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WTXF FOX 29 News At Five September 5, 2014

Donuts parking lot. I lost 14,000. Cheat me out of 14,000. Reporter victim who asked us not to show his face called bensalem police, two men took him to this kit sense bank and welsh road in philadelphia to withdraw money then to the park parks casino to withdraw some more through a cash advanced on his credit card. He robbed me. Physical nothing. Just took the money . Yeah. He was trying to do a flimflam with the money. Tried to convince him that he would make more money if he took some money out of his account. The Man Told Police the two men asked him to stop at the Dunkin Donuts near the casino for something to drink. Thats when they just walked away. It looks like the guy got taken and these guys robbed him for the 14,000 cash. Reporter Police Called k9 units to the area to search for the two men. But they escaped. Once we get more we can confirm the entire story hopefully good pictures of suspects so we can get them off the street. Theres moral to the story. At the end of the day, dont take money out of your bang for anybody. If its too good to be true, its too good to be true. Reporter no doubt about that. Suspects escaped in a newer model white mini van. Well give you a surveillance picture of that coming up at sick x breaking news the crash of a private american plane that set off a international mystery. It had fighter jets scrambling when authorities on the ground lost contact with the pilot earlier today. The faa confirms the aircraft crashed about 14 miles off the coast of port antonio jamaica this the noon. You can see from this flight tracking site flight aware that the path it was supposed to take from rochester new york headed to naples, florida. Two u. S. 15 fighter jets trailed the unresponsive plane over the lap ocean but broke off as it flew over cuba. Where jets from that country took over. Officials suspect the lack of oxygen may be the reason for the lack of response. Our fox station in tampa reports a coast guard c130 was headed in the planes direction in the atlantic. The plane is believed to be owned by a Company Based at the same address of a rochester, new york, real estate firm. Aas many as three people may hae been board. To your fox 29 weather authority. The threat of Severe Weather. Lets get right to chief meteorologist scott williams. We have the hazy, hot and humid conditions and also a threat of Severe Weather in the forecast. Not so much tonight but tomorrow. As we look at ultimate doppler right now you can see a few pop ups right now in land cost county as well as mercer county. Well zoom in to Lancaster County. Take look at the heavy rainfall right now. Where you see the yellows and oranges were looking at rainfall rates half an inch to an inch per hour there. But the other big talker, 88 degrees right now. You factor in that humidity, this is what it actually feels like. 95 degrees in center city. So if youre stepping outdoors this evening, you certainly feel that heat and humidity. Heres the feels like item which are with the heat index right now. It feels like none in allentown. 90 what it feels like in millville as well as Atlantic City. So there could be a few isolated storms early this evening but most of us just stay warm and very muggy. 77 degrees by 11 00 oclock tonight. Coming up iain and lucy were tracking a cold front right now around parts of the great lakes and midwest. That system will impact part of the upcoming weekend. Well talk about that Severe Weather threat, also, some big temperature changes coming up. All right. Scott, thank you. Only on fox 29, former mob boss joey merlino in trouble with the feds again. Court documents just obtained by our fox 29s Dave Schratwieser show that merlino allegedly met with south philadelphia mob captain john changlini and two other convoked felons and allegedly happened at a florida restaurant back in june. Federal probation officers say this violates the condition cons release from federal prison three years ago. The 52 year old was scheduled to get off parole this sunday. Federal prosecutors are seeking a hearing before a judge to revoke his supervised release. Little boy with local ties who had been the center of app am barrel alert is safe tonight. Authorities found him all the way in florida. They have arrested the man he was with for the murder of four people that. Man says he is the boys father. Police say they found four year old Ismael Tristan and 28 year old adam matos inside a tampa owe hotel this morning. Mattos is from lehigh county. Authorities say they realized the child was missing when they went to his home for a welfare check and that is when they found the bodies of two adult help and two adult women. The little boy, he has autism. And investigator who specializes in working with children in autism is trying to figure out what he might have seen. The one thing is really sad is the fact he was confused. He said where am i going now. Why am i keeping being moved from place to place. For tristan hopefully in the next day we can get him to permanent place and hell be okay. Mattos lived in philadelphia and in several addresses in lehigh county. Court records show he has a long arrest record. Police speculated on the motive for the murders nor the relationship between mattos and the victims. But we do know the boys mother called Police Last Week saying mattos had threatened her with a knife. A delaware mom and son are under arrest accused of selling drugs. Police say they monitor the pairs activities for a month. 52 year old Cynthia Jiminez and 20 year old jose jiminez were taken into custody on thursday. Authorities say they were selling marijuana from their home in felton on barrettes chapel road. They say is search found more than 200 grams of marijuana, a 9millimeter handgun arc rifle and close to 600 bucks. Jose remains behind bars much his mother is out. They are now facing several charges. A teenager is in the hospital after slam nothing a pole and flipping a car over several times. The crash happened just after 5 00 this morning at 59th and upland way. Thats in overbrook. Police say the driver hit the traffic pole and several parked cars before landing in the woods. The teen was found a block away and taken to the hospital. Theres no word yet on the persons condition. So far no charges have been filed. Across the nation and around the world memorials in memory of joan rivers are popping up. Fans are leaving flowers and candles on her star on the hollywood walk of fame. Doctors say she stopped breathing during a procedure. Shes survived by her grandson and her daughter and melissa. A private funeral is sunday at Temple Emmanuel in manhattan. Showboat casino in Atlantic City may not sit empty for very long. A Florida Company says it is considering the form mr. Showboat site for a 20 million project. Latitude 360 based out of jacksonville says its taken a tour of the Atlantic City landmark and is in talks with its owners. Caesars entertainment. The its the second firm to publicly express interest in the showboat. Atlantic Properties Group of vineland had considered a similar smaller casino used for the property. A developing story now. The nato summit in wales nato leaders are tackling big issues including the crisis in ukraine and also whats going on with isis. President obama is now talking tough when it comes to the terrorists in syria and in iraq. The president is no longer saying the us wants to make isis a quote manageable problem. Now says hes out to crush the isis terrorist whos have boo beheaded two americans and he says thats the unanimous view in nato with mirror contain many not an option. You cant contain an organization that is running rough shot through that much territory causing that much havoc displacing that many people, killing that many innocents end slaving that many women. The goal has to be to dismantle them. The president says to destroy isis who are sunny stream mists the sunny muslims in iraq and syria have to turn against them. And nato leaders have approved plans to create a Rapid Response force head quartered in eastern europe. Now its an attempt to counter russia aggression in ukraine. The force could quickly mobilize if an Alliance Country in the region came under attack. It would be as far it would be 4,000 people strong in fact. Meanwhile ukraine and pro russian separatisting agreed on a cease fire this morning. Another american sickly ebola has returned to the united states. Dr. Rick sacra is receiving treatment at the Nebraska Medical Center after coming back from west avenue from today. He contracted the deadly virus while working in liberia. Our patient is sick but stable and were taking appropriate care of this patient which we will continue to do so. Sacra did not treat any bowl la patients hes the third u. S. Citizen to get ebola while doing missionary work for the charity sim. The debates at Penn State University the president is stepping in. While hes warning the whole Campus Community to be nice. And killed in a frequent accident involving a gargoyle. A woman was out for a stroll with her fiance when tragedy struck. Why neighbors are scared this could happen again. And puck consider up. Theres a new social media challenge hitting the internet. How you can help a local little girl and others like her fighting a life threatening disease. A delaware waterfront is the place to be this summer. The final piece to this hot spot coming out party is tonight and we are life. Why you might want to head to the river, too. Hey, keith. Whats going on guys. No matter what they say the eagles who are spreading their wings for the first time sunday will have all those nerves flowing. Wait until you hear the way they plan to blossom out much thats coming up in sports. Keith, coming up in weather were talking about temperature changes as well as weekend our dads a plumber. A business manager. And a stickler for homework. Im john kane running for state senate. Dad says the road to a good job starts in the classroom. [ lori ] hes a great dad who sees taxes going up but schools not getting the funding they need. [ john ] so id put back the billion dollars corbett cut from education and make sure corporations and natural gas drillers paid their fair share. Time to close the loopholes for the tax cheats. Dad thinks a lot about education. Im john kane and its about time harrisburg did too. On my journey across america, ive learned that when you ask someone in texas if they want big savings on car insurance, its a bit like asking if they want a big hat. scuse me. Or a big steak. Or big hair. I think we have our answer. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. A popular burger joint become the scene of a crime. Cops say two armed men held up the mcdonald on the 3100 block of west allegheny. It happened tuesday around 6 15 in the morning. Police say the guys jumped the counter and emptied money from the registers into a bag. They made off with about 200. First friday. So hundreds of events are underway and one of biggest phillys fringe fest and now it has a new centerpiece. The fringe art center which could become a gateway in the city to the east and the delaware river. Karen schep at the big grand opening. Karen, very exciting times here. Reporter a lot of tense waiter and waitresses because the grand opening is six or 7 00 oclock tonight theyll be opening up the beer garden. First look at it for all in philadelphia because it hasnt even opened yet. It will be opening about six, 7 00 oclock for big private party. I want to show you where this is this is the fringe Arts Building an old pumping station. They fixed it up. Put a theater inside. A restaurant called le peg and this beer garr again and a lot of people think this place might be one of the keys to getting more folks down and to enjoy our waterfront. It was a mass scramble to pull all the finishing touch on the citys newest beer garden. La peg right in the shadow of ben franklin bridge. This is what the old pumping station looked like a year ago. Today, a bustling kitchen prepping the big grand opening dinner in the cool industrial space with a cabaret and full theater. Reporter these Martha Graham cracker dancers kick off fringe strut to go prince and the beatles because its fringe. A free show at 11 00 enjoy a cocktail right there from your stadium seat. La peg own are in peter wool see says fringe art is the final piece to the delaware waterfronts coming out party. I really feel and have felt for sometime the waterfront has hit a water Ship Movement where its really suddenly becoming what everyone has wanted it to become for so long. Reporter the tourists dig the ducks right by the race street pier but its that funky fishtown and Northern Liberties crew that packs the bike racks with a park nearly every half mile now, heres the washington avenue green, you can see the joggers and the bearded hipster dads pushing strollers flocking to all of these new parks. First of all its a nice change from it used to be. I used to come here a lot and just enjoy the settlement and sit in the sun and wonder what could happen here. Reporter how about quirky lights and adironadack chairs, kids calling checkmate. The spruce street beer garden the blue anchor have been so popular they have just extended the fun at the harbor park for another month. The hammock were victims of their own success. They got so much use they had to replace them. Last weekend was the biggest crowd we had all summer. Its been great. Reporter it has been grea great. Take look this is exactly what they want to see. People just walking down right underneath the bridge coming to enjoy all the great facilities happening at all of our piers and parks. Race street park theyre going to have a million great events tonight because it is the opening of fringe fest and the first friday. You can come down here for sunset and after that you can come over here and check out the beer bargain. It will be opening to the public at 10 00 p. M. Tonight. Of course, fringe fest events will going on through the 20t 20th, 21st. Iain, back to you. All right, karen. Look great. Thanks so much. Fallout from the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal continues. Penn states new president and other University Officials are asking the School Community to at least be polite if they cant agree with each other. The message posted on penn states website comes two weeks into the fall semester. The message does not mention sandusky who was arrested nearly three years ago, but Officials Say there are honest disagreements over whether penn state acted appropriately, how it handled the crisis and whether the sanctions are appropriate. They suggest that rudeness in debating those issues deepens the divide and provides a bad example to students. It has been sad that imitation in the sincere yesterday form of flattery. A couple thinks so. Theyve taken a page from the als ice buck challenge to try and save their daughters life and the lives of a lot of other sick kids. Bruce gordon live with that story tonight. That ice bucket challenge has as we all know been remarkablely successful at raising awareness and money for als research. So bill and kelly barber decided why not put that premise to work on a cause deer to their hearts. Dont let her sunny demeanor fool you. Four year old brielle barber is very sick. Shes already beaten cancer once. As a two year old. Now, an aggressive tumor has appeared in her brain. Brielle schedule includes radiation and chemotherapy and pre kindergarten. Her innocence is just what tears you apart. She goes through everything with a smile. Wanting to raise money and a way their foes Brain Tumor Research in particular and pediatric cancer in general, mom and dad thought about the success of the als ice bucket challenge. And decided to give it a not so tasty twist. Thus was born the lemon shot challenge. You go first. Bill and brielle taped a video of the two of them gulping down straight let me money juice while challenging others to do the same tour donate money at the cause. After that, it just blew up. We had people, um, obviously facebook contacting kelly and myself. I saw the video. Id liked to this. Please challenge me. Take it down, boys. For brielle. Good luck. This is for brielle family, friends, schools even strangers have accepted the challenge. And in less than two weeks, the barbers have raised about eight thus san dollars. Brielle even managed to convince the worlds biggest sour pus to pucker up. Hi brielle barber and i challenged to the lemon shot challenge and i challenge bruce. You got it, brielle. Im up to the challenge. At least i think i am. Oh, mercy thats tight. Brielle prognosis is frankly dicey at best. But the lemon shot challenge gives mom and dad a reason for hope. Were not dealing with a very good situation. What we are dealing with is the most strongest little girl ive ever known in my life. Who beat it once and can beat it again. Right now i feel so helpless and with the zig by doing that i feel like im bringing awarene awareness. Her innocence is what just drives me to do just want to change this and make everything okay. To learn more about the lemon shot challenge go to myfoxphilly. Com. Click seen on tv he will woo link you to the site and show you how you can donate through Alex Lemonade Foundation to Fund Research in pedestrian trick cancer. Lucy ill challenging you and iain. The thing is, bruce, i have to say that you did a great job channeling your inner Johnny Carson on your reaction after. Ew, i do what i can. All right. Iain, you heard bruce. Im taking the challenge. Well do it. After the show. I think we need to do it on camera like bruce did. Scott you know youre in on it. Yeah, well turn it into lemonade. How about that . That sounds good. Rainy 24 hours coming up. 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