Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20161128 : vimarsana.c

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20161128

The colleges engineering building. Police say the suspect drove on to campus in his car and just began to ran into a group of people before getting out of the the car and allegedly swinging that 95 stabbing them with a butlers 95. Again, an officer on campus eventually shot and killed the suspect. Police say nine people are hospitalized. Eight are in stable condition but one remains in critical condition. Students just returning to campus after thanksgiving break are stunned as news of todays violence spread. First alert it didnt really say anything. It said stay safe, run, stay, hide. Another minute later there was a report there was an active shooter on campus, and some people started running i was walking down 15th. People started running up 15th and people were like dont go to campus theres an active shooter. Reporter just back from thanksgiving break. The school issued a shelter in place warning this morning. But lifted it about an hour and a half later. Classes were canceled for the rest of the day. No word on motive and police say the quick action by the campus officer who shot the suspect dead likely stopped what certainly could have been much, much worse. A much worse out come. Im jeff cole. Iain to you. Jeff, thanks. Developing right now in wilmington, a teenaged boy in the hospital after someone shot him early this morning. Victims father claims a gang is behind it all. And right now police are hunting for whoever did this. Fox 29s dave kinchen live at Police Headquarters in wilmington with the latest. Dave, the boys father is afraid the gunman could come back. Reporter thats right. One of the reasons why the father did not want to be identified but says he wanted to do the interview because he wants to send a message especially to young people that this is awakeup call. A mean thing. Reporter father of a 15yearold boy handled the phone call saying his son was shot near west 27th and north van burr recent streets in wilmington. It happened just before getting to his schoolbus early this morning. He just toll me there was a group of guys and they all ran. They just end up being the one that got hit. Reporter ninth greater at John Dickinson high school according to the School Distri district. His father says the boy ran to the schoolbus not knowing he was shot but a source says the bus driver called dispatch which sent police. They took the boy off the bus and got him help. He was blessed. He was fortunate. It went through him and came out the other side his hit arm. I think it was three holes and, um, two bullets. It was a gang. You think its gang related. I know it was gang related. Ive been here 45 years. Right here. And weve never seen nothing like that. Reporter neighbors tell fox 29 they woke up to six to eight gunshots and immediately looked outside. When we look out the window, we saw some kids run up this way. We saw some kids jump on the bus, and some of the bus drivers were telling the kids get on the bus for their protect. Reporter one bullet even piercing the window this car. Wilmington has seen a loft youth get shot in the last year. And people here are sick of it. This is a sleeper community. The same community you close your eyes and something happen happened. It happened real fast. Reporter we are toll the victim is in stable condition. The hunt is on for the shooter tonight. Lucy . All right. Thank you very much, dave. Hopefully they catch that person quickly. Happening right now, the effort to force a president ial recount in pennsylvania moves forward. Green Party Candidate jill stein is trying a couple of ways to make all of this happen. The first lawsuit filed in Commonwealth Court this afternoon on behalf of at least 100 voters alleges theyre quote a legitimate basis to contest the results. Stein also been encouraging voters to file challenges in their individual precincts. At least three voters per precinct must file a petition then go before a judge with some proof of irregularity. The secretary of States Office says the deadline for a voter initiated recount has passed even though Montgomery County says it is already received such a challenge and will wait to certify its votes. Lets check in with your fox 29 Weather Authority on this monday night as we take a live look at reading much not a bad day out there. Kind of cold to start but then we had some sun. Wasnt too chilly and you . Dry. But not for long. Kathy orr joins us now. Kathy, you tracking some rain and wind. Were talking about a lot. Thank goodness eagles game do s tonight were talking about rain, were talking about thunderstorms, were talking about wind but not tonight. That will hold off until tomorrow. Market street looking busy this evening the temperature 50 the high for the day 53 degrees with winds out of the south southeast at about 6 miles an hour. So thats a warm wind for us. Temperatures right now in the 40s and the 50s. They will continue to fall but then slowly just level off during the overnight with those southerly winds on the increase. Ultimate doppler you can see the clouds rolling in. They will thicken during the Early Morning hours, and the rain this big storm, will be moving toward us. A surge of strong storms and heavy rain moving toward the northeast. We stay on the warm side of the storm. As we continue to look at this hour by hour. The rain moves in tuesday morning. The heaviest to the north and west. During the morning rush. And then a few more rounds of rain on tuesday but guess what . This is like a onetwo punch. Tuesday we get part of it and then wednesday we get the second half but for part one look at this between half an inch to an inch and a half of rain just from tomorrow. So coming up well talk about the double dose of rain, the second round coming on wednesday. How strong those winds will get and how unusually warm it will be with this particular storm. For now well zen it back to y you. All right. Thank you very much, kathy. Happening right now, homeowners in south philadelphia are worried. A rash of petty thefts hit close to home but this video that has neighbors particularly unset. Looks like these break in ins aa group effort. The people doing it may just be kids. Let get out to bruce gordon whos life in pennsport tonight with the story. Bruce . Reporter by most standards of measurement pennsport is a good neighborhood. And Getting Better but a recent rash of petty property crimes followed by the release to facebook of Security Camera video that seems to suggest a home break in attempt does indeed have folks around here tense. Video taken from a home Security Camera shows a handful of young people walking down a sidewalk on the 1700 block of east moyaminsing saturday night. One member of the group walks up the steps of a home and appears to try the front door presumable physical see if its unlocked. It is not. Supposedly they would have got in . Reporter that could have been ughly. Yeah. Reporter Doreen Beaver lives right next door to that home and was stunned at what she saw on the video. Its scary. I mean thats why they have alarm on my house. Got a steal door. What could you do . Its sad. Reporter the parent close call coincided with rash of vehicle break ins the in the pennsport neighbor. Three saturday night alone. They smash the side window the back side window. On the passenger side. Reporter carolines van was among the targets. I lost a double bag with gym clothes and sneakers and my daughters wallet was in the glove compartment. Reporter there were house keys in the van. Well have the locks changed later today. Reporter pennsport is considered a nice neighborhood. Stable, well maintained homes with lots of expensive newtown houses going up all over the place. When crime does strike folks around here spread the word fa fast. It is pretty tight knit. I mean, you know, we know the neighbors and so forth. It has a good sense of neighborhood. Reporter but some in the neighborhood are worried. Doreen beaver says groups of kids come out of the nearby park to cause chaos. She says they torched this newspaper vending box a couple of weeks ago. And damaged cars regularly. You just have these kids that are vandalizing because they dont have nothing else to do. Come on. Reporter we heard from a number of vehicle break in victims over the last couple of weeks, and in many cases the vehicle was left unlocked or valuables were visible through the window. Bad idea, iain. Absolutely, bruce. All right. Thanks. It is game day for the eagles and they could really use a win. The fivefive birds will take on the packers tonight at the linc both teams are fighting to hang on to their play off hopes. Fox 29s sean bell live at the linc in south philadelphia tonight. Sean, kick off just a few hours away. Reporter thats right, iain. Im here at lincoln financial field. Huge i mean huge prime time matchup tonight against the packers. Both teams need this one badly. Desperately. They almost need to win out if they want to make the playoffs. Especially the eagles. At home theyre a different team. Fourzero and they dominate the team that is they played. They played big teams like the vikings and steelers and got it done. With ease. Theyll need to do that tonight against Aaron Rodgers and arod has been a oneman band doubt all himself because everyone around him is injured or just not getting the job done. So theyll have to stop one of the top five quarterbacks in the league and they welcome the challenge. We enjoy the challenge, you can, Aaron Rodgers has been in the conversation of elite quarterbacks, you know, for as long as ive been in the league. Nothing change the. You turn on tape and hes still playing at a high level. I think this week going to be a tougher challenge than last week honestly. I think, you know, with his mobility to move around the pocket and throw the ball on the run it will be a bigger challenge this week we have to do a good job of containing the football make sure we, you know, dont turn into a seven on seven deal. Were excited. Obviously, you know, were playing one of the top quarterbacks this league this league has had in the past however long hes been playing at that level. So were excited. Really excited for the challenge ahead. Reporter being last in the division you know they need this one badly. They have to pass up the giants. They have to pass up washington. Aaron rodgers is really the only thing in their way from really making a play off run because if they lose this one it might be byebye to the play offs they really need to get it done. Urgency there and later in sports, well talk about the urgency the players know its now or nothing and they know its time to get it done. Back to you, lucy. Hopefully they will. All right, thanks so much sean bell. One of the busiest spots on the web this cyber monday is amazon. Were going behind the scenes at an amazon location right here in our area. To see how all of those elves are working to get the stuff that you buy to your house. Who didnt love a juicy burger. People in russia are heating this one up. It looks delicious. Its not made out of beef. Whats in it might make you lose your appetite. Loudly professed his support on donald trump on a flight bound for allentown. Delta apologized for letting him continue on that flight and they have a new custom for passenger and all other passengers. Breaking news out of the columbus, ohio nine people are in the hospital after police say a man drove his car into a group of people on the campus of ohio state university. That man allegedly got out of his car and began stabbing people with a butchers 95. Campus officer shot and killed the suspect. The fbi is now involved in the investigation. And theyre trying to figure out if this was an act of terrorism. The attacker was a somali born legal permanent of the u. S. And a student at the school. Police are looking for the gunman who shot a transgender woman after she left a boy in overbrook. The 21yearold woman had just left a bar on 66th and lansdowne avenue when she noticed two men were following her. That when Police Say One of them opened fire hitting her in the hip. Investigators say the men were in the same bar as the victim before they followed her. As of now, police do not have motive. They are hoping nearby Surveillance Video will help frack them down. The victim is in the hospital stable. The Holiday Shopping frenzy continues today. Cyber monday of course. Still plenty of time to take advantage of deals online. The clock is tick. You can imagine some of the busiest places today Amazon Fulfillment Centers weve got one not too far from us. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell live at that one in middletown, delaware. Chris, you got to see all the giftmaking magic behind the scenes. Reporter we sure did, lucy. If you get stressed out over Holiday Shopping, think about how the workers here at amazon feel on cyber monday. This is one of the busiest places on one of the busiest days take a look at magic behind the scenes here at maam son. Fulfillment center here in middletown, delaware, where thousands of orders are furiou furiously being packed. Thousands of workers all working to get your gifts on time. Call it organized chaos. A symphony of conveyor belts and people. Customers ordered 54 million items worldwide on cyber monday. Reporter from your toys to books to gummy bears. If you ordered it from amazon, chances are it went through here. Amazons 1. 2 million square Foot Fulfillment Center in middletown, delaware. Larger than 28 football fields. 24hour period probably about 700,000 packages to delight customers all across the northeast. Reporter general manager took us on rare behind the scenes tour of where Holiday Gifts are pumped through nearly 700 items a second. Nearly 3,000 employees process packages 24 hours a day seven days a week. All to get your package to your loved one on time. We hired about 800 new associates temporary this week well bring on board 900 more. Next week another four to 500 that combination will get us up to about 54 to 5600 associates in the building for the weeks to come which are really considered our peak weeks. Reporter this is the peak week. Believe it or not even with those thousands of employees you see working behind me, yes, amazon is still looking for seasonal help just in case. Youre looking for a holiday job, guys. Iain, back to you. Well bring you back more at six and 10 00 oclock. Chris, we look forward it to, thanks. Not just amazon busy on this cyber monday. Shoppers across the nation are heading online for plenty of deals. Experts remind you to make sure youre safe when youre shopping online. The pros say take precautions to protect your identity and bank account information. And that means if a website looks funny or you think something a off, go with your gut and dont make a purchase from that site. Experts also say you should make sure your virus protections and operating systems are up to date and finally be careful who is wifi youre using when you making those purchases. I can stress enough the importance of not shopping and doing stuff online at a location where they have a free wifi. Thats very critical. His last piece of advice is to dedicate one card to Online Shopping and never follow through with online purchase that requires you to wire money. There you go. Smart advice. Trumps transition still going strong after a long Holiday Weekend the president elect is back to business. He met today with handful of contenders for a positions within his administration. One of the most prominent spots he needs to phil is secretary of state. Fox news reports that rudy juliani, mitt romney and david general patreas are all in the running. Hes also dealing with a big vote recount effort in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. Green Party President ial candidate jill stein raised more than 6 million to go toward legal costs. Hillary Clintons Campaign attorneys say theyll participate and today the white house also weighed in. The president s expectation is that consistent with the smooth functioning of our election system on election day is ensuring that the recount system functions smoothly according to the law. This comes after michigan election firms confirmed just today three week after the election donald trump its 16 electoral votes. It gives him 306 electoral votes to Hillary Clintons toes 232. Cubans lined the street today for the start of a week Long Services for fidel castro. Crowds gathered at havanas revolution square for the first memorial for the man who rule the country for nearly half a century. 21 gun salutes were heard at the start of the memorial and the capital in eastern city of santiago. Thats where castro launched his revolution in 1953. Castros passing has been cheered by cubanamericans and families who left the country and his communist regime. A big makeover for new jerseys Justice System could be in the works. Today Senate President Steve Sweeney is introducing legislation that add 20 new judges to the garden state it will make the judicial system fairer more effective. Announcement comes a month before new jersey i supplements a bail system that aims to deny bail to dangerous criminals but let people who are facing charges of non Violent Crimes stay out of jail. They hope it will speed up the processing to keep folks out of jail. flight of its kind for jet blee took off this morning from new york but its where it landed thats make the trip so historic. Question for you. How does super bowl tickets for life sound . If youre interested youll have to buy some bud light. How you can get your hands on the tickets if youre lucky. Parents, are you trying to pry your kid away from video games, not so fast. How one study says the games may actually be helping them. Fire investigators are looking into what started a fire in vineland, new jersey early this morning. Crews were called to the 500 block of landis of a just after 2 30 this morning. Flames broke out inside a store with an apartment above it. Firefighters were able to get

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