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WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 July 5, 2016

The platform is packed as people try to catch a train out of the city. Septa even offering refunds and credits to customers who bought those weekly and monthly Regional Rail passes. Its also asking commuters to try and change their schedules and their routines to ease the headaches many people felt this morning and are going to feel tonight. Its pretty bad. When i got on there was standing room only. Ive in zone three. So, um, i took really long time. Reporter crowded trains and long delays this morning for Regional Rail commuters. Many not happy at all after septa had to take a third of its fleet out of service due to a defect on 95 of its silver line or five train cars. Packed train, you know, flint right passed in you to the fourth quarter. Really tough. People are annoyed. It was delayed just not moving at times. We were supposed to be on an express which takes 45 minutes and instead it took an hour and a half to get in to suburban station. Reporter six trains had to buy pass stations because they were already full. Many riders worry it will get worse tomorrow and in the days to come since today some commuters were still enjoying an extra day off from the fourth of july holiday. Were not going to take Regional Rail tomorrow. Tomorrow im driving. Reporter septa actually encouraging commuters to look at alternative service. Its very important especially on those stations that are just outside the city, you know, it may be tough for them to get on the train after several stops ahead of them. Reporter septa trying to figure out ways to get additional equipment and increased capacity but cannot say how long that will take. It all comes down to, you know, how much of the fleet could we do a quicker repair with versus do we have to replace these beams on every car and that can take awhile. Reporter and so what youre looking at right now is hundreds of people on oh the platform here at Jefferson Station waiting for their trains out of the city. Septa saying it could take awhile to fix these silver lin liners five train cars so septa meeting with consultants to figure out how what exactly is going on. How did it happen and why . But it says as it tries to correct the situation, safety will be of utmost importance. That will be the number one priority. Iain and lucy. As it should be dawn thank you very much. This is not the first time questions have involved around the silver liner five. Five years ago fox 29 broke that story vet gate tiff reporter jeff cole is back with another look. Jeff . Reporter on the phone with septa official late this afternoon he said once they get over this hump they are going to make sure they start looking at all the cars from top to bottom to make sure theres nothing else going on. Now, we were speak to go the official for an update on our past report, and that focused other than cracks. It was back in the summer of 2011 when the brand new sleek silver liner fives were being rolled out. Septa told us only 30 were on the rails but the discovery of what the authority called hairline cracks was a cause for worry. The reason were concerned is its not supposed to be there. Reporter it certainly wasnt. Not in a fleet of highly anticipated and very much needed Regional Rail cars with a 247 million price tag. Septa toll fox 29 investigators it was one of their inspectors who found the crack while looking over silver liners in hyundai south philly plant. A search was launched for other cracks and they were found in two more cars. They were all in the same spot just above the jack pad used as a cushion to lift the car to do work. Unlike the cracks found in the big support beam that have benched the 120 car fleet septa argued in 2011 this was not a major issue. It he is cored us into the south philly plant and argued do you believe there are anye design of these brand new and expensive vehicles at this point . We do boteen assured that the are no structural, safety ore i. Reporter now, on the phone the septa official again said no other cracks beyond the three that we reported on were ever found. He did say the agency found it was too much heat that was used in the welding process back then that likely caused contraction and later those cracks that we reported on. Again, septa says, it will climb all over these silver liners after its over the hump that its dealing with now. Soon to make sure it says that nothing else is going on. Lucy, i am a longtime septa rider. Yup. Spent a long time riding on those silver liner fives. Ill continue to ride the Regional Rail and i will be live tweeting as i do it tonight and in the morning and as i did it this morning. All right. Thank you so much, jeff. I know youre on top of this one. Tomorrow will be tricky commute for lot of folks in our area. You can watch fox 29 starting at 4 00 a. M. As bob kelly tracks the delays on the rails. Northeast Philadelphia Police are looking for the person who shot a man near lincoln high school. Skyfox over the scene this afternoon on the 7400 block of roland avenue. The victim a 21yearold man was shot once in the stomach. He is now in stable condition. Developing now, no indictment against Hillary Clinton. That was the recommendation today by the fbi after closing its investigation into the democratic president ial candidates email scandal. It now appears unlikely that clinton will ever Face Criminal Charges related to those emai emails. Our joyce evans joins us now with the very latest on that. Joyce . Reporter a lot of people talking about this one as you can imagine. The head of the fbi did have plenty to say about what Hillary Clinton did do with her private emails. The announcement came as the Presumptive Democratic nominee hit the campaign trail with the leader of the Democratic Party and now her political rivals are firing back. Fbi director james comey releasing his offices recommendations to the department of justice saying, clintons email usage was careless but it did not rise to the level of criminal charges. We cannot find a case thatrtl charges on these facts. Reporter comey pointing out for the first time clinton used multiple devices and servers and that from a group of roughly 30,000 emails handed over to the state department, c. The news coming just hours before clintons stop with president barack obama in north carolina. Oh knows a thing or two about winning elections. Take it from me. Reporter Hillary Clinton did not address the email controversy swirling around here says it wont either. Not right now. But that did not stop theg clins the right person to fill his shoes. There has never been any man or woman more qualified for this office. Us. Than Hillary Clinton. applause . Ever. Reporter somebody not republican opponent donald trump tweeting fbi director said crooked hillary compromised our national security. No charges. Wow . Speaker of the House Republican paul ryan also weighing in today saying the American People will reject clintons quote troubling pattern of dishonesty and poor judgment. Iain and lucy. All right, thank you very much, joyce. No rain today but you can already feel the heat ramping up from old city to reading and throughout our area its definitely feeling like summer because it is summer. Tomorrow temperatures could rise even higher and actually stay there. Lets check in with meteorologist kathy orr. Umhmm f this day forward it is only going to get hotter. You can see the blue returning to the sky over old city philadelphia philadelphia with a few fair weather clouds. It will be very muggy tonight and turn oppressive by tomorrow with the heat and humidity. Right now, we are forecast high of 89 degrees in philadelphia. 88 in millville. Allentown 86 degrees and even despite that rain and clouds this morning wilmington right now 88. We could rise another degree. When you add the humidity, it feels much warmer right now in philadelphia it feels like its 94. Millville it feels like its 94. Even in Atlantic City at the airport it feels like its none. So the heat and the humidity will be an issue. This is a look at the dew point temperature, when you see 70 or greater it means its oppressi oppressive. Were approaching that in philadelphia and millville dew point temperature is 71. And by tomorrowgy to oppressive with temperatures in the 90s. So the National Weather service has issued a heat advisory for philadelphia and its adjacent suburbs by tomorrow it willlike. It will get even hotter. The heat turnsbout a heat wave dangerous along with some summer storms coming up in the seven day forecast. Its going to be very active week indeed. All right. Police in newark, delaware, just released some Surveillance Video of a guy they want to know more about. Nection with two recent attempted abductions in that area. Heres some video frohem main towers apartment complex on east main street. You can see a man walking through the parking lot yesterday morning. Police say a man attacked a woman from behind. She was able to fight him off and get away. Hours before that that attack police Say Something similar happened to a woman at the complex next door. She got away as well. So if you know anything that can help police please give them call. Police are releasing new information tonight in the hopes of a finding person who shot and killed a 16yearold boy at a holiday cookout this weekend. Police believe the shooter was inside a darkcolored car when the shots rang out at 1800 block of south 31st street. That car then raced off toward mifflin street. When police arrived, they found brown shot in his back. He later died at Childrens Hospital of philadelphia. If you know anything to help catch his killer, call police. In wilmington, police are looking for the person that shot a teen boy in the head. It happened last night around 10 00 on sherman street in Clifford Braun walk. Paramedics rushed the 16 year old victim to ai Dupont Hospital for children. Right now hes in critical but stable condition. Police have not yet made any arrests. Young man attacked on the streets of philadelphia. The assault continued even after he was on the ground. What investigators know about the motive. Plus a tragic freak accident at a florida gun range. A 14yearold boy killed an investigators Say Something his dad did set off a deadly chain of events. What went wrong . Sweet reunion, two pad battlefield comrades back together on american soil. The delay in getting these best friends back together again. Coming up on fox 29 news at 6 00 a statue stashed away for years. After a scandal that grabbed headlines around the world. Well tell hugh is asking for the joe paterno statue to return. Prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. Farm, crate, and store. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. Police looking for three teens who attacked a man near tell peps campus. It happened on the block where temple students live. Local residents spoke to our fox 29s jennifer joyce. She joins us live from Police Headquarters in center city. Jennifer . Reporter good evening, police tell us the victim suffered a broken jaw, cuts and bruises but say hes lucky. Now they want to find the teens responsible and they want your help. Look closely. Do you recognize this boy in la Damien Tomlinson jersey. What about his two friends . Police say these three teenagers are behind a vicious assault and robbery in north philly. Pretty brutal and very disturbing. Reporter its 3 00 a. M. On quiet tuesday morning. Watch as the three young men identify a target walking alone. They begin to prey following the 23yearold man west on cecil b. Moore avenue. Faster, closer, until bam, one punch to the face puts the victim on the ground with a broken jaw. The assault does not end there. Once hes on the ground you see them continuously punch and kick him and they go through his pockets taking his wallet and cell phone. They sprint across the street to 17th. A few blocks from temple campus. Ive been here for four years i havent had issue at all. Its scary definitely because you never know when it will happen. Myers says she lived in the neighborhood 17 years. She is raising two children here and has a question about this case and the accused teenagers. Why they outside 3 00 in the morning . Our son be turning over at 3 00 in the morning at 17. Reporter philly police are asking the same question theyre hoping maybe a friend or a Family Member of the teens will turn these guys in before they gang up on someone else. With this video being out there maybe the parents will wake up and see this and give us a call and address the issue that needs to be addressed with the kids. Reporter to see that video again head to fox29. Com and if you think you know who these teens are, give police a call. Iain . Jennifer, thank you. In camden, officials are asking residents to Say Something if they see anything that doesnt look right. After someone started 14 suspicious fires over the Holiday Weekend. All the fires were in the southern part of the city. One of them was inside a home. 13 others were vacant properties. Seven firefighters have been hurt as they battled the spring string of fires. A trapped resident was also taken to the hospital. Officials have assembled an Arson Task Force but they need the publics help. The fear is somebody could get injured or killed, and like i just stated, we had seven of our firefighters injured which is a significant amount of firefighter injuries for twoday period. Its kind of unheard of for us to have that. The incident yesterday where the occupant was trapped on the pooch roof obviously he could have been killed. Fire investigators arent sure how many people are behind all the fires. Arrest tonight of one of the men of two accused of making terroristic threat at a delaware welcome center. Police say 35yearold manmade the threats to an employee at the american based welcome side on july 3rd and because of those threats, authorities canceled nearby show from the band perry that night. Prosecutors charged the man but hes out of jail on 20,000 bond. Police do know who the other man is. But they have yet to arrest him and theyre not releasing any december tails about any of the threats. They say for security purposes. Happening right now, Italian Police may be once step closer to finding out what happened to an american student found dead in rome. Authorities discovered the body of 19yearold from wisconsin in the taber river just hours after he arrived in the city. Police have now arrested someone and foxs greg palkot takes it from here. Reporter young live cut short in the eternal city. Italian police arresting a homeless man in connection with the death of an american student in rome. Authorities say they took the 40yearold into cut because he was quote seriously suspected of aggravated homicide. Officials pulling beau solomons body from the taber river monday after he disappeared early friday morning. The 19yearold was last seen at a pub. Shocked. Just how can this happen . Reporter solomon arriving in rome shortly before his death as part of an Exchange Program at john cab bot university. He just finished his freshman year studying personal finance at the university of wisconsin madison. His brother says solomon was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer as a child and battled the disease for years. Had over 15 to 20 procedures growing up throughout his life and was able to overcome all of that. Report the report sol lon mow is said to have suffered a head wound and had blood on his shirt when his body was found. Following his disappearance more than a thousand dollars in charges were made on solomons credit card. Hundreds of miles away in milan. Beaus family is now it inl in o try to learn exactly what happened to their son. This is not in their opinion as a result avenue night out for their son but its the result avenue tragic incident in which someone killed their son. Reporter u. S. As bass door to italy offered his condole dole lenses to the family and friends and offered assistance to italian authorities as they investigate beaus death. 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