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WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM August 6, 2016

Section further from the main stage could see the performers close up for a few songs later in the concert when this happened. Not knowing what exactly happened and the fans would then rush to smaller stage the performers were immediately whisked away to safety by the security staff. Some fans not knowing even climbed back up to their spots after falling from the wall so they can continue to watch the rest of the concert since the dj and band on the main stage are still playing, too. Also, not knowing what happened further back. But eventually announce many made that the rest of the show is canceled. I was oh excited to see snoop dog and weve khalifa so close to me. Our seats. Then all the people who was in the back in the garden fell. It was terrible. I saw one guy who was touching his face and all of this part of the head was open. Reporter many will remember this when the railing collapsed at vet stadium during the 1998 Army Navy Game on national tv. When 10 west point cadets are hurt in the fall down to the vet astro turf. No injuries serious as that last night in camden. Security plans to reinforce the railing and keep people from pushing so hard against it and likely rework any future plans for one of those secondary stages near this railing ever again. In camden, steve keeley, fox 29 news. Looking forward to tonight another concert is scheduled at the same venue. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose joins us now live from bb and t pavilion. Sabina, i got to ask are people nervous after last nights accident . Reporter yeah, chris, theyre nervous. Theyve seen the video on the back of their minds but its not enough they tell us to make them keep keep them from enjoying the show. We got a steady stream of people entering the venue here. We reached out to live nation they run the operations here. They didnt give us anyone on camera but gave us a statement and thats in the story. Now this morning, Code Enforcement was out here looking at the damage. So far it looks like theyve cleared the show to go on. Less than day after a collapse railing sent dozens of concert goers hurdling 10 feet down on to one another, during a snoop dog show injuring 42 people. Reporter operator live nation says the show will go on but tonights 90th concert featuring salt and pep pa vanilla ice among other others. Tailgators gathered hours before the show wary of last night collapse but undaunted tonight. Live nation is working with authorities and Structural Engineers to determine the cause of the collapse. The city says all of the injured have left local hospitals one person with the most serious upper body injuries has also been released. Code enforcement says the railings were up to par and had no violations county spokesperson says temporary railings are in place and security will be tight to ensure a buffer zone between concert goers and the new fencing. Its unfortunate when an event like that happens and people get hurt. But such a s live. You cant stop living your life because of Something Like that. Reporter and were told Code Enforcement was actually back out here just before the show was scheduled to start. They were checking it out to give it one last look before giving them the okay. It looks like right now things are going on as planned. Chris . Sabina, hoping for a safer night out there tonight. Turning to your fox 29 Weather Authority now, what a difference a day makes. The humidity returning today, locals out there taking a dip braving the heat after the heat today city hall looks like, looks like we are going to be in for another hot days ahead of us. Lets check in way dave warren. What a difference a day makes. Tomorrow will be better but the next few hours focus on here. If youre out tonight you have plans outside, watch this area here. Weve had storms moving through and they have been severe with some estimated hail. But right now that severe storm no longer severe. This is bucks county moving right along the border there between pennsylvania and new jersey right around new hope heading towards Washingtons Crossing watch that this area of rain will continue to push to the southeast estimated hail size over an inch. This is just by the radar. So these storms do have the potential to be strong or even severe. Other storm here lower portion of berks county. This is right along 422 moving through southeast so right along 422 watch out here the next hour or so this storm will continue to push right towards philadelphia. Picked up by the computer forecast these storms will be impacting the area over the next few hours moving in through south jersey by 10, 11 00 oclock. Off the coast but maybe a few ringerring showers by 11 00 oclock. Once it clears, though, were done for the night tonight. Things are clearing up. Thats dry air coming in tomorrow. So youll notice a much more comfortable day tomorrow. Temperatures hit 90 degrees. Heat index close to 100 but nice changes tomorrow. Look at those numbers in the seven day forecast. Thats coming up. All right. Thanks, dave. The owner of donald trump taj mahal made it official cass soon know has told the department of labor it will close its doors on octobe october 10th. The casino reportedly loses millions of dollars each month. The taj blamed ongoing labor dispute as a factor when it announced would it close after the summer. Nearly 3,000 workers will lose their jobs in the shut down and we will find out tomorrow if the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center will reopen after a freak elevator accident on thursday. Crews in center city spent the weekend testing elevators at the cjc after a malfunction injured two people including a sheriffs sergeant who suffered critical head and chest injuries. Investigators are still trying to figure out what went wrong while the main cjc center is closed for most business preliminary arraignments, emergency protection from Abuse Services and bail acceptance operations will still be accessible in the basement of the center throughout the weekend. Well, protests continue in chicago following the release of video of a Police Involved shooting that resulted in the death of an 18yearold suspected of stealing a car. More demonstrations are expected today in honor of paul oneal. Family members and the community are outraged over what the Police Body Cam video shows. Foxs bryan llenas has the latest. Reporter family of 18yearold fatally shot by police are seeking answers. I dont want anyone to lie if my face and tell me try to show my brothers image. I want to know the truth myself. Reporter police shot and killed paul oneal after he was suspected of stealing a car. Body cam videos released friday gives a glimpse of the events on july 28th. The Graphic Video Shows Police shoot tag car as it swerves down a street. Another showed police apprehen apprehending oneal as he fled into a residential neighborhood after he had been shot. What was in the officers minds from seeing the video it almost looked like they were close to high fying each other. It was disturb. Very disturbing. Not the way anything supposed to be done. Reporter video fueling tensions between police and communities of color after a string of Police Involved shooting incidents over the summer. Making ourselves better starts with acknowledging where we need to improve. Starts out by rooting out the behaviors that lost the trust of the community that we serve. Its just this simple. There is a hunt going on. The Chicago Police are hunting black and brown people. We are dissatisfied with the corruption, hatred and racism that runs in the leadership of Chicago Police across the city of chicago. Reporter Chicago Police department stripped the three officer of their authority after determining they had violated Department Policy as the investigation is underway. In new york, bryan llenas, fox news. Now on to the Olympic Games in rio de janiero brazil where security scare prompts action by the bomb squad. Explosion seive team had to detonate unattended backpack near the cycling finish line this afternoon. Spokeswoman for the department of Public Security says the bag may have belonged to a homeless man but protocol requires all unattended objects be destroyed. No one was injured. That cycling event went on as scheduled. Local food banks and businesses are teaming up to make sure excess food does not go to waste. The simple new tool theyre using to help fight hunger. Plus, a local hospital says these buses are sending fumes right into their air vents. What happens when fox 29 starts asking questions. And a former firefighter arrest the in an arson accused of setting the home of a fellow firefighter. But what happened next days before the fire that police are trying to figure out. Sean . The eagles roll on in to Training Camp and guess what . Zach ertz isnt the only guy impressed with another tight end and old vet getting it done impressing the coaches. Well hear about who that is coming up later in sports. Your daughter wants to stay organic. Your husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. You want to stay free from artificial preservatives. And your debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with Small Victories like giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 800 items. Eat well for less. Only at my giant. And spent eleven months in a pow vcamp. M what donald trump said about our members of the military being captured is a disgrace. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured. When you fly over enemy territory, the odds might be against you being able to come home. Donald trump doesnt understand the weight of sending americans into harms way. Hes unfit to be president. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. President obama continues his Summer Vacation in marthas vineyard. First family arrived at their go to summer hot spot this weekend. The obamas have vacationed on the massachusetts i lapped every year since president Obama Took Office with the exception of 2012. The the white house says the proceed and his family expected to return to washington on august 21st. On the jobs front july jobs numbers are showing progress in hiring but also near historic lows in the number of people in the work force. As kevin cork reports this comes as the Obama Administration clashes with big business over tax policy. Reporter is the u. S. Economy heating up or is this another case of smoke and meres well that depends upon whom you ask. White house would suggest its the former. As for a record 70th straight month the u. S. Jobs report showed gains. Payroll climbing by 255,000 last month while the job less rate held under 5 . Wages also went up point 3 the most since april with a threemonth average of 190,000 new jobs. But that is sparking fears that the Federal Reserve could raise Interest Rates as soon as next month. Which would mean higher borrowing costs for consumers on everything from mortgages to car loans, even credit cards. The feds will make their decisions but i think this is a very strong labor market. Reporter strong but not Strong Enough to impact the near record low Work Force Participation rate which continues to hover at just around 63 . When you take look at the number, i think the important dynamics are the number of people taking on parttime work to have to have keep making ends meet. That has increased. Jobs report means were seeing faster wages, were seeing continued low Unemployment Rate but that we still need to make more progress. Reporter the jobs report comes as the Obama Administrations Treasury Department is being accused of a massive over reach. The us chamber of commerce and Texas Business Group suing the Obama Administration alleging new rules limiting tax motivated inversions violate the law. Im very pleased that the Treasury Department has taken new action to prevent more corporations from taking advantage of one of the most insidious tax loop holes out there just to get out of paying their taxes. Reporter but at a statement the chambers president says treasury and irs ignored the clear limits of a statute and simply rewrote the law unilaterally. This is not the way government is supposed to work in america. Texas congressman kevin brady whos the chairman of the house ways and Means Committee is calling the new tax inversion rules damaging. Keep in mind much of the controversy surrounding this is born out of that proposed merger between pfizer and allergen you may have heard about a merger that would have been worth 152 billion merger to remains on hold. At the white house, kevin cork, fox news. Today japan marked 71 years since the Nuclear Bombing of her row seem ma. The japanese city the sight of first atomic attack in the world in 1945 the us dropped atomic bomb on the city during world war ii killing thousands people instantly. Tepps of thousands of survivors and dignitaries held a moment of violence at a Memorial Ceremony today. During the ceremony, Prime Minister abe pledged to work toward a free nuclear war world. Well, in upstate new york, a former volunteer firefighter is accused of setting fire to the home of another volunteer firefighter. Matthew durr rad dough was arrested yesterday. Police say he admitted to burning the home of fellow firefighter ken walker. Walker and he were former Fire Training classmates on monday walker whos black found a letter in his mailbox filled with racial slurs and threatening him to leave the department. Then on wednesday, two days later this home was set on fire. Police say while injury rad dough admitted to setting the fire did he not admit to writing that note. Investigators did say, however, he knew the name of someone who may have written it. The gentleman did tell police that he knew who wrote the letter, um, but he did not want to say. So at this point, if its true that he knows, i think the Law Enforcement will be, um, trying to get that information from h him. And at the same time using the paper, letter, however they do their investigations, i think theyll find out pretty quickly. Officials say he was upset about an issue related to walk walker, but would not elaborate. Finding hunger in philadelphia got a little easier with a smart phone app. The food rescue app got a test during the dnc and it was so successful, city leaders announced its here to stay. Fox 29s dawn timmeney shows us. Reporter it seems like this in philadelphia. And whats in those garbage bags that caught the attention of mega. On my way home i would see the restaurants throwing the food out, and i look at that and i saw Homeless People right across the street and i thought to myself, well, why is this happening . Reporter so the 28yearold with a date tan analytical background decided to do something about it. Mega came up with an app to connect all the food that goes to waste from restaurants and caterers with area food banks and pantries. You search food connect, download the app and from there you can schedule a pick up, put your name, number, and time frame and we to a meal site. Reporter this rescue mission its a life safe. Because we are serving three meals a day seven days a week, we can take the food and put it on our next meal, and really use it and it is so tremendously helpful. Reporter effort is a collaboration between the citys anti Hunger Organization like philabundance. Its helping make sure this perfectly good food gets safely to the people who need it. Logistics are obviously a really big part of this effort. We have trucks, we have drivers on hand, we have volunteers who are helping with this effort. Reporter the city launched the app during the Democratic National convention and it was hugely successful. Between july 21st and jul july 29th, operation food rescue recovered 9,366 meals. This is very simple. Its very simple we should not waste food. We shall not throw food away. And we should share with each other. Reporter harry is in the restaurant business. He delivered leftover food from the dnc to a local church. So we just pulled up, and popped the back and the guys donating when very helpful. Their staff came out and helped us load it in. Theres really no reason not to do it. Reporter 40 of all food in this country goes uneaten every year. In philadelphia one in four people face hunger every day. Thats twice the national average. The hope is the food connect app will put a dent in those stagg staggerstaggerstaggering statis. In north philadelphia today, students and families getting ready to give back to school the day full of activities. Net Care Community hosted the annual barbecue and health fair today at 21st and cecil b. Moore today. The event aims to bring the Community Together and raise awareness about health and social services and other Resources Available to philadelphians and they worked today to build healthier communities through health screenings, education, food and lots of family activities. Children attended also got free backpacks. And in bensalem, a brand new preschool opened for students of all abilities including those with autism. This is the Bright Beginners A

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