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WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM June 23, 2017

Until 6 15 warning you that we do Severe Weather on going in your communities to the southern flank of the storm we have a Severe Thunderstorm Warning again for berks, bucks, cheddar and Montgomery County this up until 6 30. I want to bring you right to ultimate doppler its a very impressive looking storm. Just to the west of 476, just outside of pottstown, you are probably seeing the lightning. If youre looking out towards the northwestern skies f youre in pottstown its time to seek shelter because of this dangerous thunderstorm moving in your vicinity and then norristown right along 276 thats another spot were going to have to watch. Watching radar closely and theres some indication there my be some rotation in the storm. There is no tornado warnings just yet but well watch this very closely as were seeing the gusty winds and now some turning with direction and height which would be indicative avenue severe storm possibly going tornadic. No warnings just yet well watch very close keep a very close on it. You can see its up to 50,000 feeder. Thats indication that its producing winds in excess over 60 miles an hour even the possibility of large hail. So this is moving for upper dublin, northampton at 6 21. Moving to the east at 25 miles an hour. Good ready to roll and we have a lot of weather to talk about. All night long dealing with damaging winds, flooding and dangerous cloud to ground lightning theres lot to talk about an lot to track for you coming up in just a little bit. Guys. All right. I know youll keep us updated, mike, thanks. Police believe they may have crew of serial burglars on their hands. From Delaware County to philly police think a rash of crimes may be the work of the same group. Ton night police are piecing together clues. Fortunately some of these were caught on camera. Police have something to go on much fox 29s Dave Schratwieser in University City with the story. Reporter Authorities Say this crew struck at least four times in Delaware County and philadelphia. Each time, targeting asian business owners. Some sometimes at home and sometimes at work. Its just scary knowing that they walked in to our home, you know, they broke into our home. Reporter mark kims family feels like theyve been violat d after four man crew of burglars broke into their Delaware County home, then the familys business in south we have philadelphia. They were having trouble just dealing with the pain of losing a lot of money, a lot of their goods, a lot of jewelry. Reporter kim owns the house of cheese deli a few feet from a Police District on woodland avenue in southwest. The burglars ransack his home in marple township one day, then hit the business the next. Anything from lunch meet to cigarettes to cash. Change that we have. That we store. We their theyre watching on surveillance and have their habits down pitt well. The only good thing theyre going in there when the people are home. Reporter suspects wore gloves but no masks or disguises. Theyre not camera shy and theyre ambitious. Investigators say the burglary crew has cut a path of crime from Delaware County to philadelphia. We believe we can attribute four different burglaries to this group so far but we dont know how many they actually have committed at this point. Its just really messed with our lives really. Reporter investigators from the county and philadelphia believe the four suspects may be in the philadelphia area. They hope someone will recognize them and contact investigators. I dont want this to happen to anybody else. Reporter investigators say sometimes this crew is caught off power to the homes hoping to disable the surveillance camer cameras. In other cases theyve simply ripped out the surveillance cameras. But investigators got lucky. Some of the video had been up loaded to the cloud. In University City, Dave Schratwieser, fox 29 news. A state Senate Committee hearing is canceled at city council today after protesters made their thoughts clear about philadelphia soda tax. The people causing the disruptions, well, guess what, theyre in favor of the soda tax. Meeting was meant to be an open forum to discuss citizens issues with the policy and it couldnt even get underway after protesters yelled and blue horns inn says tanly one of the primary functions of the took pay for free preschool education for children. I just want to let the crowd in this room recognize that your City Council Members did care about this issue many were paying at innings to it. Were interested in hearing that is also fair and balanced. Its important to understand why or how a hearing on the impact of the beverage tax would exclude a number of people. Of course after much controversy, the soda tax took effect back in january. 66yearold woman is in jail accused of setting an ocean county home on fire. Police say this woman diana wills set the fire along king fisher way in manchester back on april 7th while the person who lived inside was in the house and was able to get out. A man who lived next door died of smoke inhalation. Wills is now facing arson and manslaughter charges. Absolutely sickening allegations out of local ice cream parlor and tonight the shops owner is in trouble. Police say he secretly recorded his employees and they were teenagers. Fox 29s jeff cole has the latest from vineland. Reporter it is the type of crime that has neighbors shaking their heads in disgust and Police Searching for still more victims. I have vanilla chocolate strawberry mint chocolate chip and butter pecan. Reporter driver for philly water ice made the trek from the city with seven tubs of ice cream for vinelands cool breeze parlor only the to fine the doors lock and neighbors seething. He should should be sentenced much thats nass team thats peoples kids out there. That could have been my daughter. My daughter one day will be there one day trying to get a summer job and you know, no. Reporter owner 65yearold larry bostic is in the county lock up after police say they found a hidden camera in the dressing room. A monitor and recording device was in his locked office. The girls who work here tipped police. So far we believe we have five juvenile victims. Were not certain or not whether there may or may not be more. Reporter he has trouble on two fronts. Ten counts of child endangerment and invasion of privacy. And 9,300 in unpaid property taxes which may put the parlor on the tax sale list in objection. I really dont know him, but anybody that does that is, hmm, thats not cool. Reporter driver duggar prison got back in his truck and headed for philly with those seven tubs and a bad feeling. I have twin girls. Its pretty shocking, you know, i feel bad for the parents and the girls that work here. Reporter police say bostic had prior business. Thats why they are seeking the publics help to find if there are any more potential victims. In vineland, im jeff cole, fox 29 news. Sentencing is now set foreman convicted of sexually assaulting six girls and fathers two children. 52yearold donald Lee Donald Kaplan will be sentenced in bucks county in september. Prosecutors say the girls parents gifted their oldest daughter to kaplan because he helped them financially. That couple has been convicted of child endangerment and will be sentenced next month. To gloucester county, n, now, where a woman was sentenced today for recruiting a teenaged girl to be a prostitute. 23yearold barbara will spend five years in a state prison. Police say she met the teenager who ran away from home in 2,016 and invited her to live with her at a local hotel. Police say she then convinced that girl to be prostitute with her. She bled guilty to Human Trafficking charges back in march. A paraplegic man from south philadelphia speaking out tonight after a violent assault allegedly committed by his own uncle. Its not just the attack that caught our attention here. Its the fact the alleged victim is talking publicly about what happened. Our bruce gordon joins us in studio with a story youll only see on fox. Bruce . Reporter chris and dawn, this is not the crime of the century. Simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. But the victim and the accused are indeed family members. Asianamerican family members. And that makes this now public story worth your attention. 40yearold marks foo knew he was taking a risk when he invited to us his south philadelphia home to talk about the attack. My family, um, wanted me to, you know, keep it on the hush hush just like every other incident like when i seen growing up and if you do, um, speak about it, basically youre like betraying your family. Reporter foo is a paraplegic an accident caused him the use of his leg. Earlier on the evening of june 14th he got into an argument with his 62yearold uncle with whom he lives. Things quickly turned violent. He basically through me down to the ground and i couldnt get up and run. After he punched me and i was bleedinbleedinged hitting me. Basically dragged me down. I was on the ground. Reporter foo is vietnamese and chinese. But grew up in the u. S. As child he says he remembers witnessing acts of Domestic Violence and being told keep it to yourself. As a family matter rather than showing it to the public. They will feel embarrassed. In this case battered and bleeding, foo ignored his experience picked up the phone and called 911. I had to call the authorities because i was feared for my life. Reporter studies show achesamericans are less likely than many other ethics groups to report domestic to police. There are language and cultural barriers to coming forward. City council david oh explains it would be, um, embarrassi embarrassing, shameful to the family, um, it would be exposed out in the public, and it may have consequences that the family members are not pro paired to deal with. Reporter foos call led police to arrest his uncle. Lamb has now been charged with simple assault and reckles recky endangering another person. I just got my stitches removed yesterday. Report roar mark foo could have cep this story quite but he will no longer remain silent. In hopes his community will follow his lead. They shouldnt be afraid just because of the unknown. Reporter foo tells me his uncles wife that is to say his aunt tried to break up the attack but was thrown aside and suffered minor injuries herself she actually arrive at the home as we were talking to foo and did not appear happy that he was talking to us. P chris. Bruce, thanks, could it be phillys new hang out spot where city officials hope folks will gather for food, fun and a little entertainment. Sean . Yeah, besides loud mouth lavar ball the sixers were the talk of last nights draft. Coming up in sports, hear from sixers decisionmaker bryan coangelo why he welcomes the attention. Protip. Get these great smoked ribs. Twenty minutes on the grill, theyre done. You think he cares if i smoke ribs for six hours . What . The best food at amazing prices, giant. In the state that invented the american vacation. A legendary adventure awaits. Heroes will rise. Bonds will be forged. And memories will be made to last a lifetime. New york state. Its all here. Its only here. 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Little competition can certainly be a great thing. But every once in awhile the essence of sportsmanship wins out over the drive to win. Such was the case for steven resnick. Steven runs on the Souderton High School unified track team which has special education students running right alongside regular ed children during the county finals in may steven was running well ahead of the nearest competitor when that young man tripped without hesitation steven ran and turned around and helped up that other runner before continuing his race. Last night the School District honored young steven for sportsmanship and honor well deserved. I was actually there. Thats right. We were shooting another athlete on that team a special ed he had athlete, and witnessed the whole thing happening. It was unbelievable. Thats great. Every cheered it was mazing because that young man could have won the race. But instead he stopped to help somebody else. He wasnt on his who wasnt3 on his team. Thats sportsmanship right there. Absolutely. Back to your fox 29 weather authority. Lets take live look at atlantic city. The shore is probably going to be crowded this weekend, but will it be beach weather . Meteorologist mike masco has your forecast in 15 seconds. And yes, it will be a Beach Weekend but we do have to get through a round of severe thunderstorms through the rest of tonight and into tomorrow morning heres live picture very ominous sky cam you notice the sun is still out here in philadelphia and especially as you get into south jersey. So the instability is still in play. And that is going to set the stage for more gusty storms for the overnight hours. 87 degrees in town right now. Southwesterly breeze coming in at 20 miles per hour. And we are talking humidity values that are way up there. Weve been looking at heat indices, heat index values the feels like temperature feeling like closer to 100 degrees earlier this afternoon. Severe thunderstorm warning has now been expanded to 7 00 oclock for berks, bucks, lehighly Montgomery County. This is right along 476 north of philadelphia. And this is because weve been watching this severe thunderstorm that came out of kutztown and now pushing towards the east. Actually show you this on a third dimensional view with ultimate doppler we can flip ultimate on its side. Look at storms in the vertical. This storm is billowing to 50, 60,000. This is producing severe winds in excess of 60 miles an hour. Lets time this out for you moving to the east at 30 miles an hour. Hatfield at 6 25. Montgomery at 6 33. And warrington at 6 37 this is again pushing off towards the east. The entire region is under a severe thunder storm watch up until 10 00 oclock this may be expanded into tomorrow morning as were expecting another round of Severe Weather. So high likelihood of wind gusts in excess of 50 miles an hour for tonight. Nash flooding is on the table and with all the humidity in play theres a high lylely hood of a will the of cloud to ground lightning. Rain cooled 78 to the north and west and still close to 99 as you get down into south jersey. Feels like temperatures into the knife to near 100 range and then again the atmosphere very poe ten for the continuation of some Severe Weather. These that is right here actually the remnants of once was Tropical Storm cindy. This is pushing through the lower ohio valley at the same time theres a cold front over chicago these two are going to come together as one storm and impact us as we go into late tonight and into tomorrow morning. Look at the track of the remnants of the storm going right over philadelphia. Setting the stage for a lot of rain for the overnight into tomorrow. So lets take a look at future cast. At 11 00 oclock well be trac tracking more storms for our northwestern suburbs an line of Severe Weather through here at 8 00 oclock its out of here by the afternoon hours as early as 11 00 oclock were back into the sun, setting the stage for a beautiful weekend. Wet to wonderful for your day on saturday. Beautiful afternoon. Sunday if youre making big plans. Know its a stunner of a day and take a look at the weekend plans. Beautiful. 87 degrees on saturday. 83 on sunday. So just got to get through the rough weather for tonight. And then smooth sailing from there. Well let you know if theres Severe Weather. Break on tv and let you know if theres any kind of major Severe Weather thats on going. Fox29. Com. Well have update and do facebook life coming up in just little bit. Guys . All right, thank you mike. As sean brace in here with sports and all eyes are on the draft. Yeah. But not the nba draft. The flyers draft. The flyers draft draft. Flyers looking for a little process of their own this night. I like it. Out with the nba draft, chr chris, in with the nhl draft. The flyers will land one of the top two players in tonights draft well tell you who and the sixers are ready to Start Talking about post season play. Yeah, you heard that right. Coming up next in sports hear from bryan coangelo when he expects to compete for championships. Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. Now with our new fios gigabit connection, you get amazing download speeds up to 940 megs, 20 times faster than most people have. And the price is amazing too for 79. 99 a month online for the first year youll get our fastest triple play with hbo included for 2 years. Leave cables slower internet speeds behind. So hurry up and switch to fios gigabit connection for 79. 99 with tv, hbo and multiroom dvr service for two years all with a two year agreement. 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