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WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM August 24, 2017

Agents and collingdale Delaware County Police Arrested 23yearold Christopher Hannigan in his Delaware County home. According to investigators records hannigan and his alleged victim worked together. They argued and hannigan is alleged to have punched, choked and sexually assaulted the woman at knife point. This evening hannigan is behind bars with a 10 million bail between him and freedom. His alleged victim is being applauded for her actions under duress. Victim saved herself. She had enough sense and enough composure to text 911 and know she couldnt make a call. Some people wouldnt have thought that. Reporter hannigan has criminal history which may have played a part in that big 10 million bail. Bensalem allows victims to text 911 other communities do not. Philadelphia is one of those. Im jeff cole, fox 29 news. All right, jeff, thank you. Naval divers have found the body of off the coast of singapore located 22yearold Kenneth Smiths body from cherry hill. Before calling off the search for the other nine sailors missing after that monday war ship collision. Cherry hill mayor chuck cahn released a statement praising and grandfathers footsteps and serving his country as midshipman. A blast at a Chinese Restaurant in south philadelphia left neighbors and customers stun. Someone intentionally flew an explosive inside. Lets get to Dave Schratwieser live at the scene fifth and washington. Dave . Reporter lucy, that explosive device set off quiet a blast rattled the neighborhood here, folks said a block away they can hear the blast tonight police tell us the entire incident caught on surveillance video. Theyre hoping someone will help them identify the teenaged suspects. We just heard a loud bank sounded like a gunshot. Reporter this was the scene inside the new dragon city take out restaurant when an explosive device was tossed inside and it went off. We just heard a loud bomb and everyone came out the shot and we seen a bunch of kids running down the street. Employees at businesses on the 500 block of washington avenue in south philly like Chris Anthony heard the blast and were stunned. I feel bad for them. Coming in here every day. They know everyone around the neighborhood. When you hear Something Like that it gets i was little bit concerned. Reporter reports about the blast worried neighbors like Jason Nicholas who lives nearby and shops here along washington with his family. Theres a lot of families around here. So you know, yeah, youre always concerned and always kind of making sure youre looking around and seeing everything is safe. This could have had catastrophic consequences here dave. Reporter police say the teens were captured on video as out restaurant. Way to the take the teen with the explosive device waited outside for few seconds. It will the device and threw it inside. The heating elements, gas, things like that, there was glass encasements could have e ended up causing fragmentation. No one was injured in the blast. Police arent sure if the device was a pair of empty 80 type firecrackers or something bigger. It looks like it explodes in two intervals. Neighbors hope this doesnt happen again. Could have been a kid in there. You know, a mom in there. Something. You . I pysched been in there. Could have got hurt. No doubt about that. Again, no serious injuries. There was some damage to the store from what were being told the own are in was not available for comment today. Police are hoping the parents of those teens will recognize them and contact investigators. Lucy . All right. Thank you much, dave. Thursdays in the summer on fox 29 means its time for orr down the shore. Little cool by plane there lets take live look at ocean city if youre debating possibly heading down the shore this weekend. Well say do it. You shall do it because were in for great beach days. Kathy is enjoying a beach day of her own. Kathy . Hey, guys. Can you see me from the camera . Well we see the back of your head right now. Now we see you. Now we see you from our cool camera. You got it. There she is. You see starling our handsome cameraman. Thats starling. Of course. Yeah. Well you know what that camera on top of schreibers of course looking at this beautiful boardwalk its packed and why not . Hey, guys. Someone just went by and said hey kathy orr down the shore its gorgeous day. Well show that you cam one more time here on the bore walk. Everyone is just hanging around. Many families talking about going back home after this weekend and School Starting tomorrow. Not tomorrow. Next week. Take a look at the temperatures. Down the shore weve been in the upper 70s to lower 80s today. And its still really warm at the beach. Ocean city 79. Sea isle 81. Cape may 80. North wildwood 79. Beach haven 78. On the boardwalk in Atlantic City it is 77. The ocean water temperature still 74 it should stay warm through this week. Right now in philly we have 80 but 70s to the north and west of the city only 67 in the poconos. Now overnight tonight, low temperatures will get down to about 63 degrees in the city. 59 degrees in the suburbs. A few showers far to the north and west. Elsewhere were talking about partly cloudy skies. So back here live, some of these people here for a week. Some of these people have been here for the summer and this family is here for the day. Hey, guys. Hey. Hi, how are you. Where yall from . New jersey. Yeah. Clementon. From clementon. Who are these guys . This is timmy and zoey. Zoey have you had a great day . Yes. Ready to go back to school . Yes. Zoey starts kindergarten the. The big k. All right. Wee be back with your forecast from the city to the shore with all of these wonderful people later in the broadcast. The big k. See you then guys. All right. Thanks kathy. Speaking of k, and that you ko. Happening now only week and a half after the violence and hey dread charlottesville racist images in wilmington. It was discovered wednesday morning when a woman posted these pictures on facebook and its been shared more than a thousand times now. Police are investigating the incident and trying to fine out who is behind it. Fox 29s dawn timmeney reports from the Wilmington Police department. Reporter Wilmington Police are not taking this lightly. Investigating the incident as hate crime and vowing to get to the bottom of it. Residents who live in the neighborhood are appalled at the nature of the graffiti. You walk out the door and see Something Like this it really just hit me like a ton of bricks. Oh here . Bobby mccormick surprised and deeply saddened to see his neighbors car covered in hateful profanity laced antisemitic graffiti the images posted on a local bombs Facebook Page and have been shared thousands of times. The vandalism happening sometime early wednesday morning. The mini van park on the 600 block of bayard avenue in wilmington spray painted with swastikas and words like kkk and go back to africa. We never had no problem here. All of our neighbors here we look out for each other. Cut each other grass and well all have no problem with each other. Something like that something you dont want to see. Very hurtful. I never expected anything to happen like this. I never thought anything would occur like this in my neighbor. Never. Reporter the car belongs to me shall ail taylors young before he brother it shows racism is live and well in wilmington. It exists. Its here. It exists in america. You know, theres nothing you can say to describe how that feels. Reporter donny hamilton was walking by yesterday morning and couldnt believe her eyes. Shes disgusted by the vandalism and thankful the car has been taken away. My ate six and eightyearold be out here playing. Im glad they dont have to look at it and read season me what it means. Pople who live in this neighborhood hope whoever did this is caught and it is an isolated incident. Just hoping that this dont linger on to end up being someone get hurt or Something Else happen. Its ignorant. Only thing that can stop it if we stand together as people, you know, rise above it. Reporter Wilmington City Council issuing a statement denouncing the vandalism calling it cowardly and reprehensible. Council says one of the citys greatest assets is its diversi diversity. Anyone with information is asked to give police a call or delaware crime stoppers. In wilmington, dawn timmeney, fox 29 news. After protests, vandalism and growing controversy the city of philadelphia isnt exactly sure what to do with the frank rizzo statue. So city officials are asking for your help. Theyre taking suggestions on deciding the fate of the bronze statue in center city. You can submit a suggestion on the mayors website. People have been calling to take it down in the wake of the violins in charlottesville, virginia. Others want it to stay standing rizzo was the mayor from 1972 to 1980. Critics are a he targeted minorities while supporters say he was devout public sorry vent. That powerball mania is over. A 52yearold hospital worker claimed the Winning Ticket in massachusetts late last night. Jackpot only 758 million. She called her employer and said hey i aint coming back. Im out. Why not . I pulled mine out and i go, have i no number, i have that, i have that. He goes let me see that ticket. He goes, you just won. I go youre joking. Come on please. He said sign that ticket now. I couldnt drive any w i couldnt do anything. He followed me to make sure i was safely home. Mavis says first thing she wants to to do is sit back and relax and now she can. For as long as she wants. Coming up, people in one philadelphia neighborhood say their street is opening up so they call the city and they say officials told them it could take as long as 45 days to get it fixed. Our brad sattin is digging for answers. And sean bell is at the linc. Sean . Iain come later in sports well talk bout most questionable position on the team and what the guys needed to to solidify that spot. Thats coming up later in spor sports. All right. Sean. The boardwalk is crowded in ocean city, new jersey. Among the crowds our kathy orr. Well head back down to ocean city life thats coming up next. Are you tired of trenton politicians playing games while south jersey gets short changed . Then vote fran grenier. Think its time we had a regular guy, not a lifelong politician . Thats fran grenier. Looking for a fighter to take on the tax hikes and job killing regulations . Then vote fran grenier. Want a leader wholl actually stand up for south Jersey Schools and communities . If you answered yes to any of these questions, theres only one way fran grenier. Dude, you were right, these wait. What . The gold fish, man you said i should buy some. No i said you should buy gold fish, the new scratchoff from the pennsylvania lottery. With top prizes of 25,000. Ooohh. Are there really. . 25,000 of them . Yeah. Want more changes to win . Go to palottery. Com and enter your nonWinning Tickets for the gold fish secondchance drawing with 10,000 prizes. For pokes in one south philadelphia neighborhood, it looks like you are jenn problem their street is caving in. When they called the city they didnt get the response they were hoping for. Tonight the city says its all a misunderstanding. Fox 29s brad sattin here to explain. Brad. Reporter iain and lucy neighbors say it started as crack then a hole then the ground started to sing. So when they call the citys 311 hotline, they were told someone would be there to check it out but win 45 days. Thats a pretty big hole. Reporter pretty big hole thats grown in the last couple of weeks in front of fills home at ninth and jackson in south philadelphia. He called the citys 311 hotline to report it more than a week ago. I said how long is it going to take for them to come out and at least put a barricade down or something. She said it takes up to 45 days. Reporter 45 days . Thats insane. 45 days. I mean it could be, upping, ten to 12foot hole by that time. Potenial danger right there. Nobody came out to investigate this. Its very dangerous. Reporter neighbors worry what it might look like in 45 days. Preferably not anything like this sink hole earlier this this year in kensington that ate up two cars. How secure is the ground underneath this one . Neighbors not wanting to wait a month and a half to find out called fox 29. Possible insurance. Possible accidents. Could be a sink hole. Somebody parks on top of there. Car goes in. Reporter in fact as we were there a driver unaware pulled into the space then thought better of it and justified feet away a trash truck drove by. It started out with just real real little tiny hole and now it seems like a good portion of sit ready to collapse. Reporter we sent photos to the Streets Department and were told theyd look into it right away. Also telling us 45 days was likely the repair time, not the initial response time. Im waiting for cones. Reporter as if on queue, Police Arrived and cordoned off the area a couple of hours later a Streets Department crew also showed up promising neighbors theyd start investigating right away. And so again the city insists they do have quote relatively quick turn around. 45 days was from start to fini finish. In this case, the Water Department has now been called in to see if an underground water leak may to be blame here. Brad sattin, fox 29 news. Too much information, lawyers say a Health Insurance company mailed clear envelopes that revealed patients hiv status. They say it happened in several states that include pennsylvania. Some patients family members and even neighbors say they learned about the medical condition from the front of the envelope. Health insurer aetna has apologized calling the mistake unzestable and says its making sure Something Like this never happens again. Check on your fox 29 weather authority. As we take live look in ocean city. A Beautiful Day down there time again for orr down the shore. Lets get back out to our meteorologist kathy orr live in ocean city. Surrounded by a whole bunch of happy smiles there. A lot of happy smiles. All you have to do is have fox 29 camera. Whoo . Its like magic. Hi, dad. Hi dad. Look at all these Beautiful People that didnt want to be on camera who are going to be on camera. Oh, we really fooled them, right lots of the parents. Guys, we are in the waning days of summer. Are you ready to go back to school . Yes. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Lots of nos. Its right around the corner so we have one of last weekends it will be great. Lets start the weather. 80 degrees right now in philadelphia. In the upper 70s down the shore. Low humidity. Its perfect senate. Yeah. Its unbelievable. Now the current setup shows High Pressure over us. See that big sunshine . Yes. Well that is going to keep it really nice and read that word for me. Cool. Cool. Its going to be much cooler over the next several days. Actually below normal for frid friday, saturday, sunday and even monday. Into monday. Yeah. The future cast shows pretty quite tonight. Maybe a few showers beau popping up far north and west through the Lehigh Valley during the Morning Hours its out of here by the morning thats 9am. And then by about 4 00 oclock tomorrow afternoon a few clouds. So beautiful beach day. What do you think about that tomorrow a beautiful beach day . Yeah. Yeah. What about saturday . Saturday looks like nothing but sunshine. Yeah . Are you happy . Yes. You guys arent sounding that happy. I am. Okay. Well as we track the tropics keep an eye on harvey. Harvey is a serious storm could make landfall in texas as a category three the problem is the rain. Were talking about 10inches of rain. Maybe more. But us well be in great shape. Next couple of days 81 down the shore for your friday. 76. Looking good. Tomorrow at home around 80 degrees as well in the seven day forecast three perfect tens. Looking great over the weekend. Even next week. Not a chance of rain until next thursday. And guys that actually could be the remnants of harvey coming up from the midwest. So weve got to watch it going in to the holiday weekend. Back here live, say hi to everybody at home, guys. Hi and our audience doesnt know this come on in here rich. Weve got a special treat from ritas water ice saying goodbye to summer with ritas. Wow guys, if this wouldnt melt i would actually bring this home but guys i think it will melt. Im sorry. I think youre right, kathy enjoy it. Exactly. Enjoy. Ill bet all those kids will have it on snap chat in few minutes. Kathy thanks. From ocean city lets head to south philly where sean bell is standing by at the linc. Sean . Im at the linc. Theyre getting ready for third preseason game. Coming up in sports, ill let you know what position is the most suspect and what the guys are going to do about that. Thats coming up next in sports. Carson wentz and the boys getting ready to go. You see carson out here taking a couple of throws throwing couple passes. Looking good. And thats all that can he we need. This is the third preseason game. This is when we finally get to see the starters play into the second half. Its going to be the only game we get to see a game plan. It will be the only game that is sort of a real warmup until the regular season. Now, theres only one position i think is really suspect. You thought it was going to be the cornerback. Then you thought it was going to be the wide outs but its actually run back. Blub has to look g donnell pumpfrey is not the fourth round guy we thought. Darrin sproles has been banged up Wendell Smallwood we expected him to be the number one guy but he just doesnt look that great. So wendell knows the pressure is on this game. He hasnt really played in first two preseason games all on this one. Its the game, man. Its the game i get to come out and i get to its my welcome home party. Im back on the field. Im going to run and get some plays and get some runs and get passes its real important to me. Hes heard all the talks about the running game beep being inconsistent. We sense it. We hear it hay like doug said were not goin

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