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WTXF FOX 29 News At Five November 10, 2014

He says, hes a little banked up still but hes doing okay. Im still pretty sore. You know, a lot of pain in my leg and shoulder. Reporter Philadelphia Police officer mark kemsy is visiting with had brothers at the 17th district in south philly on crutches and healing from a concussion after this fiery crash saturday evening. He praised the quick rags of 17 year old did he Company Resident joe chambers and south philly resident Dante Johnson for saving his live pulling him to safety. Joe chambers came over end told me my car was on fire. He fold me i needed to get out and we tried the door. I was kind of disoriented. So i didnt know what was going on. He pulled me out through the window and drug me down the street a little bit to get away from the vehicle that was on fire. Im just really thankful they were there and they decided to act instead of watch. Well, the condition of the driver in the paying up truck is unknown at this time. That driver continues to recover and police are still investigating that accident. Theyre also trying to figure out why the car went up in flames and at 6 00 oclock tonight well tell you how officer kimsey plans to repay joe chambers for his quick act at 6 00. Well zen it back to you. Lucy and iain. Dave, thanks. See you again at 6 00. The search for an accused rapist in upper kensington. Police want to you take a good look at this Surveillance Video from sunday november 2nd at the Golden Dragon Chinese Restaurant on the 3300 block of north second street. Officers say the man in this video followed another man home from the restaurant and then sexually assaulted him at gun point before robbing him. Delaware county authorities are investigating a fire that burned through several drexel hill businesses. Skyfox over the scene on burmont road just past 3 00 this afternoon. Now three stores are damaged. No word on any injuries or what started that fire. Quite a few people are looking for a place to stay after a fastmoving fire destroyed two homes in north philadelphia. Now, you can see in this video crews tackling hot spots from skyfox. Firefighters arrived on the 2400 block of west lehigh avenue right around 2 15 this afterno afternoon. A boarding house an home under construction are both destroyed. One man says he lost everything. This house is gone. This house is gone. I mean, im a diabetic. All my medicines, everything. No word yet on what started that fire. Tonight authorities in Montgomery County announce big arrests after they say burglars stole guns from stores and then sold them on the streets. One of those weapon linked to a shooting. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser life in lansdale tonight one of the gun shops was ripped off. Dave . Reporter iain, they called this operation cross hairs ton night five people are under arrest including the main suspect who police say has acknowledged breaking into those two gun shops and ripping off a dozen weapons. The problem is, 10 of those weapons are still on the stree streets. Andrew rocca said nothing as he was left in court charged with Drug Trafficking and break ins at two Montgomery County gun shops have that 10 stolen weapons on the street. Broke into two stores. Stole the guns and sold them on the street. When burglars broke into the gunshop in lansdale this past summer they made off with a dozen guns from assault weapons and shot guns to hand guns. That touched off an area wide search for the weapons. Its massive, heavy dangero dangerous. The destruction this kind of firearm would do in the wrong arms. Immeasurable. The guns including a magnum 44 handgun and ak47 were stolen during break ins july june and july. While investigate a shooting seen in norristown on november 3rd detectives found one of the stolen guns. A 9millimeter had been used in the shooting. It was in the possession of the shooter. The shooter who fired this weapon inside of a home in norristown nearly hitting a child. That shooting gave Police Investigating the stolen gun the lead they were looking for. There are 10 more guns that are out there. Reporter rocco has been charged with the theft of the weapons and selling those guns to socalled straw purchasers people who cannot legally own a gun. He was taken into police custody. And acknowledged who the police to the police he was in fact the person responsible for both burglaries. Reporter four other men have been charg charged with possessing two of the stolen guns. Investigators are concern the other weapons could fall into the wrong hands. Ak47 that was stolen, we are attempting to locate that. Obviously a very dangerous firearm. Reporter now, rocco is in the Montgomery County prison tonight. He could face a mandatory minimum five year sentence under the brad fox law named after Montgomery County Police Officer brad fox who was killed in the line duty with a weapon that had been straw purchased. Coming up at 6 00 where he was selling the guns and how much he was getting. Well talk to you then dave. New jersey family recovering after Carbon Monoxide took over their home. Winslow township emergency crews arrived at the house on Hidden Hollow lane just after 3 00 this morning. It was so bad the father passed out while opening the door for authorities. Firefighters also found a woman and seven year old child unconscious. All three did regain consciousness and medics took them to the hospital for observation. The gas level in their home de deadly. 900 parts per million causes coma and convulsions within minutes. Its pretty dangerous. Your normal Carbon Monoxide detector a alert around 35 parts pill per million. Authorities believe gas came from the furnace or hot water heater. They say you should have a detector for the odorless gas on every levelly your home and with the cold weather approaching make sure you get your heating system in inspected. The man accused of abduction ago woman off germantown street and taking her to maryland will be brought back tomorrow to face federal charges here in philadelphia. Delvin barnes will be tried first for the abduction of carlesha freeland gaither. He will then face charges in the abduction and rape avenue richmond, virginia teen. Federal judge ordered barnes to be transferred into fbi custody for a Court Appearance in philadelphia on wednesday. He is currently in jail on suicide watch. A warmup, fantastic, then a cold blast in your fox 29 Weather Authority. Its early november look at that. Parts of the country look like theyre in the dead of winter. This, my friends s minneapolis. Where the first winter storm of the season is already hitting. Even more snow is expected. We are heading there live in a few minutes. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams good to be in philadelphia. Isnt it. It really is. Lucy n fact temperatures pretty comfortable after a cold start. We were in the 20s and 30s across the area but look at the numbers right now. 61 degrees. So a couple more days of temperatures actually above average for us. But find the front. You can see 72 in st. Louis. 75 in wichita but 34 in omaha. Only the teens in business mark. So this cold air is going to slowly funnel in our area. Well talk about how cold it gets and if we might see a taste of some wintry precip with the seven day. Iain and lucy . Thank irk scott. Developing right now yet another school in nigeria is reeling from a terrorist attack and a warning some of these images are tough to see. Witnesses say a suicide bomber disguised in the School Uniform detonated explosives as children at the high school gathered for an assembly. At least 48 people mostly students died. 79 others are injured. Nigerian Authorities Say the stream mist Islamic Group boca haram is behind the attack much the group has been targeting School Children for the past five years. Youve heard about the kidnappings, of course. Now it wants to turn nigeria into an islamic state. The United States Postal Service the latest victim of hackers. Today officials confirmed a cyber attack may have compromised the Social Security numbers and other private information of 800,000 employees. The fbi says its now looking into whether the hackers may have also targeted customers. The Postal Service has released a statement saying the attack was quote limited in scope. And all services are functioning normally today. Now to the eagles on the big stage tonight. Monday night football. The birds and in the partial spotlight big prime time game tonight at the linc with mark sanchez as the starting quarterback. Eagles need a win to keep their hold on first place. Howard eskin live at the linc with a preview of the eagles and panthers. Howard . Eagles are always on big stage bought in philadelphia you are always under the microscope. Pregame festivity actually pregame preparations going on right now. I can tell you this. This just in. This is breaking news. An eagle will fly in right before kickoff. Thats the big news so far. But the eagles motto this year must be, next man up. Bathe theyve had so many injuries and the next man up. Whose the next man up at quarterback . We know that you mentioned it. Mark sanchez who last week through two touchdown passes but he didnt start the game. He came into the game. So its a different mentality. However, when chip kelly was asked this week when did you know you wanted to sign mark sanchez which was before the season . When did you know you wanted to do it. It was a classic chip kelly response. I had it all map out actually. laughter . Seriously. I said right then. When im the head coach of the eagles im going to make sure i get that team on my team and the guy next to you youre the only offensive coordinator dont worry about it. Dry minor details but its going work. Exactly. Absolutely had no idea. I didnt think any of it. He could be really good player and stanford was there that day, texas was there that day, usc was there that day. I wasnt talking to him. I was talking to some other guy. I was a good reporter but i didnt see his butt to see if it was writ then. Dee me company ryans which is bigger than the quarterback. Eagles win this game but well talk about more about the eagles and the game coming up later in sports. Back to you guys. Thank goodness howard you clarified that. Well check in back with you in just a little bit. Video shot on a new york city subway is going viral right now. We had to check it a few times ourselves to believe it. A group of girls causing a whole lot of trouble until a guy slaps one of them across the face. What happened next. A quiet philadelphia street in the middle of an afternoon. Police say the man right there on your screen is up to no good. No good. What hes about to do that sent people running for their lives. Plus a local couple full of life traveling the world but a trip to paradise changed their lives forever and it could happen to anyone. The challenges theyre now fa were on top of breaking news in philadelphia tas coney second. Skyfox is live over the Delaware River near state road and magee avenue where police are trying to find a car in the water. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live near the scene with the very latest. Chris . Reporter well, lucy, they found the car. Its the driver theyre now looking for. Take a walk with me on the base of the Delaware River right now. Right near the taconypalmyra bridge. You see a heavy duty wrecker has been brought in here. What they are trying to retrieve is a car in the Delaware River. We understand its a corvette that is in the bottom of the Delaware River right now. The question how it got there. Show video from sky fox over the scene. This an industrial parking lot that is used for storage for trucks and stuff like that. It has access to the Delaware River. A source telling me that he saw someone come in, drive the car and just as it got into the river, let go the car went into the river and then that man took off. Police are now looking for that man who drove who ran away from the area near the taconypalmyra bridge. Right near new state road and magee road here in the tacony section. Lets bring you back out here live. You see the heavy duty wreck kerr. Theyre going to pull that corvette out of the bottom of the Delaware River. But why that person abandoned that car, why he ran away, not yet known. This happened within the last hour. So were still trying to get some information. Chief inspector joe sullivan here on scene. Well try to get some more information but a car in the driver. It looks theyll recover it. The driver still out there tonight. Guys . Thank you very much, chris. Lets take look at this. The guy that youre about to look at right over there fired off round after round in Philadelphia Police are after him right now. Amazing his gunfire did not hit anyone but a car is completely shot up much the bullets started flying thursday afternoon on the 600 block of west clearfield street in the fair hill neighborhood. Police say the gunman was targeting a 42 year old man inside a nearby corner store and he walk out to find his car just riddled with gunshots. A Montgomery County shelter needs your help tonight just as its turning cold outside. It is running out of food. Fox 29s dawn timmeney is live outside that shelter in souderton and, dawn, these shelters are so critical to so many. So what is it asking for . Reporter well, lucy, they really need everything. Theyre asking for healthy canned foods, Fresh Produce, gluten free products, you name it, they need it. I have to tell you there are an awful lot of local families here who rely on this food pantry to get by. I come here because very low income and what i have here helps me a lot. Reporter 93 year old peggy hall and her two sons visit the keystone Opportunity Centers food pantry frequently. The family falling on hard times and relying on the kindness of other toss put food on the table or go hungry. We have a loving family that pulls together as much as we can. But theres a limit to what you can do. Now this food pantry is in a dire situation itself. Food donations are down and while theres some food on the pantry shelfs, its only enough for a few days and Food Warehouse is bear. We have empty boxes here. Empty cabinets. Yeah. Nothing. Nothing. No food. Reporter the need is grea great. And growing. Keystone serves 250 families right now giving out 23,000 pounds of food a month. This is in our own School District that we are trying to help families. We do the best that we can. But you know if we dont get the donations in then we cant help. Reporter food pantry wish list. Food in cans like soup and beans, tuna. It needs spaghetti os and hot and cold cereals. Mixed vegetables, green beans, Fresh Produce as well as monetary donations. Every little bit helps. Without the food bank here, i dont know what i would have done. So im very grateful for keystone. Reporter a lot of people are and if like to make the documentation the pantry is 104 north main street in souderton. Theyre open from 9 00 until 4 00 monday through thursday and until noon on friday. So check your cabinets, hit the store, grab a bag or a box and if youre able, bring it on down. Fill the with food and bring it on down to the food pantry. Lucy . Thank you very much, dawn. Of course, we know how generous all of you are and hopefully we can pull together and help out that shelter. This is a case in point. Were so proud to say fox 29 viewers have come through in a really big way to help a local Animal Shelter on the verge of running out of food. We first brought you this story friday. The Camden County Animal Shelter houses 300 dogs and cats and on friday it had just enough food to last until the next morning. Its pantry looked like the one you just saw for the people. Aft we told you about their troubles, calls came pouring in from all kinds of folks eager to help and they lined up in their cars saturday to drop off donations. You gave so much, look at all of that, and thank you so very mu much. The shelter says it now has thousands of pounds of food and 13,000 in donations. Wow all right. On to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. In the 60s right now still tomorrow even warmer, but dont worry. It will change. Well have bone chilling temperatures maybe a winter preview coming up later this week. Heres chief meteorologist Scott Williams. Have those heavy winter jackets ready for a part of our forecast, iain. Not really until the latter part of the week but look at ultimate doppler as we move into minnesota, wisconsin as well as the michigan. Were looking at snowfall six to 12inches around locations in the arrow head of minute money as well up of michigan. So, yes, Winter Weather is impacting part of the nation. For us its pretty mild and quiet. You can see were watching a disturbance right now just off the coast of florida. But that cold front is going to slowly bring that colder air in our direct. But temperatures above average right now. 61 degrees in philadelphia. Winds are out of the south at about 6 miles per hour. So if youre stepping outdoors, dry, quiet, comfortably cool well collet and not as cold as last night. Ill talk about when that cold air arrives and also if we could see some of that wintry precip with the seven day. Iain and luc

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