Middlesex county, only lasting about two minutes. Roper arrived to court and was met by a flood of media. The 35 year old truck driver from jonesboro, georgia, pleaded not guilty. His attorney speaking for him in court. The judge kept his bail at 50,000 which hes already pos posted. He is the sole driver charged in causing the deadly six vehicle pileup along the new jersey turnpike this weekend. The crash killed comedian 62 year old james mcnair and just two blocks away from here tracy morgan and two others are still recovering in the hospital. Morgan remains in critical but stable condition. Roper and his attorney declined to speak to reporters. They said you didnt sleep for 24 hours. Is that true . Roper did not make statement leaving court, but his twitter account believed to belong to him says i thought our country said we still had right of being innocent until proven guilty. Wait, that doesnt sell newspapers or get website hits and another tweet from yesterday said i was never charged at the scene of the accident because once again i was not guilty of any crime, not until all the tv cameras came. Now i asked roper several times whether that twitter account belonged to him. He did not answer. Now, prosecutors have still not said how they come to believe that roper hadnt slept for up to 24 hours before this crash according to the criminal complaint. Once again, roper denied that claim on twitter. Dawn . Thank you, chris oconnell. And now to your damp and dreary weather forecast. Fox 29 outside the art museum today looking down the ben franklin parkway and you can see the haze in the air. We have been locked in a cloudy and wet pattern all this week. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams here now and, scott, when does this unsettled weather clear up . We need some sunshine. Well have to wait few more days, dawn, before we start to finally dry out. Humidity still high. Take look at the numbers. 76 right now and you can see those winds out of the east northeast at 11 miles per hour. Temperatures, however v been a little cooler because of those easterly winds. Right now only in the upper askings but look at the cloud cover. Hanging tough across our are a. But that cloud cover is actually helping us out. Because to our south take look at all of the severe thunderstorm watch boxes also a lot of lightning. That will stay suppressed to our south. But look at the temperatures right now. Cooler, 66 degrees in pottstown. In the 50s right now in the pocono mountains compared to this same yesterday, yeah, its 7 degrees colder in the philadelphia area. And 12 degrees cooler in the allentown area. What about baseball . As we look at that forecast for tonight first pitch, 7 05 cloudy, mild, i think the rainfall holds off. Temperatures will be in the upper 60s because of that easterly fetch. Coming up well time when all of the cloud cover moves out, but unfortunately, i am tracking some heavier rain coming up with that forecast. Thank you, scott. You can track the Weather Authority forecast and the radar any time, just go to myfoxphilly. Com and look for the weather tab at the top of our home page. Happening now, the search for several men who stole a dunk tank an bounce house from a fundraiser. Police believe four men used a truck to steal from the benefit for a non hiv profit. And whoever made the get away had some pretty big items to conceal. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser joins us live in clementon tonight. Dave . Reporter iain, tonight the Clementon Youth Athletic Association is offering a 500 reward for information on where those stolen items are and for an arrest. Police tonight are looking for four suspects and the pickup truck they got away in. Just bring it back. Reporter it was clemento clementons Second Annual block party complete with a bounce house and dunk tank. But when the party shut down, four thieves moved in under the cover of darkness and stole the deflated bounce house and dunk tank. Obviously, sick and thinking it was a big joke and have no care in the world. Reporter these are surveillance photos of what authorities believe is a gray or silver dodge dakota pickup truck that hauled away the 3,000 dunk tank and the 1,800 bounce hou house. For guys get out with flashlights, empty the water out of the did you go tank, places it in the back of the truck and they also pick up the deflated bounce house. Reporter this is Surveillance Video obtained by fox 29 from perks pine hill market they caught the truck passing with the dunk tank in the back minutes after the robbery. Something had to be seen or heard by now. Reporter the real heartbreak here for the kids who use those ball fields in town. Clementon youth at let tick associate paid for the bounce house and dunk tank as part of a fundraiser if its not recovered, the cyaa may have to come up with the money to replace them. Who gets hurt here . The children of the communi community. Reporter Athletic Association helps about 200 kids ages four through 10. Councilwoman new sarah is hoping someone will spot the stolen items and call police. I dont understand why you would do that. Why hurt the children . Reporter now that theft took place about 100 yards away from Police Headquarters here. If you have any information, you should call the clementon police. Coming up at 6 00 where did that mysterious pickup truck with the four suspects go after it left clementon . Iain . Dave, thanks. Well see you at 6 00. The mother Avenue Little girl cops say brought heroin to her Philadelphia Elementary School is under arrest along with her boyfriend. 32 year old maria hunter and 28 year old Christopher Troy jenkins could face charges of endangering the welfare of a child and drug possession. Police say on tuesday, hunters six year old daughter took 11 packets of heroin to her First Grade Class at barry elementary school. The daughter and her classmates had to be checked out at childrens hospital. Hundreds of School Students walk out of class in protest outside Philadelphia School district headquarters today. Many of the students are part of the group united for change and theyre protesting budget cuts and asking the governor and city council for more school funding. The students believe there is a lack of effort to raise much needed money for their schools. If i would have let budget cuts take a toll on me i should have been pushed out and gave. School District Needs more than 400 million to prevent hundreds of layoffs and other cuts. In the meantime, the superintendent is still in talk with city council about ways to get the district more money. We now have a picture of the man Philadelphia Police say has pulled off several burglaries. You can see his changes his look here officers say francis, has targeted the Washington Square and logan circle areas of the city. Police say you can see him on Surveillance Video and in one case using a crowbar to get into a home and steal a computer and a tablet. Similar items valued at thousands of dollars were taken from other locations as well. If you know where he is, youre asked to call police. A Major Construction project will begin tonight along i95 in port richmond. Youll notice new traffic patterns in that area tomorrow morning. This is all part of a multimillion dollars project to improve the northbound lanes of i95 between the girard and allegheny avenue interchanges. Penndot says the Rainy Weather has been delaying the start of plans to paint new track lines. Septa says it is optimistic it will avoid a strike but tonight its telling Regional Rail riders to look at other Transportation Options just in case. The Transportation Authority has been in talks with two workers unions and has another mediation session scheduled for friday. If the workers strike this weekend Regional Rail service will be suspended. If they do not strike, septa will implement a wage hike for hundreds of those workers on sunday. And we are following new developments tonight in the controversial release of Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. Secretary of defense chuck hagle is on the hot seat and foxs my he will shell macaluso reports lawmakers grilled the secretary in a house hearing earlier tod today. Reporter tough questions for defense secretary chuck hagle. Over the release of five taliban prisoners for Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. In 10 shuts hearing lawmakers pressed the secretary for answers as to why the administration Left Congress in the dark about the deal. Full compliance with the law would have been met and i dont think we would have pushed back at all. Reporter hagle defended the administrations decision. Saying the white house had to act quickly in order to secure bergdahls safe return. Since they believed his life was in jeopardy. I made the decision i did. And ive explained that in general terms. The circumstances surrounding my decisions were imper if he can. Reporter lawmakers from both parties say the president broke the law by not notifying congress 30 days in advance about the guantonimo bay prisoner transfer. Its wrong when you knew you were thinking about doing this deal you didnt take the top leadership in congress and talk about it report roar concerns remain over security threats due to the release of the taliban five. Some say they will rejoin the fight against the u. S. We put american lives at risk to go after these individuals if they rejoin the fight. Yes. Okay. If thats the case let me ask you two other questions. You can use the same argument congressman on yemen or anywhere else report roar theres still questions surrounding bergdahls disappearance in 2009. Hagle says the army is investigating whether or not he is a deserter but so far no formal charges have been made. In washington, michelle macaluso, fox news. A waitress receives a 1,000 tip but before she got a chance to cash in, her boss said not so fast. How far the customer went though when he found out and he wanted to make good on that extra cash. And if youre tired of get dear old dad a tie for fathers day how about some brotox. Its the procedure that has more and more men heading to dr. Months office. Man attacked at a gay pride event in detroit all caught on camera. Tonight hes speaking out. What his mother says after watching the video of the ugly incident. Dangerous conditions in one local neighborhood. A vacant home literally crumbling to the ground and the woman next door wonder ifs her home could be next. Fox 29 working to get results. And you will see maybe the greatest play by a player in baseball in i would say 10 years and of time you watch it it looks better. A great reaction by dwayne wade last night to a media member that should have never asked the question fox 29 working to get results for a chester woman living in fear for her safety. In a region full of row homes it is every owners neat mayor. The place next door to you becomes vacant and slowly takes your home with it. Bruce gore son with an all too familiar tale. Reporter iain, Sharon Redwood says shes owned her home on west sixth street in chester, Delaware County for most of her adult life. She says the place next door has been vacant for years. Its become an eye sore and dangerous one at that. The roof has fallen from the third floor down to the baseme basement. Aint nothing but rubble. Reporter Sharon Redwood peaks through the weeds behind a vacant row home next door its been collapsing for years tearing down her quality of life as it goes. Im just sick of it. Reporter around the front of 806 west sixth street, you can pier through the window at the rubble inside. How long is it going before it starts falling in on my property . It might fall in and cave in on me. Look at them houses in philadelphia. People are dying. Reporter that fear is not unfounded. Sharon says every big storm brings with it the sound of falling bricks. Debris just fall like earthquake. Just like an earthquake. Reporter there were on the problems. The exposed common wall creates water leaks for sharon. Out back the neighbors massive tree has engulfed the chain linked fence that borders the properties and uprooted her concrete walkway. A weathered sign left by the city last october cites health, fire and safety hazards and says the vacant structure must be demolish. But eight months later, there it sits. Maybe somebody talk to them, light some fire under they bleep. Something got to be done. Reporter i wept to Chester City Hall looking for answers. City officials tell me they cant find the owner of the vacant home. Frankly we didnt have any luck either. But in a later phone call, the citys communication director said as of the latest inspection at 806 no eminent danger as far as the city is concerned to her property next door . The city was not immediately able to tell us when the latest inspection was carried out. So what am i left to do . Just deal with it. They not dealing with it because they not living like this. None of them is. Reporter at our request sharon asked the city of chester to respect the vacant row home and hers. Theyre still working out time. If the situation is deemed eminently dangerous, the city could just bulldoze the crumbling structure and bill the owner with no guarantee of recovering that money the cash strapped city may be hesitant to go that route. And so sharon sits and worries. Iain . Bruce, thank you. Do you need help getting results . Well, you can tell us your problem by head to our website myfoxphilly. Com and clicking on the getting results tab. Evesham Township Police are looking for a beauty burglar. Police say cameras caught a man shoplifting boxes of row gain Hair Products in the cvs on route 73. It happened around 8 00 oclock monday night. The man ran off as soon as he left the store. If you recognize this guy, give police a call. A 66 year old again old den woman shot by her husband in an apparent murder suicide died. Delaware County DistrictAttorneys Office says carol an parolper rolly passed away at te hospital last night. She was shot twice in the head before her husband 67 year old richard turn the gun on himself. They were found in their home on the 600 block of west ashland avenue yesterday morning. A barricade situation in West Kensington comes to an end with the suspect in Police Custody tonight. It happened on the 2500 block of north masher street in West Kensington neighborhood of philadelphia. Police received a call before 3 00 a. M. From a man who said he was pistol whipped by a guy carrying several guns. Officers moved quickly to ensure everyones safety. We were told by the 28 year old victim that not only did this male assault him with the weapon, he had two hand guns and he may have fired several shots into the air. So we took this pretty serious seriously. The man release add woman and five children from inside the home where he was barricaded before eventually turning himself in. Another relative still inside was observed by medics to make sure he was not hurt. The man is being charged with aggravated assault among other charges. Right now police are searching for suspect after an Armed Robbery in clear view. This happened at the 7eleven in the 7300 block of elmwood avenue last saturday. Police say the suspect grabbed the cash and then ran out of the store. Anyone with information on this suspect should give police a call. Something knew is popping up at penns landing for the summer. Check this out. Tug boats are moving three landscaped barges along the Delaware River from chester today they have a water garden, a boardwalk anbar and restaurant for you to check out. It will all be set up along waterfront at the spruce street harbor park by the Delaware River waterfront cooperation. Turn to your Weather Authority youre looking live at the center city skyline. Another damp and overcast day all across the region. Were keeping a close eye on radar for any any rain that could be headed our way. Lets check back in with chief meteorologist Scott Williams. I think dreary just describes it, scott. It really does. We have the cloud cover across the area. We also have the humidity but right now, getting a little bit of a break from the tropical downpour that is we were dealing with this same time yesterday. You can see ultimate doppler pretty quiet across our area. So there could be a spotty shower as we move into the overnight. But take a look to the south of us. Where the atmosphere is a little more unstable. Look at the severe thunderstorm watch boxes and in yellow. Tornado watch box for the western part of the state. And also a lot of lightning over 15,000 lightning strikes heavy rain right now moving through sections of virginia but all of that activity it should stay to our south because we have that easterly wind cooler a little more stable if you will across our area for today. Temperature wise, cooler as well. You can see 65 right now in atlantic city. Mid 60s in allentown. Even in the 50s currently as we move toward sections of the pocono mountains. So if youre stepping outdoors, cloudy, it stays mild. There could be a spotty shower and then the concern for tonight more fog develops as well as little bit of drizzle. Coming up, though, the timing of more heavy rain moving in before we finally start to dry out and clear up. Ill tell you when coming up. All right, scott, thank you. Special olympic torch is on a very special journey. Where the flame of hope is right now and when it will arrive in newark, new jersey. And meet m