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WTXF Fox 29 News At 6PM September 21, 2014

Style weapons, and, ammunition. Now, a Pennsylvania State Police Believe that they are hot on the trail of 31 yearold eric frein. They are still warning people in this area to continue to use extreme caution, until he is caught. Chris oconnell is live in Monroe County with the very latest that we know at this hour, chris. Reporter joyce and karen, good evening. Weary rest tenth here in the poconos are still scared and they are still on edge as this manhunt for a cop killer now is going on its tenth day. Thirtyone yearold eric frein is still believed to be hiding somewhere in the deep woods where his parents live here in Monroe County, the selftaught serve eiffelist is familiar with this terrain. Intense weekend search continues today. Swat team members concentrating their efforts in the Delaware State Forest area at monroe pike county border. We saw plenty of Police Searching vehicles going into freins familys neighborhood, one car had bottles of water confiscated from that car. Now police tell us they are tracking down hundreds of tips, and possible sightings, residents are still being asked to keep their windows and doors lock and not venture out. Police say frein is on foot and may have traveled up to 15 miles. Police say they have had no contact, with him, since the ambush of Corporal Brian Dickson and his attack that may have been planned, for months. We are aware of some conversations and some things, and the way we characterized those is that it is, clear that he has been planning this for some time. I really dont want to go beyond that with the specifics of what he has told other people but it is very clear to us that he has been, that he has held these beliefs and i think others just may be didnt believe he would act on this. Reporter Police Released those photos of weapons including an ak47, assault rifle, and ammunition that were either abandon, or hidden by frein for possible future use. We can tell you that many communities events and Church Services were canceled this weekend because of this manhunt, again, people are very scared, schools were closed last week, here in Monroe County, no decision has yet been made on that but it is a very tense situation now going on, ten days now, of course, we will have the very latest on this manhunt for eric frein coming up tonight at ten, karen. Thanks chris. In that same area, were learning shore about a horrific car crash that killed five people, it turned out four children who lost their lives according to police were not wearing their seat belts. They werent even in booster seats. This all happened yesterday afternoon in effort, pa in Monroe County. Police say a 23 yearold woman lost control while trying to pass another vehicle causing a multi vehicle crash, investigators say that she did have her seat belt on and another woman in the car injured but managed to survive, three other drivers, were also injured. Happening right now, hundreds of mercy nurses walk off the job and they are picketing now. It is happening at crozerchester Medical Center in Delaware County. The nurses are striking over pay, Pension Plans and what they say are dangerously low staffing levels. Hundreds of nurses picketed outside the hospital since 7 00 this morning. Union says Department Closure have have left patient was an unsafe number of available care takers. They say they had 800 a few years ago and now they are down to 550, during the middle of contract fight with wages and benefits serving as just some of the many sticking points. We would like to main tane the contract, the way it is. Were not asking for increases. They want our overtime, they want to us work three holidays. It just goes on and on. Crozer keystone says it has been preparing for the the possibility of the strike for months, licensed, certified, experienced and well trained nurses are providing care for patients during the strike. The Health System says it lost 32 milliondollar and needs the union to meet severe urgent conditions with fair concessions. Four people are shot in olney, two of them are dead. Philadelphia Police Responded just after midnight to the 5600 block of park street. They found a 26 yearold man shot in the back and a 39 yearold man was shot three times in the chest, both of them died. The two other shooting suspects are in the hospital, in stable condition. No arrests have yet to be made. College sophomore has died after attending a small gathering at a Fraternity House at rutgers university, investigators say 19 yearold caitlin co vac was at Delta Epsilon Fraternity House early this morning, and she apparently appeared to be in distress as some friend took her to the hospital where she died a short time later. Investigators believe her death may be alcohol related. Rutgers is offering grief counseling to students and this evening and also tomorrow. Tour fox 29 weather authority, looking live, at olde city philadelphia on the last full day of summer and this is just getting it in down to the last moment, fall officially starts tomorrow, caitlin is standing by but the the maps, caitlin we like this. Considering how the day started, joyce, tons of fog and low fog. The didnt look nice and glummy. We had a nice warm afternoon. Right now cold front to the west bringing in bands of showers, mainly along central pennsylvania. They are moving east north east ward and they are grazing our western suburbs. Lancaster county, northern part seeing light shower between harrisburg and lancaster. These are all light. It will take a while to enter on your area. That should happen this evening. We will i have chance of showers, rumble of thunder as that front crosses later tonight. Right now what a beautiful evening. So many people are out, too the on the heels of that win, it is gorgeous outside and you cannot miss all of the people. 77 degrees outside, in philadelphia, temperatures above normal and some have of us did reach the 80s earlier today. Seventynine in reading and lancaster. That is where the warmest temperatures were. Seventyeight in allentown. Pair of sevens in millville. Seventythree in ac. Seventyfive in wildwood. Your fox future cast with the rest of tonight we are clear early, beautiful edge, nice end to this sunday and to the weekend. And then also for last weekend of summer. By eight or 9 00 that front moves in, we could see some showers, nothing that looks too strong, these are weakening as they move across the state, but cannot rule out thunder. By tomorrow morning we will clear out. Front off shore. High pressure moves n it will be cooler dryer and we will see sunshine. Scattered showers around for tonight 62 in the city. Fiftyfive in the suburbs. Much cooler tomorrow, 70 degrees is all a. We will have a breeze out of the north keeping things pleasant but on the cool side and we will have latest on the week ahead in the seven day forecast, karen and joyce. Updating to a story we told but yesterday, clean up is underway in altoona, pennsylvania, following a train derailment, 26 cars were damaged and 17 were derailed. Thinks hauling passenger vans and cars. Authorities think it could ab lot longer, 20 more hours, before they get this whole mess cleaned up. Crash remains under investigation. Nobody was injured. Were also learning more about the person accused of scaling a fence, and getting inside the white house. It turns out to be an army veteran, Omar Gonzales and he was awarded a metal for his services in iraq. He is a retired due to a disability. He was carrying a knife when secret Service Agents arrested him just inside of the front door of the white house on friday evening. According to court records, gonzales told agents he was concerned the atmosphere was collapsing and he needed to contact the president. The secret service has tightened security ever since embarrassing breach, gonzales is scheduled to appear in a federal court to face charges tomorrow. Roadside bomb kills two Police Officers in egypt. It happened in the middle of downtown cairo this morning. Lots of people were around but Officials Say that the target was a Police Checkpoint near the the Foreign Ministry building. Several people were hurt in that blast. This is just one of the series of Violent Attacks by radical islam is, still angry about egypts former president Mohammad Morsi being forced out of office last year. Wife of the british aid workers pleads with isis to spare her husbands life. All ready they have executed, three western hostages, now, Allen Henning is said to be next. This is as clashes broke out, on the border of syria and turkey as ref goose run from isis. John hud i has very latest on this. Reporter police fired tear gas and Water Cannons at syrian crews trying to push them away from the board tore day as the violence there escalated. This is as more than 70,000 Syrian Refugees have flooded in to turkey this past 24 hours according to u. N. Officials and that number could grow, to more than 100,000. While turkey has provided humanitarian aid allowing refugees in the country has moth been involved with any military action against isis, today Turkish Police stopped kurdish fighters from entering the country after apparently battling isis militants in syria. As for the fight against isis the air strikes continues again over the weekend with both United States hitting isis target including destroying an is is supply boat and numerous armored vehicles. In jerusalem, john hud i, fox news. And still ahead on fox 29 news at 6 00 a party with a powerful message. Thousands of people taking to the streets of new york city where they are demanding change what they are fighting for next. And these young soccer players, are not letting their disabilities stop them, not at all how a local college team is look at all of the people running to combat Climate Change. That is the theme as so many thousands fill the streets of manhattan today. It is People Climate march. Kind of a party like atmosphere. They have marching band, people on stilts making their way from Columbus Circle down to 34th street. Protesters were so very serious about demanding action on Climate Change just two days before the u. N. Climate summit in new york city. Dominic denatal has the very latest. Reporter protesters filling the the streets of manhattan, as far as the eye could see on sunday, challenging their tea manned to action to fight global warming. President obama and other World Leaders will attend the summit on tuesday and tell straightors say the time, to speak out it is right now. Im marching because i want to build a Bright Future for my family. For my entire world. Protesters is just one of the many events being held across the globe in a 161 countries to raise awareness about the issue. In as you veil use crowds faced tossens of Police Officers outside a Convention Center where finance ministers and central bankers from g20 are meeting. Some of the protesters expressed skepticism about the Decision Makers goals. I dont believe that the real issues are on their a again a. It is about protecting the interest of the the banks. Reporter in paris 200 demonstrators waved flags and held banners in a peaceful gathering. Protesters said they want law make tours hear, that they can force change. For the politicians to feel exit rated and to dare enter completely and totally into the eke long california, energy and climatic, changes they need to feel entrusted by citizens. On tuesday they plan to work on a pack or reduce Greenhouse Gas emotions. They believe that they will finalize the tiehl come late 2015n Los Angeles Dominic denatal, fox news. More volunteers are joining in on the search for hanna graham, a missing student from the university of virginia. Her parents are speaking out today, about the ordeal, now about a thousand volunteers set out in teams, searching throughout charlottesville for the missing 18 yearold. Police say they spoke with the man that they believe was with hanna at a bar on the night that she went missing, but they to not have enough information to arrest or detain him, after searching his car and apartment. Grahams parents spoke out today saying that the search isnt just about hanna anymore. This is every parents worst nightmare. Im certain that everybody in this room and those watching knows that what happened to hanna could happen to their child. We need to find out what happened to hanna and make sure that it doesnt happen to anybody else. Hanna went missing on september 13th after leaving an off campus party. Jury selection continues this week for the person accused of murdering a grandmother and a baby in a horrific botched kidnapping attempt two years ago. Twentyseven yearold man is representing himself. He said he wanted to collect 50,000 in ransom for the ten monthold little baby girl to pay off gambling debts. They say the grandmother was babysitting when he killed her in the struggle. He plans to argue that two other people committed the crimes. A kentucky fire fighter injured in one of those ice bucket challenges has died. Tony gridder was on a fire trucks ladder when it got too close to the power line. The fire captain had just dumped water on the Campbellsville University marching band to raise money for als. Two other Fire Fighters were injured but they have been released from the hospital. Investigators say this power line was never even touched but it carried such a high voltage it was energized the ladder truck. South carolina man gets his final wish and he is really going out with a bang the 49 yearold wanted his ashes to be fired out of the cannon and he got it. Julian mercer passed away earlier this week after a long battle with cancer. He was a member of the Practical Shooting association, and that is where, his Memorial Services took place yesterday. His friend say that he was determined to have his ashes spread about, in a unique way. I mean, i mean he is getting what he wanted, how he wanted to get remembered. He was an unconventional person pretty much so this suits him what were doing today . Mercer was a hunter and Wild Life Conservation is in. Well, young soccer players teaming up with a group of College Athletes for a day of training. This is a wonderful, Wonderful Program out of lower merion. The these kids are not letting challenging or disabilities limit them this is lower merion special needs team. They work out at bryn mawr colleges soccer team. Players have some physical or mental or emotional limitations but on this field they can find a way to look past them and have fun. Today they went toe to toe with the bigger kids. We always start a little bit kind of cautious and shy, you know, once the ball gets rolling they are out there, they are playing, you get to see their personality. They just want to play. They love to score and it is fun to share in that celebration. And this is second year that these two teams have partnered together. Still ahead on fox 29 news at 6 00 pope frances, delivering very powerful message to the world during a very tense trip to albania. 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