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WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM June 23, 2016

She tells us a nurse rushed out and rendered emergency cade but police say the young life could not be saved. We have a fouryearold thats dead, um, and thats, again, thats something that tugs at your heart when do you this business here thats our number one priority is finding out how this happened. Reporter police are working to answer the questions how and who. Who was home at the time . Who pulled the trigger and who does the gun belong to . Too early in this stage to point any fingers and say anybody is being charged are under arrest. Reporter through a threeyearold child at the home when the shooting happened. Marjorie sets says thinking about the scene gave her chills. That little girl saw too much. To see her little sister bend overseeing her like that, its a shame. Its a little angel. Reporter and police tell us they recovered a gun from the scene a crucial piece of evidence as this case moves forward. Iain . All right, jennifer, thank you. To developing and disturbing story out of south philadelphia where police say a homeless man just looking for a place to stay dry from the rain became the victim of an assault and it was all caught on surveillance vid video. Investigators say two young men through rocks at the man. Fox 29s karen hepp shows us how police are trying to track them down. Reporter this homeless man at the bottom of the screen was just trying to get out of the rain by standing in south Philadelphia Bank vestibule police say when he was ruthlessly attacked by two boils hulling rocks. Disturbing incident. Obviously whats taking place. The fact theyre even attacking hip from the very beginning is disgrace in itself but to continuously go back in after assaulting this mail with rocks the first time. Reporter yup. They came back with the homeless mans cart. See that small sack inside. Thats all the victims belongings police say. You can see them should have that cart at the victim and taunt him but they still arent done. Police say while the victim cowers in the corner bleeding and wounded, the suspects come back another time to continue their torment. Its sad that, you know, such young people have such disregard for another human being. Terrible. People are cruel and incentive today. Police released this video today but the attack happened memorial day weekend at the this td bank at fifth and oregon. Take a good look at their faces. Police want to get these troubled kids off the streets. If the parents are seeing this, they can clearly identify their kids. The hope is that the parents will turn them in, and get them the necessarily help they need to prevent them from going down this road in the future. Reporter if you have any information about who these suspects may be, please call the philadelphia police. If you want to take another look just come to our website fox 29. Com. From south philadelphia, im karen hepp, fox 29 news. Philadelphia police are also looking for the man that robbed who rob the south philadelphia dunkin donuts. He struck sunday night around 11 30 on the 2600 block of south 18th street. The robber posed as a customer and when the cashier opened the register he pulled a gun and demanded money. If you know anything about this, give police a call. Us rep chaka fattah has changed his mind is now resigned from congress effective immediately. The move comes just two days after a jury convicted him on all 22 counts in a racketeering case. Fattah had initially said he would leave office once a judge sentenced him in october but today he wrote this letter to speaker of the house paul ryan reading in part upon reflection i here by make official my resignation from the u. S. House of rep tiffs effective immedia immediately he made his decision out of respect to the house and says he did not want to distract from its work. Some Big Decisions by the Supreme Court are grabbing National Headlines tonight. U. S. Supreme court is rejected a key part of president obamas immigration plan. That part was seeking to shield millions living in the us illegally from deportation. The Supreme Court announcing a deadlocked vote fourfour on president obamas immigration reform. Today, the president repeated that there needs to be a solution to make it easier for people to become citizens of america. He says this also highlights why its important to have a full bench on the Supreme Court and is urging congress to a prove his nominee merrick garland. If you keep on blocking judges, from getting on the bench, then courts cant issue decisions. And what means then youre going to have the status quo frozen and were not going to be able to make progress on some very important issues. This is a win for the constitution, its a win for congress and its a win in our fight to restore the separation of powers. President s dont wright laws. Congress writes laws. On 100,000 immigrants have been given residency as part of the new program before the Court Injunction with todays ruling those people will now be identified and there residency permits revoked. Meanwhile, the justices handed down major victory for advocates of affirmative act up holding the use of race admissions at the university of texas and so the university can continue to base its admissions on race among other things. Todays ruling ended a case brought in 2013 when a white woman sued the university claiming the school as firm tiff efforts amounted to and couldnt stewing al racial discrimination. Third Baltimore Police officer tried in connection to the death of freddie gray has been acquitted. A judge found officer caesar goodson, jr. , not guilty of Second Degree murder and all other charges against him. Goodson was facing the most serious charges of the six officers in the case. In april, 2015, gray had spinal cord injuries while he was in Police Custody and that died a week later. Prosecutors argued that goodson gave gray a rough ride in the police van and didnt put a seat belt on him. But the judge said prosecutors failed to prove that the officer new gray was in need of medical attention or drove recklessly. Before goodson was tried another officers trial ended in a hung jury and a second officer was acquitted in september. The city of baltimore settle add 6. 4 million settlement with grays family. A Montgomery County home inspector faces quite a list of charges tonight. Prosecutors say he ripped off more than 100 people by taking theyre money for home safety tests he never performed. Prosecutors say joseph, business cher rock holmes Inspection Services defrauded at least 138 home buyers throughout the philadelphia area. They say the homeowners made him for water, radon and termite tests that he either never performed or wasnt certified to conduct. Fire crews are getting a handle now on wildfires in browns mills, inform. The fire off juliustown road is 80 contained. Officials say the crews are working hard to protect the homes in that area. Theres no Evacuation Order but residents are still being told to shelter in place and anyone with respiratory problems should keep their house closed. All right. Kathy orr got that plane fired up shes going back down the shore. Cease in Sea Isle City surround beside friends as usual. Kathy . Reporter yes, we have lots of friends down the shore. Guess what theyre going to eat tell them what youre going to eat. Ice cream. Where is the ice cream from. Goldys dips ahoy. Were going to show you some of the best ice cream down the shore. But first well talk about the weather because if youre planning oncoming down you need to know this forecast. You can see on ultimate doppler we do have a few storms out there. But they are mainly to the west so i dont think we have to worry about it this evening. Right now we do have one in land cost county. Could get into chester county. So please be aware of that in western chester county. Near honey brook and its heading toward the east. It is a patch of heavy rain. Elsewhere we just have warm temperatures. 84 in philadelphia. 82 in trenton. And down the shore, its beautiful. 82 degrees in ocean city. Avalon 79. Wildwood 79. It is the same here in Sea Isle City. If youre coming down the shore this weekend, it doesnt get much better than this. How about 75 degrees for tomorrow. 78 degrees for saturday. And by sunday, near 80 with ocean water temperatures in the 60s. Unbelievable. You know what youre going to need . Youre going to need some ice cream thats right. And we ginny and mike here from goldys and guess what . Ginny is mikes mom. Yup. Ginny whats the special today. It is mikes 30th birthday. Mike is goldy. Im goldy. Happy birthday goldy. Thank you we have another birthday. This is lauren down here. Hi. Happy birthday lauren. Thank you. Dig into that delicious ice cream. Have some ice cream. Come on guys. Dig in. Everybody grab some here. How is it on your birthday. Its delicious. Does it taste better because its your birthday. Yes. Have a good one. How is it guys . Delicious. Good. All right. You guys want some ice cream. Isnt this great you got to love sea isle well be back with your forecast from the city to the shore in just a few minutes. Well see you then. She took that first bite she goes ah. All right. Kathy, see in you a lit. Camden county unveils mosquito lab in their fight against zika. What official say is the good news about the reported cases of the virus. The democrats mascot is getting ready to gallop throughout the city. How these painted donkeys are helping local artists. Howard . Get doggies in sea isle. Sixers make the first pick in the nba draft. Its no secret. But what else are the sixers working on . Sean bell is in new york and the phillies did something that they have been making impossible for themselves. All thats coming up in sports. Democratic National Convention weeks away from storming philadelphia and tonight local artists are hard at work painting these fiberglass donkeys. They will be displayed throughout center city during the convention. There are 57 in all to represent allstates d. C. And us territories. They display images symbolic to the places they represent. The pennsylvania donkey features the liberty bell and state bird, flag, flower and code of arms. Delegations will be able to take their donkeys home or or allow them to be auctioned off with proceeds going to the artists. Anti poverty active visits are suing the city of philadelphia. They want to demonstrate during rush hour at the dnc. People Economic Human Rights Campaign hopes to march from city hall to a park near the convention center. In a lawsuit filed today the group claims the city has unwritten ban on demonstrations during the morning and evening rush hours. But it says the city has granted exceptions for parades and other public gatherings during rush hour the city has has no comment until its Law Department reviews the suit. Hell officials in Camden County monitoring mosquitoes for zika virus. Camden county Mosquito Commission unveiled their mosquito Identification Lab this morning. Officials say there have been no locally transmitted cases of zika but they want people to be proactive and informed about the virus. Out of nearly 700 cases of zika in the u. S. Only three have been report the in Camden County and Officials Say the cases are all travel related. Which is a good thing it means zika is not really present here right now, um, but we do want to make sure public is aware when they do travel, they do know to make sure that they know whats out there because its not just seek casm theres lot of other diseases that can come back and potentially spread win our community. Camden county Officials Say theyre now focused on sam bling mosquitoes to track these viruses and to keep the mosquito population under control. The Childrens Scholarship Fund of philadelphia just hit a huge milestone as of today, it is awarded its 10,000th scholarship. Wow huge crowd filled the Kimmel Center in philadelphia today. Privately funded program awarded to k through eight scholarships to low income familiars from across the city. A whole lot of scholarships. Organization has reached its goal of 10,000 scholarships in the past five years. The initiative has raised more than 50 million. Good stuff. Yes it is. So is this. Kathy orr is back down the sho shore. Sea isle city. Which just looks fantastic and filled with great treats and great people, too. Hey, kathy. Reporter it has ban great day you guys we have a few clouds rolling in from the west. But it has been a fantastic day. The kids are out of school, right . Yes big kid back there, too. And now what are we going to eat this time . Fudge. We just cant get enough. We have james fudge here and this is kayla. Kayla are you going to serve them. Oh yeah. Well let you start serving them up and well do a little weather and come back okay. Okay. You guys can dig in but listen to kayla. All right. Lets talk about the weather were live in Sea Isle City where the temperature is 78 degrees. It is beautiful and were going take a look at ultimate doppler where we have a few spotty storms out there. He is special physical youre in chester county. Keep careful eye you could hear a rumble of thunder. We have a cell moving in from the harrisburg area. Elsewhere were just talking about great temperatures. Its in the 80s across the board. 83 in philadelphia. We have some 70s to the north and Lehigh Valley in pottstown but all in all really nice day. High pressure building off the coast and thats going to give us beautiful weekend. Everyone is getting excited for it. With temperatures that will be rising right through the 80s from the city to the shore. And as we look ahead overnight tonight, 65 in the city. 61 in the suburbs. It will be mild and muggy and during the day tomorrow, its a keeper mix of sun and clouds if youre heading down the shore the temperature will make it to about 84 degrees a really nice day ahead and on the exclusive fox 297 day forecast, and shore cast, look at these numbers. Saturday 86. 89 sunday at home. 88 monday. Maybe a storm in the afternoon with heat on tuesday. And 80s through next wednesday and thursday. Shore temperatures ranging from 75 tomorrow into the 80s by the weekend. How is the fudge, guys . Good very good. Delicious. This is tia. Tells what we have here. We have Caramel Popcorn. We have, um, this is Caramel Popcorn with nuts. We have salt water taffy. A different arrangement of fudge and we have macaroons. And some gourmet products and gourmet products. All right. Some of our big girls might like that. What do you think about those gore nay products. They look amazing they do look amazing these girls are my friends from the beach earlier. And you know what i know youve had fun all afternoon so you just dig in. You dig in. You just take that justine. Hold on it to girl. All right. Well give it to you. Hey, how was it . How was your fudge . Good. What do you think . Good. All right. If youre lucky enough to be down the shore do you know what youre lucky enough. Say by. To everybody back home. Bye were in Sea Isle City. Shop hope to see you down the shore this weekend. I love it. Kathy is having so much fun. Popcorn, crab balls. Macaroons. Outfits. Ice cream. Clothes. The segment i was left out. Ill bring this home for you. Thank you kathy. Were hungry. Thanks, kathy. All right. Howard is here now with a look whats coming up in sports. Shes going to bring it home. We got fudge last time. You had fudge. No, i didnt. You didnt have any . No. Im sorry. Once it gets upstairs its gone. Exactly. The phillies did something that has been very difficult for them. How did the phillies stop the disaster and the nba draft is less than two hours away. We know who is the first pick for the sixers but will they make any trades to get others well hear from sean bell in new york coming up in sports. Tonight is the tight into the 76ers fans have been waiting for this night for over three years. We know who the first pick in the draft will be. All right. So sean bell is at the draft in new york and there could be other things the sixers are trying to do. Sean . Reporter thats right howard. Other things as in get back in the top five and a take a guard they so desperate the need but all the attention right now no matter what happens is on ben simmons much hes our guy. Hes been born and bread to be the number one overall pick since he was probably like five years old. Thats how long he thought hed be an nba player and thats how long he thought hed be a number one overall pick. No doubt he wants to be that whether it was with the sixers, lakers or any other team he wanted to be the number one guy. With being the number one guy, comes a whole lot of pressure. Allen iverson thats the last guy number one hall of famer. We know what did he. So ben simmons has a lot to live up to and right now he knows all the things that comes with that pressure but he seems cool, calm and collected. Ive put in a lot of hours, a lot of years just to get here. I know im ready. This is what ive been waiting for honestly. Im willing to work hard and put in the time. So hopefully i can do big thing. Reporter of course, like we said we know its ben simmons what else do they dodge theres trades all over the place. Jamal murray, chris dunn2 guards the top rated in this draft. Will the sixers trade away the 24th and 26th. Will okafor be gone. Noel be gone a whole lot of things that can happen tonight, and the draft is just half hour away. So its not too long until we know what the sixers future will be like. What do you think, howard . Chris dunn . Jamal murray . Will they get it done i hope so. They need a point guard. They took three years to bury this team. Its not going to be easy to get it back. Its a start. You just got to hope ben simmons is the right guy. Thanks sean. Talk to you later. Time to celebrate. The phillies nine game losing streak, its over. To minnesota. How about that . Ryan howard who has not seen many hits this ye year. Threetwo pitch he had to it pitch right down the middle in the second upping. Minute money was up one to nothing. Now its oneone. Freddie galvis had good day. Five rbis. He had sa

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