the contractor took off with their money. Now theres no dwelling standing at. This is our home. Our home, jeff. And now it will be rubble. We have nowhere to go. Reporter what went so wrong . Who is the music mogil. Fox 29 investigates will report it all tonight at 10 00. Iain we hope folks will take a look. Absolutely, jeff. Thank you nativit

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