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WTXF FOX 29 News At Five August 26, 2014

From the northeast to Northern Liberties since april. The attacks were brutal. Broken notices, lacerations, a lot of dignity and pride the elderly, you know, sometimes just dont bounce back from thing like this. Reporter singleton was caught on tape in several robberies. Investigators say he followed victims home in a silver malibu. Each time tracking them from local banks to their homes where he would rob them of all their money. Theyre walking in their house and you get attacked. Punched in the face. Thrown on the ground. Reporter neighbors on the 1,000 block of Saint Vincent street are still worried and looking over their shoulders after an elderly resident here was followed home from two local bank arc tacked and robbed in his own garage. Its kind of scary when you think about as many times ive been to the bank. For one thing i think theyre coward because they prey on older folks because they feel they can get a it way with. Reporter 80 year old man went to his pnc bank on cottman, he was followed inside by singleton who stood behind him in line then followed him out to another bank nearby. When the victim arrived home police say singleton was right behind him in that silver mali malibu. He entered the garage, punched the victim and robbed him. We had the publics helping identifying him. Now we need help to get him off the street. Reporter neighbors are worried and hoping all the suspects are behind bars soon. Desperate people. They have no money. On welfare and looking for an easy target. Personal it tears me apart. Reporter how police tell me tonight three suspects have more than 30 prior arrests between them. Coming up at 6 00, neighbor take some precautions while two of these suspects are still on the street. Lucy . Well talk to you then, dave. A break in the murders of two women in mayfair. Police say they have arrested a man who was living inside their home. The charges now facing 25 year old james mirrors two counts of murder. 67 year old dolly evans and 59 year old ruby thomas were found dead saturday inside a home the 4700 block of vista street. Cops say mirrors was living with the women for about two months. Investigators believe mirrors tried to rob the women before killing them. Were following a developing story out of jerusalem and new jersey tonight where authorities are looking for a missing student. This is aaron so fars Facebook Page from lakewood, new jersey, last seen friday on hike with a friend in the jerusalem forest. Fox 29s joyce evans joins us live in our newsroom. Joyce, any clues as to what may have happened to him . Reporter iain authorities are looking into several theories tonight. Certainly not ruling out the possible that the 23 year old could have been killed napped by militants. Sofer student at a private religious school. He and a friend were hiking down steep hill they got separated and sofer vanish. Authorities say theyve done ex tense tiff searches over the past few days and they are considering he may have been taken. Caught up in the conflict between israel and palestinian militants. This is a very serious situation. We are very very concerned about this and we want to make sure the family knows that israel is committed on this issue and that we here are committed on this issue and again, our prayers and thoughts are with the family. Reporter well israeli officials have set up a command center around the forest using dogs. Search crews and vehicles with loud speakers to try to locate him. His parents have flown to israel while the search continues and well keep you posted on any new developments in this case. Luce zoo . All right, thank you very much, joyce. Meanwhile israel and hamas now have an agreement for an open ended cease fire. Egypt brokered that deal. It hopes to put an end to the seven weeks of fighting that has killed more than 200 people. Party agreement lets humanitarian and Construction Supplies go into goods sam cease fire holds up broader discussions will happen next month. Meanwhile the president of russia and ukraine about to met face to face it will be the first such meeting since ukraines pro russian ex president was ousted from power in february. And since april about 2,000 civilians have died in east ukraine where pro russian rebels are battling ukrainian forces. All right. Lets check on your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Heres life look at center city. Its a clear night out there. Less than week before labor day if you can believe that. And its finally starting to feel like summer. Those rise in temperatures will stick with us for awhile. Heres chief meteorologist Scott Williams with details. Temperatures right now in the upper 80s across our are a. 88 degrees so far the high today 89 degrees. Humidity its inching up there right now at 39 . But its still not oppressive. So upper 80s right now in philadelphia. But take a look to the west. This is the core of the heat that will head in our direction tomorrow. Its 90 in cincinnati. 96 in st. Louis. Low 90s right now in little rock. Adding insult to injury for the middle of the week, the air quality concern. It moves into the code orange category. Well have details on that and the latest on hurricane cristobal coming up. Iain and lucy. Scott, thank you. Longport, new jersey, is mourning the loss of a Police Officer. Sergeant karl adam died in an accident near route 40 and tuckahoe road in Gloucester County yesterday. He was on a motorcycle going through an intersection and collided with an suv trying to make left turn. Adam died at the hospital a short time later. The mayor says its a great loss for the entire community. I knew Sergeant Adam very well. I him not only professionally but i knew him socially. We actually road motorcycles together. We did things together. He was very involved in our community besides being a Police Officer here. Adams was one of the first officers from longport to be trained on a motorcycle. By the Philadelphia Police Highway Patrol unit. He was off duty at the time. He served on the force for 21 years. New Jersey State Police have now identified a woman found murdered in cumberland county. They say she was 37 year old Jennifer Cruz chavez on sunday hunters found her body near route 49 and bridgeton road in fairfield township. Investigators say someone beat chavez to death. She lived in bridgeton so if you know anything that can help police, give them a call. Developing now, Bensalem Police are investigating hurtful vandalism along several graves sites belonging to war veterans. American flags flag holders and decorations for more than a dozen graves were ripped up, thrown into a pile and set on fire and rosdale Memorial Park. Investigators say a grounds keeper found the damage today. Another bensalem cemetery was hit over the weekend and another time before that. Police say 50 to 60 grave sites were hit in total. Well have much more on. Investigation coming up life report at 6 00 oclock. Also happening right now the search for the robbers who piss whipped a mcdonalds employee. Surveillance video captured a man and woman in the act much police say the pair caught people inside the restaurant in upper chichester off guard early one morning. Now, police say assaults an employee isnt all they did. Bruce gore season is live outside the restaurant with the rest of the story. Bruce. Reporter lucy,. In fact this robbery actually took place almost exactly one week ago in the predawn areas of last tuesday. But, with the crooks still on the loose, Upper Chichester Police have now released extensive Surveillance Video in hopes of get something help from the public. News of the predawn robbery hadnt yet reached most mcdonalds customers. But those who found out nearly choked on their happy meals. My mom or sister or someone could be here and somebody could do that. Like, you know, that bothers me he is special until an area like this thats kind of a nice area. Reporter security cameras show a tall splendor black man and much shorter somewhat stocky black woman enter the mc donal donalds just before 5am. She heads for the lone customer in the restaurant and robs him at gun point. He volts the vaults the counter and smacks the manager in the head with his weapon. It looked like they had done it before and were comfortable with what they were doing any resistance they met with force back. Reporter about that weapon take a good look at the long barrel. Police believe this firearm is very old. Looked like a colt navy revolver, has the extended barrel. 19th century . Yeah. Exactly older. It looks like, um, its bronze plated or gold plated and just really an odd gun to have. Reporter surveillance shows the crook forced two employees and the customer into a back office where the save is opened and emptied. Ditto for the register up front. They got away with couple thousand bucks. This mcdonalds sits just off i95 were easy act tess to north and southbound routes. The thieves could have come from anywhere but investigators think theyre locals. Given the employees and the customer said they wept through the store like they were pretty comfortable with it. Like they had an idea the layout of the store and what was going on in it. Reporter were told the store manager who was pistol whipped is doing okay just a laceration to his head. The man who attacked him had a tattoo on the back of his right hand. The hand with which he was holding that unusual gun. The tattoo apparently runs up his right arm. If you know anything about this situation, the tattoo, the unusual gun, by all means call Upper Chichester Police. Iain . All right, bruce, thank you. Burglar may have struck again in moorestown, new jersey. Cops say a church and three more homes were broken into over the weekend. It continues a summer long trend of weekend break ins all over moorestown. Police say half a dozen homes have been hit in two months in one of those crimes earlier this month a burglary got away with 200,000 worth of jewelry from just one home. Day two of witnesses in the trial of a woman accused of a abductioning a five Year Old Girl for her school and sexually assaulting her. 21 year old Christina Regusters lured a five Year Old Girl from her Philadelphia Elementary School in january of 2013. Today a child abuse expert testified about the girls injuries saying she has suffered permanent injuries both physically and emotionally. Prosecutors claim regusters also molested a young relative then cut off that girls braids when she threatened to tell. But shes expected to take the stand not the girl that is the roll tough but the girl that is involved in this trial and that trial is expected to last about two weeks. Big changes at pet stores throughout our area. Those stores say they are changing where they get the animals that could become part of your family. How this will turn the page on a practice that occurred a lot of protests roar teens brain on pot. Most people who smoke start at the age of 16. The potential lasting damage from smoking marijuana just once a week. And later playing a good game of golf is a challenge for anyone. But some doing it at the age of three and with just one many arm. Well introduce you to the boy thats making it look easy. Hey, howard. This murse players will be working and playing for chance to be in the fl. Hear from the nfl players that could be in and could be out and chip kelly talks from the heart about his thoughts when he cuts a player. Thats coming up in sports. Philadelphia police releasing video of Grocery Store burglary cops say this man broke into the Grocery Store in north philadelphia. It happened around 4 30 in the morning last friday, and police say he got in through the ceiling. Cops say he took money and cigarettes. Philadelphia police say the citys safe camp program is working and the department wants more people to join on in. The program lets businesses and residents register surveillance cameras with the city. Police then know immediately if they have cameras, where they are, if criminals strike. Well have cameras right there right then and right now. The city has more than 4,000 cameras registered. The philadelphias top cop says that is not enough for city of this size. We need more businesse busind residences to get involved and become part of save cam. And heres an incentive for businesses to jump on board. Theyre reimbursed as much as thee thus san dollars if they get cameras. Volunteer firefighters in Darby Township are upset tonight. For company 24 has been around since 1926 of mostly africanamerican volunteers. The Previous Administration had its share of problems. Officials shut down the companys social hall next door to its firehouse claiming the building is not fit for human habitation. Company fours chief says they were in the process of renovating that hall where social events raised money to support Fire Fighting efforts. If that building remains closed, can you keep this firehouse in operation and do your work as volunteer firefighters . I dont know. Hook give you an answer but i can tell you this. It doesnt look good. Our calls to the township manager have not been returned as of yet. Chief fitzgerald believes the township is pressuring his company to merge with another. Hey, its national dog day. Two pet store chains in our area making a big switch from going being regular pet stores to selling only rescue or shelter dogs. So that means more older dogs are finding forever homes and more dogs that would be euthanized are being saved. Karen hepp is with some Furry Friends right now over at the hotel monaco in old city theyre getting a little pampering on their big day. Karen. Reporter hi, iain. Pretty um press seive pampering. They know how to treat the people here at the hotel monaco. All kinds of doggie bags and giving free dog baths one of our guys right there getting a nice dog bath right now. So you can come down to 8 00 oclock theyve got all kinds of great give race and gift bag. Theyre doing this for operation ava. You can donate money right there. These are some of the adoptable dogs they will also be trying to find forever homes for and this is a point of our story. Some of those dogs will actually be available in pet store. Take me, me, me. Check out these happy wagging tails. These pet stores now offer only dogs from shelters or rescues. No more pets from puppy mills. This is a change they felt the time had come. The outcry from our customers saying, you know, please dont sell commercial dogs. Theres so many out there that can be saved. Reporter four months into the switch business at the pet plus natural in jenkintown is booming. It was a Humane Society that convinced them to try one store. Now they plan to switch all 10 by the end of the year. Facebook has been our friend. Um, so they know that were out there. Were doing this. Theyre coming in. Theyre seeing the puppies. Weve had huge amount of adoptioadoptions both pup if hed kitchens. Big smiles on this new happy family macy has got a forever home and theodore has one too. At the we love pets in media theyre accepting own 94 sub renders. There have been pretty comical growing pains. Every time we remodel something gets eaten by a bigger dog. Every time we move something they can reach the product and owe it. The owner says he made the change because he had bad experiences and was tired of protests. Now hes made friends with people he used to picket. Were people who at one pent would have thought would have been like mortal enemies, and now its very easy to overlook that and just go forward for the animals, and i think nationwide, that would be a good thing to happen. Instead of fighting and killing animals on both sides by doing that, if we join forces and save lives and it does work. And were proof of that. Because the volume of animals coming in and fonding homes is astounding. Reporter it is astounding. Check out these guys. They are now sporting their very cute scars from the scarves from from the hotel mon nan today. Theyre having a special menu. They have great restaurant involving all kinds of hotdogs of various kinds and also giving away these doggie style gift bags. Heres some of the great things. Everything is little bit different. Come down and check us out as we celebrate these dog days of summer, iain and lucy. Good, karen, thanks very much. I so want a puppy. Theyre right around the corner. Im thinking about it. Then hed have to come with me all the time. I dont think my boss would like that. Okay. Guess what . In less than 24 hours the city of philadelphia is going to liven up with a parade celebrating the taney dragons. Its big time stuff. If youd like to join in well have a few things you ought to know. Parade connect off at 20th and mark streets in center city 2 00 p. M. Sharp. It will be big welcome than their welcome home rally at love park. It will make special stops along the route for the team the first at the Kimmel Center the philly pops this is so neat will serenade the players. And the second is at broad street and washington avenue where the mum are going to perform the Mayors Office says it is the least the city can do. I think its one of the great feel good stories weve had this summer, and we want to make sure that we actually say positive things and give positive reinforcement to our kids when they do well. Team will eventually make its way to a rally in south philadelphias fdr park. We are going to broadcast it all live if you cant make it out weve got you covered our coverage begins at 2 00 oclock. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. The heat is back and soon the rain could be as well. Heres chief meteorologist Scott Williams with those details. You know, iain, today temperatures have been in the upper 80s. Tomorrow will be even hotter. So if youre head to do that parade remember the sun sunscreen as well as a lot of water. Before tonight if were stepping outdoors, warm, muggy, low temperatures in the mid to upper 60s. Fo

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