philadelphia magazine news director bryan howard bought a house here in 2009.ou could call him the face of the new middle class. how does this feel to you as part of a city that has seen decades of hollowing out of the middle class? >> this feels like a good middle class neighborhood. i like it. i mean, there are a lot of newer faces on my block, but there's also faces who have been there for decades. people who were born on the block and still live there. >> it's a tentative peace between the two faces of the middle class. young professionals have been buying up property in the neighborhood the past few years and bringing with it many changes. byob restaurants, hipsters and higher home prices. what do they think of guys like you? >> we get along, you know. i think there was a sort of feeling each other out period, you know, the first winter we were here. i didn't shovel my block right away, and i got some side-long looks. >> they get from a middle class that's historically been blue collar, mosting manufacturing and mid-level office jobs. that's changed now. i

"eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan is live outside howard high school of technology with thee motional reaction from students and parents, cleve. >> reporter: just in the last 20 minutes the size of the crowd here has justin creased, dramatically, we have spoken to some people here who say young lady was very sweet. they don't know why all this happened. right now police last update was about four hours ago saying they were still conn you can interviews and no arrest at this time. but people hearsay whoever is responsible for this girl's death needs to be held accountable. >> hit me right here, my nose. >> reporter: even student who did not witness fatal fight howard high school technology say it the is disturbing. >> man, i seen helicopter and then bathroom and all this blood. oh, man. this is a girl at that. like the females. >> reporter: around 8:15 a a.m. wilmington police got an a report of the assault in the bathroom with one victim severely injured. >> staff was on hand as well as their staff. she was given medical attention soon after the incident. when officers were made aware

"eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan is live outside howard high school of technology to explain why no charges have been filed just yet, in the death the of amy joyner -francis, cleve. >> reporter: well, behind me is the growing memorial for amy joyner-francis and if you look closely a long the top among all of the flowers and teddy bears is there a handwritten poem entitled where do we go from here. to a lot of people it is hard to have close another until those involved in her death are held accountable. for more than a week howard high school of technology community has been mourning loss of the 16 year-old amy joyner francis. she died just after school started last week following an alleged attack in the girl's bathroom. other than saying no weapons were involve, and several girls were being questioned, wilmington police have not released any details into how amy was killed. during a town hall meeting earlier this week chief bob i cummings said he was hopeful charges would be announce by friday. today in a a brief, scripted news conference he a said those charges are in the read

"eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan is live outside howard high school of technology with the latest on that investigation, cleve. >> reporter: nicole as ovulate this afternoon wilmington police tell us they are still conducting interviews and they have not made any arrests, and they are also not telling us the girl's name but we do know that she did not live for very long after this attack inside the bathroom at the high school. a school day over, just as getting started. wilmington police got a report around 8:15 this morning of a an assault in the girls bathroom at howard high school of technology in wilmington. with the 16 year-old girl, severely injured. >> staff was on hand, as well as their staff. she was given medical attention, soon after the incident. when officers were a maid aware and school staff she was medivac'd to ai children's hospital. >> reporter: the 16 year-old was pronounced dead at the hospital. police are not releasing details so far about what started the fight or if the victim was out number. they don't believe any weapons were involved and did not recover a

"eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan explains why authorities are calling for patience. >> store more than a week the howard high school technology community mourning the loss of amy joyner francis, she died just after school started last week, following an alleged attack in the girls bathroom. other than saying no weapons were involved, and several girls were being questioned, wilmington police have not released any details into how amy was killed. during a town hall meeting earlier this week, chief bobby cummings said he was hopeful charges could be announced by friday, in a brief and scripted news conference, he said those charges are not ready. >> because there is still a lot of work left to do, by our detective and the attorney general offers, in terms of reviewing evidence, and relevant facts, we are not in a position at this time to file charges. >> thanks to the wide use of social media student and other claim to go have knowledge of amy's death have created enormous volume of information to sift through. cummings said more than 3,000 printed pages of data that investigators must painstake inchly re

howard eskin in the newsroom on the new leadership. >> the 76ers finally have a new leader. the president and general manager is jerry coangelo's son bryan. sam hinkie gave his resignation to the group not with a meeting or phone call it was a resignation letter of 13 pages and that, by the way, that's the way the owners found out about hinkie quitting. by the way the letter of 13 pages was more than the number of wins the sixers had this season, it was obvious the co owner already made the decision to bring in bryan coangelo before hinkie quit. >> we didn't lose faith in sam. we spend you know many months chatting with sam about how to move the franchise to the next level. we felt that, you know, i think we all agreed that bringing in talent to make the organization better, to allow us to build a stronger relationship around the league, to allow us to build a winning culture, you know, bringm in someone to help lead the organization. we agreed those were good things. we couldn't agree how to do that specifically and who the person was. so sam decided to leave. >> obviously, he didn't want bryan coangelo making those decisions. three sea

howard high school of technology. >>> students have been dismissed for the day as police continue to investigate. good afternoon, i'm brooke thomas. >> i'm jim donovan. "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan is being briefed by police right now, live report coming up. >> meanwhile, in other news, right now the presidential campaign is focused on our area, candidates and their representatives are fanning across pennsylvania, just days ahead of the state's all important primary. take a look, republican frontrunner donald trump is in harrisburg tonight, former president bill clinton stomping for his wife, hillary clinton, in harrisburg, as well. her challenger bernie sanders has events in reading and oaks, republican john kasich will be in media this afternoon, king of prussia later on tonight, our "eyewitness news" team on the road to various events and we'll have team coverage later today right now the latest from the campaign trail, from "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch. >> andand with the countdown clocked to the pennsylvania presidential primary next tuesday, ticking, all candidates are coming in, looking for a win. in fishtown wednesday, frontrunner hillary clinton address dolla

bryan has more on the investigation from wilmington. >> reporter: for the second evening the community has come together around howard high school of technology in wilmington where 16 user old amy joyner francis died after an attack in the girls bathroom. >> because it is like, something like this has to happen for people to actually realize what they are doing to themselves and for them not to help that girl is just crazy because y'all letting this happen, y'all letting them happen. >> reporter: officials a say two girls were involve in the a salt and took the tenth grader's life on thursday morning. so far no official word on how joyner was killed but police say there were no weapons involve. >> we have to stopped violence. >> reporter: as smoke members of the wilmington community wait to find out about what happened one thing they know is kid need to hear over and over again that violence isn't the answer. >> it touches my heart and myself, that we keep losing other children and burying our children every week or every other week, so it is senseless violence, so, you know, once again, nuisances, another stabbing in the heart for me. >> rep

bryan has details from wilmington. >> reporter: it has been nearly a week since 16 year-old amy joyner francis was killed during an alleged attack at the girls bathroom in howard technology in wilmington. a memorial continue to grow outside the school and parents say students are still struggling to process what exactly happen. >> it has been real shocking. my daughter is so scared. she don't want to come. >> reporter: sonya capers has a daughter and several nieces that a tend howard. she's going to a parent's meeting a at the high school wednesday night hoping to get an update on the investigation and the school's response. this afternoon the delaware department of justice gave some insight into why a week's almost past and there has been no charges in the girl's death. a statement says that in part, that investigation is ongoing and it includes multiple witness interviews, reviews of physical evidence, and communications devices and social media posts and consultations with the the delaware division of forensic science. decision about criminal charges will be made, when the investigation is complete. >> i really hope these girls get caught and get arrested b