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WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM December 14, 2015

Extending through lancaster. And down toward baltimore and washington. It will take another half hour or so until we see some of that rain getting a little heavier. Right now seeing some sprinkles. But the heavier rain holding off until about 7 00 p. M. Heres a look what to expect. Light rain and drizzle this evening. Some rain heavy at times. Were expecting around a quarter avenue and inch and we could feel the house shake little bit with a few rumbles of thunder. But not expecting anything in the way of Severe Weather and it stays mild. Behind this front, some whipping winds. Well talk more about that and a major cool down coming up as we begin winter. Thats in the seven day forecast ill see you later in the broadcast. All right. Kathy, thanks. You can track the rain be be prepared for tomorrow download our fox 29 weather app. You can look at live radar images and get alerts sent right to your phone. Just head to the apple or Google Play Store and search fox 29. News is breaking in hunting park. Police are looking for the man they say shot an 11yearold girl at about 3 30 this afternoon on the 700 block of west luzerne street. Police tell us he shot her in the foot while she was walking home from school. Shes at Saint Christophers Hospital in stable condition. We have developing news tonight out of West Philadelphia. Search is on for whoever shot one teen dead and injured two others. It happened last night on the five hun doctor block of creighton street. As police try to figure out who is behind the bloodshed the mill creek neighborhood is wondering when all of this will many stop fox 29s Jennifer Joyce is live at police headquarters. Jenny, police say they have no motive as of yet. Reporter yeah, lucy, no motive at this point. They also dont even have a solid description of the suspe suspects. At least 17 shots were fired on the 500 block of creighton street. 17yearold is dead. Another 17yearold is injured, and a 37yearold woman is also recovering from a gunshot wound. We follow add blood trail about two blocks. Report roar police say the 17yearold who survived was shot in the thigh. He ran around the corner to and went door to door looking for help. He tried to get in several houses he ended up running inside a house. Where the people who were in the house are total strangers to him. Reporter the teen was transported that local hospital. Is going to be okay. The shooters are on the loose. The steady flow of crime and violence in West Philadelphia has local mom dorothy fired up. It makes me want to cry, because i got kids. I got a 14yearold and i got a 17yearold and im going through the same thank with mi mine. Reporter and police spent the day interviewing witnesses. If you have any information that you think might help investigators youre asked to call police. Lucy . All right, jennifer, ill take it actually. Police also still looking for the person who shot two people in the citys Queen Village section. It happened around 10 00 last note to the 400 block of washington avenue. According to investigators. Someone opened fire and shot two men. A 21 and 22yearold. The 21yearold is in critical condition. The other is in stable condition. Both are being treated at jefferson hospital. Theres no word yet about a motive. Philadelphia police need your help finding the man who robbed a man inside of an elevator. Now surveillance cameras captured the crime at an Office Building on the four hadnt dread block of holmes street in powelton. Investigators say when the elevator stopped on the eighth floor, the man blocked the exit as you can see. Got into a scuffle with the victim and stole several hundred dollars from him. This happened last month. If you know anything about this give police a call. Happening now president obama assure americans we can win in the fight against isis the president says Us Led Coalition s making progress against islam tuck state militants in iraq and syria. President obama traveling to the pentagon today. Flanked by vicepresident joe biden and defense secretary ash carter to develop remarks about fighting the terror organizati organization. This follows an Oval Office Address earlier this morning after the deadly terror tax in san bernardino, california. Republicans criticized that speech to defeat the militant group. The president says were doing more to defeat isis. We are hitting isil harder than ever. Coalition aircraft, our fighte fighters, bombers and drones have been increasing the pace of their strikes. Nearly 9,000 as of today. Last month, in november, we dropped more bombs on isil targets than any other month since this campaign started. On thursday, president obama will travel to the National Counter Terrorism Center in virginia. Security officials there will brief him on threat assessments by intelligence and security agencies. It has been very difficult day for students at a bucks county school. They gathered at a football field today to remember a classmate killed this week in a tragic accident. A driver hit and killed 14yearold steven kim while he was skateboarding saturday night in doylestown. He was the star quarterback on the Freshman Team at central bucks west high school. Fox 29s bruce gordon is live in doylestown tonight. Bruce . Reporter iain a good kid gone far too soon. That was the theme of an extraordinary Memorial Service held this afternoon here at the football stadium at central buck west high school. 14yearold steven kim is indeed gone, but he is not forgotten. Steven kims Freshman Football Team comrades filed quietly on to the central bucks west high schools war Memorial Field two by two. Holding hands a show of solidarity and support for the loss of a family member. He was a real team player. And im going to miss him so much. I thought he was just walk in the school day and everybody would be okay but he never came. Kim a 14yearold ninth greater at Lenape Middle School and quarterback for the high school Freshman Team died saturday night when he was struck by a car while skateboa skateboarding. Students organized this Memorial Service a tribute to his popularity at lenape and cb we west. He made a lasting impression on me and impacted a lot of guys and well truly miss him. Im glad were here today to honor him. Reporter at the accident scene a memorial grew throughout the day. Filled with inspirational quotations. That reminded grieving friends of the kid who was always smiling. What i remember about steven he always tried to make peoples lives better in any way possible. Hed go out of his way just like to impact anybodys live in any way he can. Reporter kims family attending the Memorial Service. They seemed genuinely moved by the show of admiration for a young man who always made everyone feel a little bit better about themselves and that are day. His sister natalie broke down while addressing the crowd. I loved him so much. And not all of the students who pack the stands here new steven kim well. But they would be well advised to learn the lesson of his untimely death. To take every day with a special care and love each other. Give each other a kiss or a hug. Its so important. Im telling that you. It means the world. The accident that claimed kims life is still under investigation but it is not believed that criminal charges will be filed. Iain it was rather remark cab this service ended by 4 00 oclock. Many students stayed around for an scraw extra hour hugging, crying, hem nining about a big man with a big smile that impa impacted so many lives. Government and Law Enforcement officials gathering in cherry hill, new jersey, today calling for congress to act in closing what they call a terrorist background check loophole. New jersey representative donald nor crows says viz other u. S. Governments terror watch list should be banned from buying firearms. A bill introduced by representative peter king of new york would close that loophole. Congressman norcross is urging House Speaker paul ryan to delay adjourning congress until that issue is addressed. The terrorist watch list, those on that list are able to legally purchase guns here in america. How can somebody who pledged allegiance to isis be allowed to go out and purchase a firearm . Norcross says that most of the American People agree with the proposal. He claims the only ones who dont seem to get are those in congress. All new at 6 00 its not one of the most shores vacationers is back in town. Huge shark with a huge social media following is up to near atlantic city. Coming up at 6 00 a fire starts in aquarium full of people. Lucky for them mr. And mrs. Claus were there. How they helped save the day. Howard. Coming up in sports a look back at the eagles big win and Malcolm Jenkins talked about some change that is have occurred over this mini winning streak and pete rose say ipso hes not going back in baseball. Thats coming up in sports. We are keeping an eye on breaking news for you out of Delaware County tonight. This is video sent to us from a fox 29 viewer. That is a car on fire in the northbound lanes of the blue route. So take a live look at our traffic cameras. This is as you can imagine causing some major delays. Yup. Officials telling us this is right near exit 13. Thats the villanova skit a couple of lanes are block. We dont know yet of any injuries but definitely plan on adding extra time if youre headed out the door and driving that way. Santa claus spreads Holiday Cheer and delivers presents, but did you know he also fights fires . Thats right. Getting a hug from firefighter there. Santa and mrs. Claus jumped into action while they were visiting drape per utah. After a fire broke out at the aquarium. Now, they helped put out the flames. Fire officials had to evacuate the building and mr. And mrs. Claus are doing just fine. I run the north pole fire department. And im the chief up there so i have a little bit of fire background. Helped lock everybody down and clear the upper floor with all the employees and getting everybody out and safe. Yup. And kiddos do not worry, no reindeer are injured. The animals in the aquarium are also just fine. Have you heard of mary lee speaking of water animals . Shes a great white shark that travels up and down the east coast very popular down the shore. While the shark has a tracking device you can log on to website and see exactly where she is, a lot of people checking up op her. Fox 29s Bill Anderson joins us now. Bill it look like mary lee is back in our area. Yes, she is and people are talking about it. Now, rarely have we seen the concern about sharks in our area that we saw this past summer and one particular great white shark as you said mary lee she even generate add major social media following. Mary lee apparently likes our area because this past weekend trackers say she was back at the jersey shore. Reporter . Shes back after several months of swimming up and down the coast, mary lee the great white shark with internet follow of nearly 100,000 people was recently tracked about 30 miles off the shore here in atlantic city. Researchers just released new video of mary lee. After seeing her, i came down the shore to see how people feel about mary lee being back in our area. Oh, my gosh. She is huge. Its not summer. I dont think theyre as concern that theyre going to get eaten by her but people devil still care its a awesome. I wouldnt be concerned right now. In the summer i would would be. Though. Reporter okay. Because not too many people go down by the water. Mary lee is over 16 feet long and weighs about 3500 pounds. And over the summer, there was little bit of a shark hysteria that had people tracking her every move. But now that nobody is in the water any way, now what do they think. Dont mess with them. They wont mess with you. The session their home. Youre still a mary lee fan. Im mary lee fan. Whats scary as long as it doesnt bother us, the ocean is their home. Im not afraid. Just dont go in the ocean. Researchers say they tag every track sharks like mary lee to get more information, not to scare people. But here in atlantic city, even in the middle of december, some people were still a little bit concerned. Now that ive seen mary lee, im not going ins will unless i got my gun. laughter . I dont have a gun. Im just kidding. Im not dont go in the water. Dont go in the water. laughter . Reporter thank you very much. It was funny how brave people were before they actually saw mary lee. And how that changed after seeing what a 3500pound shark actually looked like but researchers remind us that flying champagne corks and falling cocoa nuts actually kill more people annually than sharks do. So relax. Back to you. Good stats to know. We got breaking news in montgomery county. Skyfox up overhead of a warehouse fire. This is on pillsbury street in upper hanover township. Now medics have treated one person for smoke inhalation. No reports of any other injuries at this point. Im trying to see if theres flames there. Because it must still be going on from what i understand. But do you see the fire engines out there. We dont know what type of warehouse this is. But we do know that its a very large one. We also understand that a second Engine Company is actually shown up on the scene well stay on top of this and bring you more news as it warrants. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Another record breaking day here in our area. Three in a row. The try if he can tam the hat trick. The triple crown. The triple crown. I dont know. I know, iain has triplets. Maybe thats what it is. There you go. That works. We enjoyed the warm weather all of us ill tell that you. I know. Im so glad. What a Beautiful Day today. Another record. Take a look at these numbers. The normal high is 45 degrees for this time of year. Saturday a new record in philadelphia 69. Yesterday 71. Today we made it to 70 degrees ahead of this cold front. Ultimate doppler shows you the rain that yellow line going through allentown also northern parts of montgomery county, bucks county and chester county. Pottstown just saw the heavy rain, Upper Providence you will see the heavy rain next west vincent, even heading toward east whiteland township. You will be seeing around of rain already seeing some showers in philadelphia. The heff eighty three rain will come in a little bit later on. Also, a rumble of thunder here and there. Skill 65 in the city. The high today 70. Last year the temper 47 which is more seasonal. We have low clouds out there ahead of all the rain showers. And those low clouds are create something problems especially through new york. Look at these rain delays you can see in newark and also jfk. Some major delays on flights because of the low ceiling and the fog. Once the rain moves in, though, that will improve the conditions elsewhere no problems earlier in minneapolis snow was the issue. Right now in philadelphia, 65. 60s to the west. Mild to the south. But right now philadelphia is warmer than birmingham, nas nashville, even atlanta and charlotte. A very mild day here at home. The cold is coming though its over the northern planes business mark 25. Rapid city, iowa, 28 degrees. Right now International Falls it is 26 degrees. So cold enough for snow in the Central Plains and the west. But warm enough for rain and once again we stay on the warm side of the storm with rain showers and some windy conditions come tomorrow. The fox future cast shows periods of rain through the evening. And then we slowly but surely clear the out during the day tomorrow. Later this week, a chance of rain will be moving in on thursday. So lets move ahead to the forecast. Overnight tonight, 55. In the suburbs 51. 62 tomorrow. The record is 66 and on your seven day forecast, here we go. Kate 58 and pleasant wednesday. Rain thursday. Cooler in the 40s friday. Look at saturday and sunday. Cool with morning lows in the 30s. But we jump back up on monday when winter begins. It wont feel like it. Not at all. Thank you kathy. Lets get back with howard eskin whose live at chickies and petes, howard . Well, it might have been warm today but its rang now. So got to take it altogether. All right. The eagles won a big game yesterday. Two in a row. 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