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WTXF FOX 29 News At 5PM May 1, 2015

Restrain mr. Gray per pbd general order nor render a request medical assistance. What i think the people of baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. Thats what people around the country expect. And to the extent that its appropriate, this administration will help local officials get to the bottom of exactly what happened. Reporter many officials are coming out commenting on this. Right now crowds are gathering right now. There were cheers after this announcement and celebrations in baltimore. More marches are planned for tonight and this weekend. Those Six Police Officers face charges including Second Degree murder manslaughter assault and false imprison. Immediately after moseby began speaking people began tweeting want to know about her. 35 been on the job for less than four months. Comes from five generations of Law Enforcement and campaigned on a promise to hold Police Accountable f convicted those officers could face decades in jail a occur fee and state of emergency remain in effect. Baltimore Police Officers union says the charges are a rush to judgment and the officers are not responsible for freddie grays death. Dawn . All right karen. Happening right now freddie grays family is speaking. Lets listen a listen live. Today is a momentous step on the road to justice for freddie. In losing freddie the gray family has been put through real hell. One can only imagine the tremendous pain and suffering that this family has endured. For the parents loss of a son and the sisters loss of a brother. Freddie was taken too early and too horrifically. And the worst of the grays family days in the history of this family have been the last three weeks. Today is given the gray familiar al measure of hope. We thank the states attorney and her team for their unprecedented courage and up measured and professional response to this crisis. They have our gratitude in their pursuit of justice. However we must be mindful that this is a first step, not the last. But while the States Attorney Office continues to do its work, the community this community and other communities like it all over the country have much work to do of their own. You have been listening to a family spokesperson for freddie grays family. Calling the arrest of six baltimore Police Officers a momentous step on the road to justice for freed dee talking about the pain and suffering freddies family has endured. Also calling it a first step, not the last. Of course, we will continue to follow this story as it develops. Meantime one officer is recovering from scrapes and bruises. There was pushing and shoving at police blocked protesters from trying to go on to the highway. This was here in philadelphia at a protest along with the protest that is were happening in baltimore. Protesters marching back to city hall and then gathering outside of Police Headquarters. You will find continuing couldnt of coverage of todays developments in baltimore on myfoxphilly. Com. We have a timeline of everything that has happened so far. Along with what the state attorney said today. Also the comments from the family spokesperson in that News Conference thats happening right now. And in on the news developing right now two cargo trucks thefts have our area antiterrorism officials concerned to. Authorities nationwide are looking for the two stolen vehicles while it may not be linked to a specific threat, officials are not taking any chances. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser live outside of Police Headquarters tonight. Dave the focus appears to be safety here. Reporter no doubt about that chris. Two patrol alerts are out tonight for these two stolen cargo vans and at this point although authorities dont believe theres any immediate Counter Terrorism threat, theyre not taking any chances here. They want to figure out what these trucks might be used for. Most responsible thing for the Police Department to do at this time to give this information to the public and he is list their aid. Words of caution from police count terrorism experts friday afternoon about the suspicious thefts of two cargo trucks one a uhaul van like this. The other is a larger penske cargo truck. Certainly we dont like the idea of two vehicles of this nature being unaccounted for. Police put out a nationwide alert about the stolen trucks but their immediate concern seem to be focused on local protests and special events like this weekends broad street run. We do threat assessments well in advance. We look at suspicious activity reports to see if theres anything that we shall be paying particular attention to in advance of the event. Uhaul cargo van was rented and stolen after police say this man took a homeless man to a local td pang opened Checking Account and deposited money and tee took the man to a uhaul rental facility and rented a van van. We were communicateing with my partners and the nbi so weve gotten the word out. Penske e350 high q cargo truck was stolen from this penske dealership on washington avenue in south philly. Police do not believe the incidents are connected. Most likely scenario someone need add truck to transport some goods and didnt want to pay for it. Now again threes do not believe these two incidents are connected. If you spot these vehicles, one the uhaul truck has arizona plates. The penske truck has indiana plates. If you see those trucks you should report that immediately to police. Well have an update on the investigation coming up at 6 00. Chris. Dave, thanks. Also happening now in new jersey indictments handed down in the bridge gate scandal. Who could forget the traffic jams near the George Washington bridge back in 2013. They went on for days. The scandal tarnish governor Chris Christies reputation and now one of his former political allies now taking some responsibility. Fox 29s jeff cole joins us now. Jeff, is this the first domino to fall . Three big top notice chris. Guilty plea in court and two indictments of aids formerly close to the new jersey governor happened this day and the scandal known widely as bridge gate. The United States attorney for new jersey calls this a conspiracy to violate the civil rights of the residents of fort lee. It was the first day of school 2013 in fort lee when prosecutors alleged David Wildstein bill bar roni formerly of the Port Authority of new york and former christie aid bridget an inform kelly conspired to snarl traffic around the gw bridge. Why do it to punish fort lees mayor not not endorsing christies reelection. Wildstein pleaded guilty today in federal court. Baroni and kelly conspired to misuse authority resources. Heres the u. S. Attorney and the state Senate President steve sweeney. That cal could you lated scheme created havoc for mayor sock company lidge and his constituents and violateed various criminals laws. Today is a very sad day for the people of new jersey that people that were put in trust to look out for the interests of newnew jerseyans were actually punished by those same people. Sweeney is a democrat and sometimes ally of Chris Christie christie. Governor christie is quick to reaction. Well have that at 6 00 plus Bridget Ann Kelly speaks. Well have that as well. Dawn. Well see you then. Thank you jeff. Well it is friday. Tgif. That means one thing. Fox 29 spring fling. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams jenn fred life in south philly. Hey, scott. Hi there chris and dawn. Yeah, this weekend if you dont have plans you better make them, because it is the third annual south street spring festival and take a look. Of course, you can log on to south street. Com for more information. But were live here on south street in bridget foys you can see some of the fans are already here getting ready for this upcoming weekend and look who showed up. Jenn fred is here. So coming up well talk a little bit about some of the vendors here. Some of the restaurants here. We have great food and a lot of fun thats going to take place. Scott youll be doing the weather, right. Ill do a little quick weather. This is all nonsense all anyone wants to hear it will be 80 on sunday. I dont see that anywhere on your map. All right. Speaking of the weather lets talk a little bit about the forecast. If youre stepping out south street this evening it looks pretty g were looking at temperatures by 6 00 oclock, 7 00 oclock right around 60 degrees. Upper 50s. Its still a little cool for the first day of may but hey it will get better over the upcoming weekend. Satellite radar and lay ray shore show the coastal storm weve been watching that continues to pinwheel out to sea, but we have the clouds and the cooler temperatures at play. So temperatures right now across the area in the 50s much a few low 60s actually made it into the low 60s for philadelphia with a few breaks of sunshine. But its been cooler down the shore. Ocean temperatures right around 50 degrees witness wind coming in off the Ocean Temperatures have been pretty steady throughout the day in the low 50s there. And then for tonight were looking at temperatures dropping into the upper 40s. And then tomorrow, mostly cloudy to partly sunny but high temperatures are going recover into the low 70s. Jenn. Again, talk to me about sunday. Is that in the long term forecast. Is that in the seven day. I love the seven day. Who doesnt love the seven day. We packed this place full of people. Hello. Were having fun. Its a little different than what we do on good day. Good day we had coffee. 5 00 p. M. You guys have beer. Yeah. I like that. Its 5 00 oclock. Its 5 00 Oclock Somewhere or in philadelphia. Well be here all morning i was morning all evening. Again, chris oh com youre lucky because you know i would beam in the head with one of these things if you were here. Nice hat. Love it. Liking the flowers, jenn. Its a crown. Its a crown. A crown. Of course its a crown jenn. She likes a 5 00 oclock gig at bridget foy. A parking garage collapses in washington, d. C. No one is hurt and chances are its not the first time youve seen this garage and maybe never even in person. Plus video going viral. Were not going to show it all to you right now. But youll want to watch the guy on the left. What hes about to do had us all laughing historically. Christie ali gets died up in the bridge gate trauma. Yeah the al actress why this mornings bi we are on fop top of a developing story in baltimore. The death of freddie gray who died in Police Custody is ruled a homicide today. The state attorney saying the investigation finding probable cause to file charges against Six Police Officers in baltimore involved in fred dough grays arrest and transport. This after days of protests. Foxs paul wagner is live in baltimore for us tonight paul, what has been the reaction and the mood since the state attorney made this big announcement . Reporter ive been here all week and theres been a lot of tension in this city and you can just feel that tension just subside after that announcement was made this morning. In fact it was made outdoors and there were a number of members of the public who were outside listening to the statement from the states attorney and cheers went up as she was making those announcements that charges would be filed. As soon as we heard that the charges would be filed we went up to north avenue and pennsylvania avenue which is the area that have you seen in pictures that was devastated by the riots on monday. There was cvs store and Check Cashing store and all these place that is were looted, and the officers were injured not far from there at mondawmin mall. That area was the Gathering Place today and there were hundreds of people who descended at north avenue and pennsylvania avenue. There were honking horns Truck Drivers going by, blowing their horns, bus drivers and then there were people just dancing in the street and getting into the streets and yelling justice for freddie. Justice for freddie. Quite the scene there at north of pennsylvania avenue. That went on for quite some time today. Are you hearing anything about additional rallies planned for tonight or over the weekend . Reporter weve got one big rally here now breaking up. A number of protesters, thousands of them actually came here to city hall a little while ago. Listening to speakers. Theyve been cheering. We understand that there are some more demonstrations that are planned for the weekend of course no one really knew that the states attorney was going to file those charges today. So those rallies are still on the agenda as far as we know. Also keep in mind, that this curfew that goes into effect 10 00 oclock every night will remain on through the weekend. Dawn . Foxs paul wagner in baltimore. Thank you so much. And you will find continuing coverage of todays developments in baltimore on myfoxphilly. Com. Theres a full timeline of never has happened so far along with the state attorneys tos comments today. Parking garage collapses at the famous water gate apartment complex in washington, d. C. Are washington d. C. A woman suffering minor injuries in that collapse. Employees say theyve been complaining for months about structural issues. Water gate was home to the Democratic National Committee Headquarters which was broken into back in 1972 leading years later to the resignation of president richard nixon. No tonight second and third round of the nfl draft the eagles getting picks in each of those rounds. Many eagles fans disappointed theyre not going to see Marcus Mariota in an eagles uniform but the birds did draft a player they think can help them right away. Sean bell live at Eagles Novacare complex with the newest eagle. Sean . Reporter chris people need to stop with this Marcus Mariota. There was auction the eagles might trade to get the guy. Stop it. Okay. Its over. The first round is over. Were not going to get him. Chip kelly got the guy he wanted wanted. Nelson agholor and he chip wanted this guy when he was in high school. Okay. Chip recruited him to be an oregon duck he chose to go to the trojans. Then this freshman year he it will chip up with 162 yards. Chip knows all too well how good this guy can be. Okay. Its a great fit. Usc actually runs on an, organize style offense his junior year last year when he came out. Okay. So agholor feels like this a great fit and heres why. It always starts with the people. Truly special people here and Coaching Staff and the players that they bring into this organization and even the guys that work beneath the coaches are really good people i felt like thats where i wanted to be be. Later on well talk about the changing of the guards with the wide receiver. New faces to that core and also well talk about the second and third round tonight. Back to you. Chris and dawn. All right thank you sean. The fox 29 spring fling continues in south philadelphia. Alex holly Lauren Johnson Bill Anderson are down there this evening. What is up, guys . Enjoying it . We are here. Were having a great time. Were at bridget on south street. I got to say quickly whenever im out the first two questions i get from my friends are where are alex and lauren going to be . Present. Here. Theyre right here. Everybody wants to come down and see them can come down and one of the thing i have to do quickly this is minute go and cheryl and high to put them on because theyve been calling what what have you been calling me since we got here. Handsome bill. Did you pay them to say that. Love it. Did you pay them. Thank you so much. Now, its happy hour. Theyre going to make drinks and alec and lauren are going to handle it and tell us what wering. Were making sangria. Its great here. Of course we have the expert. Bridget herself this restaurant was named after you. It was. I grew up in the Restaurant Business and were kicking off happy hour today makeing our sangria rodriguez which keal be selling at the spring fest tomorrow on south street. Lets do it. Lets get this preview. So we are using a spanish red wine and were making a pitcher today so were getting it going. If you want to help me of course i will. We got fresh lemon juice. Tell me how much. Tell me when. Here we go. Youre good. Thats a lot of sangria. Is that enough . She said stop. A little triple sec there and using a flavored brandy. Well pour at the same time. Alex is going to taste it. What is alex going to do . Shes going to drink it in just a second. Thats good. We have a lot of fruit here. A lot of fruit here. Well ice it down. Weve got fresh fruit. Two kinds of sangria red and white. I know you love the white. Its a mango peach. I love it. Ill try the red my first time trying the red. Theres great to enjoy on the outside cafe on a great day. So we have a little pineapple, orange, apple, you can mix it up with whatever is seasonal. Do you put it in the glass or in the pitcher. Both. Asking a lot of questions about making the drinks now well sample these drinks. Sangria. Well be here for the next hour or so. Everyone can come down and join us at fox 29 spring fling. Next well be learning how to make dessert. Well zen it back to you while we sample these drinks we just created. Come on down to bread it . Foy. Were coming down. See you guys. Thanks. Typos can be funny at best, embarrassing at worst but can you imagine costing 10 million . Thats what happened in one new jersey community. Well explain coming up. And it was touch and go in new york city. A construction worker trapped in the rubble. Well show you how this one ended. A little boy saved his moms live by dialing 911 and his actions are even more heroic why you learn it was particularly difficult for him to dial the number. Theres over two hundred thousand students in philadelphia. Jim ke

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