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WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 July 25, 2017

Insisted on making it back to washington to cast his vote. Ive had so many people say such nice things about me recently that i think some of you must have me confused with someone else. [ laughter ] reporter it was attorney general Jeff Sessions over shadowing the highly anticipated Senate Health care vote this after sources tell the Associa Associated press President Trump is seriously considering firing his longtime ally. The president s frustration clearly increasing calling sessions quote weak or twitter this morning. As lawmakers on both sides its eiffel were quick to defend the former alabama senator. He represents the people of the united states. Did he the right thing by recusing himself. Reporter sessions got a lot of support an lot of respect on capitol hill. Also in the hot seat today President Trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner who returned to capitol hill for a second day of testimony regarding his involvement with russian officials during the 2016 election. In washington, im ellison barber, fox news. Senator mccain took time to address his colleagues at the capitol the longtime lawmaker talk about just how much his job serving his nation means to him. My service here is the most important job ive had in my life. And im so grateful, so grateful to the people of arizona for the privilege, for the honor of serving here and the opportunities it gives me to play a small role in the history of country that i love. Mccains wife cindy joined him as he headed back to his washington office. Hes in the nations capitol for a short time before heading back home to arizona to continue his treatment. Were on top of breaking news right now out of philadelphias Tioga Nicetown area. Thats where police are telling us that someone stabbed a 56yearold man. Skyfox is live as you can see over the scene on the 1500 block of west tioga street. Police say the victim was stabbed in the head and back. He is critical right now at Temple University hospital. Police are looking for the attacker. So far there have been no arrests. Wild video from skyfox as a car launches over a lawn in a home steps in northeast philly were learning this whole thing could have been a whole lot worse. Nobody was sitting on those steps when it happened. Scenario that is quite common at that house in fact. Dawn timmeney is live at the scene. Dawn. Reporter well, lucy and iain this is really unbelievable. This started right here behind me. You can see a big rut in the lawn there. The car flew through the air over these two cars right here you can see the dirt all over those cars kept on going. Landed on two cars in the driveway right there behind me before slamming into the wall there. Neighbors say they have never ever seen anything like this before. I almost cried. I didnt believe it. I just didnt believe what happened. Reporter thats because what happened in front of carol evans home in northeast philadelphia is more like a scene out of an action movie. A driver coming down algon avenue loses control of his car and literally flies through the air over two cars before totaling carols and another and then smashing into kevin mcguires wall. The car landing on mcguires front lawn where he says his 13yearold son is usually sitting out front. That was the scary thing. Right where it landed basically. So good thing he was inside the house. Reporter louis, lives next door and says he believes the driver had to be going very fa fast. Because he shaved one car the top off and up and the other car and on top the lawn. So he had to be 75, 80 miles an hour right here is 30 miles an hour. Reporter the driver appears to have had some kind of medical emergency possibly a seizure before the crash. Mcguire says hes worried about the victim and not so much about his wall. Ill get that fixed. I just hope the person is all right that was in the car. Because i lost my wife about a year ago in a car accident. It touches my heart. Reporter there is no word on the drivers condition. Neighbors say he had some cuts and bruises on him but he was conscious when he was taken by ambulance to the hospital. Amazingly no one else was hurt here. Iain and lucy. Boy that is incredible. All right, dawn, thank you. Well tonight police are asking for the publics help to identify the man who attacked a septa police officer. Stop. Take a look at this body cam video. Last night a septa sergeant responded to a call at the angora Regional Rail station as the sergeant got there, she asked a man to stop and he shoved her to the ground and took off. If you recognize him please call police. We take live look at over wilmington, delaware. All those storms moved out. Left a cool summer day the question is how long will it stick around, right. Lets get to meteorologist kathy orr with a first check of your forecast. Hey, kathy. Temperatures are about 10 degrees cooler today across the region, but what a relief, right . Yes. We have wilmington behind us you can see mainly a cloudy sky out there and much cooler temperatures. Right now in philadelphia its 75. Wilmington 78. The same in dover. 63 in the poconos and how about down the shore, look at these numbers. 73 in ocean city. The same is sea isle. North wildwood 74. Cape may. 75. The ocean water temperature even warmer at 76 degrees. This is your 24 hour temperature change. In philadelphia its 12 degrees cooler right now than it was yesterday at this time. It is 10 degrees cooler in wilmington and dover and reading 11 degrees cooler in pottstown and in land cast. Not as much of a difference in trenton and wrightstown because of that easterly flow. Ultimate doppler showing a few spotty showers thats going to continue into the evening hours. We have this northeasterly wind converging with northerly wind so expect those showers right through the i95 corridor almost like in a Straight Line allentown right toward cape may. Well talk more about the weekend weather and some warmer temperatures coming up in your seven day. Ill see in you just few minutes. All right. Kathy, thanks. Federal government slapped them with big fine for safety violations. One south jersey Aluminum Company may have to cut jobs because of it. Our jeff cole took a drive to the Camden County to get to the bottom of it. Environmental store. Osha has hammered the local new Jersey Company with a punishly fine announce thed last week it could cost workers their jobs. Its the largest fine levied against a company out of oshas marlton, new jersey, area office than any workers Safety Office can remember. Aluminum shapes of Camden County is hit with a whopping 1. 9 million fine paula dixon rodrick headlights heads the osha office. The fines are significance because they continue not to implement safety and health culture. They continue not to protect their employees. Reporter the Delair Company also faces 94 workers safety violations according to osha documents when we arrived at the sprawling aluminum plant the doors at the loading docks were eventually pulled down and a Public Relations worker approached. What is the company say about these claims . Youve got a statement. Youve approached me. Theyve said that a guy got in tank here, was burned. Came out. Sent back in, burned again. Yeah. So you reported on this before the he means the talk between owe shanley company over the violation. Osha says in its january inspection it learned a worker was hospitalized after receiving chemical burns to the skin while inside a tank but was sent back despite complaining of the injuries. Another worker suffered a broken pelvis after being caught in the moving parts of a machine. On the phone another Public Relations worker representing the company said if Aluminum Shapes were to pay the nearly 2 milliondollar fine, it couldnt keep its 400 workers. In an emailed statement the pr firm wrote, the vein vestments we have made in the facility from the millions of dollars we have put toward safety improvements to the new equipment that is safer and more efficient are working. Osha disagrees. You need to protect your workers first. Lives, you cannot put a dollar on a life. Reporter now in that statement the company says many of the violations cited are old and have been addressed. It suggested that we contact the union for its workers. We did. We have not gotten a response from the union workers. Osha says it wants a safer pla plant. Well have more reporting on all this at 6 00 oclock. Ive jeff cole. Lucy, back to you. Well see in you a few again. Thank you jeff. Woman in philadelphias frankford neighborhood has not spent much of the summer enjoying the outdoors. She says she cant because of whats next door to her home. Overgrown mess. She says not only is it unplease to go look at as you can imagine its also not safe. She says her calls to the city have gone nowhere. So she turned who else to bruce gordon for some help. Hes live now outside Philadelphia City hall. Bruce . Reporter yeah, iain, in a city with some 15,000 vacant homes, this is an all too common problem. Your neck door neighbor leaves his place for anyone of a dozen reasons and you are left dealing with a deteriorating mess left behind. My gazebo costs a lot of money now and its just sitting rotting away i cant enjoy it. Knots not fair to me. Or my family. Reporter samantha garretts says she used to love entertaining in the backyard of the home she shares with her mother and son. But she says her next door neighbor moved out a couple of years ago and right now its out of control. Weeds some reaching 7 feet tall fill the yard next door and creep over the fence boarding the properties. There is trash everywhere, and hidden in the mess a container of stagnant water filled with mosquito larvae. We get bit up so bad back here. Reporter you cant really be out. Cant barbecue. Cant sit out in my gazebo. Reporter backyard neighbors gone living behind a trash filled Swimming Pool and vegetation that over hangs her yard but is nearly impossible to remove. If you see the branches are intertwined with the wires. Were scared to cut god nor bid we get electrocute. Her phone calls to city hall got her nowhere. I snapped photos and made my own calls. The department of licenses and inspections will cite homeowners who let their property go. But in many cases theyre Contact Address is the very property they just vacated. The reason that enforcement so difficult is that it is very hard often to even locate the owner of the property. Reporter samantha wants to be able to use her gazebo again. This is our little vacation. We dont really get to go places we like to sit out here. Reporter phone calls this afternoon yielded some information and some good news for samantha. The city tells me they are already taking that backyard property open owner to court to force cleanup as for the next door neighbor, well, they took him twice last year to the wood shed so to speak to force clean ups and the head of the City Community live Improvement Program promises theyll have an inspector out within the next couple of days to force yet another cleanup of that next door neighbors lot. Lucy and iain, well keep you posted. This is a mess. She shouldnt have to deal with. Absolutely not. All right. As always, bruce, good work. Good news for some residents opposing the building of the Sunoco Mariner east two pipeline. Why a judge has ordered construction to stop for now. Sean . Iain its only day two of Training Camp but were seeing an entirely different carson wentz. Hear what he had to say about the difference from last year to this. Traffic is moving on the ben franklin bridge after a rescue and arrest. It was shut down early this morning those two guys climbed one of the towers at some point they got stuck and had to be rescued. All lanes of the bridge has to be shut down as police rescued and then arrest the pair. Thankfully no one was hurt. No word yet on the charges that they will face but police say there will be a number of different charges. Investigators in Camden County are looking for the man behind a bank robbery in west berlin township. He may look like that right there. He hit the fulton bank along route 73 earlier this month. Police just released a sketch however. If you think he looks familiar, theyd very much like to hear from you. Tonight police are searching for two women who robbed another woman at an atm in cinder city. Take a look. Police say this woman walked up to another woman knocked her atm card out of her hand then punched her in the face. The victim still tried to use the atm a few minutes later. At that point another woman punched her. This happened on july 13th at the td bank on the 100 block of south broad street. If you know anything, police want to hear from you. Developing out of texas. The death toll in a horrific Human Trafficking case is still rising. Were learning more about the driver of that truck where at least ten immigrants died torturous deaths. Foxs casey stegal has pore report roar the truck was discovered early sunday morning. At least ten immigrants inside dead from dehydration and severe heat stroke. One survivor says when he finally got out, he was too weak to move. Translator i woke up and wanted to run but i felt kind of faint so i fell. Reporter now were learning more about the driver of that truck. James matthew bradley, jr. , from clearwater, florida, has been charged in the deaths but says he had no idea the trailer was loaded with people. He says he was just delivering hit to brownsville, texas, when he heard movement in the back. But that doesnt explain why he didnt help the victims who say they were without air and water for hours in the hundred degree heat. The incident reigniting the immigration debate with some blaming death on President Trumps crack down. The focus on Border Security will lead to up tick in risky crossings like this. The more extreme the Counter Measures and security that we put in place for Border Protection the greater risks that people are willing to go to. Reporter but others say stronger border enforcement is needed to make sure a tragedy like this does not happen again. We should be working closer with our mexican partners to stop this before it gets to our borders. But we also need to make sure that we have a smart border. Reporter the driver were learning has a pretty lengthy wrap sheet but this is the first time he has been charged with something that could carry a death sentence if convicted. That is the latest from dallas, casey stegall, fox news. Another batch of car battery thefts and this time a camera caught the guy doing it. Philadelphia police just relea released Surveillance Video they say shows a they have in action. Since may Police Believe the same guy has been stealing batteries out of jeep wranglers in center city and northern liberties. Police think the man may be driving around in a tan honda civic. Another roadblock for the mariner heat east pipeline. Administrative law judge temporarily halted work on that pipeline. The judge wants the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to hear and rule whether sunoco violate add 2015 cement agreement with west goshen township. The township says sunoco jumped the gun on construction earlier this month and also disputes sunoco decision to move a valve control station sunoco denies any wrongdoing. Doug pederson and the eagles with another morning of practice at the teams novacare facility. It is day two of camp for the eagles but more importantly year two for carson wentz as the eagles starting quarterback. So sean bell is here with a man who basically carries the hopes city on his throwing shoulder. Sean . Yeah, lucy, youre right. All eyes on carson wentz. Eagles go as he goes. Like you said its day two of Training Camp so still only quarterbacks, rookies and a few vets the entire team doesnt have to report until thursday. But like we said, its all about carson wentz. The first couple of days carson hasnt really thrown that much. Limited rep for starting quarterback the backups have thrown just as much as he has. The team is probably just trying to protect his arm so its the start of a long long season. Things are a lot different for carson this year from third string quarterack to the guy. To the starter and today he talked about the difference. Just for me mentally, you know, the way i approach it. Its not so much of a whirl win. This summer i was just like chomping at the bit to get here. Last summer i was just trying to breathe. Because just a whirlwind off season so mentally im just in a way better place. Hes refresh. Hes rejuvenated. Hes eager many hes ready to go. Hes got the best thing i think that that he and i, um, going into year two he played 16 games last year. Hes a Year Experience now in this league. Carson has definitely also stepped up as a bigtime leader for this team. Later in sports well talk about carson bringing his Wide Receivers to north dakota and the one time he was a little ashamed of the guys much lucy . Hmm. All right. Talk to you soon, sean. Robber pointed a gun at a pizza Delivery Driver but what she did next helped police fine the guy. And were dealing with an Opioid Epidemic you heard all about the way families trying to keep the addicted and loved ones alive. Does one solution go too far. Its the last place youd expect to see elephants. 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