Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5PM 20150325 : vimarsana

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5PM 20150325

Was all because he was a bad businessman who was battling addictions. His attorney and prosecutors spoke out about the out come. My goal which i think weve a accomplished to get him incarcerated so he can start paying restitution even fit means hes making license plates for 50 cents an hour to start paying that back. Thats what we expect from him. Reporter well, tollefson originally agreed to a plea deal that would have sent him to jail for just seven months. Half of which he had already served but withdrew from that deal and went to trial saying that he wanted his story told. Tollefson is a former employee of fox 29. Iain. Joyce, thank you. Change is rolling in your fox 29 Weather Authority. We got another round of rain today. With that comes a big jump in that our temperatures. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams outside old city tonight with a preview. Scott . Thats right, iain. Its going to be roller coaster ride believe or not over the next several days. Temperatures in fact will be rising bit as we head into the overnight as well as the threat for fog and drizzle. Lets a little bit about whats happening right now on ultimate doppler. We saw a batch earlier this afternoon as showers moved through right now off to the West Lancaster reading allentown looking at a few sprinkles, but as we take a look at radar lapse you can see most of the heavy rain has moved out for now. To our south were watching a warm front as well as a cold front. Even Severe Weather breaking out right now through sections of oklahoma into arkansas and missouri. That Severe Weather will stay out to our west tonight. 45 degrees right now in philadelphia. But look to the south. 76 in nashville. 80s right now in dallas. 77 degrees current until houston houston. So thats the milder air will tap into tomorrow. Spotty showers staying cloudy, fog overnight. Temperatures hold pretty steady if not rise a little bit as we move toward the overnight but fog develops overnight. Scattered showers even thunderstorms by tomorrow evening and then colder air is going to move in behind that system giving us, yes a chance for some snow flurries. Well have the hour by hour timeline of all of this crazy weather iain and lucy when i come indoors. Back to you. All right. Talk to you then scott. Were following several breaking stories right now. The u. S. Gun air strikes in iraq to help iraqi troops on the ground who are fighting isis. Anonymous source told the ap the strikes began after iraq asked the u. S. For help. Iraqi troops are trying to retake the city of tikrit from the terrorist group. Army sergeant who abandoned his post in afghan and was held by the taliban for five years will be court marshaled on charges of desertion of avoiding military service. Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl will be chargecharged with miss bee may have your before the enemy if ton convicted he faces live in prison. Bergdahl allegedly walked away from his post in afghanistan back in 2009. Was captured by the taliban released last summer. President obama negotiated his release in exchange for a group of taliban leaders leaders fox news sources say three have tried to join their old comrades. Also breaking a california woman reported kidnapped and held for ran sam psalm is alive well with relatives. Denise huskins boyfriend reported her kidnapped from their California Home monday. He said someone took her in the middle of the night and that the intruders demanded ransom. However, police say he did not report it until hours later. Police say they found huskins safe at a relatives home hundreds of miles away in southern california. Investigators say theyre not trying to piece this whole puzzle together. Back now to the story we told you about at the top of the newscast. Today we learned three americans were the Germanwings Flight that crashed in the french alps tuesday. One of them a young woman graduated from Drexel University. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is on drexels campus tonight where people are trying to deal with all of this. Dave . Reporter lucy spring break on Drexel University campus. There are not a lot of students here but the students who are here told us this afternoon theyre saddened by this latest news. Family members Drexel University confirm recent graduate emily sell key and her mother yvonne both on board the germanwings air bus that crashed in the french alps on its way from barcelona to germany. Im very sad. Very unfortunate. She obviously was a student at west fall. Im a student at west fall as well the art college. My heart goes tout her. Reporter Statement Released by the family said, our entire family is deeply saddened by the losses of yvonne and emily. Two wonderful caring, amazeing people who meant so much to so many. At this dull time we respectfully ask for privacy and your prayers. Emily selke graduated from drexel in 2013 in a statement Drexel University said drexel is deeply saddened to hear about the tragic loss of emily selke and her mother. Emily graduateed with honors from drexel in 2013. That was a Music Industry major in drexels an tow it in west fall college of media arts and design. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends. The sore report emily belonged to released this statement. Said today chapter is mourning the loss of our beautiful emily s. Lke emily and her mother were aboard the plane from barcelona to duesseldorf that crashed yesterday. Emily served as our membership vp and while in say the at a and she was an integrate part of our growing chapter. She embodied the spirit of gamma cigna cigna. Emily put other where is her sell and cared deeply for all of those in her life. Emily will be great the missed by her fellow sisters of say the t please keep chemly, her mother and their familiar until your thoughts and prayers during this heartbreaking time. Students on campus wednesday afternoon were stunned to hear the news. Definitely is a tragedy. Losing someone from your own community and definitely prayers and thoughts go out to her familiarly. I can even imagine its horrible. Reporter thats the words to describe it now. No word if Drexel University will hold memorial or a vigil for their former student when students return to campus next week sometime. Third american was also on board that plane that crashed. The investigation into the crash continues. Lucy . All right, dave, ill take it. Thank you. Developmenting in Northampton County tonight what caused a warehouse to go up in flames. Skyfox over the 1100 block of mount chunk road in bethlehem where it sent a thick cloud of smoke into the air this morning and caused everything from Power Outages to road closures affecting thousands of people. Fox 29s dave kinchen is live outside the warehouse tonight. Dave . Iain, fire crews are still here 13 hours after this blaze. They are dousing hot spots. Fire investigators theyre here, too, trying to find out how all of this started. In the meantime this whole community had quite a health scare in the air today. Skyfox over the scene as smoke rises into the air across the Lehigh Valley for the first half of the day. It was coming from the fabricators sheet metal processing factory on among chunk road in bethlehem. Three alarm fire kept firefighters busy for several hours. The smoke did cover part of the downtown area and a lot of homes on the avenues. It went into the allentown area. Reporter thick clouds of smoke hugged the ground below prompting authorities to issue a shelter in place advisory telling people to stay inside and close their doors and windows with concern over potential chemicals in the air. Our 911 center was getting inundated with a lot of calls that theres smoke at our house. I went outside and it smelled really smokey, and i noticed that it was like cloudy over there and that in that area. You could tell it was close. Very close. Thats why i walk because we knew it was very close. Because it was very dense fog out here. Reporter fire Officials Say air meter doctors not pick up any hazards and hazmat teams are monitoring the environment including a nearby creek look to go prevent contamination from run off. Numerous roads were also shut down and nearly 3,000 customers lost power. The building was empty when the fire started just before 4 00 a. M. Although investigators say workers were headed to the job when crews were knocking down the flames. Countless jobs are now impacted. Standing back watching all their stuff is in there. Their jobs, you know they knew what they were going to do today and theyre not doing it now. Reporter we did reach out to the company. We have not been able to get a hold of any of the officials. We understand from fire investigators that the Business Owners are coming in from out of state to meet with investigators and code enforcement. Meanwhile, we also know power has been restored. Firefighters will be back out here tomorrow looking for more hot spots and the investigation continues. Iain . All right, dave, thank you. Happening now a south Jersey School districts Computer Network held hostage. Online attack over the weekend shut down computers in the Swedesboro Woolwich school district. Person behind that attack seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bit coins. Thats digital money. It came at the same time as standardized testing this week delaying some tests. Fox 29 weekend anchor karen hepp joins us with more from the newsroom. Karen. The district did not pay that ransom so theyve been feverishly working to try to restore all of their systems and get everything back up. Theyre not all low tech. Today they said about 70 there and the kids were back taking those delayed standardized tests once again as well. But this cyber attack was a huge wake up call. Big money. The only reason you would attack a school whats a school need to do it needs to function. At that point what does it costing the school to be down to not have their data . They want to cause enough damage and enough impact so that guess what you fork over the bit coins. Reporter 500 bit coins. That was the ransom hackers wanted to a unlock the computers the Swedesboro Woolwich four Elementary Schools that. Translates to 120 some thousand dollars in cold hard cash. A pretty shocking crime in a quite new jersey community. Who is behind this nefarious scheme . Was the school target Justin Drabick did it have anything to do with testing . Investigators say unlikely. It appears to be random attack where unsuspecting person simply opened an email or taj that. Locked the whole system. Computer expert Anthony Mongeluzo explains how these insidious crypto lockers work. When you and i encrypt our own files we hold the key. Hackers actually load Encryption Software through bad email attachments, websites or other security holds and with that ends up doing is, it encrypts the drives where the school or the person cant access their own data. And then the hackers hold the key and they go, ooh you want your date today back . Pay me in this case 124,000 worth of bit coins. And why bit coins . Theyre not trackable. So youll never fine out who did this. Reporter the state Police Cyber Crime division is trying to figure out who did this along with the Prosecutors Office and fbi. They expect this is overseas cyber terrorists. No student or person data was stolen thats the good news but this was a big teachable moment are everybody involved and how to better protect themselves. Iain. Absolute. All right, karen, thank you. Expensive new courthouse is creating real problems for those who have trouble getting around. The shuttle designed to make easier is about to disappear. Tonight one employee tells fox 29 she might not be able to get to work. And say it aint so, a beloved member of the super Group One Direction why hes leaving and the shock waves this is sending through the entertainment world. My daughter is so upset right now. All right, ladies. Listen up we all love our shoes but they could be doing lasting damage. Why all those heels are behind so many health i have a cold with terrible chest congestion. I better take something. Theraflu severe cold doesnt treat chest congestion. Really . New alkaseltzer plus day powder rushes relief to your worst cold symptoms plus chest congestion. [breath of relief] oh, what a relief it is. Michael nutter is created independents Oversight Board to monitor changes coming to the Philadelphia Police department. Mayor nutter did that by executive order today. Hes charged the group with make making sure 90 recommendations from that Justice Department report become reality. Some of those include Better Police training, more thorough investigations and better relations with residents. Mayor nutter says those changes are necessary to build a bridge between police and the community they serve. When you take close examination of the recommendations for reform whats in the department it is clear that changes need to be made with regard to the use of force and certainly lethal force in the Philadelphia Police department and all across our city. As with all Justice Department report billed into philadelphia is 400 officer involved shootings over the past eight years. A new expensive courthouse in bucks county is causing problems for people with dissables. And one thing that was helping a Shuttle Service is now going away. Family that this impacts called our bruce gordon for some help. Hes live outside the courthouse in doylestown work to go get answers for them tonight. Bruce . Reporter we sure hope so lucy. Right behind me sits bucks countys old courthouse and off in the distance about a block away well, thats the countys brand new 85 million Justice Center. It has just about everything you can ask for. Except for a back door and for some folks thats a big problem. Its just been difficult. Reporter maria began lose losing her mobility shortly after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis about six years ago. Shes a receptionist at the das office in the countys brand new Justice Center. Every morning maria drives to the employee parking garage at broad and union and takes a free shuttle bus that quarter mile or so up the hill to the front entrance of the new courthouse. Without that shuttle, what happens to your ability to get to your job each day . Good i cant get to work. Reporter that simple . I cant get to work unless somebody drops me off out front. Reporter but that shuttle is set to shut down around the first of april. Not to worry say county officials. Were building this swell new ramp from the lower parking lot out back around to the front and only entrance. The ramp is well over 100 yards long and quite steep. We saw plenty of folks complaining about the uphill climb as for maria well i cant walk up that ramp. Reporter too long too steep. Yes. Reporter county Commission Chairman robert lochery says the Justice Center was built with just one entrance for security reasons. He admits theyve had complaints with folks with impaired mobility when that shuttle expires were trying to figure out whats the best plan for our employees and for the residents that will be using that as well because not everybody that goes to work gets a shuttle to drop them off at their front door. Reporter not everyone uses a walker or cane . No, were trying to work our way threw that. Reporter he believes the building is compliant with americans with disabilityies act requirements. Legal but is it reasonable . I dont know. Im not in that position but were hearing from some people and thats something were taking a look at. Reporter all maria knows her access to her job is in grave jeopardy. I cant get to work without that. And reporter no shuttle no getting to work . No. Reporter chairman lochery says the Subtle Service was costing the county more than 30,000 a year and was never meant to be permanent. Still he says he hopes to have some answers for maria and others in her position on this issue of the shuttle and accessibility to the new building win the next week or so. Iain well be watching. Bruce, i know you will. Thank you. The city of camden has announced a major transformation to improve the citys schools. The man needs thousands of camden students will have the choice to attend better schools in the fall. Four schools are set to become renaissance schools while another will be retired. District officials focused on five of the most struggling schools. Wonderful news tonight for, f a local nfl player about his daughters battle with cancer. Fouryearold lea still is officially official until remission her dad cincinnati bengal devon still posted this picture on his inn at a gram account. Shes just so adorable. Shes giving giving a fist bump to the camera by the way echoing the first bump they gave her dad in her way to treatment last fall video went viral and calling today the best day of his life and thanking the doctors at chop. Devon says lea needs treatment to make sure the cancer cells dont return. I know my Little Warrior will get through it. Congratulations to them. That is wonderful news. Chip kelly speaks says at the annual nfl owners meeting. Wrapping up in phoenix arizona by the way. Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie had his chance to explain how the team will go business going forward. Today its chill ceplys turn and

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