The sixth day in a row mow protests spelling out through the streets of the city and for the sixth day in a row police say they have been mainly peaceful protests. Oozes one of those marchs in set to step off from north philadelphia in just a few minutes but the over last six days, demonstrations have been going on around major cities across the country. They are demonstrating against recent Police Killings of africanamerican men. The marches most until the center city have been blocking traffic. Theyve been blocking highway ramps, loud voices making their presence known throughout seat. Sometimes hours at a time. Many times these officers out here are getting yelled at with slurs, with profanity and theyre the same people trying to keep those protesters save through traffic along their march. To have someone in your face an inch from your nose calling everything under the sun i mean you dont go through training and magically become a robot. I mean these are people. Were talking about. Knot i dont know how that resolves anything. Reporter now one of the things weve seen throughout the City Police Officers doubling up on their patrols. That is happening now. Were seeing about 50 Police Officers coming to the site. Right now, no sense of demonstration so far m Police Officers than anything but we understand their march is scheduled to step off here in just a few minutes. Of course well have live update coming up at 6 00 oclock. Iain . All right, chris. Well see you then, thanks. Couple dozen Philadelphia Residents gathered in center city this morning uniting behind black lives matter. The organization showing up for Racial Justice hosting todays protests outside of city hall. The group of White Philadelphians say they are ta taking action to end racism once and for ale. Protesters read allowed the names of africanamericans killed by police while stopping traffic around city hall this morning. Demonstrators are hitting the streets and cities and towns across the nation last night in memphis, tennessee thousands of demonstrators gathered to draw attention to the recent Police Involved shootings of al tan sterling and ferlando castile. The Group Brought traffic to a stand till. Police kept the crowd moving after nearly four hours. Back live to skyfox over a group of protesters forming right now near the intersection of broad and see b. Moore the march for justice time for change. Protesters are calling for an end to Police Violence. We of course will be monitoring the demonstration throughout the evening. Happening now, Regional Rail commuters arcommuters are testiw interim schedule trains are running at new times and intervals and this comes after more than a week of septa taking a third of its Regional Rail fleets off the tracks because of structural issues. Septa also is adding new trains leased out from other transit agencies to the tracks. Fox 29s Jennifer Joyce is live at septa head quarter tonight. Jennifer . Reporter good evening, iain. Septa says it has noticed an improvement today compared to last week with those added rail cars and an a amended schedule, however, there are still issues. There are still delays and congestion septa says its a work in progress and its still trouble shooting. Nearly one week after septa announced it removed one third of its Regional Rail cars from service the delays overcrowding inconveniences continue. Its difficult to get to work on time in the morning or to get to work early. Im taking the train early so that i can, um, i can avoid the rush hour, you know. There have been days when ive been driving. As of this week septa is adding 18 trains to its fleet. The equipment is leased from amtrak, nj transit and maryland with new trains comes an amended train schedule. Nick, of bryn mawr says its a definite improvement from last week. 640 from where i live on the paoli line the 640 came in and it was an amtrak train carrying septa passengers. So i guess it sounds nice thats correct work out well. Reporter septa officials are looking into leasing additional rail cars from boston or the midwest to help ease congestion on its tracks. Theyre also talking about ad adding express buses in certain areas. Were still seeing delays on the railroad. It is the kind of situation thats, you know, going to continue on and crowding, but we continue to work towards making things better. Five of the 18 leased rail cars did not go into Service Today but they are expected to be up and running by tomorrow morning expected to go on the wilmington line. Iain . Jennifer, thank you. You can find a link to the new schedules on our website just head to fox29. Com and click on the story on the home page. Shots fired at a juniata gas station thats all caught on camera. Philadelphia police say this guy walked into lukoil along the 4200 block of g street friday night and demanded money from a cashier. Investigators say once the worker handed over the money, the accused robber shot at the bullet proof glass. The man rain off right after shooting the gun. Luckily no body was hurt. A Beautiful Day with the heat on the way. Your fox 29 weather authority. The mild temperatures and clear sunny skies made it a little easier to ease into the work week but the heat is going to be coming back soon. Meteorologist kathy orr is in old city tonight tracking our next heat wave. Kathy . Iain, right now, it is so comfortable low humidity, deep blue sky everyone just outside enjoying the beautiful weather if you didnt have time today dont worry. We will have another in the forecast. Take a look at the temperatures. In philadelphia, so far High Temperature sitting at 85 degrees. Thats up a few ticks in the last hour. 83 degrees to the north and west. You can see that in pottstown. 84 in allentown. 73 in the poconos. Millville 84. Temperatures are going to continue to stay on the mild side and even down the shore pretty comfortable in Atlantic City 76. You can see on ultimate doppler a few fair weather clouds passing by to our north. Otherwise, fair weather High Pressure will keep it pleasant so sunny at the 7 00 oclock hour. 82. This evening mainly clear at 9 00 p. M. 78. Clear and comfortable even at the 11 00 oclock hour low humidity with a temperature of 73. But as you mentioned iain the oppressive heat is building in the southwest and that will be building toward our region over the next couple of days. So it will be a quick warmup this week. Humidity will return. Making it oppressive and that means more storms in the seven day forecast and guess what . Potentially heat wave number three. Ill join you inside with all those details later in the broadcast. Iain. Kathy, thank you. A judge sentenced former Philadelphia School administrator to 10 years of probation today for her role in a cheating scandal. 61yearold he have vin cortez was found guilty on charges of tampering with evidence and criminal conspiracy. The former principal of Cayuga Elementary School changed student answers and promoted other cheat it cheating on state standardized tests. Police are asking residents in society hill to look out for this man. They say hes hit two homes on the 600 block of add son street. Doesnt actually go inside he just takes packages from the front steps. Each time hes riding an indego rental bike. If you have any information on who he might be police please give police a call. A firefighter out of the hospital. Fire broke out around 1 00 this morning on the 5300 block of west burke street. Crews were able to get the fire inside this row home under control about 20 minutes later. That firefighter has a minor injury to his finger and has been released from penn presbyterian hospital. Nobody else was hurt. Less than seven hours a 31 billion spending bill will become law in pennsylvania without the governors signatu signature. State lawmakers havent figured out thou pay for it though. Senate democrats say letting the spending bill become law keeps dollars flowing to schools and on the important programs. Top Senate Republicans are committed to working toward an agreement to fully fund the spending bill. While he wont sign it, democratic Governor Tom Wolf wont stop the bill from becom becoming law at midnight. People forced to walk into the street in one neighborhood because of construction. Even a fire hydrant is off limits. Fox 29 is on the case and already getting results. A little girl snatched from her bed by an intruder and carried off. Burglar picked me up, i woke up on the fourth stair. Dont be fooled by her size. She was ready to fight. What she did to make the would be kidnapper put her down. And cell phone video shows a crime this guy probably thought no one would see. Authorities say hes pouring something into a police car. Who is under arrest tonight. And coming up a at 6 00 youve probably seen people with their phones out staring at their screens. Theyre playing a game trying to catch them all. What you need to know about the pokemon app thats taking the city and country by storm. Look around pennsylvania and its not hard to spot winners. And with over 2 million winners match 6, cash 5, and Treasure Hunt every single month, thats hardly a surprise. Winners, winners everywhere play today fox 29 working to get results in the citys fishtown neighborhood. People there say they have been forced to walk into a busy street because of a construction project. Not only that but the fencing that surrounds that project has blocked off a fire hydrant. Bruce gordon is live along east girard avenue tonight. Bruce, this seems to have become a pretty common issue. Reporter yeah, it absolutely is all over the city and the mayor has been talking about it for some time ever since he was a councilman. Most folks like development, its progress after all, but progress means construction and construction means disrupt maybe even danger for pedestrians especially when sidewalks are sacrificed. Problems apparent as soon as you reach the 500 block of east girard. Construction project has taken out a blocks worth of sidewalk along the south side of the avenue. Forcing pedestrians into traff traffic. Barbara clinic called us for help. She says the fencing has been up since may. During the school year was still going on. Reporter what were you seeing. We were seeing families with coaches and kids walking out in the street trying to get to school. Reporter we saw lots of pedestrians risk their safety to make it down the south side of girard moving across to the north side would require crossing four lanes of traffic plus the trolley line. Theres more. At girard and ire that fencing traps a fire hydrant on the wrong side of the chain link. Firefighters would need to rip out the fencing to get at that hydrant. You got to look at that and say what the heck . Yeah. We have tried wait a minute, this is safety. Im not open arguing the fence any more. Just release my fire hydrant. Reporter you reached out to fox 29. Why . Yes. Because we watch you every morning, and you seem to get things done. I snapped photos of the dangerous situation and sent them to philadelphias department of licenses and inspections. Then i took the pictures to mayor kenney a long time critic of blocked sidewalks. We are very much in favor of development in the city but pedestrians and moms with strollers and Senior Citizens and people have visual impairment come first. Reporter the mayors response ill be on the phone as i get in the car. Ill be on the phone when i get in the car. About getting this fixed. Reporter the time we returned to east girard, that fencing had already been moved. The fire hydrant was now accessible. Its fixed. Im so happy. Reporter now, as far as the sidewalk, well we were una toil reach the folks responsible here vin Company Building group for comment but it turns out as far as things stand right now as long they have appropriate signage warning folks to go across girard to get around this mess here, theyre okay. We were just told by an l and i official moments ago, however, this is not satisfactory. They need warning farthers down the block so people can get across the road safely. Were also told the Streets Department is having conversations with the folks here to figure out a better way. Theres going to be better way to get pedestrians through this stretch out having to go into girard or across girard. The mayor is hot on this one and so are we. Iain, well keep you post. Nice work as always, bruce. Thank you. It was a special day for formerly Homeless Veterans at peco center city headquarters. 12 men and women graduated today from the peco excelon veterans training and employment program. In collaboration with project home this program trains the vets to reenter the work force and reestablish themselves in the community. One of the veterans who got a Second Chance will now work for the sit city of philadelphia. Life is starting to get a little better for me, and it wasnt easy. But, you know, theres things that we going to through in life that we have to like sort of like you know deal with the situation as far as being, you know, in the streets. This is the sixth class to graduate from the program we wish them congratulations. One of a kind motorcycle ride is raising awareness and money to combat distracted driving. It all started when young mom and her unborn baby died when a driver using his phone hit them head on six years ago. Fox 29s Jennifer Joyce has more from washington township, new jersey. Put your phones down, people save some lives. The message is simple, and it can be live saving. My sister, who the driver who hit her was on his cell phone he was actually reaching overlooking for something. In 2011, angela dinatos sister tone 19 unborn baby rj were hit head on by a distracted driver. Both were killed instantly. Leaving then threeyearold mia without mom. Now the dinatos plus friends and family make it their mission to spread awareness of distrac distracted driving. Texting and driving is an epidemic now a days. You need to not worry about any distractions not the radio not your cell phone not your gps. Reporter roughly 250 riders one by one drove past the site of tonys fatal crash on pitman downer road in washington township. Not an easy ride for tonys sister and parents but one meant to raise money for the tony and Rj Foundation will also honoring their lives. Its been a blessing to be able to do this because it gives me the opportunity to keep her memory alive forever. Reporter since 2012 this Nonprofit Organization has awarded 44,000 in scholarship funds to High School Students raising awareness of distracted driving. My sister was the most amazing person and if she was here today this is something she would do. She would do this if it was me, if it was, f it was any of her friends, any of her family, and now this family, this community, is stepping up each year in an effort to prevent other families from having to grieve the loss of a loved one. If i can reach one person a day and save one persons life a day in memory of my sister, then i know that shes looking down smiling. Reporter in washington township, Jennifer Joyce, fox 29 news. One Police Department in new jersey is reminding users of the popular pokemon go app to use common sense. The app has gotten users trying to catch pokemon characters using gps and cameras on their cell phones. West Windsor Police are warning it can be used to lure people into remote locations where they can be robbery victims. There are reports from around the country of people using the app while theyre driving and its already caused some accidents. The beacon is being used to send a fake message out sort of letting me people know come over here and it could be a dark alleyway, a not secure area, so were just telling people to use common sense when theyre using the app. Dont go places you normally wouldnt go. Police say there have been reports of children walking into peoples homes to try to catch a pokemon character. Its a plaque many call a symbol of hate went back up in front of the south cart state house. This was only temporary. What the group who traced flag wants to happen. Someone somehow in the us is now a half billion dollars rich err. That person has not yet come forward. We do know where the Winning Mega Millions ticket was sold. What that winner isnt the only one thats thanks full tonight. Using a to inspire others. His bicycle is make it all possible. The man is pedaling across the country and hes going to do something at each time and were going to explain. In the garden state it seems most people wouldnt mind paying more to gas up if it means better roads. New poll shows a slight majority support as proposed constitutional amendment to dedicate gas taxes to new jerseys Transportation Trust fund. But todays Fairleigh DickinsonUniversity Public mind poll also shows support fading for plans to expand casinos beyond Atlantic City. The poll found 51 of registered voters surveyed support the gas tank amendment. But 57 of the people surveyed oppose casino expansion. Both proposals will be on the november ballot. The next leader of a britain will be a woman named theresa may. David cameron will resign and step down by wednesday. May spoke to her supporters today. Repeating quote breck sit means brexit and she will make sure the country exits the European Union smoothly. May campaigned to stay in the eu but reassured those who voterred to leave shell respect their decision. Shes setter to be the countrys second female