kirby provided his sick brother george kirby with enough methadone pills to kill himself.his son obtained 10 life insurance policies pretending to be george kirby. in the phone call the younger kirby allegedly said to his dad, i don't care what you do he is your brother, the quicker you do this the quicker we can get the money. >> the father son duo is attempting to collect $200,000 in life insurance policies. philadelphia police are searching for a hit and run driver that injured two officers this morning. the plain clothes officers were in an unmarked car when they were struck at g street in juniata park, investigators say a dark colored car rear ended them and the officers were taken to the hospital with leg and neck injuries. chopper 6 hd was overhead as police caught up with and arrested a suspect in the park side section of the city. the suspect initially ran from police and converged on poplar and 41st. they put three area schools on lockdown until the suspect was arrested . >>> amid cleanliness concerns the state ordered a talliville spine center to close. they say

authorities arrested edward and eddie kirby in the death of six three-year old george kirby, older brother and uncle to the pair. investigators say they used methadone pills to kill him, and used his identity to fraudulently collect tens of thousands of dollars. >> he decided to take advantage of his brother's illness and began planning, plotting with his son, eddie, to fraudulently obtain ten life insurance policies by pretending to be george kirby so they can collect more than 100 you this dollars in benefits. >> authorities say the son used some of that money to buy himself a new car. >>> 4:18. philadelphia police officer ambushed by a gunman in janice now talking about what happened, and talking about it under oath. he testified in the center city courtroom yesterday. the man shot officer jesse hartnett while sitting in his patrol car in west philadelphia police commissioner richard ross was in that courtroom yesterday and he said hartnett's memory of the violent attack is impeccable. >> just an absolutely remarkable young man, even his ability to recount specific details down to tryin

investigators say edward kirby got his son eddie to team up and kill his older brother george who at 63 was already a sick m man. >> he decided to take advantage of his brother's illness and began planning, plotting with his son eddie to fraudulently obtain 10 live insurance policies by pretending to be george kirby so they could collect more than 100 to us san dollars in benefits. >>> they actually got away with it for while. collecting more than a hundred thousand bucks from different insurance companies. eddie even brazenly moved into the victim's home neighbors say and started living large. >> he had a brand in you car. he tour it up. >> reporter: yesterday the gig was up and the law caught up with them. >> they come here yesterday morning 7:00 o'clock. >> reporter: how did the con work? investigators say edward trick the insurance companies by impersonating his brother using a system for the disable. >> on the telephone with the insurance companies, eddie would use an ip relay system which is a service access through the internet for the speech or hearing impaired so the person

investigators say edward kirby got his son eddie to team up and kill his older brother george who atwas already a sick m man. >> he decided to take advantage of his brother's illness and began planning, plotting with his son eddie to fraud lenly obtain 10 live insurance policies by pretending to be george kirby so they could collect more than $100,000 in benefits. >> reporter: they actually got away with it for awhile. collecting more than a hundred thousand bunks bucks from different insurance companies. eddie even brazenly moved into the victim's home neighbors say and started living large. >> he had a brand new car. he tore it up. >> reporter: yesterday, the jig was up and the law caught up with them. >> they come here yesterday morning 7:00 o'clock. >> reporter: how did the con work? investigators say edward tricked the insurance companies by impersonating his brother using a system for the disable. >> on the telephone with the insurance companies, eddie would use an i-p relay system which is a service access through the internet for the speech or hearing impaired so the person o

they allegedly gave george kirby a bottle of 50 pills that led to his death.the father and son then spent $1500 a month on insurance policies taking out shortly before the victim died in january 2014. >> on the telephone with insurance companies, eddy would use an ip relay system which is a service accessed through the internet, for the speech or hearing impaired. so the person on the other end of the phone would not recognize his voice. >> the kirbies are in custody on homicide, insurance fraud and related charges. >> now to the first alert forecast. look at this. cherry blossoms on the philadelphia skyline. a beautiful shot. if you look they are starting to bloom. this is in the wissahickon section of city. >> very nice day down the shore. i'm sure a couple people were out taking a walk on the beach. a few people out there by the jetty. this is a live look down the shore at cape may. >> doug kammerer is tracking this record heat. a little cooler tomorrow, still warm though. we deal with rain tonight? >> a little bit of rain overnight but it's going to come d

the older kirby gave his brother george an overdose of methadone pills to kill him after the younger kirby took out life insurance policies, posing as his uncle george. >>> now, to the latest on atlantic city's financial crisis, today a state committee approved two new bills to keep the state running without a state take over but the mayor is vowing to never let that happen. nora muchanic is live in the trenton newsroom with all the details. >> reporter: hi there rick, atlantic city is about $400 million in debt and due to run out of money at the end of the month. the state wants to take over the city's finances but the mayor is describing that as one sided surrender. >> mayor don guardian and a bus load of supporters arrived to urge lawmakers to reject the take over of atlantic city finances, we have to give up some duties and authority over the finances. not arguing with that, but they don't have the right to do away with collective bargaining. >> it would strip city government over all of its decision making visibility and be able to break union contracts and restructure debt. mart

and more inbound delays 210 north to swan creek to prince george county and kirby hill road. same story. 4 west approaching dower house road. and on the southbound side father urlly to middle book was that there. you're going to hit a lot off coneston. on the southbound side a lot of typical stop and goed in the district as well. we'll keep up updated to any to you. >> those shots before they rang out. >> severe storms in the south bringing historic flooding to the area. we'll tell you if it can get worse back in a point. >> back now 7:10 pope francis makes it official mother theresa will be a saint. after a vatican panel recognize aid second miracle by the late nun for her work with the poor and pope fran sais announced cannon eye sdpaition ceremony will take place in rome september 4 and it will be 189 anniversary of mother theresa's death. >> it's a sign wrushia could make true on cease-fire announce the russian war planes announced russian base if syri syria. put insaid he partially plans to withdrawal force if sear ca and he spoke about the next steps of implementing the

inbound delays all over the area prince george and swan creek to kirby hill road and approaching do youer house road to under 40 miles an hour and 50 inbound closed ken ill work and new york inbound slow traffic from stop and go conditions. 2 70 south montgomery. father hurley does middle brook. knowledge of that point in frederick we have a crash screen eye onesville rode and wrights ford road and earlier crash involveing a car and freight train and very minor injuries. 270 south stop and go and 0 truck scales and 56 inbound and slow september areville to fairfax. stop and go traffic. very slow across the wilson bridge on inner loop and 295 by eastern on inbound side slow. bw parkway slow southbound by powder mill and early morning flight to crash early morning volume and bw parkway northbound typical stop and go traffic. and you see con just glon usual spots in tyson. that's traffic. back to you. >> metro is trying to make its bus service more convene for passengers. we'll get the fox beat in a minute. transit agency with an app bus eta arrival every 30 second. caribbean island trips be

bridg in prince george's county delayd to the wilson bridge. 210 northbound fort washingtontw road to kirbyl rs traffic down to 12 miles an12 hour. good news from metro service s resumed normally and the blue line earlier malfunction at kinn street. of the all on the lines on timee and metro bus dealing with minor dries delays because of congestion in the district.ti i lots of traffic to get through t this morning. back to you steve and allison.. >> monday morning blues aroundgo here i suppose. coming up how crews rescued two boys in maryland who felll through -- fell 30 feet down inn a hole.ol >> all right. all r later, it is batman versus supep man week.k. this is the big week for thee br film to come out. kevin sits down with batman himself ben affleck.nff a lot of deep stairs in this t movie.moe. >> um-hmm. ♪ stroand restoring aing a newbfather's faith. it's standing tall after one surgery... not six. stronger is being a typical kid... despite a rare disorder. stronger is finding it earlier... and coming home soone