things and this is really where the people and to be able to communicate to the patients, likewise in dave s. and they all sort of have been let go and i any there are issues whether we think that the new case manager will be cultural proficient or competent and i look and i go, you know i kind of smell smoke here and i go, there must be something behind it and you might hide behind the fact that it is a personnel issue but i am seeing the data points and connecting them and going, it looks like a cost saving and there is something going on where you are letting people go that are doing a good job that have been there a long time. i am going to hold you accountable that. and i think, you know, i think that we need to face the facts and give ourselves an honest grade here. and if i run a private industry and you were auditing me i would get some sales, or whatever you know, their not in compliance, and a lot of compliances here so clearly there is a lot. but where we are not coming up to speed. we should give ourselves and what is your mediation plan and i have the plans here today and we are

fox 29's dave schratwieser spoke to furious neighbors. >> they're cowards. they're really cowards. >> reporter: choice words from a familily member after residents and two row homes at the corner of east coulter and lena streets had to make a mad dash to escape monday morning when a suspected fire bomb went off. >> the fact that someone leaves a device at the front door of someone' home that doesn't happen every day. so there is some type of issue going on. >> somebody tried to fire bomb the front door. the front door was actually on fire. >> reporter: her sister and seven other family members were forced out of their beds just after 3:30 monday morning when two devices were reportedly found at the house. >> it's really scary. because you never know, you know, what might happen. what could have happened. what did happen. >> it's something that's very dangerous and serious. >> reporter: fire department arrived and found family members had escaped out a rear entrance to the street. the fires were immediately extinguished and fire investigators took over. >> an

fox 29's dave kinchen has more. >> reporter: christmas delivery of a different kind.x 29 cameras were there as first responders rushed a brand new baby boy out of the septa subway station at 15th and market at city hall. taking him to an ambulance. his mother also seen here in exclusive video had just given birth to the baby minutes before on an eastbound train. septa officer durell james says he helped with the delivery. >> we got down there and we just -- we went in. the baby was breathing. just maintain the head and made sure the cord didn't wrap around the neck and everything like that. >> reporter: he was joined by septa sergeant daniel cabon. >> we were just getting our gloves ready and we just went in to delivering the baby and that's all we could do. >> reporter: cunningham shot his own cell phone video as a witness to the christmas mirac miracle. >> i got really jittery wondering how the police officer because it was all men on the scene how they were going to handle that. one lady got a peek. she was like oh he's acute tee pie. and everyone was happy for the

fox 29's dave schratwieser live in west philadelphia with how they pulled it off. dave? >> reporter: jeffrey, pretty good take down by the city's majors crime unit much these scammers were recruiting victims on college campuses here in the city, on south street and at other locations taking people for thousands of dollars. tonight three suspects are under arrest. >> can't get something for nothing. >> reporter: with the holiday season upon us that was the warning from police as sheathed off the proceeds from a exam that claimed dozens of victims in recent months. >> it's a couldn't can't game. that's what it is. he cons you into saying maybe, i don't have a checking account can you please deposit this check in your account and i'll reimburse you. >> reporter: the con game netted all this and more. investigators say the ringleader was 20-year-old raymond star who has eight prior arrests. >> he's very entertaining pers person. >> reporter: major crimes investigators say star and other members of a gang based here in germantown would scam people with a smooth line of talk.

fox 29's dave schratwieser reports. >> he's an excellent person. you never talk to strangers you talk to him because he's that kind of guy. >> reporter: folks who knew security guard james williams say he was a hard-working guy who lived out of this conversion van on the property at the locker room storage facility where he worked. he took his job seriously, but was friendly. >> real nice, you know, he protect this place. he didn't bother nobody. >> reporter: customers at the storage facility at 62nd and pasquale were startled and saddened monday by the news that the 69-year-old security guard had been murdered. >> the person that did this is such a low underhanded person. >> reporter: police say williams was found tied up and beaten to death in a conversion van sunday afternoon when his boss went looking for him. police believe the killers then used williams van to knock down barbed wire fences and escape. >> the male was bound both hand and feet behind his back. williams was a member of the state burners motorcycle club at 52nd and woodland nearb

fox 29's dave kinchen just spoke to the young man's family much he's live outside their home tonight in manayunk. dave? >> reporter: iain, that's right the parents are frustrated and of course federal investigators and northwest detectives are also frustrated on this day six of the search for shane montgomery. fbi and northwest detectives working to enhance surveillance video including a clip they got before 11:00 o'clock last night. so far they say that clip does not show shane. let's go to some video right n now. detectives spent today working abandoned factories and buildings in the manayunk area. but they found nothing. the weather preventing shane's family from doing any of their own searching today. but the official reward for information leading to shane remains actually at $26,000 now. although a family friend set up a go fund me page to raise additional money. shane's parents met with federal investigators again today and we just spoke with the parents in the last hour. they said it's hard pressing on but they are not giving up. >> ups and downs. um, good moments, bad moment

fox 29's dave schratwieser is live at fire headquarters tonight.red on the job before. >> reporter: lucy, union officials told us today that she received a serious injury at a fire a couple of years ago and battled her way back to rejoin the department. tonight the investigation into her death is on-going and firefighters are still citing her brave efforts. >> a hero in your book? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> reporter: as flags flew at half staff outside philadelphia firehouses wednesday, firefighters returned to work and struggled to understand the loss of decorated firefighter joyce craig lewis. >> they're in shock and a lot of questions are being asked, you know, how could this happen again and how can we avoid it? >> reporter: black bunting covered the doorway at engine 64 where the 11 year veteran was stationed. small memorial outside the firehouse on rising sun avenue. >> everybody in the city i'm sure is praying for this family. >> reporter: officials also revealed that the first female firefighter to die in the line of duty was seriously i

fox 29's dave schratwieser joins us live at the seen of the attack in philadelphia's northern liberties neighborhood tonight. dave? >> reporter: iain, philadelphia police offering a thousand dollars row tonight for information leading to an arrest in this case. the 17-year-old student was brutally beaten, suffered multiple injuries to his head including a broken. tonight police physical me this an unprovoked attack. >> appeared to be random. >> reporter: police now say the 17-year-old victim was randomly attacked as he waited for a ride home after visit ago friend's house in northern liberties. he was brutally attacked by three suspects. >> they could have killed this young man. again you kick someone in the face and the head. >> reporter: surveillance cameras just a few feet away caught the suspects as they punched, kicked and stomped the teenager back on november 15t november 15th. when he struggled back into the street and went down, there was a final stomp to the victim's head. >> the damage that's done a broken jaw but that could have been a fatal blow and killed this young man. >>

. >> fox 29's dave schratwieser is live at that scene for us right now. dave? >> reporter: iain, medical examiner left here with bradley stone's body about a half an hour ago on west fourth street. the body was discovered about 200 yards we're told from his home here. this has been a tough 36 hours for the folks who live in this area and tonight they're glad this ordeal is over. >> it's really scary. >> reporter: as ashley and her son james went for a walk through pennsburg tuesday, heavily armed swat teams went door to door, street to street, and alley to alley. >> searching every dumpster, house, apartment and they don't know whether he killed himself or. no it's just scary we don't really know anything. >> reporter: just after 2:00 o'clock police located the body in wooded area. neighbors were relieved. >> i'm glad it's over. it's a shame that it had to end the way it did. >> reporter: police say the 35-year-old ex marine killed his ex-wife nicole and five of her family members in a 90 minute early morning wave of violence across three montgomery county town

fox 29's dave schratwieser is live in upper darby. dave, you were telling us at 5:00 this dog is very important to her family. >> reporter: absolutely. you know, lucy, think shooting happened in broad daylight upper darby police still trying to figure out who shot the dog and why. tonight the owner is speaking out about the shooting and tells us why this dog means so much to her. >> look how beautiful my baby is. >> heavily bandaged but wagging her tail, 22 month old molly humbled out of surgery to the joy of her owner after someone in the upper darby neighborhood where the dog's oh ener lives shot the dog in the neck. >> i just want to know why, because she's just so precious. she doesn't harm not even a fly. >> there are no complaints against the residence, and/or the dogs that live at this locate. >> reporter: debra feliciano was beside herself when she got a phone call friday telling her dog a rotweiler pitbull mixed had been shot. >> my uncle before he passed away he gave me her in the palm of my hand. she means everything to me.

fox 29's dave can't chen broke this story over the weekend much he's covering tonight's rally for us. dave? >> reporter: iain, a palmer grand parent told me she organized this emergency meeting with parents after seeing our story over the weekend. the question now for many parents with students who went to palmer school, they want to know what they will do now. small but vocal group of parents held what they call a curve side meeting outside the walter palmer charter school in northern liberties. they are angry palmer administrators decided to abruptly close the school over the holiday break. these parents plan on sending a message to the state department of education but they don't know where they will send their children in the meantime. some of those students rallied too. >> so sad because i learned a lot here and i'm going to miss my teachers and my friends. >> when she first came here she was below average. now she is performing on a proficient level. so that speaks for itself. no matter how you say it's being diss managed these kids are learning. these kids are our future and th

fox 29's dave schratwieser joins us live in cherry hill. dave, if shoppers know about what's going on, are they worried about it? >> reporter: they are. they're on guard. in fact cherry hill police tonight warning holiday shoppers women shoppers that they're being targeted and they're telling them be march. watch your pock book zip it up when you go in the store and don't become the next victim. >> christmas joy turned to ba hum bug for unsuspecting choppers at south jersey shopping centers. police say it's been anything but jolly when shopper fine out their pockets have been pick. >> i work hard for my money. so i want to keep it safe. >> picks up that is time of the year because you have more shoppers, people on hectic schedule and they're not paying attention. >> reporter: several suspects have been caught on camera after they stole wallets from shoppers at cherry hill mall and at this shopping center on route 70. >> someone will walk up and start talking to you while another person comes up behind you and removes a credit card or wallet

fox 29's dave schratwieser spoke with neighbors with what surprises them most about this crime. >> very terrified. >> reporter: early morning begun point robbery caught on tape on large street had neighbors in fear. after the gun toting bandits made off with over $7,000. victimizing a young man and his friend headed to china for his mother's funeral. >> between six and $7,000 united states currency in that bag. he was planning on using for the trip and $3,000 in chinese currency. so it was pretty big score for them. >> reporter: the robbery happened just aft 5:00 a.m. and captured on surveillance cameras as the victim came to his friend's home to catch ride to the airport as he stood on the front steps the gunmen made their move. they stole cash, chinese currency and i-pad and his passport. >> unfathomable it could happen right here. >> here you are, you're trying to get back home for a funeral and you get robbed and all your money is taken. >>> gunmen faced both men from the home with guns to their head and hands in the air. neighbors a woke to find police searching the air for the sus

fox 29's dave schratwieser live at police headquarters in center city tonight with details about reward being offered for information. dave? >> reporter: yes, iain torque night homicide detectives are going over surveillance video and crimes that other storage facilities in southwest philadelphia as they try to unravel this murder mystery. tonight friends of the victim tell us they want justice. >> he's an excellent person. in the event you never talk to strangers. you talk to him. because he's that kind of guy. >> reporter: folks who knew security guard james williams say he was a hard-working guy who lived out of his conversion van on the property at the locker room storage facility where he worked. he took his job seriously, but was friendly. >> real nice, you know, he protect this place. he didn't bother nobody. >> reporter: customers at the storage facility at 62nd and pasquale were startled and saddened monday by the news that the 69-year-old security guard had been murdered. >> very hard working. >> the person that did this is such a low underhanded person. >> reporter: police sa

fox 29's dave schratwieser is live at police headquarters. dave? >> reporter: lucy, this is the second time that home has been targeted in a suspicious fire in a month. the last time being novembe november 9th. tonight a citywide arson task force is looking into this and family members are saying enough is enough. >> they're cowards. they're really coward. >> reporter: choice words from family member after residents in two row homes at the corner of east colter and lena streets had to make a mad dash to escape monday morning when a suspected fire bomb went off. >> the if a you can't that someone leave the device at the front door of someone' home you know that doesn't happen every day. so there is some type of issue going on. >> somebody tried to fire bomb the front door. the front door was actually on fire. >> reporter: this woman asked us not to use her name but her sister and seven other family members were forced out of their beds just after 3:30 monday morning when two devices were reportedly found at the house. >> it's really scary. because y

fox 29's dave kinchen is live at the bristol police department. dave?> reporter: kerry, good evening. police here in bristol tell us the driver was released pending further investigation. they interviewed the driver tonight. they say so far he is cooperat cooperating. >> the 1984 old accused driving a dodge ram into a levittown home killing an elderly woman said nothing as he left bristol police headquarters with his family friday night. >> he expressed remorse. like i said he's been cooperative through the entire process. >>> the victim jenny russo was sleeping in her bedroom when the driver charge up to her home busting into the side of her home. you can see the tire tracks he here. >> she told me from the impact the statue hit her on the head. >> reporter: ronald ruse so ran over to his injured mother after the crash woke him up. >> ronald i'm feeling cold. >> a gaping hole in the wall leaving the ailing woman under hospice care under the elements. >> we made one move from here to there. we moved from there back to the hospital bed and that was just

fox 29's dave schratwieser is live at the scene of the fire. dave, a tough day for the department. >> reporter: no doubt about n iain. fire investigators just wrapped up their work for the day. they will return here to the fire seen tomorrow to continue their investigation tonight city officials say this dedicated 11 year veteran of the fire department lost her life trying to save life. >> when you go down into basement you actually running down into that heat and smoke. >> reporter: that's the way fire officials described the basement fire at this middleton street row home that took the life of veteran firefighter joyce craig-lewis early tuesday morning. >> like running down into a chimney. >> reporter: veteran firefighter had entered the row home through the front with a three person attack team from engine 64 trying to get an elderly victim out and knock down the fire. conditions in a basement fire can be treacherous. >> it's quite hot and it's visibility is typically near zero, and it's very hot. >> reporter: 11 year veteran and her fellow

fox 29's dave kinchen is live in south philadelphia. dave?> reporter: iain, this was a big protest here at broad and pattison. lots of cars here now but that was a different story earlier. this area loaded with police and protesters hundreds of them lying down in the street. it started like this. >> hands up, don't shoot. >> walk out into the street in broad and pattison and we will line the streets for 4.5 minutes and as we lie there we'll remember the 4.5 hours that mike brown's body laid on the street. >> reporter: hundreds of protesters making their statement lying down at the intersection of broad and pattison in south philadelphia. >> we continually see young black men killed and that's the fact. >> reporter: philly die in as it's called organized by power a group of philly clergy members -- >> we're not going to sit down on injustice. >> reporter: stand wagon they call police brutality against african-americans. after grand jurie juries indict officers in the deaths of err rake garner and mike brown. >> it's just to recognize black liv

fox 29's dave kinchen live outside philadelphia city hall where the weather is far from frightful. right, dave. >> reporter: absolutely. in fact, i'll starting to over think rethink this scarf. it might be a little too much. maybe even the hat, too, because really it's just not that cold. i have 48 degrees on my phone here and a lot of people are actually skating and trying to make the best of it any way. let's go to individual. a lot of people hundreds of people at the rothman institute skate rink and actually amazed it's cold enough for the hard ice to 68 on. we met a lot of people from around the region an lot of people from around the country and even around the world for the holidays here. and they were looking forward to cold white christmas but they say they'll take what they got any way. >> were you expecting around 50 degrees for christmas day? >> not really but no complaints. >> not used to this kind of weather on christmas but definitely welcome. >> it's amazing how they keep it frozen while it's so warm outside. we're having great time today. >> reporter: if there is a

fox 29's dave kinchen is live at the sight of that rally in northern liberties for us tonight. dave? >> reporter: iain, there are some parents gathering here right now. they are shocked. i'll show you what's happening over my shoulder. parents gathering now. they got this letter here and the trouble is, teachers also got the very same letter dateed december 26th saying that the school will be closing on december 31st. that made parents angry. it made them very curious as well. it made the teachers angry and also putty cher on the move. fox 29 cameras rolling as teachers moved their lesson plans and other items out of the walter d palmer charter school at sixth and popular in northern liberties. told they had to be out by 4:00 p.m. today. bridget wilkerson is one of them them. >> it's just a sad day for students and staff, you know. sad day. >> reporter: to at this particular time off she says the charter school still owes her cash. >> when am i going to get the rest of my money? they owe us two months -- or a month of money. >> very unfortunate for parents. very unfortunate for

fox 29's dave kinchen is live in brooklyn tonight where vigil is being held. dave? >> george, there is shock and sadness here at the intersection of tompkins and hurdle, i'll step out of the way and show you at least a couple of hundred people out here in a candlelight vigil at the spot where these officers lost their lives yesterday afternoon. let guess to video. memorial growing since this tragedy took place, people laying candles at the spot where officers ramos, and lou, lost their lives sitting in a patrol car ambushed according to police investigators shot in the head and shooter brinsley ran to subway station, took his own life according to investigators, stain gram posts linked to the suspect, say that this was in retaliation to the shooting death, the death of eric garner and michael brown. but so many people here are showing support for the officers, they're looking for healing, and this one woman new the fallen officers. >> they were very hard-working, very good people, down to earth, and very dedicated for what they were doing. >> i wish it didn't have t

fox 29's dave schratwieser explains why this pooch is so important to her family. >> look how beautifuly baby is. >> reporter: heavily bandaged but wagging her tail, 22 no old mala hobbled out of surgery to the joy of her owner after police say someone in the upper darby neighborhood where the dog's owner lives shot the dog in the neck. >> i just want to know why because she's just so precious. she doesn't harm not even a fly. >> there are no complaints against the residence, and/or the dogs that live at this location. >> reporter: debra, says she was beside herself when she got a phone call friday telling her mala a rotweiler pitbull mix had been shot. >> my uncle before he passed away he gave me her as the palm of my hand, she means everything to me. >> reporter: police say it happened sometime friday afternoon in the 6900 block of clinton road. debra had gone to new york to visit family and her husband had gone out thinking he lock the door. but somehow mala and her other dog rocco got out. >> some moron firing a firearm in broad daylight could have hit anybody, i mean that bullet we

fox 29's dave kinchen live in the newsroom right now with details just released tonight.ave. >> reporter: that's right joyce. investigators are looking at instagram posts that they have linked back to the suspect. that's part of the investigati investigation. they are describing these posts as anti police statements online and we also now know the names of the nypd officers executed in this win lynn 82 maryland two months ago. raphael ramos leaving behind a wife and 13-year-old son all of this just before christmas week. >> police call eight saturday afternoon ambush. 2nypd officers executed while sitting in their patrol car in the brooklyn neighborhood. new york's mayor and police commissioner somber and shane addressing the tragedy. >> today two of new york's finest were shot and killed with no warning, no provocation. they were quiet simply assasinated. >> reporter: commissioner william, says officers were responding to crime complaints in a housing development when 28-year-old ishmal brincely attacked in cold blood. >> he took a shooting stance on the passenger side a

fox 29's dave stratt wise sr. spoke with police who are desperately trying to find this man. >> the guy is a total animal. >> reporter: that's the way police are describing 20-year-old terrell gatling after they say he convince add 12-year-old girl to come to his basement apartment in upper darby and then sexually assaul assaulted her repeatedly. >> again, 12 years old. i mean you've got to be sick in the mind, number one. but like i consider the guy an animal. >> reporter: investigators say the 12-year-old ran away from home back on november 19th. she was walking on 69th street near walnut when she encountered gatling and struck up a conversation. >> at some point in time, he asked her how old she is and she said she's 12. >> reporter: gatling police say took the girl back to his basement apartment with no windows. oh the flee hundred block of rich field road a few blocks away. once inside, she fell asleep. but a we can to find gatling touching her and sexually assaults her. she told him to stop but he continued.

. >> that was fox 29's dave kinchin reporting.octor michael's health is preventing him from speaking but many veterans who attended that event yesterday say they are better for knowing him. >> absolutely. 4:52 is the time. one family won't take defeat lying down, they used to have the most christmas lights on their property ever but then another family swooped in. >> look at that. >> they took over, and took the record. the christmas battle of light. >> hash tag top that. did you see them. >>> ♪ >> well, right there, a little out of focus. we're out of focus there for you on market street, the lights along market street have have been lit for six months now. no, you can officially put up the tree and have lights going on today. speaking of lights, a new york family reclaims the guinness world record for most lights on their property after lose ago this title last year to a family in australia. kerry, this is what this season is all about. >> of course, it is, with the flip of the switch, the family, of new york, got their title ba

fox 29's dave schratwieser reports. hero in your book? >> absolutely.utely. >> reporter: as flag flew at half staff outside philadelphia firehouses wednesday, firefighters returned to work and struggled to understand the loss of decorated firefighter joyce craig lewis. >> they're in shock and a lot of questions are being asked, you know, how could this happen again and how can we avoid it? >> reporter: black bunting covered the doorway at epp gin 64 where the 11 year veteran was stationed. there was a small memorial outside the firehouse on rising sun avenue. >> everybody in the city i'm sure is praying for this family. >> reporter: officials also revealed that the first female firefighter to die in the line of duty was seriously injured in a fire several years ago. >> she recovered from it, and she came back both physically and psychologically and came back to performing her job to the best of her abilities. >> reporter: meanwhile fire investigators from a citywide task force returned to the fatal fire scene for a second day. peacing together the cause

fox 29's dave schratwieser has the latest on the investigation and how he's doing tonight. >> reporter: police say the 17-year-old vick testimony was randomly attacked as he waited for a ride home after visit ago friend's house in northern liberties. he was brutally attacked by three suspects. >> she could have killed this young man. you kick someone in the face, someone in the head. >> reporter: surveillance cameras just a few feet away caught the suspects as they punched, kicked and stomped the teenager back on november 15t november 15th. when he struggled back into the street and went down, there was a final stomp to the victim's head. >> the damage that's done a broken jaw but that could have been a fatal blow and killed the young man. >> reporter: video shows the suspects going through the high school junior's pocks. police say his cell phone was stolen. the suspects just walk away. >> brutally attacked for no reason is something we just can't have happen. >> reporter: vick testimony was taken to jefferson hospital where he was treated for a broken jaw and other injuries he's reco

fox 29's dave kinchen broke this story over the weekend.s at a rally for the school tonight. >> reporter: a small but vocal group of parents heard a curb side meeting outside the walter palmer charter school in northern liberties. they are angry palmer administrators decideed to abruptly close the school over the holiday break. these parents plan on sending a message to the state department of education but they don't know where they will send their children in the meantime. some of those students rallied too. >> so sad because i learned a lot here and i'm going to miss my teachers mine friends. >> when she first came here she was below average. now she is performing on a proficient level. >> so that speaks for itself. no matter how you say it's being mismanaged these kids are learning. these kids are our future and that's the point of them going to this school. >> that was our dave kinchen reporting. the philadelphia school district is set up several epp roll many sessions for former palmer students. the first is wednesday at district head

fox 29's dave schratwieser is live in pennsburg for us tonig tonight. dave? >> reporter: iain, the medical examiner and crime scene investigators still here on west fourth street about 200 yards from stone's home here in pennsburg. they are working on the crime scene and expect to remove his body win the next hour or so. we're being told by investigators they expect to wrap up the crime seen pretty quickly, but all of the searching, all of the swat teams and now this discovery had people on edge for the last two days. tonight they're relieved. >> nobody likes to see this. >> reporter: it was just after 2:00 when police located the body of 35-year-old suspected spree killer bradley william stone just off west fourth street in a wooded area behind some homes. >> i'm glad it's over. it's a shame that it had to end the way it did. >> reporter: discovery came after heavily armed swat teams went door to door, street to street and alley to alley in pennsburg tuesday. >> it's just a shame. people getting in situation where is they don't get the help they need. >> rep

let's get right tout fox 29's dave schratwieser whose live in cheryl. dave, you spoke with police today. >> reporter: we did. thieves are targeting women holiday shoppers more than half a dozen times in the past month and in one case they stole credit cards and racked up over 14 grand in credit card bills at two-end stores in just a matter of minutes. >> that's right. shoppers beware. >> reporter: tis the season to be jolly but for some unsuspecting holiday shoppers, at south jersey stores, it's anything but jolly when they find out their pockets have been pick. >> it's horrible. i just can't believe that people, you know, this time of year they could do this. >> this goes on all year but picks up this time of the year because you have more shoppers. people and a hectic schedule and obviously they're not paying attention. >> reporter: several suspects have been caught on camera after police say she stole wallets from shoppers at this big shopping center on route 70 in cherry hill and at the cherry hill mall. >> somebody will walk up and start talking to

fox 29's dave schratwieser is live outside northeast detectives and, dave, police have got to want these men off the street right away. >> reporter: no doubt about that. some terrifying moments for these two victims as they were attacked and robbed at gun point. detectives say this was a big score tonight they have some video they want to you take look at. the entire incident was caught on tape. >> really scary. >> reporter: that's how neighbors described the early morning begun point robbery caught on tape on the 7100 block of large street. the gun toting bandits made off with over $7,000. victimizing a young man headed to the airport for a trip home to china for his mother's funeral. >> here you are trying to get back home for funeral and you get robbed and all your money gets taken. >> unfathomable it could happen right here rt report robbery happened just after 5:00 a.m. wednesday and was captured on surveillance camera rahs as the victims stood on the front steps of a friend's home waiting for him to drive him to the airport. the gunman one wearing a mask approached. they stole cash

channel 3's dave somers got a copy of the tape. and dave, this video is just unbelievable. >> chris, many in the cleveland community were astonished at the numbers in this pursuit. 11 officers firing 137 bullets into the suspect's car. the city did not release the actual numbers of officers and police cars involved in the chase. the tape shows us, though. it is a scene like something out of a movie. the video is recorded by five rapid transit authority cameras mounted above bus stops. they're at any road, superior, bellmore, wind meir, and east 118th streets. suspects passenger melissa williams and driver timothy russell led the chase. moments from now both would be shot more than 20 times each in the head and chest by 11 officers. the pursuing police were undercover vice detectives and street patrols. sometimes the pursuit went at a high rate of speed beyond the posted limit. but it's not clear from the tapes exactly how fast. it round through narrow neighborhood streets, weaving through sometimes dense traffic. at each camera the

fox 29's dave schratwieser is live at philadelphia police headquarters tonight. dave. >> reporter: iain, the citywide fire arson task force is now investigating this. this is the fire department, the police department and the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firear firearms. they have taken evidence from the crime scene and sent it to the police lab today to be analyzed as they try to figure out who started this fire and why. >> the old lady said get up, get up, again. >> for the many familiar tolls in row homes at the east colter and lena streets it was a mad dash to escape monday morning when a suspected fire bomb ignite add blaze here. >> somebody tried to fire bomb the front door. front door was actually on fire. >> reporter: this woman asked us not to use her name but her sister and seven other family members including a three-year-old and a one-year-old were forced out of their beds just after 3:30 monday morning. two inciniary devices were found at the house. >> very dangerous. any time you have something dealing with fire something you can absolutely not co

fox 29's dave schratwieser live near the scene of the attack with the story. dave? >> reporter: dawn, the 17-year-old victim in this case is a junior at central high school. he's said to be a very good student. he has very serious injuries from this beating to night. philadelphia police are offering a reward. they're calling this a random attack. and we want to warn you, this video is disturbing. >> it's brutal. >> reporter: police say the 17 year old victim was simply waiting for a ride home after visiting a friend's house on fourth street in northern liberties when he was brutally attacked by one suspect, then another. while a third guy watched. >> he sustained a broken jaw, lost a number of teeth and some other damages to his face. >> reporter: surveillance video just released shows the suspects as they punched, kicked and stomped the teenager back on november 15th. when he struggled back into the street and went down, there was a final stomp to the victim's head. >> it appeared to be random and like i said they assault him he's outside waiting for a ride and the

fox 29's dave schratwieser is live at the police head quarter in the center city. dave, are police at all close to finding a motive? >> reporter: lucy, no motive and no suspects tonight. police going through surveillance video trying to figure out who committed this murder in the meantime friends of james williams tell us he was a hard working helpful guy. >> i was really devastated because the gentleman was such a nice person. >> reporter: customers at the locker room storage facility at 62nd and pasquale can started and saddened by the news that 69 year old security guard james williams had been murdered here. >> there's no reason why they should have did this to anybody especially him. he did not deserve to go out like this. >> reporter: folks here described him as hard-working guy who lived out of his conversion van on the property. he took his job very seriously but was always friendly. >> real nice. you know, he protect this play he didn't bother nobody. >> reporter: police say williams was found tied up and beaten to death in a conversion van sunday when his

john in newark delaware coming in at 44 degrees, also looking at the mid 40's this hour in reading reported by daveerkasie chuck had 40 degrees, lou in norristown 41 degrees. across the region similar numbers up in collegeville bud bender 41 degrees, douglas in vincent town new jersey coming in at 42. if you love the weather and want to be a part of our newscast become an eyewitness weather watcher. sign up right now cbsphilly.com. >>> and i mentioned a lot of clouds over the region still. that's been the trend for the past several days. partly to mostly cloudy skies over center city. temperatures in the 40's. tomorrow we should see clearing going on get a few peeks of sun. wind continues out of the northwest coming in about 10 maybe 15 miles per hour and some higher gusts so it is adding a bit of a wind chill outside right now so dress warm if you're heading out overnight. this is what it feels like, mid 30's in allentown and red, 40 in philadelphia. that wind will continue to lighten up through the overnight hours. clouds still lingering over pennsylvania, a little bit of breaks in those clouds a