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WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 March 27, 2017

The store owner believed that the individual had something in his hand either a knife or a gun and thats what made the store own are in fire his weapon. Reporter hit the suspect in the chest twice. He works seven days a week, okay, even sundays hes there 10 00 oclock at night still working. Reporter angel perez owns the company lex to the Laundry Center and agrees with the decision to not charge the shooter. Thats wonderful because he was protecting his business. Reporter but not everyone in the neighborhood agrees. Since he dropped the money, i think he shouldnt have shot him after that. Reporter video also shows the critically wounded suspect being dragged by someone along with numerous people scooping up the stolen cash. Cops are looking at the video to identify those who dont return that money back to its rightful owner. I would advise you Police Return the money for the simple fact this is probably one of your neighbors. Probably a store that you frequent daily if not weekly, and this is this guys livelihood. Reporter there was a bystander a woman waiting for the bus when she was hit by the gunfire taken a bullet in the hand much police say that appears to be an accident. They stand by the selfdefense call in this case. Were also told that the gun was legally owned. Back to you. Dave, thank you. The search is for gunman empty citys olney section. Pleats just releasing this Surveillance Video of the shooting. You can see the armed man chasing the 30yearold victim on the 500 block of west ruscomb street. This happened friday night. The man shot is going to be ok okay. Police have identified teen killed in southwest philadelphia shooting last night. Someone shot 17yearold tie seem chaney in the chest on the 5700 block of delancey street. Died at the hospital just before midnight and police have not yet made any arrests. Developing right now in cheep cheltenham firefighters are trying to recover the body a construction worker. The Montgomery County Fire Department is telling us the man was killed some type of equipment collapse at the old Cheltenham Square mall. Property owned cheltenham avenue preliminary report say the equipment was actually an atm. Fox 29 Weather Authority right now. Live look at the poconos mountains. Many much us saw warmer temperatures with clouds and some rain but look at that. You still got snow on the runs. How about a little sunshine on our shoulders, i dont know, lets get over to meteorologist kathy orr who does know. There was a 20degree difference from the poconos to southern delaware today. Wow. Just unbelievable. So it was location, location, location as far as the temperatures were concern. You can see outside some clouds and heres your huge range the poconos 56. 70 degrees in millville. Look at wildwood 71. So we have a warm front thats moving in. You can see where its moved through already to south jersey and also delaware. But its slowly making its way northward. The big question tomorrow is, how far north will it get . On ultimate doppler we have more showers moving our way for late tonight into tomorrow. Overnight tonight it will be mild. Normal High Temperatures this time of year in philadelphia are in the 50s. 52 will be the overnight low. So balmy but fog will be forking. Allentown 49. 55 in dover. And waking up to 49 degrees tomorrow morning in pottstown. Coming up another slow go tomorrow morning due to the potential for dense fog. Well talk more about that. Gusty winds return and we have our eye on a rainy end to the week. Not just rainy but stormy. A coastal storm. Yuk. Well talk more about that coming up with the seven day. Ill see you later in the broadcast. That it up, kathy. To a developing story. Mounting pressure on indicted Philadelphia District attorney Seth Williams to resign. The feds last week of course hit williams with nearly two dozen corruption charges accusing him of accepting bribed to his benefactors bidding. Mayor kenny has already called on williams to resign. And so have lots of others but today we saw the first demand by regular citizens for williams to head on out. Our bruce gordon joins us in studio. So, bruce, basically the pressure is really mounting. Reporter it sure looks that wake lucy. The pennsylvania constitution article two section 7 says and i no person here crafter convicted embezzlement of public money, before i berry, perjury or other infamous crime shall be eligible to the General Assembly or capable of holding any office of trust or profit in the commonwealth much the key record here to convicted. In this case the means found battle and sentenced that result if it happens cos months away. Until then its the das call. Folks are turning up the heat. Handful of black lives matter protesters kicked off the work week by blocking traffic in the street in front of the District Attorneys office. Demanding Seth Williams resign. What youre going to get the heck out of here, going get the heck out of the this office. Krupped the office. You tainted the office long nudge. Williams spent last wednesday on the wrong side of the courtroom. Him with 23 count indictment alleging the second term da accepted bribes to help friends in legal jeopardy and even stole money meant for his own adoptive mother. Should Seth Williams stay or should he go . Well, we believe he should resign. Reporter debra gross chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association Says theyre getting calls from citizens who now wonder where theyre dealings with the da office or on the up and up. The public deserves an opportunity to have faith in the system. Reporter you dont think they have faith in a District Attorney under indictment . Given the the current status, correct. Reporter remember, williams has already admitted to ethics violations, belatedly reporting 175,000 worth of gifts while in office. Al taubenberger sits on the Public Safety committee. Charges against him are large and he is our chief Law Enforcement officer. Reporter do you think he should stay or go . I think, what ive heard, now this is final decision he must make, i think he should go. Reporter decision of course is williams to make. But the head of the Good Government committee of 70 believes public pressure, protests can turn up the heat. The da and on his Democratic Party. Political pressure works, and i think thats what he and his and other folks in the Democratic Party are going to assess whether this would create enough of a backlash to threaten their hold on that office. Williams legal troubles are believed by many to be linked to money troubles which may help explain why he might resist any calls to resign the das sal refer next nine months would be about 130,000. That would pay for a fare amount of legal representation. Lucy yes. It sure would, bruce. All righty. Happening right now, police want to know who threw a rock through a synagogue window in mayfair. It happened at the Temple Ma Nora synagogue. Police think it happened sometime between friday night and this morning. This is actually the third time in recent months someone has targeted this temple. Vandals shattered windows on the property in january and decemb december. Twin baby girls who died inside a home in lindenwold, Camden County, last week will soon have a funeral. The girls family had lay them to rest on saturday. At the worcester funeral home in clementon. Both baby girls were unresponsive inside a home last wednesday. Investigators are looking into how they died. Turning to president trauma pops first 100 days in the white house the white house is blaming conservative for the failure to push through the house gop backed health care bill. The white house will be all about action with mr. Trump pl planning to sign series of new executive orders. Fox news correspondent joel waldman has nor from washington this is will save lot of jobs. [ applause ] reporter President Trump signing a few new labor and education bills into law today aimed at rolling back obama error regulations. But the president must also deal with fallout from another bill he wont be signing any time soon. The gop backed plan to repeal and replace obama care after it imploded friday. The white house downplaying the black eye suffered by the president. Were at the beginning of a process. I dont think weve seen the end of health care. Most people have notice noted i think the Obama Administration from beginning to end took about 17 months. Reporter in washington, the Ripple Effect from the American Health care acts failure evolving into finger pointing much the president blaming conservatives namely the powerful block of nearly three dozen lawmakers known as the freedom caucus. With one of their own texas congressman ted po resigning from the group saying they hurt the party. Sometimes you going to have to say yes and so i was not going to vote no because because obama scare now the law of the land. Reporter the white house insisting its turning the page on the health care humiliation with help from President Trumps daughter and soninlaw. Ivanka trump is reporterly planning a trip to germany after an invite from chancellor Angela Merkel for a summit on the Economic Empowerment of women. While Jared Kushner will run a special new task force designed to inject Business Innovation into federal agencies. Separately kushner volunteered to answer questions before the Senate Intelligence committee as part of its investigation into russia interference in the 2016 election. In washington, joel waldman, fox news. Attorney general Jeff Sessions plans to crack down on sanctuary cities which do not enforce Immigration Law and do not turn over Illegal Immigrants to federal authorities. Philadelphia considers its sanctuary itself. If cities refuse to comply with federal relationship law they risk funding. When they refuse to Immigration Laws, failure to deport aliens commutes communities at risk. Especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators. Others sanctuary cities include new york, los angeles and san francisco. Mayor jim kenney of philadelphia of course has been undeterred by the threats from the federal government. Video captured two men assault a man in inside a deli. What the victim did to his attackers. And theres so much weight and force when that car landed, it actually i actually felt the shock wave in the house. A car goes flying and lands in a mans driveway. What it crushed besides his own car. A dying father gets to see his daughter become a doctor. The words he had as at his baby graduated from medical school. A Camden County manziel brace 100 birthday by going back to work why he says it was so important to him to head back to the office for this personal milestone. Search is on for a locker room thief in a center city gym. Surveillance video caught the guy leaving the gym on the 200 block of south broad with someone elses stuff. Police say the guy you saw there later used the victims debit card. If you recognize him, call police. Its project to protect history. Archeologists checking out cemetery in florida are looking beyond the gravestones for hidden tumors. Foxs evan axle bank reports part of a mass save effort to keep the memories of the deceased alive. Reporter be careful where you step. It looks like an empty field but its not. Its not an empty field at all. Reporter among the 1500 graves that are mark at tampas o lawn familiar are familiar names. I mean this is the gravestone of the first mayor. Reporter there are also vaguely marked cuban pirates and lynched slaves. But the archaeologists here friday youll see somewhat we call curves. Reporter are interested in those not mark at all. Were seeing some here that are, you know, i would suspect some of these are probably graves. Reporter in the middle of the 3 acres property, thanks to magnetic and radar detector that is peer up to 10 feet down, the usf team suspects there are 50 to 60 graves. A lot of monuments to famous people in the cemetery but a lot of people who arent who dont have monuments that help build the cities, slaves and other people its nice to kind of like give them a little bit of their dignity back by hopefully finding their graves. Reporter theyre making a map with yellow lines mark wagon are likely rows of our ancesto ancestors. Dont forget where you came from. Where we came from is from these folks and these families and be they rich or poor, free or slaved, this who we are. Reporter the subterranean mapping was ordered so that tampa can put in for a National Historic designation. They plan to mark each grave they find, not with a name but with a reminder that they were here. They are here. We want to know, we want to pay respects to them. And then we want to make sure this is a destination that people are proud of. Reporter evan axlebang, fox news. North carolina the socalled bathroom bill is flushing whole lot of money down the drain. A new associate the press Analysis Finds hb2 will cost the state more than 3. 7 billion over a dozen years as well as 2900 jobs. The law limits lgbt protections and requires transgender people to use bathrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates. One big Economic Loss comes from pay pal which pull its plans to build a facility. Meanwhile new Jersey Governor Chris Christie is land add white house position. The governor will join a newly formed opioid task force. Christie says hes spending his last year in office focused on efforts to combat heroin and Prescription Drug addiction in new jersey. Perfect combination of hard work and team work. Now a bunch of local teens get to show off their skills on a national stage. Fox 29 photojournalist bill rohrer has got it. Everyone reason to rock and roll. After a quick warm up and stretch. The athletes from the tristate cheer nass ticks team are ready to perform. I think its so cool. You can take something that starts from nothing and build it into Something Like amazing. They have been building their team for the last eight months. Gear ugh for the summit all star cheerleading and dance competition at walt disneyworld. Four teams qualify. The most in the schools histo history. This will be 14yearold caitlins first time competing. Im a flyer. Im pretty much in the air the whole time. I feel like you have to be confident. You have to trust theyll be there to catch you and keep you up. Courtney and dalton make it all possible. Sometimes its hard because youre not always going to have the perfect grips and sometimes things go wrong but you just have to like take a deep breath and you have to be really fast at thinking that if something does go wrong where to move your hand to say the or jump back in if it does. Skill, motion, has to hit on the certain count. To make sure we look crisp and clean. Reporter at the summit competition each athlete is being critiqued everything from a pointed toe to a shaky superintendent. Any deduction can cost the team placement. It is very exhausting but you have teammates that surround you and theyre there to push you and help you like fight through the routine. One on the team has a job. Theres not just one person doing all the work. Everyone on the team is helping do something. You tweet a zone. Your adrenaline starts pumping and it doesnt even feel like two minutes and 30 seconds. It flies by. Reporter no matter what happens in a few weeks at the summit, there is one thing for sure. This family of athletes will be there holding each other up. In new castle, delaware, bill rohrer fox 29 news. Home in new york sells for millions of dollars but who bought it is less important than who once lived here. Ran up to her and what are you doing . Um, you know, get away. You dont live here. What camera caught a woman who broke into had home doing once she got inside. And why so many people are taking their yoga from the studio to the swimming pool. We buy any car any make, any model, any age, any price from 50 bucks to 100 grand we buy any car any, any, any, any at webuyanycar. Com, the gimmicks stop with our ads. 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Police in cincinnati say they are making progress and believe multiple shooters were involved when gunfire broke out early sunday morning inside the cameo club. 127yearold man died and 16 others are hurt. Jawdropping moments foreman in oregon when a car catapulted across a street and landed on top of a boat in his driveway. Tim brown was washing dishes in his kitchen when he saw it all happen with little time to be shocked brown jumped into action to help the driver inside the car

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