Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20170914 : vimarsana.c

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20170914

White suv they believe it may be a nissan path finder just opened fire on that crowd. Reporter fox 29 obtained this Surveillance Video of the suv as it drove away from the scene with the gunman inside. Seconds before the shadowy figure also turned and walked away. I want to get out of here fast as i can. I dont even sit outside we have no idea what the motive may be at this particular time. Reporter family members who live here werent talking at least one of the victims has a son in the marine corps. Neighbors are scared and concerned for the victims families. Hes out here trig to help the country and then they over here shooting up, you know, they family. It dont make sense. Its brazen. We got to get these people off the street because they obviously are capable of doing it again. Reporter now police say very fortunate that no one was killed in this drive by shooting at least two of the victims remain hospitalized tonight well have update on this investigation coming up at six. Iain. Dave, thanks. See you then. Skyfox over center city this afternoon where a 90yearold woman was hit by ups truck. This is where it happen eighth and walnut right after crews opened the road again. Police say the elderly woman was taken to Thomas Jefferson university hospital. We dont yet know her condition. President trump on the ground in florida today telling irma survivors he will return to that hard hit area and committed 100 to helping rebuild florida. Meantime irma death toll continues to grow. From sweltering Senior Citizens to people ended up getting a poisoned by gas generators suffering fatal illnesses and injuries like electro cushions, cleaning up debris and all of this much its bad. Foxs joel waldman key largo, florida reports. Reporter here in the hard hit florida keys more and more emergency supplies are arriving but the recovery effort remains slow as entire neighborhoods were completely wiped out. Its going way ahead of schedule. Weeks ahead of schedule, and much of it most of it i guess outside of the keys where we have a very special problem but were working hard on that. Reporter President Trump in florida thursday visiting the naples fort myers area surveying irma damage and visiting with survivors. President trump noting that an army of power repair crews are making progress. There are more electrical people in this state i think than ever accumulated anywhere in the world is what i read before. Could be. Its from all over the country they came. Reporter as of midday thursday, some 25 of customers across florida are still without power. That includes a number of Nursing Homes across the state. In some areas, rescue crews are now checking in on seniors and helping residents without airconditioning relocate. Police meanwhile are looking into a hollywood florida nursing home where eight patients died under sweltering conditions. A criminal probe continues into those deaths. They assured me that this is a hurricane shelter. Your mother will have the best care. Reporter down in the hard hit florida keys the National Guard is now distributing food and water as both remain in short supply. Now were in the process of cleaning properties, cutting trees, shoveling mud and throwing everything we lost out. Reporter utility officials warn that despite their progress, it could be a week or more until all floridians are up and running with electricity. Reporting from key largo, joel waldman, fox news. Fox 29 Weather Authority live look at trenton. Kind of mixed bag weatherwise. Passing showers, breaks of sunshine though in between. Basically this is the remnants of irma. Lets check in with kathy orr tracking when those showers get out of here. Kathy . Weve got really lucky with this. Most of it is to the north and west of our region. Trenton you can see some break in the clouds with warm humid conditions. And some spotty showers mainly to the north and west of the city. Some down the shore this afternoon as well with some gusty winds. Temperatures fairly decent for this time of year. 81 in philadelphia. 80 in allentown and the poconos some showers 67. Wilmington and dover checking in at 80 degrees. Down the shore showers earlier. Southerly winds with warm humid conditions. 77 in sea isle. 75 in ocean city at the boardwalk in Atlantic City and in beach haven. As we go hour by hour, temperatures will be falling through the 70s. By 9 00 oclock 75. Still humid with some spotty showers here or there but no thunderstorms and then by 11 00 oclock, 72 degrees. We slowly dry it out over the next couple of days. And then keep a careful eye on jose. The latest track coming up and how it could impact possibly at least our coastal waters. Well talk more about that coming up with your seven day. Sounds g thank you kathy. Developing story out of the north carolina. A Training Exercise at fort bragg has left eight soldiers hurt. Theyre part of the Armys Special operations command. Its not yet clear what went wrong. An Army Spokesman only saying that something happened on one of the ranges sending the soldiers to the hospital. We dont know how badly hurt they are. The search for some robbers who target add student just steps away from the campus of st. Joes University Police believe three teenagers did it. One of them threaten the student with a gun. Which has left others on campus shaken up. Fox 29s jeff cole live at city hall where you just spoke with authorities. Jeff. Reporter lucy, every quarter top police brass meets with the da to talk about guns and crime. It had to have special significance today considering the high profile Violent Crime thats occurred in this city and last night stick up at st. Josephs university. Quarter of 9 00 wednesday night and a mail st. Josephs University Student is in the area of over brook and cardinal. Hes stopped by three teens, one with gun. One has a gun that has laser on it he points at him puts the laser on him. Demands his items much take his backpack, they take his cell phone. They then run from the scene. Reporter they run off along overbrook but unlike the killing of a philadelphia dad last week, they let their victim live. Students were alerted by email last night. I think everyone is a little bit nervous just because Walking Around and stuff but i definitely know that University Takes precautions to make sure were in a safe environment. Reporter Campus Security could be seen in the area of the Armed Robbery in the early afternoon. The school says it has increased patrols st. Joes declined on camera interview in a statement the school wrote the safety of our community is of paramount concern. Violence and its link to guns was the topic of a meeting of top police brass at the das office thursday. Theres concern about teens with guns. Gerard grandzol was shot say police by a 16yearold with an illegal pistol last week. The st. Joes suspect is also described as a teen. News of the Armed Robbery stunned some. Its definitely unacceptable. Especially since around that time i was actually coming back from lab walking in that direction. So it could have just easily have been me. Reporter st. Joes campus is largely free of crime say police. They certainly want to keep it that way. We are working closely with the security staff up there. We do have plenty of Police Patrols up there and we believe its a very save environment. Solo act that occurred up here. Reporter he believes they say its a solo act up there. Now, all campuses are required to federally report their crime. Weve taken a look at them theyre called cleary reports for st. Joes clearly crime is low on that campus but it is also a campus on an alert tonight. Live at city hall, im jeff cole, fox 29 news. Iain, back to you. Jeff, thank you. We are on top of breaking news right now. Skyfox is live over a Police Investigation in the hell knee part of town. Early reports are someone was shot you can see several squad cars on the scene there on the 200 block of clairemont. We of course will stay on top of this and bring you knew information as soon as it comes in. Two days after the judge crossed out the criminal case against amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian the naacp is speaking out. It says outraged that bostian whos white will not face any charges in the crash that killed eight people and hurt more than 150 others. The naacp thinks unfair that he gets to walk free while the contractor tied to the deadly sal vague army store collapse got 15 to 30 years in prison. Now in january of last year, a jury found Griffin Campbell whos black criminally reckless. Prosecutors said campbell controlled the work site and was given several warnings by coworkers. Arcs and Salvation Army arcs as well. This a great injustice. Its justice working two different ways in one city calling it one justice system. Its intolerable much its unacceptable. The naacp is fight fog Griffin Campbell to get a new trial. All right. Judge in bostians case says no evidence points to anything criminal in the tragic train derailment. News from the white house now. A potential deal between the president and top Congressional Democrats to save the daca program could be up in the air. This morning the president tweeted that there was no deal made after Democratic Leaders shuck schumer and nancy pelosi announced they reached an agreement last night. The deal would have been protected hundreds of thousands of dreamers from deportation and would leave out funding for the border wall with mexico. Today house leader nancy pelosi clarified what was said during the dinner. I do believe that theres an understanding that down the road theres an eventual path to citizenship in the dream act and that overwhelmingl overwhelmingn people support that. Pelosi added understanding was achieved on a path forward to protect those young immigrants from being deported in florida today the president did say he is fairly close to a deal. Selena gomez shocked her fans today with these pictures on instagram. She has a new kidney and its because of her battle with lupus. So what exactly is lupus . Our dawn timmeney is standing by with the details. A time that seems like problem just too big and complex to solve. But one local doctor is determined to free people from the grasp of the opioid epidem epidemic. A father at the wheel of a car had a seizure. The other only person in that car was his 12yearold daughter. What she did is incredible. And later at 6 00 people hit the streets fighting for more Affordable Housing in philadelphia. Their proposal to pay for it all. Violent Home Invasion and now Philadelphia Police are looking for this man. 21yearold mark mclaughlin. They say yesterday he broke into a manayunk home. Assaulted and tied up a 75yearold man all while that mans sister slept upstairs. Police say mclaughlin stole her purse and her car. The 75yearold man is now at temple hospital in the icu. Police believe mclaughlin is former neighbor. If you know where he might be, give them a call. Pop star selena gomez just revealing a medical scare. She recent hal kidney transplant because of her battle with lup lupus. The donor, her best friend. 25yearold singer shared the news to fans to help explain why shes been missing all summer. Lupus is something not a lot of people know a lot about. Dawn timmeney joins in studio with more on just what lupus is and the devastating impact it can have, dawn. Reporter Selena Gomez Instagram post today went viral and its really shedding light on lupus. It is a greatly misunderstood disease. A lot of people dont even know what it is. I sat down today with the philadelphia woman who has been battling lupus for 20 plus years and she tells me every day is a challenge. My heart was racing. Um, i had a temperature of 104, 105. Um, i was in pain and i mean just head to toe pain. Reporter that is how sherri, describes the last time she was rush to the hospital with a severe lupus flare. Sadly it is a way of life for this 56yearold. She was diagnosed with the debilitating auto immune disease back in 1994 after feeling incredibly tired all the time. It was extreme fatigue to the point of not being able to lift my head off the pillow. So i went to about six different doctors trying to find out what was wrong with me. I had a doctor tell me there was nothing wrong with me. It was all in my head. Go home, take nap and youll be fine. Reporter final al diagnosis. But certainly not the one she wanted to hear. Lupus which primarily affects women between 14 and 35, three out of four are women of color. Basically, your internal system that works to protect you turns on itself so your body actually attacks itself. Reporter it can affect a persons joints, skin, heart, lungs, brain and kidneys. Sherri takes nine different medications twice a day. Shes gone into kidney failure once and had to go through chemotherapy. Sherri knows just like pop star selena gomez a kidney transplant could be in her future. Reporter the 25yearold actress and singer taking to instagram this morning with the bombshell that she had kidney transplant this summer because of her lupus. Selena saying, it was what i needed to do for my overall health. Acknowledging it was her best friend who donate add kidney and saved her life. There arent words to describe how i can possibly thank my beautiful friend f see ya. She gave me the ultimate gift and sacrifice by donate herring kidney to me. I am incredibly blessed. Selena posting a picture of her scar. Sherri cautions the young star is not out of the woods. Just because shes had the kidney transplant doesnt mean, okay, im done. Im good and ready to go. Shes still going to have to be very very cautious. Reporter as sherri is every day. Carefully managing her time and energy not knowing what the next trip to the er could bring after countless scarce. Does it frighten me . Yes. Do i worry about it every day . No. I try not to. But i would be lying if i said that im not fearful. Sure. Sure. Reporter sherri says some does not let lupus control her life and refuses to give up. She is the board chair for the local Lupus Foundation always volunteering and advocating and always in purple. She is so glad that selena gomez is sharing her personal battle because she believes it will definitely increase Awareness Among young women and help in the fight to Fund Research and find a cure. Dawn timmeney, fox 29 news. The suspected shooter at a high school in Washington State has made his first court appearance. Police say the 15yearold opened fire yesterday killing one classmate and hurting three others. They say it could have been much worse if one of the teens rivals had not jammed. He had two weapons that police say he had brought from home. New details tonight on that bizarre Health Attack on u. S. Officials in cuba. In august, it was reported 21 americans include something u. S. Officials got so sick they had to get medical help. Now sounds like how they got ill sounds bizarre like kind of out of a scifi movie. Didip employee cats complained f headaches, disneyness and hearing loss. Some of the attacks were confined to specific rooms with like sorry like precision. Much of the case is unclear. Meanwhile americas military ramping up. Foxs Lucas Tomlinson is at the pentagon with the details about several big moves. Reporter ten Office Thousands of Russian Troops taking part in the countrys biggest military exercises since the end of the cold war. Nato says almost 100,000 troops have mask massed on natos eastern flank and theyre worried some wont be rei dough employed when the drills are over. Prompting u. S. Troops in poland to step up surveillance a day aft the arrival of more american troops and military equipment. Well come over here with that armored brigade combat team. Well go to poland and we will conduct for the next nine months training to maintain our readiness. Reporter are you isnt the only threat facing u. S. Military the fight against isis grinding non rocca the self proclaimed isis capital in syria the pentagon says progress is being made but the going is slow due to a number of improvised explosive devices planted by the militants. Fighters described the struggle as much a fight against ied as it is against isis. Reporter meanwhile new warnings are emerging from the north korea. The regime threatening japan with Nuclear Strike on thursday. This as secretary of state Rex Tillerson meets with his british counterpart in london looking for way to pressure china into forcing the north back to the bargaining table. I am hopeful that china will take it upon themselves to use that very powerful tool of oil supply to persuade north korea. President trump has been at odds with top dim employee mats over north korea he says another round of talks wont be helpful. While secretary tillerson and others continue pushing for diplomatic solution. At the pentagon, lucas tomlins tomlinson, fox news. Some sad news from the philadelphia fire department. Just announced the death of lieutenant kenneth green, sr. The 60yearold army veteran died at einstein hospital today after being taken there last week while on duty. Lieutenant green served the department for 23 years. His unit was honored in 2007 for helping save two people from a fire in brewery town. Funeral arrangements are pendi pending. Sill ahead what one woman accused of doing inside a mcdonalds bathroom much something thats kind of hard to now shes in jail on 11 million bond. Philly cops taking over your social media feeds perhaps this morning . You can thank our good day philadelphia crew. You need a job . How about flying a jetliner. D

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