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WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 September 27, 2016

A real clear politics poll average has her less than one point behind trump in that sta state. And donald trump isnt waisting any time either. The republican nominee is in miami, florida. Looking to capitalize on his slight lead in the sunshine state. The businessman has been talking to an audience made up largely of cubanamericans today. Meanwhile he reflected on the debate this morning on fox and friends saying he thought the moderator lester holt should have asked clinton harder questions. Well, he didnt ask her about the emails at all. He didnt ask her about her scandascandals,. He didnt ask her about the benghazi deal that she destroyed. He didnt ask her about a lot of things she should have been asked about. I mean, theres no question about it. The most recent real clear politic polling average shows clinton leading trump by more than twopoints nationwide. Meanwhile, each side is indeed claiming victory aft last nights debate. Million of americans were glued to their screens watching the highly anticipated matchup and now were just six weeks out from the election. Each side is hoping to win over any undecided voters. If you wanted to see fireworks you got them. Two Major Party Nominees taking aim at each other last night in hofstra university. I will release my tax returns against my lawyers wishes when she releases her 33,000 emails that have been deleted. You know what, he tried to switch from looks to stamina, but this is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton coming into the debate in a virtual tie for the oval office. The two hoping to sway voters their way by laying out their views on issues like the economy, Police Community relations and cyber security. Each campaign claiming victory. He took the case right to her especially on matters like trade and isis, basically, holding her to account for her record and for president obamas record on the issues. She came in prepared ready to talk about the economy, ready to talk about all the issues. She had specific plans. And i thought he came in unprepared and kind of fell apart particularly towards the end of the debate. Trauma and clinton will have two more opportunities to face off in october. Vicepresident ial nominees mike pence and tim kaine will debate next tuesday in virginia. Well a lot of you took the time to weigh in on last nights debate on the fox 29 news app and there were more than 4800 active voters using our rate the debate feature according to the numbers the moment during the debate that both democrats and republicans agreed the most was trump comments on clintons emails saying it is a disgrace that hillarys staff takes the fifth. Highest disagree ratings for republicans was when clinton discussed how the economy soared in the 90s when her husband was. For democrats they disagreed the most when trump claimed we need law and order. It is National Voter registration day at Drexel University vicepresident joe biden was on campus today to encourage young people to register. Turning out the vote is critical especially when its very close election. That start with Voter Registration. Clinton campaign brought in a heavy weight surrogate to the city tuesday to push the issue. Fox 29s jeff cole here with that. Jeff. Reporter iain, it was joe biden popular longtime senator from neighboring delaware drexel had all the trappings, music, emotion hooked with that push to sign up voters but this high stakes game is not only played by the democrats. Our vicepresident joe biden. Reporter with a tight race in a voter swing state like pennsylvania, every vote, every voter are gold so tuesday at drexel vicepresident joe biden was on the hunt for young voters using an upbeat theme. Ladies and gentlemen, given a fair shot the American People never ever ever ever ever let their country down. Bidens message was not just pro Hillary Hillary demonstrated shes a leader. She has courage. She cares about the circumstances of the American People. Reporter and anti trump. Man who seeks to so division of his own for his own gain and his own benefit. Reporter but pro Voter Registration delivered by young people. Find an organizer and sign up to register voters make phone calls or knock on doors. Reporter a check of voter rolls in the tristate area shows voter list swelling as the election nears. Democrats added 54,000 voters to the roles while republicans have increased their numbers by over 74,000. Independents and others have grown by over 57,000. In new jersey, in august, democrats have upped their ranks by nearly 32,000 republicans by over 10,000 voters while others dropped by 1800. And in delaware, democrats in august grew by 1300 voters. 533 new republicans registered and other voters jumped by over 1200. So register, vote. At drexel students seemed to get the message. Will you vote and will your friends vote . Oh, yes. Im going vote. Yes, definitely. And my friends are going to vote, too. We are will all register together. Thats what these events are all about getting people signed up and juiced up. Getting them to the polls on election day thats the ground game and it can be the difference between winning or walking away the loser. Iain, back to you. All right. No second place, jeff, thank you. Reminder about Voter Registration deadlines where you are. Pennsylvania voters have to register by october 11th. The deadline is october 15th in delaware and new jerseys deadline is october 18th. Meanwhile the first lady will make a couple of stops in pennsylvania tomorrow shes campaigning for Hillary Clinton at Lasalle University in the morning. Then shes heading to the university of pittsburgh. Developing now the head of the Philadelphia Parking Authority has been suspended. Ppas executive director vince, facing sexual harass many charges. Ppa Board Chairman joe ashdale says hell recommend that he be fired when the board meets again on thursday. The first case of Sexual Harassment was made public last week when feather tee was accuse much harassing an throw at the agency the Board Chairman says he just learned of some new allegations today accusing fenrert of harassing a second coworker. Turning to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Live look at the ben franklin parkway. Nice and mild day today. But get ready for more rain. Meteorologist kathy orr is tracking the next system. We talked about yesterday, lucy, was being in and out of rain and thats the way this week is going to fly. Last night into the Early Morning hours rain. Now a break, beautiful flew blue sky and by tomorrow evening well be talking about rain again. Take look ill show what i mean right now we have a bit of a clear sky out there in philadelphia still some clouds in south jersey down the shore in our delaware beaches and you can see the temperatures reflect that. Sunshine from philadelphia north and west. Thats why we have temperatures mainly in the 70s. We reached our forecast high of 75 in philadelphia. 60s through south jersey and delaware with a cloud cover but pretty nice throughout new york and new england extending down through our tristate area. This evening, temperatures will be falling through the 60s. Still pleasant at 9 00 p. M. , 67. A partly cloudy sky at 11 00 p. M. Dry and cool with a temperature of 63 degrees. Now, coming up we have a lot to talk about because the weather is going to change rapidly. A break tomorrow during the day. Then a rainy stretch beginning tomorrow night and that will go through at least friday. Along with the rain, some gusty winds. Some of us will be feeling winds gusting to 35 even 40 miles an hour. Its been awhile since weve seen that. So details coming up with the seven day later in the broadca broadcast. Ill see you then. All right. Enjoy the time outside. Its gorgeous out there. Thank you, kathy. The families of two wilmington firefighter whos died in the line of duty are laying them to rest this week. Family and friends and colleagues will pay their final respects to 41yearold lawsuit Christopher Leach onofre today. Viewing and funeral mass that day is opening to Family Friends and first responders. Services for firefighter fickes begin on thursday with a public viewing and final funeral frid friday. On saturday a joint Memorial Service that is open to the public is at the chase center on the riverfront at 1 00 p. M. The firefighters died saturday and side a burning home on lake view road. A lot of questions tonight in reading after police say someone stabbed 16 year old boy to death. It happened sunday night on the 1100 block of locust street and police say it all started with a neighborhood dispute when teen identified by authorities as Christian Torres was killed. The berks County District Attorney Says theyre looking for a person of interest that was wearing a mask on their head during the incident that is from the movie purge. Three girls who prosecutors charged with the beating death of a 16yearold girl are headed to trial. A judge in wilmington, delaware, scheduled the court date for april 3rd. It will not be in front of a jury. Prosecutors will try all three girls who authorities believe are responsible for Amy Joyner Francis death as juveniles. Now, on autopsy found that Joyner Francis who had pre sifting heart condition died of a sudden cardiac event during a bath rom fight in Wilmington Howard High School technology. In bridge gate trial jury heard the first testimony today that suggests new Jersey Governor Chris Christie knew about the traffic scheme as it was happening. David wildstein return to the stand in the case of against two governor christies former allies testified that governor christie was told about the 2013 traffic jam while it was happening. Seemed happy about it. Wildstein is key witness for federal prosecutors he admitted and plead guilty to orchestrating the George Washington bridge lane closures. Christie has repeated denied those accusations and has not been charged. A scam alert. Local man hired someone he thought was a contractor. How he found out he was a victim and not a client. And one young man is in the fight of his life. More than 650 pounds. Hes desperate to lose weight. The program that can help save him. A Court Employee posted inflammatory comments about police. Should she lose her job . We talked with police about the impact of the post. A local High School Senior battling a terminal disease has a new title tonight. Homecoming king. What his classmates did when he was crowned thats coming your way at 6 00. Approve this message. Id look her right in that fat ugly face of hers. Shes a slob. She ate like a pig. A person whos flat chested is very hard to be a 10. Does she have a good body . No. Does she have a fat [expletive] . Absolutely. Do you treat women with respect . I cant say that either. Delaware county employee is under fire for faith Facebook Post about use of force by police. Court worker now deleted post was full of profanity and anti police statements. Fox 29s Bill Anderson in the newsroom now with some response from the public and the fop. Bill . Iain fop of Delaware County lodge 27 theyre pretty upset about a Court Workers post its not so much that she clearly expressed her anger towar towars police in some pretty explicit terms, but also the fact that she works with them regularly in court. They wonder if she can be this angry and continue to serve. Freedom of speech is one of our basic constitutional rights, even with our constitutionally protected rights, is it possible to go too far . Her saying you got cops who aint bleep, a bunch of bleep. Thats not appropriate. Reporter after darby court worker posted a profanity laced facebook message about police brutality, the delco fop thinks she should face some consequences. But the public isnt so sure. I think its freedom of speech but she did cross the line by saying bleep. All the police arent bad. She has every right to say whatever she wants. Okay. Freedom of speech. Even thiothece shes a court worker. Yes, freedom speech. The message has been removed and the worker isnt talking. The fop went to their facebook page. No court worker should make the comments she shouldnt but aclu told me they probably can. As a citizen im a citizen whether or not i work for the government. Shes a citizen whether or not she works for the government. She has a right to speak her mind especially on such important social and political topics. Reporter as is always the case with controversial topics, theres some who want to silence opposing views. Worker at the fop told me an investigation is under way to see if any policies were viola violated. Take a long look and you tell me. Freedom of speech or crossing the line . So i mean theres many ways you can voice your opinion but not through social media. I do think it went too far. She should be able to put anything she wants on media. Social media. Its free. Reporter now opinions varied as you saw. But whether or not its her right to express herself, will it hurt her relationship with the police she works with every day . At 6 00 ill try to answer that question. I spoke to upper darby superintendent Mike Chitwood about the impact these comments have on officers and lucy the public. All right. Thank you very much, bill. Torments night philadelphians have a new root to travel between roxborough and west mt. Airy work on the walnut lane bridge is now complete. The bridge spans the wissahickon creek. Penndot shut down the bridge in april to add new sidewalk and repair the arches underneath the bridge. That project costs 14 million. Meanwhile penndot makes announcement today about another pig project to improve traveling between philly and the king of prussia. Penndot and septa are partnering to expand travel on the i76 corridor. The plain includes expanding transit on the Manayunk Norristown line using shoulder lanes to try and smooth the traffic flow and improve traffic on local roads. Workers are also looking to improving the Schuylkill River trail. Lessly richards says its to make traveling more efficient. Whether youre driving on the expressway, riding septas regional rails, traveling on nearby roads that parallel i76 or bicycling on the Schuylkill River trail there are ways we can improve your travel experience. Septas general manager also announced they are debuting by level trains on the Manayunk Norristown line in the next few years. In your money tonight warning about how to protect yourself from fraudulent contractors. Delaware county man says a contractor preyed on him because hes a senior citizen. Hes now sharing his story in the hopes of preventing others from falling victim to similar scams. Our Shawnette Wilson talked with the Radnor Township Police about what you should look for. Its a sad, sadder thing. Reporter 79 year old james block is talking about the shoddy work a contractor did on his radnor township home before taking off without finishing the job. The last slat here is made up of three pieces of wood instead of one. Roar. Reporter block hired this man, 60yearold Matthew Johnson of norristown, after he left a card in the door soliciting wo work. He was going to fix the down spouts and the gutter. He was going to clean gutters. He was going to clean the roof. He was going to fix the deck. He was here maybe two, three days in a row, and then maybe hed skip a few days. Reporter even worse, block says he paid the guy up front and without a contract. It was all verbal. I thought, i said, i am dummy. Why in the world wouldnt i ask for a signed estimate . Reporter he didnt call police until one day he noticed a chainsaw missing from his tool shed. Why in the world would he take it when he would be the first person i would thought of. Reporter police were able to track down johnson only because block had taken down his license plate one day while he was working at the home. Police say he ultimately plead guilty. Today, block met with police and the District Attorneys Office at a local senior center. About how you can keep this from happening. Reporter police say they can do something if seniors say something. They live with the fact or the embarrassment that theyve been victimized, and, um, they dont think theres anybody out there who will do anything. Reporter . If you believe you were a victim Matthew Johnson or another contractor exam, call police. More than 150 high wage jobs are coming to philadelphia. Mayor cant nia nounsed five below corp. Head Quarter Social security expanding in the city. The store sells all kinds of knickknacks for less than 5. Growing rapidly and needs a bigger place to call home. Five block moving from its current headquarters at 18th and market to bigger space at seventh and market. New space will be the new work home of 154 new employees. For the past 15 years five below has been an iconic brand and we are proud to support the company as it continues to grow. Their new headquarters on east Market Street will only add to the bustling seen east of city hall. Companies like five below help create a desired environment for professional toss live, work and enjoy downtown. Five

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