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WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM September 6, 2016

Anyone hes the guy hell get through this. Hes going to recover. Reporter cross and chisholm captured after intense manhunt following the shooting. Investigators havent said who shot the officer. A nine year veteran of the force. Pba president matt rogers praised officer vadell for his bravery in the line of duty. Were human underneath all of this, and unfortunately he became the victim of very Violent Crime and hes on the road to recovery. Now the pba says officer vadell is improving. Gofundme page set up to help him with his medical expenses has now surpassed 52,000. Dawn . All right, thank you, dave. Philadelphia police have launched an eternal inch Affairs Investigation to determine if an officer will be charged for shooting a relative last night while the officer was off duty at his home on taunton street in northeast philadelphia. After an argument police say the officer fired his gun at least two times. The relative who was hit was last listed in critical but stable condition in the hospit hospital. New developments to night in the Sexual Assault case against bill cosby. The comedian returning to a moment county courtroom today where he got an idea about when his case will go to trial. Prosecutors also telling a judge who they want to testify in the upcoming trial. Our crews have been inside the courtroom all day long. Lets get straight out to bruce gordon live outside the Montgomery County courthouse. Bruce . Reporter yeah, dawn, nothing about this complex and controversial case now nearly a dozen years old has happened fast. So it may not surprise to you learn the cosby trial is now set to get underway next june 5th. After todays court session, its not entirely clear the whole thing will play out here in norristown. Prosecutors want to use cosbys own words against him at trial. Specifically incriminating statements he made in a phone call with his alleged victims mother months after the incident. The defense insists the call was illegally recorded. Prosecutors say its struckly legit and helps their cause. The call should come in. Its a call that was made into canada, and it was legally obtained there. We shall be a able to use it. Reporter cosby accused of of drugging and sexually molesting Andrea Constand a Temple University Athletic Department employee at his cheltenham home in 2004. The case has drawn International Attention with cosbys defense team now saying theyll seek to move the case out of the philadelphia area to ensure fairness among jurors. Prosecutors will fight that attempt. Weve also learned theyll try to bring 13 other cosby accusers all plaintiffs in civil cases against him to testify in this criminal case. Trying to establish a pattern of behavior by the actor and comedian. Cosbys defense team refused to take questions after the session but blasted the judicial system Media Coverage of the allegations. The media has presumed him guilty not innocent. The media has championed the causes of his accusers with little thought to investigation, with little thought to challen challenging or exposing the motivations behind any accusations. To accept the assumption of guilty by numbers or guilt by volume is really the same thing as accepting the assumption of guilt before innocence. Reporter prosecutors say all 13 of the women they would like to come forward to and testify in this criminal case have agreed to come to trial. Of course it will be up to the judge in this case to decide whether that testimony is admissible when finally getting around to hearing this old thing next june. More drama to come. Thank you bruce. Jury selection is under way in the Center City Building collapse trial. It will determine who will have to pay damages to the victims in that 2013 tragedy. Six people died and 13 others were injured after a brick wall came crashing down on to a Salvation Army store. The lawsuit target Salvation Army, demolition contractor, the man operatin operating anka vadn architect and any new York Real Estate speculator. According to published reports 120 potential jurors will be interviewed. It could take weeks before a jury is finally seated. Just over two months after surviving seven gunshots a Delaware County officer is set to return to the street. Fulcroft police say officer Christopher Dorman cleared tour duty and scheduled to return on friday. In late june he was dispatched to call and reported drug activity and moments after responding dorman was shot in the face, leg and chest. Police arrested a man they called a career drug dealer for the shooting. Tropical storm hermine still on the move tonight. The storm headed back to our area. Create Something Big waves from here all the way up to massachusetts. Parts of the shore seeing rain from this storm. Lets check in with meteorologist dave warren to see how its all playing out. Dave . Actually, seeing some impacts from the storm right now on the radar here. This is what it look like. Heres some areas of rain. These bands of rain are moving in from the north and pushing south the storm has turned north and jogged west a little bit. As close as it will possibly be and thats it because theres no more advisory being issue by the National Hurricane center. So this is pretty much it. Heres these bands that continue to move to the south. If youre anywhere near ocean county, around Atlantic City, and right along the parkway down through Cape May County you can see a few showers tonight. They do try to work their way west dont make much progress inland. This is pretty much right along the coast there. So through long beach island, Atlantic City, brigantine, seeing some rain move through the area. Not much moving this storm for now but that is about to change within the next 24 hours. You see it turn north and jog west a little bit. Could actually loop around and work its way out. This is the last advisory as close as it will be to the coast here reported as 115 miles east of Atlantic City 2 00 oclock advisory thats it no more issues from the National Hurricane center for this storm. The radar shows it will continue to work its way out of the area but the future weather computer does keep some of this rain in the area tonight. Heres 11 00 oclock this evening. From toms river through Atlantic City could see a few of these bands working its way inland just along the coast. Down the shore this week, you want to try to extent the summer might deal with rain tonight. Start to clear out and then we have big changes once we get little more sunshine. That heat returns. Heat wave in that seven day forecast the numbers are coming your way in just a little bit. All right, dave, thank you. Police are looking into a shooting in the citys crescen crescentville section after a man showed up at the hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg. Right now officers say that man is not cooperating. Police think the shooting happened in the 500 block of rose sal lee street. Surveillance video shows a group of men running off knew a liquor store. Police think some type of fight started the shooting. A new Jersey Republican running for a seat on the west Deptford Township committee is now dropping out of the race a mid reports that he harassed a reporter via social media. Michael kravitz submitted think letter of resignation today. A reporter for the daily beat says kravitz sent her harassing messages on facebook one she says even saying that the former candidate showed that someone would sexually assault her. The chairman of the west deptford Republican Party Committee Says it found no evidence that kravitzs accounts were hacked. He call the comments quote repulsive. The end of era for itt tech after 50 years in service the for Profit College is closing all campuses. The school laying ought 8,000 employees and telling students they can no longer enroll the closing comes after the Us Department of education banned itt tech from enrolling students who use financial aid. Its under investigation for its recruiting and accounting procedures and its being ordered to pay 152 million to the government to cover student refunds. It claims the government actions are unwarned. Pennsylvania lawmakers are trying to further loosen the states alcohol laws. Supporters want beer distributors to now have the same ability to sell wine that was recently extended to grocery stores. Stores are now allowed to sell four bottles of wine per customer. Today a new bill was introduced in the senate looking to do the same thing for beer distributo distributors. These are Small Businesses. These are people that took loans on their homes, struggle every day to make payroll, in order to keep business going and we inadvertently hurt them introducing the legislation around wine and Liquor Stores wine in grocery stores. Level that playing field. Give these smile Small Business owners the entrepreneurs the opportunity to compete with the surrounding grocery stores. The push comes after legislation loosening restrictions for other liquor and wine sales which went into effect last month across pennsylvania. Public School Students in philadelphia head back to the classroom tomorrow and for kids in kindergarten through third grade theyll be greeted by a whole bunch of new books. The School District today unpacking more than 130,000 new books that will be spread to 650 classrooms. They will be read a loud books, books that are level based on a childs reading level and the whole point of the level book is to create confidence in the young person that, um, they can actually do the reading it doesnt feel too complicated or too easy but its right at their reading level. The new books are part of a push to help every student read on grade level by the fourth grade. New at 6 00 a robbery captured on video at a local business. The alleged robber used weapon you dont really hear about very often. What police say he may have sprayed an employee with. A prestigious local college at the center of a heated controversy. The tweets from the Board Chairman that has some thinking what was he thinking . Sean . Iain starting a rookie quarterback usually means youre not trying to win now. Carson wentz is now your starter but the guy say nothing change what is their expectations are for this season coming up later in sports. A john deere 1 family tractor there nevwith quikparkt . 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Get Better Internet installed on your schedule. Comcast business. Built for business. Police are looking foreman who was ready to light up more than just cigarettes at a local store. Philadelphia police say last week this man robbed the sunny Cigarette Store at the mayfair mall. Mows say the guy walked into the store holding a lighter and a plastic water bottle filled with a yellow liquid. The man demanded money from the clerk and then sprayed him with water bottle. The clerk realized the liquid was some kind of accelerant and opened the Cash Register he then put the money from the register into a plastic yellow bag. The guy took off with undisclosed amount of money. Happening now, controversy surrounding a prestigious money county college. The Board Chairman at Ursinus College is under fire for some of his tweets. Some students calling the posts sexist and racist. Our Bill Anderson is in the newsroom tonight after speaking with some students and the schools president about the controversy. Bill . Reporter iain, Ursinus Colleges website says students should think for themselves but be careful what you wish for because that independent thinking is on full display right now as students are questioning tweets from the chairman of board went too far and should he face discipline . It happens all the time on social media. Racism, sexism, body shaming, students have to learn how to handle their social media appropriately except this time it wasnt a student, it was the chairman of the board . There was a series of tweets and some of those tweets i think were absolutely unacceptable as far as things such as comments towards race and weight and those type thing. Reporter after looking through the twitter account of michael march couldnt students posposted some of his comments online comments about caitlin jenner, overweight women and yoga pants and president barack obama have some students upset and have the College President recognizing that this needs to be addressed. Im a little unhappy with some of the words in the tweets. Theyre not consistent with our value and our mission here at our sinus college. Reporter the issue isnt if this has to be addressed pretty much agrees it does. Its how. Some students are demanding mr. March couldnt be removed from the board but the president of the school as well as several students say this is a learning experience. I do know mr. March couldnt and i know that he regrets saying those and i think we are all going through an interesting process of educating ourselves right now. Reporter i wouldnt want my entire career judged based on some thoughtless or incentive tweets i posted several years ago but the flip side of this if a student did it, they probably would be face discipline. And hopefully the message that comes out of all of this is Everyone Needs to be careful on social social media. Not just the students. You shall still be held accountable for what you say but have the chance to explain yourself. What you meant at that time and how that has changed. Reporter people in the community are upset about this. One board member has resign say the tweets were so offensive he will not serve with him. Marcon is meeting tomorrow with offended students and then iain well find out if School Leaders were face the same types of consequences of social media they constantly warn the students about. Thank you, bill. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Meteorologist dave warren in and boy, anis day. Beautiful. Bottle this day. Bottle it up and put it in the fridge. Because you wont go bad for long here were looking at heat and humidity coming back. You want to get this weather back soon. Ironically, no longer issuing advisories for the tropical post Tropical Storm hermine its close enough its really impacting the area. Minor coastal flooding this morning and bands of rain move through the area. So the last three hours you see the rain just trying to work its way barely inland here but ocean county from toms river down through Atlantic City and cape may maybe a passing shower. Heaviest just north of Atlantic City right now makes just few miles inland here that heaviest rain is right around Mystic Island as it moves right over the parkway and southern tip of long beach island. Lets look at the computer forecast show you how long this will stick around for at least the next few hours these bands continue to spin through. By 1 00 oclock in the morning, still some rain coming down. A few clouds making this far west as philadelphia. And then well just see that rain slowly begin to move out. Little transition day tomorrow. Not bad. The temperatures climb no the upper 80s but then after that, well talk about some heat and humidity. Still a few wind gusts out there thats dying down should be nice comfortable night just light breeze. Look up youll see mars and saturn just to the west of the moon tonight. When do you it will be into the 70s a little cooler that rain cooled air in wrightstown 77 but a good close to 10 degrees warmer in philadelphia where its still 86 degrees. The remnant low moves out. Heat and humidity move in. Our temperatures are climbing into the 90s. Doesnt last long, though a front will slide through the area this weekend put an end to the potential heat wave here. We could could be talking about thursday, friday and saturday above 90 degrees. Heat index near 100 degrees and it clears sunday afternoon and evening. Still a few clouds maybe a shower in the morning look at the heat index this is by thursday afternoon. Closing in on 100 degrees a few spots hit it like philadelphia so it will feel like its 100 with that heat plus humidity. Tomorrow doesnt feel like it 100. Up to 88 degrees with partly cloudy skies just a light breeze. 78 at night. Temperatures getting nice and comfor

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