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WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 February 18, 2016

Bruce . Reporter yeah, ladies, traffic just getting back to normal at this hour. Some five hours after that wild crash that saw a schoolbus and two other vehicles kareening through a busy center city intersection. The real miracle here the injuries werent more numerous or more severe. Midday madness in center city ends with three vehicles mashed together outside, make that partly inside Td Bank Branch at 15th and jfk. Spectator cos hard believe the site. First thing your reaction when you saw this . Wow i just hope no one was hurt. Eyewitness coutts suggest taxi cab may have clipped a septa bus right lanes of westbound jfk right across from city hall. The cab careened through the intersection at 15th street veered left into a schoolbus. The bus then veered into a black lincoln suv and um three vehicles plowed through a traffic light with the suv demolishing the bank window. What wept through your mind when you heard and saw this . We was just praying no one got hurt. We just was praying no one got hurt so we was just scared. Major chaos. People were everywhere. People were concerned. People was trying to see if there was any kids that were on the bus. And there were 91. There were none. Just trying to go to peoples assistance. Which i thought was very nice. Reporter may have been no children aboard the schoolbus but there were plenty of passengers aboard the septa bus. Total of 14 accident victims were rushed to jefferson hospitals emergency room with minor injuries. Some back pain, some neck sprains, some contusions. Some hip pain that kind of thing really few headaches. Nothing live threatening. Nothing live threatening at this point. Reporter both the cabby and schoolbus driver were taken to Hahnemann Hospital. Again new york city lifethreatening injuries there either. As we speak crews are replacing that bank window amazing no one injured inside the bank and perhaps most amazing of all no pedestrians injured as far as we were able to determine a mid all this chaos in the middle of the day. Lucy . That is amazing thing. Bruce gordon thank you very mu much. A man whos father gunned down his exwife got live in prison for cyber stalking. Judge also handed his sister a live zen dense for the same crimes. The zen toes foredid matusiewicz and his sister amy gonzales came down today. Their mother got live in prison jury found all three guilty of conspiracy and cyber stalking resulting in the 2013 death of davids exwife christine belford. Thomas matusiewicz, davids father, shot and killed belford and a friend as they arrived for a support hearing involving the daughter she had with david. Thomas matusiewicz then traded gunfire with police before killing himself. A man was gunned down in West Philadelphia overnight and right now police are looking for the shooter. This all happened just after 11 00 in the 300 block of south 52nd street. There was a 31yearold man shot multiple times in the legs and the back. He was pronounced dead right there at the scene. You can see the evidence markers. Police are right now questioning several witnesses and reviewing Surveillance Video from buildings that are near that crime scene. And thieves break into a discount Luxury Department store in center city. The alarm was triggered over at the century 21 the new store on Market Street just before 5 00 this morning when someone smashed as you can see the two front display windows. 2,000 of merchandise was stolen right off the mannequins. The damage to the windows is estimated at 7,000. If you have any information about this, please call police. Winter chill sticking around and your fox 29 winter wet authority. Live look at blue 10 from our pock know mountains camera. Do i see any skiers. Maybe a couple there. You must have felt the sting when you stepped outside today. But things theyre about to get better. Lets check in with meteorologist kathy orr. Yes, good snow making weather in the pocono mountains. And next week we could have some fresh powder from mother nature. Well get to that. First look at this. Beautiful day in center city philadelphia. A little bit of a wind and that is going to impact how it feels tonight. Wind chills are a factor right now in philadelphia the temperature is 36. But winds out of the north northwest at 16 making it feel like its only 26. So if youre stepping out tonight make sure you take your winter gear because it will feel colder. 36 in the city. 24 in the poconos. 35 in wilmington the same in millville down the shore Atlantic City at airport thats 35 and rio grand in wildwood 36 degrees. Now, during the evening temperatures will fall with a cold breeze. The temperature will be at freezing but it will feel like its in the 20s. Clear at 9 00 p. M. And look how cold it turns by 11 00. 27 degrees and falling fast during the overnight period. Ultimate doppler well see a sudden surge of warmth. Tomorrows trap situation day. The real surge where temperatures go 10 to 15 degrees above normal will happen over the weekend. Well talk about that and a potential noreaster for next week coming up with your seven day forecast. All right, talk to you then kathy. Morning commute turned deadly today on the mlk drive in fairmount park. Skyfox over the scene right around 8 30 this morning after police say a man drove over the double yellow line into oncoming traffic. And hit a Chevy Traverse head on. The man in the car died. 32yearold driver and a fouryearold girl inside that chevy went to Hahnemann Hospital for evaluation. Investigators have not yet released the identity of the driver who did die. You heard about this. Everyone is talking about it with two days left before the South Carolina republican primary, donald trump has a new critic as pope francis slams the gop candidate, our peter doocy has the war of words. Reporter pope francis stirring the pot during his trip back from mexico thursday when a reporter asked him about trumps hard line immigration proposals. Which include ordering mass deportations and building a wall along the southern border. The pontiff a vocal advocate for immigrants responds by saying a person who thinks only about building walls wherever they may be and not building bridges is not christian well, it didnt take long for mr. Trump to return fire. The pope said something to the effect that maybe donald trump isnt christian. Okay. And hes questioning my faith. I was very surprised to see it but i am a christian. Im proud of it. Okay. For religious leader to question a persons faith is disgraceful. Reporter trumps latest spar comes a mid new poll numbers and new attacks. Fox news poll showing the republican front runner maintaining his wide lead over the pack with 32 . Senator ted cruz coming in second at 19 . And senator marco rubio who just pick up major endorsement from South Carolina governor nicky haley win striking distance. Democratic party today has as one of its leading candidates a democratic socialist bernie sanders. And Hillary Clinton is disqualified from being the commander in chief. With inn the Nevada Democratic caw causes two days away polls are showing the race deadlocked between Hillary Clinton and bernie sanders. Speaking of exactly that clinton and sanders will meet one last time before the voters in nevada hit the polls. They will will be going face to face in a town hall tonight in nevada. Were learning more tonight about lawsuit bill cosby filed against an accusor he says violated her settlement contra contract. Lawyers for cosby say andrea couldnt stand reached her 2,006 contract when she cooperated with prosecutor whos row end the case against cosby last ye year. The lawsuit claims couldnt stand wasnt obligated to talk to authorities in peps because she lives in canada. The suit also faults couldnt stands mother, her lawyer and the publisher of the National Inquirer for a breach of contract. The amount has never been revealed. Developing right now, new warning for people who are looking for love online and its happening in our area. Your match may say theyre looking for the same thing but thats not really what theyre after. Police say one guy weights until you meet up before he strikes. And his target is men on dating sites. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson tonight what police say this guy is after. Reporter jacked a dating website for people looking for match like on the dates sites you choose from pictures send messages and a range to meet. But mt. Laurel Police Say One man is using it to look for victims and what appears to be a cell phone scheme. Victim explained to us that he had met the suspect through dating website or app on his phone. And they had a ranged to meet. Reporter there have been two incidents. Both on february 10th in the Early Morning hours. The first Victim Told Police he agreed to meet the suspect near the Dunkin Donuts on route 73 at 12 30 in the morning. The suspect got into the victims car and suggested they go to a friends house. Not far away on lenola road a dead end street with a house at the end. He asked the victim if he can borrow his phone and call his friend so they can get in. Once he did n they were walk up to the house and the suspect took the phone and ran into the business areas. Reporter two Hours Later Police got a similar call from another victim. He gives the same dating site info meet up location and description of the suspect. The difference is when the suspect acts asked the victim for his phone, he got a little suspicious and he wouldnt give the phone up, and the suspect just ran off again. Reporter police got the surveillance pictures from a business in the area. They believe its the suspect and say hes wearing extremely similar clothing shown in the profile picture he uses on the dating sight. We blur his face because police havent made a positive identification yet. We dont know if that is in fact our suspect. He may just ab witness who was in the area who could give us an idea of what he saw but we certainly somebody wed like to talk to. Reporter Shawnette Wilson fox 29 news. Now that man could face charges of theft, attempted theft and luring somebody to an area to commit a crime. Mt. Laurel police have checked around and havent heard of similar reports from other departments. A would be robber target add pharmacy but the other customers werent about to just let it happen. The beat down that left a guy shirt less and un there is a local woman her porch is falling apart. She scraped up the money to get it fixed and worked so hard she says the guy she hired took her money and then took off. If hes not there know that god is going to get you, okay . Dont think you got away with this because you didnt. Hear the crying and the tears in her voice. Why she says that heartless move could cost her her entire home. And rapper kanye west complained recently about being 53 million in debt. Poor guy. Yeah. How does he survive . Someone here in philadelphia wants to help him out. The big job offer he just received. Its pretty funny also coming all new at sick alcohol parents one School District get a sarcastic letter about hurt feelings and socalled whiners. Where that letter came and what officials are saying about all of that tonight. Philadelphia mother is in desperate need of help. She sent her young daughter to daycare so her little girl was safe, you know, while she was at work but she says on more than one occasion her daughter came home with bite marks on her bo body. She wants to know how on earth they possibly got there. We have our own Shawnette Wilson who spoke with that mom a short timing a life right now in hunting park. Shawnette . Reporter karen, the parents tell me that daycare staff told them another child bit their daughter when both the kids reached for the same toy. But this mom says she could understand if this were the first time but she claims this is actually the fourth time an incident like this has happened. Pictures that would make any parent upset. This is oneyearold savannahs face after her parents say another child at her daycare bit her repeatedly. Very ron any in a figueroa says staff at bright side academy called her tuesday to tell her what happened but she says she was shocked to see the bruising when she arrived to pick up her daughter and she claims this isnt the first time. Veronica says savannah was bitten on her finger in december. Her arm in january and again on the arm last week and the most recent bites were to her face tuesday. This is an incident report detailing the last incident. Veronica doesnt feel the daycare is taking the issue seriously. The child is oneyearold. I dont have an issue with the child. Kids do bite. Im not upset with the mother neither. Shes not the one watching my child. Hell upset that these people get paid to do their job, you know, at the end of the day this is your job. This is your focus to watch these kids. You know, and i feel my daughter wasnt being watched right. Reporter and we did call bright side academy the daycare where this child attends. They referred to us corporate. We have called corporate and left message waiting to hear back from them. In the meantime coming up at six well tell was state Officials Say boy the history of incidents like this at this particular daycare. Lucy. Picture so graphic. All right, shawnette, thank you. Authorities in camden, new jersey want residents to be aware of a phone scam targeting people in the city. Its been happening a whole lot there. Investigators are saying the scammers claim theyve got one of your Family Members and only going release that person if you pay them a lot of money. They call this a grandma scheme. Camden county police say they know of at least 15 incidents that have happened so far. Investigators say the caller calls from a new jersey area code, 856 and tries to convince whoever picks to wire some money. In each case police say the Family Member was actually save the entire time. Authorities say if you get one of these calls or texts, like that one, do not respond and immediately let police know. The United States officially has 60 new citizens a special ceremony graced Washington Crossing historic park in honors of president s day and the president of president washington. The 60 people who took the oath of allegiance are part of a group of 19,000 new citizens sworn in at naturalization ceremonies across our country this week. Our new citizens represent more than 30 countries but can now officially call themselves americans. Summer, springtime temperatures are here. Brand new Phillies Team they had their First Official work out under the florida sun. Lots of new faces this year including the guy who is in charge of what happens on the fielder. Manager Pete Mackanin howard eskin life in clearwater with all the action there. Hes got the shades on. Hi, howard. Well, you know, the sun is still bright here. The sup has not set here in clearwater, florida. But as i look at the temperature up on the scoreboard, its 73 degrees right now in clearwater, florida. And i want to thank kathy orr forgetting bus stop buddy to get me a hat to shield me from the sun so that was important as well. But it was the first day of work outs look like a Football Team on the field theres so many players. Today the first day of those workouts. Over 60 to 66 players were in camp today. Veterans are not due until monday but most were here except ryan howard, peter bore jess and third businessman miguel franco. It clear sal little different this year and players feel an energy from the manager Pete Mackanin he had an energy when speaking to the media and what about that injury in the clubhouse . I took a course of motivation in college one semester. I dont know. I mean i dont know. laughter . I dont know. Theyre just a lot of guys are happy when i played. All the players came to spring training to get in shape. Everybody was over shape. Most 60 of the guys all smoked. You were here to get into shape over the course of time. Its changed quite a bit. Im trying to put a name to the face and thats why we had everybody wear their uniforms witness names on their back because we dont really know everybody. I posed this question to larry bowa and mike schmidt. When you guys played and you were successful, did you need somebody to be your leader . Did you need somebody to tell you how to play and what to do . To a man they all said no because that was their makeup. I think its going breed a lot of excitement and vise versa. So were looking good so far. Everything is going great so far. laughter . They havent played a game. Thats why its all so good. Ill tell was hell hes going to have entertaining news conferences because he obviously is a story teller that Pete Mackanin but when they get into the season well see how that could change. But right now everything is great. Well have more from Pete Mackanin and what i think might be the most interesting competition in camp this spring. That will be coming up at 6 00 much lucy, back to you and i got to get out of this sun. Yeah, i know you might get a heat stroke. Dont do that, howard. All right. New merchants coming to the Reading Terminal market definitely a tasty addition to your shopping experience. Condiment will offer freshly made condiments like butter and sauces and whipped to order mayonnaise. It will make all of creations by hand every single day. The store will also offer recipes you can take a look at and them buy all the ingredients for win the market. The owner says one stop shopping at its best. We plan to showcase the best our merchants have to offer and help Reading Terminal market customers become great chefs at home while making it easier to accomplish. I love it. I love Reading Terminal market of the o

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