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WTXF Fox 29 News At 6PM March 9, 2015

This is the fourth straight day since officer wilsons death that an event in this community honoring him. Tonight several Community Groups coming together outside the game stop store where he was gunned down. Earlier we saw Police Officers walking the beat like they did every day just feet away from where wilson was gunned down, and eventually getting stopped by virtually everyone passing by just to say thank you to a police officer. Now, just outside the store one day at a time drug and Alcohol Recovery Program gathered with several Community Organizations to come together and pray for peace in this community and pledged their support to Police Officers. It wasnt just a police officer. Another black man an another individual got killed by another black man and not only him. Look at the on the two brothers lives who was lost. They have a mother an father, too. So shes crying today as well. We want to share light and say we have a problem. Lets talk about it. Reporter now another way this community is coming together in the community is created a gofundme page for the family of officer wilson. It was started two days ago in hopes of raising 10,000 and in just two days, half of that has been raised. Of course, well have much more from this vigil coming up tonight at 10 00 oclock. Lucy . We will check in with you then, thank you very much chris. Developing right now a scary afternoon for children on a schoolbus which means a lot of frayed nerves for pan. Skyfox over the scene of that schoolbus crash think afternoon you see it on its side 300 block of main street in lumberton bunch couldnt town tee the scene. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live in mt. Holly, new jersey. Shawnette. Reporter lucy one person was brought here to virtua hospital behind me in mt. Holly its unclear if that person was a student or someone else involved but we can tell that you their injuries are reported reportedly hi minor. This call came just around 2 30 ace afternoon it happened in lumberton on main street near bella road. A schoolbus with about nine children on board were told rolled over on its side which is what youre looking at right now in sky fox the kids had to be evacuated through the back emergency door. Now also on scene a dark colored ford car crashed into a pole. That car sustained extension seive damage to the front hood. Were waiting to hear from police still at this hour how this accident happened, whether the bus and car swerved to avoid hitting each other or someone crossed over the center line. We are still waiting to hear how that happened at this hour and back here again, one person is here at the hospital. Their injuries reportedly minor. So good news for parents tonight tonight. Back to you, lucy. Thank you very much shawnette. From a bus crash to an amtrak train crash with a tractor trailer it has injured 40 people. Now this happened in halifax North Carolina as that train headed toward philadelphia. Two of the train cars derailed. The engine a and a bag damage car many it runs between charlotte and new york city with a stop right here in philly much the person who capture this video knew that train wasnt going to be able to stop in time time. Oh, my god oh, my god oh oh h get the feeling of helplessness watching that. Police say none of the injuries in the crash or life threatening threatening. A verdict today in the murder trial of padyge winds low. She was dancer from london and received a botched injection from windslow. Joyce evans has been following the case all day and joins us now in the studio. Joyce. Iain and lucy, the socalled black madam could get as many as 70 years in prison convicted of third degree murder. Ago greated as vault and two weapons charges. What weapon . Industrial grade silicone injected into womens back sides. The 45yearold called herself a gothic hiphop dancer who ran a transgender Escort Service and the best body sculpting practitioner out there. Prosecutors called windslone low a con artist and peddler of death who ran pumping parties out of hotel room. The jury also heard from her clients or victims who believed windslow was an expert at butt enhancing injections. That she was a liar. It was a front. She preyed on people who were uneducated were hoping to be beautiful and she tricked them to took advance of it. They were. They were dying to be beautiful. I mean women want to be beaut if all different ways. And she knew it. And she took their money and instead did something that was horrible to them. The battle aint over yet and god is still in control. Im still being there for my sister and still going to stand with her till the end. You plan on al peeling. Yes, we are. Reporter das office says the conviction sends a message to other people like the madam and a warning to women like the london dancer who died and the injured who testified. Windslow is set to be sentenceed on june 11th. Iain. Joyce, thank you. Some big improvements in your fox 29 Winter Weather authority. Warmer temperatures an late sunset as we take a look outside. Spring is right around the corner. This warming trend is going to continue. Lets check in with chief meteorologist Scott Williams whose outside and scott you dont even need a coat and the sun hasnt set yet. Thats right. We have two things going for us today iain the sun will set this evening the about 7 01. Also the temperature todays were in the mid to upper 50s. In fact, today we saw a high of 57 degrees. Making it the warmest since january 4th when the high was 58. So i hope you got outdoors and enjoyed this nice weather. Spring arrives in about 11 days. As we look at the temperatures right now, still pretty comfortable at the 6 00 oclock hour. 56 degrees right now. Perfect visibility and humidity is low and we are dry. We have 55 degrees right now in wilmington. Millville checking in at 55. Low 50s root now in pottstown as well as reading. So the bottom line a pretty comfortable evening if youre stepping outdoors. But it will get chilly temperatures falling into the 30s as we move toward the overnight and once again it is dry, but take a look off to the west. A lot of rain and that system is headed in our direction to impact your tuesday. When i come indoors ill have the timing of the rain as well as how much to expect and when we might hit 60 degrees for the first time this year. Guys . All right. See you then scott. Well, this beauty of a day came crashing apart in camden counsel too one a Police Officers car crashed through a house. The homeowner said it sunned like a Freight Train and left big hole in the house. Investigators say the officer was on his way to an accident when he crashed into a pole and ended up in the homes front yard. He has minor injuries. Tonight we know how a Delaware County boy died after going missing for several days. An autopsy found 13yearold cayman naib shot himself in the head. Familiar members say cayman used a gun from home that could still be fired despite having a trigger lock on it. The teen disappeared wednesday night after getting upset email from school about a missed class assignment his body was found yesterday covered in snow in darby creek not far from his home. Statement has been released on the behalf of the family. Some of it says, no words can adequately express our familys pain and sadness at this news. The family has asked the Community Respect the need for privacy at this very difficult time as they mourn the loss of their son and support their daughter. In south jersey the residents of sergeantsville are pulling together after a devastating fire at historic building. The sergeantsville inn caught fire around 2 00 this morning. It once hosted george washington. Retired firefighter and his wife live on the same block as the inn. Saw the trouble and rushed to get help which might have just saved that inn. Woke us up out of bed. I said sergeantsville inn is on fire. I dont want that to happen. Im sorry but i got to go. And she got up at the same time. I went up the water tower. She came down here. Volunteer firs helped put out that fire. Investigators are now look nothing what starter it and the owners are already saying they do plan to rebuild. New jersey residents will have their first chance to publicly weigh in on governor Chris Christies nearly 34,000,000,000. 2016 budget tomorrow. Senate and Assembly Committees are going on the road this week what lawmakers call listening sessions. The senate is convening a hearing in per ram muss tomorrow and the assembly will meet in collingswood on wednesday. Youll be able to share your thoughts on how christie is proposing to spend your tax dollars. Talk about stirring up the pot. Yes we know chip kellys moves have a lot people talking about this seasons goals. 1espn commentator seems to be hindering race is a part of all this. Well weigh into that controversy. An influential leader in the Catholic Church is in philadelphia ahead of the popes visit this september. Very important decision theyre making today. Heres a hint for it. It involves milkshakes. Howard . Today cliff lee had some eye opening comments about his future and his career. And the eagles sign another free agent and hes africanamerican and what the heck happened with wide receiver Jeremy Maclin . Thats coming up in sports. Developing right now whole lot of questions surrounding comments made by a popular Sports Talk Show host. Espn steven amount smith went on the air questioning the eagles recent moves and actually talking about the role race might play. Questioned by a lot of fans. Bruce gore hasnt is live in the newsroom with what the fans are saying. Bruce . Reporter guys, chip kelly has angered a lot of eagles rooters bite cutting wide out Desean Jackson trading star running back lesean mccoy and now letting star receiver Jeremy Maclin levy ya free agency. That is a lot of star power out the door with very little to show for it. The moves may be dumb well find out but are they really racist . On espn first take monday morning, host steven amount smith never overtly called eagles head coach chip kelly a racist but smith said in the wake of a flurry of birds personnel moves you got brothers walking the streets going like that whats up with chip . Former long time Philadelphia Inquirer columnist questioned the curl cher being created by kelly and suggested there was a racial element to moves that have three eagles top offensive stars over the past two years all africanamerican. Gone lesean mccoy Jeremy Maclin Desean Jackson. Staying, riley cooper. Really . Hmm. Really . Okay. Okay. Cooper of course was caught on camera uttering a racial slur. He publicly made amends and later was signed to a hefty new contract. The lunch crowd at tony lukes in south philly was hunching cheesesteaks when we came looking for reaction. Just about everyone black and white found smith suggestion distasteful. I dont know about that. As far as being a racial thing. I think its surprising to see such good talent leave. Whatever their color. Yeah, whatever their color is right. Chip kelly i think he know what he doing. Well see when the season starts starts. Im going to miss mccoy. That was my favorite running back. I dont think it has anything to do with black and white. I think it has, you know, everything to do with playing football. Every time we get talent it end up leaving. Whether the eagles, the sixers like i dont know. Is that a black white issue do you think or money issue or i think its a money issue. Reporter well, smith is taking a bashing on twitter. Hes not backing away from his comments. But he does insist he was not calling chip kelly a racist. No comment from the eagles who by the way are about to officially bring in two new free agents, one on offense, one on defense both africanamerican. Iain . All right, bruce, thank you. Lets get book your fox 29 Winter Weather authority. A sign that spring is on the way. There are still patches of snow on the ground but it was warm enough today for those rowers to hit schuylkill river. Yes. In philadelphiaed hard to believe we were blanketed in snow and ice a few days ago. Can we retire Winter Weather authority . Maybe in about 11 days. Lets just do it a head start on it. What do you think scott . Its gone. Hey, lets take a poll. Okay. Im good. The way it feels this week is all good. We are going to hit actually we have a chance guys of hitting 60 degrees later on this week. So well get back to maybe potentially changing that. But right now look at the numbers. Its 56 degrees. Humidity at 34 . Yeah feels like spring break out there if you stepped outdoors you can see folks are out and about. Just grab that light jacket. Those temperatures will be dropping as the sun sets a little later on this evening. Yeah the sun wont set until look at that 7 01 but we made it up to 57 degrees. That was the high today. 7 degrees above the average and look at the mild weather to our south. Mid 60s in charlotte. 73 degrees right now in jackson jacksonville, flor. We have 64 in atlanta. So a lot of the nation getting a break from winter as well as snow. We have 56 degrees in atlantic city. 52 in trenton. Mid 50s right now in wilmington and upper 40s right now in allentown. So for tonight temperatures drop into the 30s. So it will get chilly after a mild day. Then the cloud cover rolls in and were looking at rainfall on and off really throughout the entire day tomorrow. We could see up to three quarters of an inch of rain by tomorrow night. So as we talk a little bit about the ultimate doppler perspective, you can see were dry right now. Not looking at any precipitation across the our area. We have to head all the way to the south and west around little rock arkansas as well as dallas texas getting a lot of rain in that moisture will continue to head in our direction during the day tomorrow. So tonight at 10 00 oclock were dry and quiet but watch the cloud cover role in overnight and early on your tuesday. But a dry and cloudy start. But by late morning were looking that rainfall moving into south jersey, moving into delaware by lunch time 1 00 oclock widespread light to moderate rain will be falling across the area. So just keep that in mind for your plans. Youll need the umbrellas and youll also need to allow some extra travel time because of the wet roads for tomorrow afternoon and evenings commute it looks to be a wet one by 10 00 oclock tomorrow night when youre watching the fox 29 news at 10 00, we are still looking at some moderate rain across the area. So how much rainfall to expect . As we watch the clock by this time tomorrow, well likely have about a quarter of an inch on average across the area and as we continue to advance the clock by 10 00 oclock tomorrow night were closing in on perhaps close to an firm wilmington and about three quarters of an inch in philadelphia as well as millville. So a good soaking rain expected tomorrow pretty much area wide. As far as those temperatures for tonight, parly cloudy turning chilly. Watch out for some patchy black ice out there because of the melting today. Temperatures right around 34 in the city. But temperatures below freezing likely in those colder suburbs. High temperatures tomorrow a little cooler than today. Upper 40s. Cloudy skies. That rain arrives once again during the late morning to early afternoon time frame and its going stick around at least through early wednesday but after the rain is out look at the temperature. Wednesday 60 degrees. A little cooler on thursday. 50 and then upper 40s 40s as we kick off friday and then scattered showers and wet for your saturday. Saturday could be a wash out. Well keep you posted. Its not snow. Yes. Too warm to snow for the first time in awhile. The rain gets rid of the snow snow. Clean it all up. Thats very nice. The glass half full. Its mostly sunny. Not partly sunny. There you go. The eagles signed another free agent today. But why did they lose Jeremy Maclin . And some eyeopening comments from phillies pitcher cliff lee about the yeah, im married. Does it matter . Youd do that for me . Really . Yeah, id like that. Who are you talking to . Uh, its jake from state farm. Sounds like a really good deal. Jake from state farm at three in the morning. Who is this . Its jake from state farm. What are you wearing jake from state farm . [ jake ] uh. Khakis. She sounds hideous. Well shes a guy, so. [ male announcer ] another reason more people stay with state farm. Get to a better state. Im not sure if the pope likes milk shakes but the president of the vatican upon seive if you cal council for family is in philadelphia today. Hell choose a flavor to pay the way for the big visit. The special shake is called hash tag pope philly. Its Vanilla Ice Cream and short bread butter cookies. Archbishop vin chone so paglia helped with its creation and you can buy it for 3. 50 at poll belly pig. All proceeds will go to help plan all the Planning Efforts of this years world meeting of families. The shake does go on sale next month. I actually like pancake milk shakes but thats another story. Theres so much eagles news going on and we dont hear much about the phillies. Well, we did today. Yesterday an eye opening comment by cliff lee. Today about his injury. Cliff lee has been on his Rehab Program and throwing since last december after his elbow injury last season. Kept him out a good part of the season. Thursday he pitched for the first time in a game and the next day he felt tenderness and swelling. He had an mri last week and showed some irritation. Has had one doctor look at the mri doctor James Andrews will look at this week but lee doesnt sound too optimistic. Basically if i had the surgery this season would be done and possibly my career, i guess. I mean i dont know. Wow serious stuff today the phillies played baltimore in very society t aaron horang the first, fourth or fifth starter. Gets out of it. Gave up no runs in two innings. And name youll never hear probably again. Andre polanco hit a homerun. Phillies scored the only run of the game. They won it one to nothing. All right. The eagles, unofficially signed two free agents yesterday. Seattle defen

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