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WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 May 30, 2017

For help. Flames engulfed just before 5am the childrens mother who also lived here jumped out this back window to escape. Late morning, and geller rows father 80yearold paul said he wanted to show us something. He walked us to what looks to be a gas can up against a side wall of the burned structure with two charred boards covering it. I never seep this can there before and i know it has liquid in it. I touched it like this. Theres something in there. He says hes here all the time to work on a side lot says he fears someone set the fire which claimed this daughter and greatgrandchildren. Im almost certain this was started. You think was an arson fire . Yeah. Somebody set this fire . Yeah. Reporter he also talks of a fight out front of the home the night before. We ran her claims past the Fire Commission intern showed him a picture of that gas can. He says its far too early to say what caused this deadly inferno. Its much too early to be able to corroborate or speculate about anything that happened. Reporter now again weve shown a picture of that fire can to the Fire Commissioner. We actually explained he and his people where they might find it here to the property. Today the mayor and the Fire Commissioner literally begged residents to please they said please install fire detectors and smoke detectors. It is unclear, though, whether this building had one on sunday morning. Live here in north philly, im jeff cole. Much more at 6 00 oclock. Iain, back to you. Jeff, thanks. Well see you then. Happening now, in the south jersey trial of a father accused of killing his young son the jury is having trouble coming up with a verdict for david creato thats what the told the judge late this afternoon the judge sent them home for the day and told them to come back tomorrow and try again. Prosecutors say creato killed his threeyearold son brendan to save his relationship with his then girlfriend. Police found brendans body is wooded area of Haddon Township in october 2015. The defense has argued the boy wandered off. Defense attorneys and prosecutors are picking the jury tonight in the case against a man who prosecutors say sexually assaulteassaulted a group of si. Lee kaplan is facing a long list of charges after police found 11 girls ages six to 18 living in his feasterville house last june. Prosecutors say kaplan assaulted six of those girls including one who he raped and fathered two children with. Authorities say the parents of that girl gave her to kaplan after he helped them financial financially. Tonight we know the name of the teenager gunned down in kensington. One of two teens shot when a gunman opened fire. Police say now it was 14yearold tymeer fraser died after being shot muddle tell times along the 2,000 block of orleans street around 9 30 last night. He died at the hospital. Police found another victim a16yearold boy, shot in the shoulder about two blocks away. He is now in stable condition. On to bensalem now where police are searching for the guy who held up a gas station. Take look at this video. Police say this picture plea say the guy walked into the lukoil on street road on reading avenue yesterday around 1 00 p. M. And pointed a gun at employees and demanded cash. Police believe that he got away in a white or a light colored suv. Bensalem police are asking anyone with information to give them a call. Were learning new details about tiger woods dui arrest oh and memorial day. Woods blames prescription drugs. He had no alcohol in his system and were now hearing what police say happened. A jupiter, florida, Police Officer says that woods was asleep at the wheel pulled off to the side of six lane road early in the morning with a blinker on. Engine of his car was running and that right blinker was flashing according to the Police Report woods had slurred speech and had trouble keeping his eyes open. But no alcohol as i said was in his system. Now police say that woods told officers he had prescriptions for four drugs. Woods had a fourth back surgery last month and in a statement woods said in part i understand the severity of what i did and i take full responsibility for my actions. He set for arraignment in july. So joyce evans has been talking with a pharmacist about the drugs listed thon Police Report. Joyce, what have you found out. Reporter lucy. Its very possible that this was taken, and the person didnt know the side effects of it or didnt experience before and it hit him. Richard of the philadelphia pharmacy taking a look at the list of four medications released after the dui arrest of tiger woods. What could that be . I wouldnt even be able to case. Torix. Approved in 80 countries but not the United States. He says its a an antiinflammatory. So is solar rex. Thats not something abusable type of drug. Like a celebrex. Vioxx discontinued use ago he says but woods reported hal not used that one in quiet awhile. The one medication by itself that concerned him the opioid painkiller have i crow din. Patients should be cautioned when they get the vicodin could be cautious operating heavy machinery or cars or anything like that before they know how reacts in their system. Reporter he says one medication or a mixture may have varying reactions depending on many Different Things in different people including whats in your stomach or not. We dont know what else he was prescribed, what else he might have been taking what else happened in his system. You know, ive got to think four back surgeries, he was at some times on some major pain medicine. How he managed it, i dont know. Reporter we also talked about celebrities and access to all kinds of meds that you and i might not be able to get, and while it all looked really bad as bad as it looks for tiger woods, his arrest may have saved his life and others. More thon coming up at 6 00 oclock. Iain. All right, joyce, thanks. Now lets get on to to the fox 29 Weather Authority as we live look at trenton on a cool gray day. Hemmed is the unofficial start to summer doesnt not feel like it out there. Nope. Sure doesnt. Were looking for the warmup right now. Kathy orr hope awed great memorial day with your family. I did. Hope you had the same. Yes. Its been back to work and back to school but one thing thats consistent, this gray may. It just lingers, doesnt it . I cant wait for june and get this mess out of here. Another round of showers and few thunderstorm coming really close. You can see through State College we have a severe thunderstorm watch for us these are going to move close and pretty much fall apart later on toward the evening. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s. Even down the shore. You have that on shore flow friends came home from cape may today. They said we cant do it any more with this cloud cover and the rain. 59 in sea isle. 60 in North Wildwood the ocean water temperature is 60 degrees. As we go hour by hour well watch the storms come close to the north and west and really just become a few spotty showers through the evening and then slowly well be clearing it out but another round of showers and storms even during the day tomorrow. So more storms ahead tomorrow were talking about the threat of Severe Weather where you see the green, thats a marginal risk that means damaging wind potential tomorrow afternoon and even the possibility of hail. Then we look ahead to thursday. It will be a thrill for most of us as the new month begins its looking brighter and then less than perfect weekend so far half and half. Take a look with the seven day later in the broadcast. Ill see you then. Sounds good. Talk to you soon kathy. The headlines about russia keep oncoming. More than four months after President Trump took the oath of office ton night the president s personal attorney is caught in the crosshairs of the ongoing probe into russia. Foxs joel waldman has more now from the nations capital. Reporter while most of the attention in recent days has been on President Trumps soninlaw, the russia investigation is now expanding no include the president s personal attorney. Weve been talking about this for about eight months. Reporter more frustration at the white house this morning. Michael cohen is considered one of President Trumps closest confidants has now become a focus of the expanding congressional investigation into russian ertz to influence the 2016 campaign. Cohen reportedly rejected congressional requests for cooperation in their investigation. With Senate Select Intelligence Committee in return granting blanket authority to issue subpoenas as it deems necessary. President trump responding via twitter. Russian officials must be laughing at the u. S. And how a lame excuse for why the dems lost the election has taken over the fake news. Much of the media focus in recent days fallen on President Trumps Senior Adviser and soninlaw jared kushner. Specifically a december meeting between kushner and a russian banker whos Financial Institution was deeply intertwined with russian intelligence. Kushner himself is said hes eager to cooperate with investigators as white house continues to field questions about what the president knew about any of these socalled back channel communications. I think that assumes a lot. I would just say mr. Kushners attorney has said that mr. Kushners volunteered to share way congress what he knows about these meetings. Reporter a mid the scrutiny White House Communications director mike dub key announcing today hes stepping aside n washington, joel waldman, fox news. Playground set to open in one philadelphia neighborhood. Why some neighbors, though, say even though they want it theyre concerned. Ariana grande heading back to manchester for a benefit concert and shes bringing a whole host of friends. Who is performing at that big fundraiser this weekend. Forget the running of the bulls its the running. Bulldogs. Whats behind this annual tradition. New at 6 00 something standing between tourists and one of philadelphias favorite attractions. Why some visitors to the rocky statue are going to be pretty disappointed. Remember dad helping you catch your first fish . Then tell him hes special with Great Fathers day gifts from bass pro shops. Like new mr. Steak propane patio grills, for steakhouse quality results right in your back yard. Ostriches dont really stick their heads in the sand. A peanut is not a nut. And a real john deere. Is actually real affordable. You learn something new every day. The surprisingly affordable john deere e series tractors. 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Construction finally getting under way earlier this month on a 190,000 playground at the neb binger elementary school. Project at sixth and carpenter in south philadelphia, however, has some neighbors upset. Candy has lived here for 17 years. Hes not against the playground but we want them to have place to play. We dont want public urination, homeless, graffiti, late night basketball, drugs. Reporter those who live in close proximity think the hours need to be regulated and wonder who will be in charge. The problem theres no one to take care of it. Theres no one to watch it. Theres no panel to say, who will lock the gate. Who will unlock the gate. When its open, when its not open. Reporter new momma rhea welcomes the space but also worries about security. I was a public schoolteacher in new york city and we definitely had some issues with public grounds that the Community Around the school had access to. Reporter but this father of two says hes thrilled to have a playground right at his doorstep and doesnt know what all the fuss about. Im happy to see the space is going to get used better. It will be better utilized for the kids during school for the neighborhood after schooling. Philadelphia city councilman mark squilla is a huge playground proponent he feels miss contribution contributed to the neighborhood divide but says its being addressed. We know were going to have it locked up at night and nothing good happens between 10 00 oclock at night and 6 00 oclock in the morning in playground. So i think the city knows that. The School District knows that. Were going to make sure that this place is safe. Reporter now the city says a task force is going to be formed to work out the exact hours of operation who will be in charge if theres a problem and who will open and lock the place. Construction should be complete bite end of june and hopefully it will be a big positive for everyone in the community. Lucy. That would be very good thing. Thank you, dawn. Happening right now in philadelphia wyssonoming Section Police are looking for a man who threatened to shoot a wawa clerk. Now they released a Surveillance Video of what happened sunday on harbeson avenue. The clerk told police a man went behind the counter, picked up two full boxes containing cartons of cigarettes and when the clerk said hey, whats going on, she says, the man claimed he had a gun and would shoot her then took off with cigarettes. This man wanted for a stabbing at a new jersey wawa. Police say wade daniels stand another man having fight with at a lumberton location. The victim was cut in his arm but did survive. Daniels bran ran away and police say he should be considered armed and dangerous. 7eleven clerk is recovering after being shot during a robbery in at a cone me victim says two men with masks burst into the store along the 6900 block of torresdale avenue overnight. One of the robbers first fired a shot into the ceiling while demanding money then the gunman shot the clerk in the arm. The two robbers ran off with some cash and that clerk is now in stable condition. Ariana grande is returning to manchester less than two week after a deadly terrorist attack at her concert. Her publicist announced today shell play at a time at a Charity Concert on sunday alongside a long list of big names including justin beiber, cold play, katie perry, miley cyrus, usher, the list goes on and on. Its called one love manchester it honors the 22 People Killed in the bombing at grand days concert last monday. Proceeds from the show will go to an Emergency Fund for those impacted by the bombing. The city of manchester and the British Red Cross is behind the fund. Templets night the such s practicing shooting down missiles similar to the ones that north korea is developing u. S. Is launching an unarmed missile from the Marshall Islands hoping to take it down with an inter center launched from a base in california. The test comes just a day after north korea conducted a test of its own firing off a Ballistic Missile which landed in japanese waters. Theyre demonstrating continued to increase capability range altitude and capacity. North korea is believed to be just a few years away from being able to target the us mainland with newark collar tipped inter continental Ballistic Missiles. The test shows the United States wants to be prepared. The Police Officer who shot and killed 12yearold tamir rice in cleveland just lost his job fired. Nearly two years after the boys death. The Police Department fired timothy low man for failing to disclose that another department had forced him out of a job before he landed the job in cleveland. The department suspended his partner frank for ten days for violating rules because he closed drove too close to tamir. Now video of the shooting shows cruiser skidding to a stop just feet from the boy. Low man shot and killed tamir in november of 2014 but prosecutors declined to indict either officer. Well Health Problems have forced longtime actress and singer Olivia Newton john to postpone her tour. She is battling Breast Cancer today she said it has spread. Doctors diagnosed newton john with cancer in 1992. Shes a big advocate in the fight against it raising awareness and raising money to battle the disease. A terrified homeowner opens fire shooting a guy he says was breaking into his house. Why police say that would be burglar could be an even more trouble tonight. Summer rapidly approaches, the new device that could save lives on a lifeguard, when lifeguard is not on duty at the beach. And you may love tapping away on your smart phone. Why doctors say you could be doing damage to your hands. Tonight in ohio would be burglar is in the hospital after a terrified homeowner shot him. Police say it happened yesterday morning near dayton for the second time in less than year. Someone tried to break into the same home. So the homeowner took matter noose his own hands to protect his family inside shot the burglar trying to break in. His wife immediately called 911. Can you ask him where the suspect is . In the middle of my driveway. Pol

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