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WTXF FOX 29 News At 5PM April 3, 2015

On the north philadelphia home with the american flags flying outside friday morning it culminated a twoyear investigation into 30 year old can i own a thomas for alleging providing support and resources to isis. Wednesday well be back in court. Dressed in a black veil and burke a she sat quietly. Investigators say she goes by the name young lie necessary and she wanted to murder herself on behalf of is element she posted on twitter quote, if we truly knew the realities we all would be rushing to join our brothers in the front lines prayer al a except us. I dont have any further comment at this time. My office was just appointed. In federal Court Prosecutors allege that thomas applied for a us passport in february and purchased a plane ticket to spain in late march. She also did resource on buses from istanbul. Well be prepared next week to proceed on her behalf 6789 thank you. Thomas communicated with an isis fighter in syria who asked thomas if she wanted to be part of quote an par democrat. That would be amazing a girl can only wish. Scary, a scary thought. Neighbors on tent street in north Philadelphia Community were stunned by the arrest of a woman who most say kept to herself. We got to say together. Wow, thats crazy. To be so close. Thomas will held in the federal Detention Center until that hearing on wednesday. Federal prosecutors want her held behind until she goes on trial. This investigation is continuing. Well bring you the latest on the investigation coming up at 6. Jeff. That was a big story tonight. Todays case comes on the heels of yesterdays arrest of two women in new york city. These women are accused of trying to build a homemade bomb. Officials say one of women was obsessed with pressure cookers since the deadly attack at the Boston Marathon back in 2013. The pair now face a number of causes including conspiring to use a weapon of mass detection. Just click and go to myfoxphilly. Com. Coming up at 5 30 we take a closer look at the recent wave of home grown terrorists. Why Home Security is hometown security. Meet the man some are calling the pinup boy for isis. Why hes one of the most popular preachers online, but banned from us mosque. In your fox 29 Weather Authority a when the end to the workweek. A life mr. At Philadelphia International airport. The rain has stopped falling there for a moment but the rain weve been seeing all day nothing compared to what those in the midwest are dealing with tonight. Fox 9 chief meteorologist Scott Williams joins us now. Its damp and dreary, but in kentucky theyre dealing with flooding. They are. Were watching some pockets of scattered showers in south jersey, also north and west. But lets focus in on the devastating flooding thats been taking place in sections of louisville kentucky, high water residues and take a look at ultimate doppler here. Over the last 4 hours around that area weve seen raining showers and thunderstorms. Very heavy rainfall. You can see in and around the louisville area. Five to at it inches of rain. There has been one fatality due to that flooding in the louisville area as well. And that same system is headed in our direction. A lot of the energy is going to stay to the south. Lets focus on whats happening across the area. You can see heres that cold front. Right around louisville theyll looking at heavy rain. For us were still looking at the mild conditions. Temperatures have been in the 60s and we also have some showers, even storms headed this way. Were in a slight risk of some gusty showers and thunderstorms later on this evening. Ill have the timing of when this mess moves out and what to expect for your easter coming up. Dawn and jeff. Scott, developing right now locally Philadelphia Police say theyre making the streets safer with a big drug hall. 60 alleged drug dealers and buyers are behind bars tonight. Some as young as 18 years old taken into custody yesterday in a sting operation lead by the narcotics division. These are just some of them. Theyre coughed and theyve been booked. Police have cons fitted 24 vehicles. They say theyre sending a loud and clear message. If you think its a good idea to come into philadelphia or if you already live in philadelphia to bowie legal drugs that not only will you be arrested and charged for that crime, but your vehicle, if you have one, will be confiscated. Now, police tell us heroin crack and marijuana are whats hauled on the drug market these days. They say if you notice any illegal drug sales or drug use in your neighborhood. Please give them a call. So far this year 300 arrests have been made. A West Chester University student is behind bars tonight accused of rape a female student at an off campus frat house. Charged with rape, Sexual Assault and other offenses. Police say he is suspected of range a female student early sunday morning at the delta kappa row fraternity how. It is not clear if sean want martinez is a member of that fraternity. Easy in jail in lieu of 25,000 bond. Police have arrested two people. Two people were shot outside a house party in the 2100 block of park avenue in north philly. A 19 year old was shot three times. He is in critical condition. Another is expected to be okay. The alleged shooters and victims are not temple students. A fox 29 investigation leads to probation for a am toker philadelphia state legislator and his sister after their guilty pleas to corruption charges. J miranda annedidae has been sentenced to five years probationment his sister got two years. Miranda da had a ghost employee on his staff who was being paid with tax dollars but spent much of his time woulding at a private garage. The da led an investigation which led to the pair being arrested on multiple charges. Miranda da lost his bid for reelection. Fox 29 working to get results after a nasty valentines day snowstorm creates an unexpected problem for an unexpected motorist. His car suffered some big time damage but not from the storm itself. Here we go, list than to this he claims it was caused by the crews sent out to make the roads safe. Our bruce gordon is on the job in paoli. Reporter john line scum says he desperately needs the 2011 toyota camry he bought last year to get to his job working with patients suffering with patients with traumatic injuries. Apparently not safe enough. Line couple says the miranda my rid shaped pile was more than a foot tall. I pull over. All of this is smashed out. The collision did big damage to the front bumper of his car and knocked out the lower grill. He safed the grill. You can actually see the salt still caked in between the pieces. He believes the cause of the damage was clear pen. Leaving behind a mound of salt right in the middle of a driving lane. Their policy is to maintain the roads for safety, month the to cause an accident. He held off on repairing the car. Theres clearly hundreds of dollars worth of damage. Instead he reached out to penndot to fill out the required claim form for reimbursement and waited and waited and waited. Its been three weeks no response. I need my car fixed. So he reached out to us. Im a fox 29 viewer. I see you handle and help people with situations and get them resolved as soon as possible all the time. His vehicle was damaged crashing into that pile and he has filed a claim. Ive been on the phone most of the day with the state department of general services. Theyre the folks who handle these claims. They promised to look into the situation and figure out whether lit couples claim form. The question is whether an obstruction apparently left behind by penndot could have been cleared away before causing the accident. John line couple just wants to answers and justice. I feel they should fix my car. Thats all im asking. If paoli working to get ruts, im Bruce Gordon Fox 29 why you news. Finally. A Bankruptcy Court judge approving the 82 million deal yesterday, florida developer glenn stab says he has reached a deal to buy other casinos as well in addition to the revel. Details about those purchases are still to come. The revel cost 2. 4 billion to build. It opened in april of 2012 shut its doors in september of 2014. Another below for pennsylvanias attorney general today. One of the top advisors walks away from office. Why hes leaving. And terrifying new details from the investigation into the german wings play crash. What voice recorders have revealed about the final minutes of that doomed flight. A local mom gets a pardon from governor Chris Christie this week. What shes saying about her controversial incredible video tonight of a six alarm fire at an Industrial Park just outside of louisville, kentucky. More than 200 firefighters called out to battle this fears fire at general electrics appliance park. People reportedly seeing smoke from the fire from files away. Firefighters consider the totally house tonight. Ge builds washing machines, water heaters, dryers at this Industrial Park. This new information tonight of the final moments of the tragic german wings plane crash. Were learning more about what the people on board flight 9525 may have experienced as that plane was going down. Data taken from the second black box indicates the copilot sent the air bus a320 into the french alps faster and faster during desent. Kitty morgan has more for us from london. Reporter investigators are learning more about the final minutes of the german wings flight 9525. They indicate could hepilot rette pedestrianly accelerated the plane as it hurdle led towards the mountainside. This combined with the recently revealed Search History from a tablet found among the belongings adds more support to the theory he intentionally crash the plane. The user was concerned with medical procedures but he also informed himself about suicide methods. The new information is coming from an initial analysis of the flight data recorder which appears to have caught fire. This second black box found nine days after the planes cockpit voice recorder was located. I found a pile of clothes. We were searching it. We were moving them downhill and while doing this i discovered a box. The color the box is the same as the gravel, the black gravel on the recovery site. They are focusing on finding victims remains. 150dna profiles have been isolated. They are working with many saw am of those killed in the crash. I promise that with each identification the family of the victim identified will be informed immediately whatever their in the quality. It also appears that lie butts was trying to prevent a speed alarm as the plane went down. Lieu bits was alive and conscious as the plane continued itself owe desent. In london, kitty logan fox news. Leaders and clergy of several face are joining together on this wholly daypro testing what they call hateful muslim ads on some septa buses. Muslim leaders say theyre meant to create a rift between muslims and the Jewish Community and they say theyre not going toette mr. It happen which is muslims opened their east mt. Airey doors for others today. A commitment not to let such hatred bring them down. Were going to survive this. I believe that something good is coming out of this in the city of philadelphia. The freedom of speech allows for some pretty noxious doctrines, but the remedy for bad speech is good speech. More good speech. So keep your voices up, lets make a lot of noise and drown out the nows of the hate with noise of love. Septa says over 80 buses will be on the road bearing these controversial ads for the next four weeks. The company did go to court to try to ban them but with no luck. They have changed its advertising policy and for now long they can reject these types of ads without violating the first amendment. Pennsylvanias embattled attorney general kathleen cane is having yet another rough day, her knewly hired chief of staff up and quit. He was joining the staff of the city law firm. He wrote, i will miss working alongside each of you but he wasnt there very long the at all a. Also today, the Philadelphia Inquirer and its lead editorial called on cane to step down. The paper writes facing the possibility of criminal charges for the alleged leaking of secret grand jury material am its difficult to see how she can continue to serve. You may remember a philadelphia woman making National Headlines back in 2013 after being arrested for bringing a gun registered in pennsylvania across state lines into new jersey. Now, the mother of two back in the headlines this week after governor Chris Christies pardoned her. Fox 29s weekend pastor talked to woman today. Reporter new jersey has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation and one of the headlines is that philadelphia mother admitted to police that she forgot show had her gun with her when she crossed into new jersey. Now shes been pardoned but the gun law debate continues. Almost two years ago i first met she mean allen. The single mother of two had been robbed on two different occasions and was afraid. She took a place applied for and was granted a pennsylvania permit to carry her legal handgun. She was pulled over for a minor Traffic Violation and told the police she had the gun and a carry permit. New jersey doesnt recognize pennsylvania permits so she was arrested and faced 12 years in prison. When i found out that i i possibly do 12 years i thought my life was over. I had to pack up everything in my home and i had to prepare my kids, let them know that i might be going to jail. Although public out cry lead the prosecutor to spare her major jail time she was still considered a felon until yesterday when governor christie pardoned her. Im still trying to find the right words to put together how i feel about the pardon. Im just glad that governor christie gave me the pardon. I feel as though i can start over now. Today as i sat with she mean she said shes thrilled she can start rebuilding her life and shared with me the challenges she provided with her life. Every employer saw an Unlawful Possession on my record and i went to school and i went to school doing everything i had to do with two kids by myself and that was on my background. Some have speculated that governor christie pardoned her in an attempt to gain support leading to a president ial run. She mean chose to avoid that political debate and just celebrate what she claims is an honest mistake in hers past. Its ridiculous that she faced 12 years. Even though she had a pennsylvania permit. Others say if you own a gun then know the law. You you can comment on our fox 29 facebook or always tweet us at fox 29 philly. Thanks very much. Shocking new hazing allegations at a philadelphia college. Why one of the schools sports programs is being called into question tonight. Plus the us and iran are trying to sell their Nuclear Framework agreement, but not everyone is buying it. The fallout from whats being called a historic compromise. A big comprise at a california courthouse, a pregnant woman well, she cant make it to the hospital in time. Who stepped in to help deliver her little bundle of joy . Music etta james at last plays throughout sometimes, at last doesnt happen at first. Your dad just kissed my mom. Turning two worlds into one takes love. Helping protect that world takes state farm. A nuclear deal with iran has some leaders tonight claiming the world could be in danger. The tentative agreement includes a rollback on the Islamic Nuclear program and prohibits the improvement of uranium for at least 15 years. White House Press Secretary josh ernest says the watchful eye will be on iran. Were actually going to make sure in day one and week one and month one and year one and beyond decade one that we are closely inspecting iran. To become a more active engaged nation in world affairs. The deadline to finalize an agreement is set for june 30 meantime president obama says the federal government is going to help veterans train for jobs in the solar energy industry. The president at Hill Air Force base in utah saying solar training will be available at military base he all around the country. The latest job creation figures were a lot lower than expected when you look at all industries. Fewer than 130,000 jobs created in march the lowest number in more than a year. This morning we learned that our business created another 129,000 new jobs in march and that adds up to 3 million jobs over the past year. More than 12 million new jobs over the past 5 years and thats the longest stretch of private sector job creation on record. But weve got to be relentless in our work to grow the economy and create good jobs. President obama says an expanding Solar Industry will strengthen National Security because america will reduce its dependency on foreign oil. Here we go, a bit of a baby drama inside an la courthouse yesterday. Amber marie ole kin was two days overdue and in labor. She passed on the delivery room and operated for the courtroom in order to make a payment. Turns out her baby didnt want to wait and was coming right there in the courtroom hallway. Thats when a few sheriffs deputies sprung into action. I removed her trouser like a good deputy would. I didnt look. I put my hands down there and the baby head comes out and then the rest of the body just slid into my hands. Little moloch i was an instant sensation as a cheering crowd gathered to celebrate his arrival into the word. Mom and baby are said to be doing just fine tonight and they have quite the story to tell. S that a live investor for you. A philadelphia woman behind bars caught up in an alleged plot to join isis. Tonight we take a closer look at the concern at home grown terror much whats being done tonight to try and catch these people. Scott i williams. 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